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QFD Master Black Belt® Certificate Course

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For QFD specialists who will customize the QFD process for different projects. A minimum of three QFD Mast Black Belts® in the company assures continuity and consistency. QFD Master Black Belts® train and certify their own QFD Black Belts® and QFD Green Belts®.

 

   
  BENEFITS
    Adapt QFD and create new deployments according to the unique needs of your company, customers, and technology
    QFD integrated with other product development and quality activities, such as Six Sigma, ISO, Stage Gate
    Apply beyond product development to business processes, customer support, product strategy
    Train and certify QFD Black Belts®
 
  WHO SHOULD ATTEND
    QFD Black Belts® interested in taking QFD to the highest level.
    Prerequisite: You must have a full status QFD Black Belt® from the QFD Institute.

QFD Black Belt® are requested to submit for approval your own QFD work from a tailored QFD process (must include a full QFD project flow chart, copies of charts and tools used including why each was selected and sequenced, project outcome, and how QFD process could be improved for similar projects), personal background including QFD education, and any QFD training materials you have developed.
 

  LEARNING OUTCOMES
    Knowledge, Experience, Teaching
    Mastery of QFD tool sets
    Understanding of QFD related tools
   

How to adapt QFD to any project, any industry, any size, as well as integration of hardware, software, and service QFD
   

Conduct QFD Black Belt® training and certification
   

Upon completion and instructor review of field projects, receive Provisional QFD Master Black Belt® Certificate. Must successfully co-teach with QFD Red Belt®, QFD Green Belt® and QFD Black Belt® courses to earn full status.
 
  CONTENT
    QFD and related tools: - 7QC, 7MP, 7PP, AHP, SPC, TRIZ, Kansei Engineering, New Lanchester Strategy, FMEA, VE, Innovation Management, Stage Gate, TOC, Design for Six Sigma
    Project Deployments: Blitz QFD®, Project QFD, Schedule Deployment, Project Goals Deployment
    Customer Deployments: Customer Segments Table, Gemba and Customer Behavioral Analysis, Customer Voice Table, Maximum Value Table
    Quality Deployments: Kano, Voice of Customer Analysis
Dealing with Multiple Customers, House of Quality - Rooms, Math, Dos and Don'ts
    Industry-specific deployments used in manufactured and assembled products, service, food and chemically processed products, software products, standards
    Improving business processes such as new product development, innovation management, knowledge management, risk analysis, situation analysis.
    Implementation, training, and sustainability issues, creating case studies and training materials
   

How to train and certify QFD Black Belts®
 
TEXTBOOKS AND MATERIALS
QFDI Master Black Belt®
CD-ROM with software demos and templates, additional case studies
 
INSTRUCTORS 

Glenn H. Mazur    

Richard Zultner
Other QFDI certified QFD Red Belts®
 
DURATION
Ten days
SCHEDULE AND COSTS
Contact QFD Institute, Tel: +1-734-995-0847, E-mail: registration@qfdi.org

Meet your instructors

Glenn H. Mazur

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Japanese quality specialist, fluent in Japanese

Executive Director, QFD Institute

Executive Director, International Council for QFD

President,

Japan Business Consultants

1998 Akao Prize for Excellence in QFD

  Certified QFD Red Belt®
  Adjunct Faculty, University of Michigan (ret.)
  Senior Member - American Society for Quality
 

Member - Japan Society for Quality Control

 

Richard E. Zultner

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  Software Quality Specialist

President, ZULTNER & COMPANY

Director, QFD Institute

 

1998 Akao Prize for Excellence in QFD.

 

Certified QFD Red Belt®

 

TOC Software Jonah

Six Sigma Master Black Belt
 

 

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