17.
International QFD Symposium ISQFD'11:
Achieving Sustainability
with QFD
September,
21st - 23rd 2011
in Stuttgart, Germany
QFD
has proven to
foster
customer-oriented design of products and services in almost
any industry and country. QFD is integral part of any Six
Sigma initiative, of Agile Software Development methods, of
product and service improvements.
However it is not only the design itself that makes the success
of QFD. It is the process and the underlying paradigm.
QFD-based designs go far beyond short-term facelifts. Long-term value and sound product
development processes
are the keys for sustainable success. The 17th
International
QFD conference will highlight, explain and develop sustainable
development of products and services with QFD.
In conjunction with
ISQFD'11 the QFD-ID
Innovation price 2011 has been awarded. The QFD-ID Innovation price honors scientific works
for their outstanding contribution to the development of
QFD. Now the winners have
been announced:
„Kompetenzen für Ingenieure in der unternehmensübergreifenden virtuellen Produktentwicklung“
-
3rd place:
Daniela Maria
Götz
Diplomarbeit:
„Relevanz von Quality Function Deployment für Serviceinnovationen“
The 17th
international
Symposium on QFD,
September, 21st - 23rd 2011, took place in Stuttgart, Europe's
leading high-tech region and Germany's strongest commercial
metropolitan area. 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. It
represents the most important
academic event in the matter of QFD by far and occurs yearly.
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. The Akao prize dinner will be held in the new castle
which is depicted below..
Night
view of the new Castle in Stuttgart – location of the Akao
Prize Ceremony 2011 (Foto: HD Pano)