Journal of Product Design, Quality Engineering & Technology

Abstract

Minimizing product development time, increasing product quality, lowering costs, and meeting customer criteria have all become critical in today's business rivalry. The product design concept's attitude has shifted from a passive response to a more active approach to design process control. Designers may plan ahead of time and avoid complications throughout the development stages. There are several design control solutions available to examine all potential concerns and avoid the time and money loss caused by poor design. QFD is a technique for transforming user needs into design quality, deploying functions forming quality, and deploying ways for attaining design quality into subsystems and component components, and eventually to particular aspects of the manufacturing process. The goal of this case study is to improve design methodology by integrating proactive approaches with basic design process features. This research paper will present a broad overview of the QFD methodology and approach to the product development process, analyse the fundamental causes, do a Pareto analysis to prioritise the reasons, and examine literature to establish essential parts of the design process and proactive techniques. To complete the suggested methodology, the proposed analysis is the integration of Quality Function Deployment, which is the fundamental result of the study that fills the research gap, and its methodical approach is produced. So this study demonstrates how to enhance design technique by using QFD, and it will also be useful in understanding how to prevent subsequent design modifications and boost product success, particularly in terms of quality and dependability.

 Keywords: - Quality function deployment, Design, Product Development, Quality.