Welcome to the German QFD Institute (QFD Institut
Deutschland e. V., QFD-ID)!
QFD-ID is
an association of QFD users and people interested in the QFD
methodology. Goal of this independent and non profit organization is
the distribution of a
basic understanding of the quality engineering
technique QFD as well as the improvement of knowledge and experience
related to QFD in Germany and neighbouring countries,
especially in all
parts of industry and academia. Therefore the QFD-ID
- supports general understanding and improvement
of the QFD methodology by publishing reports and reviews (e. g. in the online journal QFD-Forum)
and also by arranging national symposia and best practice workshops
(see events),
- supports local teams for highly specific and
efficient exchange of information (see e. g. the working groups),
- cooperates with European and overseas
QFD-dedicated organizations like the International
Council of QFD.
Please note: as an institute for german
speaking people the memberhip
information and most of the web site content is only
available in german.
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Events
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17. International QFD Symposium ISQFD'11: Achieving Sustainability with QFD
The 17th international
Symposium on QFD will take place in Stuttgart from September 21th to 23rd 2011. Stuttgart is capital city of the german federal state Baden-Württemberg, represents Germany's strongest commercial
metropolitan area and one of Europe's
leading high-tech regions. The Symposium is arranged by QFD-Institut
Deutschland e.V. in collaboration with the International Council for
Quality Function Deployment (ICQFD), the Universität
Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer
Institute for Manufacturing and Automation, IPA.
ISQFD'11 represents the most important
academic event in the matter of QFD in 2011 and is located in Germany for the first time since 2002.
Especially it offers the rare opportunity to get in contact with
Yoji Akao,
the co-founder of QFD, and
Glenn
Mazur, the worldwide “voice of
QFD”. The key note speech will be held by Engelbert
Westkämper, Head of Fraunhofer
Institute for Manufacturing and
Automation, IPA.
For further
information on the venue, program and call for papers please take a closer look at the conference homepage.
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Feature article
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Winner of the Best Paper Award at the ISQFD 2009 in Monterrey, Mexico:
Cultural influences on globalized QFD projects
The dissemination and embodiment of QFD
has been globally diverse since the innovation of QFD. National as well
as international approaches to QFD have been developed differently and
are various. The authors (Georg Herzwurm, Benedikt Krams and Sixten
Schockert) argue that culture is one reason for the existing
approaches. Hofstede’s Five Dimensions get cited to derive a
cultural QFD-project management framework with the aim of optimizing
the efficiency of QFD usage. Validated upon two examples of
QFD-projects and a comparative analysis of further QFD-projects from
industrial practice, the authors position success and failure factors
for QFD-projects in an international environment. » more (This
link leads to the pages of the online journal QFD-Forum in German)
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QFD-Software-Tools
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Customer
Oriented Evaluation of QFD-Tools
For many enterprises QFD is
a helpful tool for developing new products or services. The
complexities of the method are the reason, that merely the House of
Quality is made, the application of secondary tables, matrices or tools
is neglected. One possibility for improvement is the use of a software
tool that simplifies, accelerates and that makes - by a combination of
different quality techniques - the work with QFD even more efficient. » more
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