QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Design for Quality and

Product Excellence
 COMPETITIVE PRESSURE
• Companies want to improve their market share
• Increasing the customer value is the only way
this can be achieved
• Need is to offer better quality at same/lower
price
• Introduction of new products to meet changing
needs of customers
• New product design/Redesign
 Quality Profile: Spicer Driveshaf
• A former division of Dana Corporation, now Torque Traction Technologies,
Inc., is one of the largest manufacturers of drive shafts and related
components.

• Customer Platform Teams are one of the focal points for identifying
- customer requirements
- building and maintaining new business,
- product offerings, and customer relationships.

• These teams include sales, engineering, quality, and warranty personnel

who use a variety of formal and informal methods to listen and learn from
customers.
 Quality Profile: Spicer Driveshaf
• Senior Managers involved in strategic planning &
fulfilment of short term objectives
• Employees at all levels encouraged to develop &
implement changes.
• About 80% of the ideas were implemented.
• One of the criteria to plan promotion of employees.
• Employee morale improved : attrition rate
decreased; absenteeism decreased.
• In three years internal failures reduced by >70%
Quality Profile: Poudre Valley Health System
• PVHS designs new services using the Voice-of-the-Customer (VOC)
approach.
• In a new hospital community voice of customer data led to
- improved layout of emergency room
- private patient rooms with spectacular mountain views
- installation of family amenities (showers & kitchens)
• From design of new services to bedside care, PVHS uses
interdisciplinary teams to meet patient needs.
 QUALITY PLANNING
• Determine who the customers are
• Determine the needs of the customer
• Develop product features that responds to
customer’s needs
• Develop processes that are able to produce those
product features
• Transfer the resulting plan to the operating function
• Customers & suppliers included as significant
partners in product development
 Product Development Process
Idea
Idea
generation
generation
Concept
Concept
development
development
Product &
process design
Full-scale
Full-scale
production
production
Market
Market
introduction
introduction
Market
Market
evaluation
evaluation
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 Product Development
1. Idea Generation: Develop concept incorporating customer needs
and expectations. Innovative concepts since customers’ feed back is
vague : Exciters & delighters
2. Preliminary Concept Development: Study new ideas for feasibility,
manufacturability : testing criteria
3. Product/Process Development: Evaluate design alternatives and
determining engineering specifications; test prototypes; develop, test,
and standardize processes.
4. Full-Scale Production: Release the product to manufacturing or
service delivery teams.
5. Market Introduction: Distribute to customers.
6. Market Evaluation: Market evaluation and customer feedback to
initiate continuous improvements.
 Concurrent Engineering
• Concurrent engineering is a process in which all
major functions involved with bringing a product to
market are continuously involved with product
development from conception through sales.
 Concurrent Engineering
• Concurrent engineering involves multifunctional
teams, usually consisting of 4 to 20 members and
including every function in the company.
• The functions of such teams are to
– develop the concept and decide what design
methods and production methods are appropriate;
– analyze product functions so that all design
decisions are focused on the customer;
– determine whether the design can be improved
without affecting performance
– develop efficient manufacturing processes.
 Design for Six Sigma
• Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) represents a
structured approach to product development
and a set of tools and methodologies for
ensuring that goods and services will meet
customer needs and achieve performance
objectives, and that the processes used to
make and deliver them achieve high levels of
quality.
 Design for Six Sigma
• Four major activities

• Concept development, determining product functionality

based upon customer requirements, technological
capabilities, and economic realities
• Design development, focusing on product and process
performance issues necessary to fulfill the product and
service requirements in manufacturing or delivery
• Design optimization, seeking to minimize the impact of
variation in production and use, creating a “robust”
design
• Design verification, ensuring that the capability of the
production system meets the appropriate quality level
 DMADV
• Define - identify the opportunity and clearly
defining the issue to be addressed.
• Measure - gather the voice of the customer
• Analyze – develop product concept.
• Design - develop detailed specifications,
design reviews, and approvals.
• Verify – develop prototypes, test, and plan for
implementation.
 DFSS

