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QFD Green Belt Certificatesm Course (Intro)


 

 



 

 

 

  PUBLIC COURSE OFFERED ONLY AT QFDI SYMPOSIA
 
  BENEFITS
    QFD is a winning strategy for seeking out both unspoken and spoken customer needs
    QFD translates key needs into actions and designs
    QFD focuses various distinct functions toward achieving a common goal
    Assure your project's success - with courses taught by QFD Institute certified experts
 
  WHO SHOULD ATTEND
    Management scouts who will report on QFD to company
   

QFD project team members including marketing and sales, R&D, design, manufacturing, service, quality, etc.
    New Product Development Teams
    Project Managers
   

Quality consultants and Six Sigma/DFSS Black Beltssm
   

Trainers, facilitators,  and internal quality gurus
   

No prerequisites
 
  LEARNING OUTCOMES
    Understand basic QFD concepts and main tools
    Present QFD concepts to your management team as a powerful new product development process
   

Recognize differences between QFD for manufactured and assembled products, service and business processes, food and chemical products, software, and small business
   

Upon completion, receive provisional Green Belt Certificate.
Submit personal example of one QFD tool within 1 year to earn full status. May be submitted to anyone holding QFD Institute QFD Black Belt.
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  CONTENT
    How QFD can address your company's problems with customers, competitors, technology, design, build, delivery and service
    Brief history and principles of QFD - how and why it works
   

Case studies (with results) for product (manufactured, assembled, chemical, food), service, process, and software applications
   

Related methodologies such as Blitz QFD, AHP, Kansei, TRIZ, New Lanchester Strategy, Critical Chain Project Mgt
 
WORKSHOP (hands-on with your project)
   

QFD method is practiced on a project of the student's choosing (best if you bring your team), but is limited to a few data items because of time constraints
   

Basic QFD Tools - Affinity Diagram, Hierarchy Diagram, Matrix.
   

Voice of Customer Table - Understanding explicit and implicit requirements
    Position new product according to customer, competition, and corporate strategy
Translate key customer needs into product specifications - Maximum Value Table and House of Quality
    Lecture on how to deploy to each functional group. Includes function and failure analysis, creativity, component, facilities, operator, and quality control
 
TEXTBOOKS AND MATERIALS
QFDI Green Beltsm v2002 Sample of text
CD-ROM with software demos and templates, additional case studies
 
INSTRUCTORS 

Glenn H. Mazur    

 Testimonials
Richard E. Zultner
Other certified QFD Black Beltssm
 
DURATION
Two days. On-going facilitation support is optional.
SCHEDULE AND COSTS
When offered at QFD Institute Symposia, see Symposium Course Schedule and Prices for details.
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Meet your instructors

Glenn H. Mazur

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Japanese quality specialist, fluent in Japanese

President,

  Japan Business Consultants
 

Executive Director, QFD Institute

  Executive Director, International Council for QFD
  Adjunct Faculty, University of Michigan
  1998 Akao Prize for Excellence in QFD.
 

Certified QFD Red Belt
 

Richard E. Zultner

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  Software Quality Specialist
 

President, ZULTNER & COMPANY

 

Director, QFD Institute

 

Professor of Project Management, Stevens Institute of Technology

 

1998 Akao Prize for Excellence in QFD.

 

Certified QFD Red Belt

 

TOC Software Jonah
 

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