Affiliations
The QFD Institute is an independent non-profit organization
incorporated in Michigan USA. It is
the only organization in the world that is dedicated
to the state-of-the-art QFD education and research.
We work in cooperation with domestic quality organization as well as overseas
QFD groups such as
American Society for
Quality (ASQ) whose Automotive Division has been a long-time
supporter of our annual Symposium on QFD. QFD Institute is the American representative to the
International Council for QFD
(ICQFD),
an alliance of countries participating in international QFD research activities
and conferences.
See the List of
organizations with whom we work cooperatively.
We are also the administrator of Akao
Prize,
Akao Scholarship for QFD,
and the world's only
International QFD Certificate Program approved by Dr. Yoji Akao, founder
of QFD. The International QFD
Belt Certificates can be issued only by the QFD Institute and its instructors.
Except for collaboration through
ICQFD, as an independent
organization the QFD Institute is not directly affiliated with
foreign or domestic QFD institutions and groups that might have chosen to use a similar
name. QFD diploma issued by such organizations do not qualify for the
international QFD Belt Certificate as they do not meet many of the
criteria
for the current best practices.
For upcoming QFD Institute sponsored events around the world, please see
Events. For questions, please
contact us.
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