TOOLS USED FOR THE 4 STAGES OF

DFSS
Concept Development and Innovation
• Concept development is the process of applying scientific,
engineering, and business knowledge to produce a basic
functional design that meets both customer needs and
manufacturing or service delivery requirements.
• Innovation involves the adoption of an idea, process,
technology, product, or business model that is either new or
new to its proposed application.
– Innovation is built upon strong research and development (R&D)
processes.
 INNOVATION
• Entirely new product
• A new product to replace an existing product
of different type
• Significant improvement in technology
• Modest improvement in an existing product
 Creativity
• … is seeing things in new or novel ways.
• Creativity tools, such as brainstorming and “brainwriting,” are
designed to help change the context in which one views a
problem or opportunity, thereby leading to fresh perspectives.
• TRIZ, a Russian acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem
Solving
– Developed by a Russian patent clerk who studied thousands of
submissions, and observed patterns of innovation common to the
evolution of scientific and technical advances.
– He recognized that these concepts could be taught, and he developed
some 200 exercises to foster creative problem solving.
 Detailed Design
• Detailed design focuses on establishing technical requirements and
specifications, which represent the transition from a designer’s
concept to a producible design, while also ensuring that it can be
produced economically, efficiently, and with high quality.
• Axiomatic design is based on the premise that good design is
governed by laws similar to those in natural science.
1. Independence Axiom: good design occurs when the functional
requirements of the design are independent of one another.
2. Information Axiom: good design corresponds to minimum complexity.
 Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
• … is a planning process to guide the design, manufacturing,
and marketing of goods by integrating the voice of the
customer throughout the organization.
• Through QFD, every design, manufacturing, and control
decision is made to meet the expressed needs of customers.
• QFD benefits companies through improved communication
and teamwork between all functions involved, such as
between marketing and design, between design and
manufacturing, and between manufacturing and quality
control.
• Translate voice of customer to design characteristic :
 QFD
• Customer voice : Soap must feel sof on the
skin
• Design Characteristic : pH or hardness
specification for soap
HISTORY
 Benefits Of QFD

• Customer Driven
• Reduces Implementation Time
• Promotes Teamwork
• Provides Documentation
 TOYOTA’S EXPERIENCE
• Introduced in 1977.
• By 1979 cost of introducing new product
reduced by 20%
• By 1984 cost reduced by 61% & time reduced
by 33%
• Quality improved ( almost eliminated rust
related warranty issues )
 HOUSE OF QUALITY
• QFD uses a set of linked matrixes to ensure that
the VOC is carried through the design,
manufacturing & product delivery process
• Six steps to build House of Quality
1. Voice of customer
2. Identify technical requirements
3. Relate the customer requirement to technical
requirements
 HOUSE OF QUALITY
4. Evaluation of competing products
5. Evaluate technical requirements & develop
targets
6. Determine which of the technical
requirements to deploy in the remainder of
the production/delivery process
The Four Linked Houses of Quality
 Axiomatic Design

Axiomatic Design recognizes four domains:

The needs of the customer are identified in customer domain and are stated
in the form of required functionality of a product in functional domain.
Design parameters that satisfy the functional requirements are defined in
physical domain, and, in process domain
Manufacturing variables define how the product will be produced.
Solution alternatives are created by mapping the requirements specified in
one domain to a set of characteristic parameters in an adjacent
domain.
The mapping between the customer and functional domains is defined as
concept design;
The mapping between functional and physical domains is product design
The mapping between the physical and process domains corresponds to
process design.
Axiomatic Design
 Phase I
Product Planning
Design
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 Phase II
Part Development
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Characteristics
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 Phase III
Process Planning
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Operations
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 Phase IV
Production Planning
Key Process
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 Building A House Of Quality

• List Customer Requirements (What’s)

