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QFD Designer

Realize quicker payback on your Quality Function Deployment projects with this feature rich tool. Get all you need to create, manage, and advance your QFD work in one package. It's still the easiest to use, most interactive software for improving quality and client satisfaction. Now, it's just more powerful!

Easy To Use

  • Work right on chart
  • Cut, copy & paste chart data
  • Quick templates (4 Phases, Pugh & Preplan)
  • ASCII import/export requirements
  • Lock WHATs/HOWs while you scroll
  • Zoom Out to preview and navigate easily
  • Help includes QFD method info

IS QFD EASIER WITH SOFTWARE? YES!

Trying to create QFD charts by hand can be tedious, problematic and slow. The software keeps chart creation and management from becoming a bottleneck in the QFD process, allowing you to make changes quicker and more accurately. It even helps you do the calculation part of QFD automatically and analyzes your data to help you spot areas needing improvement. QFD Designer is the easiest to use, most interactive software for improving quality and client satisfaction. Use it to realize higher ROI and quicker payback on your QFD projects.

VOICE OF THE client
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client driven companies listen to the Voice of the client. A tool for capturing the Voice of the client is QFD (Quality Function Deployment). QFD is a planning tool for incorporating client quality requirements through all phases of the business development cycle. Its key benefits include increased client satisfaction, reduced development time and increased satisfaction leading to higher market share for your products and services.


The powerful matrix planning technology helps you prioritize the many things you can control in your business to insure that your precious resources are spent where they will have the biggest impact on achieving your goals.

Product Development                  Process Development

 

Concept Selection                                   

 
FMEA
 


Business/Project Planning

Matrix-Based

QFD is a matrix-based structured method used to solve probems and make decisions. It helps you analyze and prioritize those factors which most strongly influence the outcome of your goals.

WHATs and HOWs

QFD lists WHATs (Goals) and HOWs (Factors) that can affect the outcome of those goals. Relationships between the factors and goals are then analyzed with the final output, a prioritization of those factors arranged to show what should be focused on and addressed early for the highest probability of success.

 

FLEXIBILITY

Linked charts form the backbone of a corporate-wide development communication system. Deploy quality plans throughout the organization, even to your business partner community.

The powerful matrix planning technology helps you prioritize the many things you can control in your business to insure that your precious resources are spent where they will have the biggest impact on achieving your goals. Easily create templates to represent current business processes and utilize existing data.

Customize matrices to your exact needs, connecting to content and leveraging existing applications. Integrate with existing tools.

Built-in analysis features assure not only that you can represent your business problems, but you can also configure matrix relationships to illuminate the best path for your development decisions. Immediately deploy linked information through your design and management community to synchrdonize and spee improvement efforts.

Example charts

ABOUT VERSION 4

Our QFD software can help you easily create the matrices, which form the structure for all your business improvement efforts. You can easily create layouts that mirror the relationships between your real world issues.

In a classic case, the software can be used to analyze product development decisions. You can use it to determine what combination of design requirements to focus on first to make your company a market winner. You can uncover those key requirements that have the strongest relationship to end-user satisfaction, all the while, benchmarking performance of competitors to insure you are setting the proper performance targets.

By expanding the concept of "Goals vs. Factors" or "WHATs vs. HOWs" to encompass different types of data, you can use the software to create a whole host of problem solving analyses. You can create matrix layouts to analyze all the examples shown in the table above. The software has powerful tools to help you leverage existing data and get the best results in your business improvement analyses. Some key software capabilities are shown below:

·         Develop better processes

·         Create a design knowledgebase

·         Improve team focus

·         Make super presentations

·         Save time

·         Improve accuracy

·         Sort any requirement list

·         Cut & Paste chart images for easy reporting and e-mailing

·         Weblinks browse internet or intranet sites

·         AppStart symbols allow running of complementary software directly

·         Multimedia embedd plays audio or video

·         True 32-bit architecture for Windows 95, 98 or NT

·         Matrix text entry for special applications like Failure Analysis(FMEA)

·         Project Orientation: each file allows multiple matrices

LINKED CHARTS

Linked Charts form the backbone of a corporate-wide development communication system. Deploy quality plans throughout the organization, even to your business partner community.

BUILT IN DATA ANALYSIS

Helps you assure not only that you can represent your business problems, but you can configure matrix relationships to illuminate the best path for your development decisions. Immediately deploy linked information through your design and management community to synchronize and speed improvement efforts.

PLAY MULTIMEDIA EVENTS FROM DIGITAL CONTENT

Link related data on your matrices to existing company content. Make the presentation of your problem as information rich as possible. You can attach audio, video or website links to any discrete chart data.

EMBEDD APPLINKS

Applinks are symbols that can start other applications and load related data files. This allows you to navigate to other programs and data files that support and complement your business improvement studies. For example, if schedule or completion timing is an important issue for you, you may want to drop an AppLink to start up project management software like Microsoft Project and load a GANTT chart (project plan) to view completion timing information.

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