Sensitivity Analysis of Relative Worth in Empirical and Simulationbased QFD Matrices
Abstract
Quality function deployment (QFD) is one of the most popular tools used in the product development process. It relates customer requirements to product requirements and enables engineers to determine which product requirement is more important than the others in satisfying customers. Some of the benefits of QFD are cost reduction, fewer design changes at the start of production, and improved communication among engineers. QFD applications use various approaches (i.e., worth calculation schemes and rating scales) to calculate the worth of requirements. The purpose of this paper is to study the change in the relative worth (normalized worth) of product requirements yielded by different rating scales and calculation schemes. We studied empirical and simulation-generated QFD matrices to determine how calculation schemes and rating scales influence the relative worth of requirements. Two representative scales and two calculation schemes are used to find the most and least sensitive cases, and the influence of the number of rows and columns in the relative worth of requirements. From the results, we identified the least sensitive and most sensitive combination of calculation scheme and rating scale. We also learned that QFD matrices become less sensitive to changes in rating scale and calculation scheme as the number of columns increases. Copyright © 2008 by ASME.
Recommended Citation
R. M. Kalapurackal and S. Takai, "Sensitivity Analysis of Relative Worth in Empirical and Simulationbased QFD Matrices," Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Jan 2008.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2008-49861
Meeting Name
ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2008
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Calculation Scheme; Empirical Data; QFD; Rating Scale; Relative Worth; Sensitivity Analysis; Simulation
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Jan 2008
