QFD Green Belt® Certificate Course
This 2-day workshop is designed for businesses and people who prefer to go beyond conventional tools and seek innovation and leadership in the 21st-century global market.
This is a perfect opportunity for anyone who wishes to learn the cutting-edge Modern QFD, the new application methods, tools, and current best practices, from one of the top instructors in the world.
NOTE: This course may be also arranged as an In-house Training, either by using custom-tailored training materials and tools, or by using the public course materials (generic models and tools). For questions, please Contact Us (TEL 734-995-0847 US Eastern Time).
Who should attend:
- Six Sigma Black Belts & Master Black Belts, Project Team Members & Leaders, DFSS Professionals, New Product Development, Marketing & Sales, Engineering, Design, Manufacturing, Facilitators, Consultants, Quality Professionals, Training Scouts Who Report To Management.
- No Prerequisites.
- Attending from Overseas
- Testimonials
Curriculum
The curriculum incorporates the latest advancements in quality, design, and project management that are not yet taken up by the traditional approach seen elsewhere. These include:
- This step-by-step, hands-on Workshop will show you:
- Brief history and principles of QFD — What it is and How it works;
- The advantages of Modern QFD over Traditional QFD;
- How to understand spoken and unspoken requirements (Voice of Customers);
- How to prioritize customer needs and focus the development process;
- How to translate key customer needs into product specifications;
- How to deploy these needs end-to-end to each functional process;
- Examples of QFD for manufactured goods, service and business process, chemical and food products
- Basic QFD Tools That You Will Learn:
- Customer Gemba Visits
- Customer Context Table
- Customer Voice Table
- Affinity Diagram
- Hierarchy Diagram
- Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
- Maximum Value Table
- House of Quality (HOQ)
- Downstream QFD Deployments (generic deployment in public course)
Recommended Things To Bring:
- A laptop computer (with CD drive, MS Excel®, MS Word®, and Adobe Acrobat® 7.0) or calculator as you will receive Modern QFD and AHP templates and case studies on a CD, to use during this course;
- Relevant marketing and technical data for a small project or a part of a large project that you are currently working on or plan to work on in the future. You will not be asked to reveal any confidential data. The goal is to make the QFD exercises real and meaningful to you! If it is not feasible to bring such data, you may use a generic model that is most commonly used by various industries. Or create a case study related to your hobby or personal project.
- (Optional) You may also bring your project team and learn as you work on a real project or you may join others. (Registration discounts available for 3 or more attendees from the same company.)
Certificate:
Upon successful completion of this course, students receive a provisional QFD Green Belt® Certificate from the QFD Institute. To assure the integrity of the Certificate as demonstrated by application, full status will be earned upon successful completion of:
- Having a QFD Master Black Belt® custom-tailor a QFD process for your company; and submitting two QFD work objects from an actual project using your tailored process for successful review by a QFD Master Black Belt® within one (1) year
- Having a QFD Green Belt® (provisional or full status) is a prerequisite for enrolling in the QFD Black Belt® Certificate Course — the next step toward becoming a successful QFD team leader or facilitator.
Registration
Early Registration Discount, Package Discounts, and Team Discounts are offered. Please see Terms & Conditions.
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