• List Technical Descriptors (How’s)
• Develop Relationship (What’s & How’s)
• Develop Interrelationship (How’s)
• Prioritize Customer Requirements
• Competitive Assessments
• Prioritize Technical Descriptors
 The “House of Quality”

Interrelationships Customer
requirement
priorities
Technical requirements

Voice of
Relationship
the
matrix
customer

Technical requirement
Competitive
priorities
evaluation
 House Of Quality

Interrelationship
between
Technical Descriptors

Technical Descriptors
(Voice of the organization)

Requirements
Requirements
(Voice of the

Prioritized
Customer)

Customer
Customer

Relationship between
Requirements and
Descriptors

Prioritized Technical 3
Descriptors
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QFD Matrix Relationship between
Technical
Descriptors
Customer Requirements
and
Primary
Technical Descriptors
Interrelationship between
Secondary
WHATs vs. HOWs
Technical Descriptors
(correlation matrix) +9 Strong

Secondary
HOWs vs. HOWs +3 Medium

Primary
+1 Weak
+9 Strong Positive
+3 Positive

Requirements
-3 Negative
Requirements

Prioritized
Customer
Customer

-9 Strong Negative

Technical Our
Competitive A’s

Our

B’s
Assessment B’s

A’s

Absolute Weight
Scale-up Factor
Degree of Technical Difficulty

Target Value
Target Value

Assessment
Competitive

Sales Point
Importance
Customer

Customer
Absolute Weight and Percent
Relative Weight and Percent
Prioritized Technical
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Customer Requirements (What’s)

Secondary
Primary

Tertiary
Customer Requirements
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 Types Of Customer Information
• Solicited, Measurable, Routine
– Cus. & Market Surveys, Trade Trials
• Unsolicited, Measurable, Routine
– Customer Complaints, Lawsuits
• Solicited, Subjective, Routine
– Focus Groups
• Solicited, Subjective, Haphazard
– Trade & Cus. Visits, Indep. Consultants
• Unsolicited, Subjective, Haphazard
– Conventions, Vendors, Suppliers
 CUSTOMER’S NEEDS (What’s)
• Customer’s quality attributes expressed
through VOC
• Needs are grouped ( Performance,
Appearance, Utility)
• CTQs : Critical to Quality : Generates customer
delight
 WHAT : EXAMPLE CAMERA
• a good battery
a hight quality lens
flash light
it has to be able to record video
a big internal memory
a large LED display
a easy to use sofware
a compact design
a pretty design
a ergonomic shape
it has to take photos quickly
bluetooth
it has to be able to synchronize with the computer
resistant to shocks
it has to be able to expand it with a memory card
it should come with a cover
 TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS (How’s)

• Measurable design characteristics that will

meet the CTQs
 Technical Descriptors (How’s)

Secondary
Primary

Tertiary
Technical Descriptors
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 HOW : EXAMPLE CAMERA
• for a good battery -> Battery capacity (mAh) and amount of shots per charge
(photos / charge)
for a hight quality lens -> quality (1 … 10)
for flash light -> flash light included (0 = no, 1 = yes) and luminosity (lux)
for be able to record video -> (0 = no, 1 = yes)
for a big internal memory -> Internal memory capacity (MB)
for a large LED display -> Screen Size (inches) and Screen Resolution (dpi)
for a easy to use sofware -> accessibility (1 … 10)
for a compact design -> volume (cm ^ 3)
for a pretty design -> design (1 … 10)
for a ergonomic shape -> ergonomics (1 … 10)
for taking photos quickly -> speed in taking photos (fps)
bluetooth -> (0 = no, 1 = yes)
for be able to synchronize with the computer -> compatibility with
Windows/Linux/Mac (0 = no, 1 = yes)
for be resistant to shocks -> strength (1 … 10)
fo be able to expand it with a memory card -> (0 = no, 1 = yes)
come with a cover -> cover included (0 = no, 1 = yes)
 L - Shaped Diagram
Technical
Descriptors
Primary

