QFD Black Belt^® Update Course

Continuing Education for QFD Black Belts^®

October 23 , 2008  (Thursday)

8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Santa Fe, New Mexico USA

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Recommended for: Anyone who has attended the QFD Institute's QFD Black Belt^® Certificate Course in the past. Recommended especially for those who earned a Provisional QFD Black Belt® before October 2006.

Created in response to students' request to help keep the momentum going, this semi-private course offers an opportunity to QFD Black Belt^® graduates to bring up to date and enhance their QFD knowledge and skills learned in your previous course.

Provisional QFD Black Belts^® who attend this course will receive a 2-year extension of your previously earned Provisional QFD Black Belt^® status, allowing extra time to complete the work needed for earning Full Status.

Full Status QFD Black Belts^® are also recommended to attend this course, to keep yourself up to date with the latest advancements in QFD and new-to-world concepts and methods that the QFD Institute brings about through its on-going research.

This course is exclusively for all graduates of QFD Institute's QFD Black Belts® Course, and constitutes a Continuing Education Unit of 1.0 credit point.

For questions, please contact 1-734-995-0847 or QFD Institute

Course Description

This workshop is part of the international program in

Quality Function Deployment.

 Excellence in Training

• QFD Black Belts^® who have achieved full status.

• Provisional QFD Black Belt^® who graduated from any QFD Institute's QFD Black Belt^® Course.

Planned for the 2008 QFD Black Belt^® Update Course are the following topics (* New 2006-2008):

• Improved algorithms for defining Customer Needs (Demanded Quality) for "new-to-world" products and services;

• New Gemba Analysis tools;

• Incorporating Blitz QFD^® into Dr. Akao's Comprehensive QFD to speed up the process;

• Replacement of ordinal scale calculations with ratio scale calculations of customer needs priorities, sales point, competitive benchmarking, and matrix relationship weights to improve the meaningfulness and accuracy of QFD in a Six Sigma world;

• How to expertly link QFD with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)*;

• Lifestyle Deployment with Kansei Engineering*;

• Integration of latest Kano methods*;

• Enhancing Customer Need Hierarchy Diagram with measures, targets, and Kano categories*;

• Using Customer Voice Table with specification documents*;

• Introduction to General Theory of Innovation (GTI), a next generation TRIZ-evolved business innovation method for general business management*; and

• Speed Deployment

Other topics may be added at the discretion of the instructor or at the request of students.

This course will introduce you to the latest enhancements to the QFD process as taught in recent QFD Black Belt^® courses and the most up-to-date QFD tools and methods, in addition to any review that you may wish to have.  CEU credits: 1.0 point.

• Bring up to date and enhance your QFD knowledge and skills learned in your earlier course.

• Get additional coaching. You might have encountered questions since attending the previous course. This is a good opportunity to get additional help in completing the assignment toward earning your Full Status QFD Black Belt®.

• Keep yourself up to date on the latest advancements in QFD and new-to-world concepts that the QFD Institute brings about through its on-going research. Get informed on what other countries are doing with QFD and how your business might draw on Modern QFD to create a competitive edge.

• Your Provisional Status had expired if you attended the QFD Black Belt® Course before October 2006 and did not complete the Full Status Review. By attending this Update course, you will get the Provisional Status reinstated and extended until October 27, 2010.

Attendees of this Update Course will receive both the 2008 edition of the QFD Green Belt^® and QFD Black Belt^® training materials (approx. 1,200 pages) and QFD software templates (v. 2008).

1. Your own laptop computer with a CD drive, containing MS Excel, MS Word, and Adobe Acrobat

2. Marketing and technical data for a small project or a part of a project that you are currently working on or plan to work on in the future; and

3. Deployment samples that you have created on your own, if you wish their work critiqued.

Students may also submit ahead of time a list of questions and review topics they wish to have covered.

• The latest Modern QFD templates on CD (ver. 2008); and

• The 2008 edition of both QFD Green Belt^® and QFD Black Belt^® training materials (1,200+ pages).

• A copy of "Hoshin Kanri Strategic Policy Planning & Management" book.

The 2008 QFD Green Belt® PowerPoint files will also be available for separate purchase for full status QFD Black Belts^® who ho have completed the "How to train QFD Green Belts" portion of their training.

The 2008 QFD Black Belt® Update Course will be taught by one of the following instructors.

The fee for 2008 QFD Black Belt^® Update Course is:

• US$995 per person when registration is received by August 31, 2008; or

• US$1,045 per person when registration is received after August 31, 2008.

Registration Form:    Online Registration Form  |  MS Word Form | PDF Form

The above fees include your copy of the 2008 edition of both QFD Green Belt^® and QFD Black Belt^® training materials (approx. 1,200 pages), the latest Modern QFD software templates, lunch and coffee breaks. 

To inquire or if you need a letter from the QFD Institute for the purpose of applying for training budget, please contact QFD Institute Tel: +1 734-995-0847 (M-F 9am-5pm EST). 

NOTE: Discounts are offered for early registrations, registrations of three (3) or more employees from the same company submitted at the same time, and US federal government employees with a valid ID. Please see Registration Form and Terms & Conditions.

The 2008 public QFD Black Belt® Update Course will be held from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at the venue hotel below. Hotel reservations should be made directly with the hotel. 

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