A Determination of the Engineering Characteristics in QFD Based on Sensory Quality Evaluation

Abstract:

Quality function deployment is an important product development method, dedicated to translating client requirements into activities to develop products and services. The determination of customer need and engineering characteristics include sensory quality evaluation. This paper presents a proposed method for the sensory evaluation methods in QFD planning system, and shows the application of the linguistic information processing model and its advantages. It involved several steps: gathering of sensory information from experts; computing a collective evaluation for each feature; computing collective evaluations for each object; dynamic aggregation; sensory evaluation and quality certification with global evaluation result.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 711)
• Pages: 713-718
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.711.713
• Online since: June 2013
• Authors: Dong Ling Zhang, Xiu Zhi Zhu, Lian Qun Xing, Xue Yang
• Keywords: Customer Need, Linguistic Information, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Sensory Quality

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