Secondary

Secondary
Primary
Requirements
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 RELATIONSHIP MATRIX
• How far the technical requirements addresses
the customer requirements.
• What’s vs How’s
• This assessment is done by experienced
people, customer responses or controlled
experiments
 Relationship Matrix
Technical
Descriptors
Primary

Secondary Secondary
Primary

Relationship between
Customer
Requirements and
Requirements

Technical Descriptors
Customer

WHATs vs. HOWs

+9 Strong
+3 Medium
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 CORRELATIONSHIP MATRIX
• Interrelationship between any pair of
technical requirements is shown in the roof of
the house
• How’s vs How’s
• How does a change in one technical
requirement affect others?
• Design decisions can not be taken in isolation
• This matrix helps to evaluate trade-offs
 Correlation Matrix
Interrelationship between Technical
Descriptors (correlation matrix)
HOWs vs. HOWs
Technical
Descriptors +9 Strong Positive
Primary +3 Positive
-3 Negative
Secondary -9 Strong Negative
Secondary
Primary

Relationship between
Customer Requirements
and
Requirements

Technical Descriptors
Customer

WHATs vs. HOWs

+9 Strong
+3 Medium
+1 Weak
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 CUSTOMER PRIORITIES
• Identify importance rating of each customer
requirement
• Evaluates competitors existing products for
each of those
• Designer evaluates areas of improvement by
observing weakness in competitors’ products
in important customer requirements.
• These become key selling points
Prioritized Customer Requirements
• Importance Rating
• Target Value
• Scale-Up Factor
• Sales Point
• Absolute Weight & Percent
– (Importance Rating)
– (Scale-Up Factor)
– (Sales Point)
 Customer Competitive Assessment

5
3
Requirements

Relationship between
1
Customer

Customer Requirements
2
and
5 Technical Descriptors
1 WHATs vs. HOWs
4
4 +9 Strong
+3 Medium
+1 Weak

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Assessment B’s
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 TECHNICAL PRIORITIES
• Testing of products or intelligence gathering
• Converted to measurable specifications
• These are compared with the competitive
evaluation of customer requirements
• On the basis of customer importance &
competitor products strength & weakness,
target values are set
 Technical Competitive Assessment

5
3
Requirements

Relationship between
Customer

1
Customer Requirements
2
and
5 Technical Descriptors
1 WHATs vs. HOWs
4
4 +9 Strong
+3 Medium
Technical Our 1 3 4 2 1 2 1 4
+1 Weak
Competitive A’s
Assessment B’s

Our

B’s
A’s
Assessment
Competitive
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 Technical
Descriptors
Primary Relationship between
Customer Requirements
Secondary and
Technical Descriptors
Secondary

WHATs vs. HOWs

Primary

+9 Strong
+3 Medium
5 7 5 1.2
3 3 3 1.5 +1 Weak

Requirements
Requirements

1 9 2

Prioritized
1

Customer
Customer

2 10 3 1.5 1 15
5 2 5 1 1.5 3
1 4 2 1
4 8 4 1.5
4 1 4 1

Technical Our 1 3 4 21 2 1 4
Competitive A’s
Our

B’s

Assessment B’s
A’s

Absolute Weight
Scale-up Factor
Target Value
Assessment
Competitive

Sales Point
Importance
Customer

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 Prioritized Technical Descriptors
• Degree Of Difficulty
• Target Value
• Absolute Weight
R is Relationship Matrix
c is Customer Importance
n
a Rc
j ij i
i 1
 Relative Weight & Percent

n
b   Rd
j ij i
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R is Relationship Matrix
D is Customer Absolute
Weights
 DEPLOYMENT
• Identify the following Technical requirements
1. With strong correlation with customer
needs
2. Poor competitive performance
3. Selling points
• These are priority technical requirements
• Required to be deployed throughout the rest
of the design & manufacturing process
 Relationship between
Technical
Descriptors
Customer Requirements
and
Primary
Technical Descriptors
Interrelationship between
Secondary
WHATs vs. HOWs
Technical Descriptors
(correlation matrix) +9 Strong

Secondary
HOWs vs. HOWs +3 Medium

Primary
+1 Weak
+9 Strong Positive
5 7 5 1.2
+3 Positive
3 3 3 1.5

Requirements
-3 Negative
Requirements

1 9 2

Prioritized
1

Customer
Customer

-9 Strong Negative 2 10 3 1.5 1 15

5 2 5 1 1.5 3
1 4 2 1
4 8 4 1.5
4 1 4 1

Technical Our 1 3 4 21 2 1 4
Competitive A’s

Our

B’s
Assessment B’s

A’s

Absolute Weight
Scale-up Factor
Degree of Technical Difficulty 1 8 4 2 9 8 2 5

Target Value
Target Value 2 3 4 31 3 1 5

Assessment
Competitive

Sales Point
Importance
Customer

Customer
Absolute Weight and Percent 90
Relative Weight and Percent 133
Prioritized Technical
5
Descriptors

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 QFD Summary : Pros
• Orderly Way Of Obtaining Information & Presenting It
• Shorter Product Development Cycle
• Considerably Reduced Start-Up Costs
• Fewer Engineering Changes
• Reduced Chance Of Oversights During Design Process
• Environment Of Teamwork
• Consensus Decisions
• Documentation of the product development process
• Preserves Everything In Writing
 Cons
• Time consuming
• Difficult to reach agreement on conflicting
technical requirements
• The matrices are too big
Windshield Wiper
Refrigerator
 Correlation:
Very Strong Relationship
Strong Relationship
Suntex Process Weak Relationship

Engineering Characteristics

Chemical Film Removal

Packaging: Appearance

Soil Residue Removal

Product Preservation
Packaging Material:
Quality of Suppliers

Pathogen Removal

Wax Removal
Customer Importance to
Selling Points
Requirements Customer

Brand 2

Taste 5

Appearance 5

Price 3

Germ-free 4

Pesticide-free 3

Convenience 3

Importance Weighting 4 4 2 5 5 3 4

Target Values 5 4 5 5 5 3 4

Deployment
 RELIABILITY
• Essential customer quality requirement for
sophisticated products in many sectors (eg.
Health Care, satellite communication,
Aircrafs)
• Competitive advantage
• Quality dimension
 Design for Reliability
• RELIABILITY is defined as the probability that a product, piece of
equipment, or system performs its intended function for a stated period of
time or usage under specified operating conditions.

• Reliability is the probability that a product will not fail over a given period of
time/usage.

• Reliability : An essential component of both product & process design

• Key elements:
– Probability
– Performance
– Time
– Operating conditions ( Environment)
 Types of Failures
• Functional failure – failure that occurs at the
start of product life due to manufacturing or
material detects
• Reliability failure – failure afer some period of
use
• 1. Does not work at all
• 2. Operation is unstable
• 3. Performance deteriorates
 Reliability
• For defined environment & performance
characteristics, product & processes can be designed
and reliability estimated
• Inherent reliability is the predicted reliability
determined by the design of the product or process.
• Achieved reliability is the actual reliability observed
during use.
• Achieved reliability can be less than the inherent
reliability due to the effects of the manufacturing
process and the conditions of use.
 Estimation of Reliability
• Reliability is determined by the number of
failures per unit time during the duration
under consideration (called the failure rate, λ).
– For items that must be replaced when a failure
occurs, the reciprocal of the failure rate (having
dimensions of time units per failure) is called the
mean time to failure (MTTF).
– For repairable items, the mean time between
failures (MTBF) is used.
Computing the Failure Rate
 MTTF/ MTBF
•

• Φ=
• 10 units are tested over a 100hr period. Four
units failed with 1 unit each failing afer
6,35,65,70 hours; the remaining 6 units
performed satisfactorily until the end of the
test. What is the failure rate?
Example
Product Life Characteristics Curve
 Product Life Characteristics Curve
• Many electronic components commonly
exhibit a high, but decreasing, failure rate
early in their lives, followed by a period of a
relatively constant failure rate, and ending
with an increasing failure rate.
 RELIABILITY FUNCTION
• Reliability is the probability that a product will not fail
over a given period of time
• This is expressed by the “Reliability Function”
• Reliability Function is expressed as R(T).
• R(0)=1
• As T assumes a large value , R(T) does not increase
• R(T) = 1 – F(T)
• F(T) is the cumulative probability distribution of failure
• A product’s reliability function helps in defining warranty
period
 EXAMPLE
• A tire manufacturer wants to establish its
warranty policy. It has data that the life of tire
has a normal distribution with average value
of 50000 km and sd of 1500 km. What is the
probability that the tire will not wear out
before 48000 kms?
RELIABILITY FUNCTION
 CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY FUNCTION FOR
FAILURES
• During the useful period of life of products
the failure rate is assumed to be constant
• The failure over time has been established to
follow an exponential probability distribution
• Empirically validated for many repairable and
non repairable products
 Exponential Reliability
• Exponential probability density function of failures
f(t) = le-lt for t ≥ 0
• Probability of failure from (0, T)
F(T) = 1 – e-lT
• Probability of failure during the interval (t1 , t2)
F(t2) - F(t1) = e-λ(t2 –t1)
• Reliability function (probability of survival)
R(T) = 1 – F(T) = e-lT
 EXAMPLE
• 10 units are tested over a 100hr period. Four
units failed with 1 unit each failing afer
6,35,65,70 hours; the remaining 6 units
performed satisfactorily until the end of the
test. What is the Reliability function? Draw a
chart of R(T) for different values of T.
 Using the MTTF
• For non repairable items, θ = 1/λ is defined as
the mean time to failure (MTTF). For
exponential assumptions:
 EXAMPLE
• An electronic component has a failure rate of
0.0001 per hour. Calculate the MTTF. What is
the probability that the component will not
fail in 15000hrs.
Example
 System Reliability
• Series system: all components must function
or the system will fail.
– the reliability of the system is the product of the
individual reliabilities
 EXAMPLE
• A personal computer system is composed of
the processing unit, graphics board, and key
board with reliabilities of 0.997, 0.980 and
0.975 respectively.
• What is the reliability of the system?
Example 7.11
RELIABILITY WITH EXPONENTIAL FAILURE
RATE
 EXAMPLE
• A system uses 2 components with exponential
failure rates of 0.004 & 0.001 . What is the
Reliability of the system?
• What is the probability of it surviving for 100
hrs?
PARRALEL SYSTEM
 System Reliability
• Parallel system: uses redundancy.
The system will successfully operate
as long as one component functions.
– The reliability is calculated as

– If all components have identical reliabilities R,

• The failure rate for each component of a 2
component parallel system is 0.01.
• What is the system reliability?
• What is the probability of the system surviving
for 100 hours?
Parallel Systems with Exponential Reliability

• Example 7.14
 Series-Parallel Systems
• To compute the reliability of systems with both
series and parallel components, decompose the
system into smaller series and/or parallel subsets
of component, compute the reliabilities of these
subsets, and continue until you are lef with a
simple series or parallel system.
Example 7.15

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 Design for Reliability

• Reliability requirements are determined

during the product design phase.
• The designer may use these techniques to
determine the effects of adding redundancy,
substituting different components, or
reconfiguring the design.
Example 7.16
 Design Optimization
• Robust design refers to designing goods and services
that are insensitive to variation in manufacturing
processes and when consumers use them.
• Robust design is facilitated by design of experiments
to identify optimal levels for nominal dimensions and
other tools to minimize failures, reduce defects during
the manufacturing process, facilitate assembly and
disassembly (for both the manufacturer and the
customer), and improve reliability.