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Reply: The translation from Japanese could be translated different ways, but generally speaking the idea is often mistakenly used to associate QFD to the organizational functions known as "Quality Engineering" or "Quality Assurance". Make no mistake, the Japanese are not talking about this narrow function when they talk about QFD. QFD is a method to transform customer needs into something that engineers can build. The translation is closer to what we would call "Systems Engineering" in the U.S. and U.K. The word "quality" is here defined by the customers to define something that is needed or wanted, i.e., are willing to pay for.
* ... Er, actually, "quality" is not here defined at all, which is a lot of what makes this page hard to read. And that would be 'a' quality, not the nebulous and all encompassing 'quality' - thus QFD turns customer requirements into 'a set of qualities required of the design' perhaps, or even 'design qualities', but specifically not 'design quality', which is meaningless to a layman without additional definition. --[[User:Froggienation|Froggienation]] ([[User talk:Froggienation|talk]]) 11:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
There are cultural implications of the translation. In the U.S., it is often regarded that QE/QA is not a centtral part of the product design/development activities--rather, QE/QA is often seen in the U.S. as a reactive function to design and development that fixes the problems of product development and the build or manufacturing phase. In the U.S., "Quality" is the "last line of defense", rather than the first analysis activity accomplished by the system engineer/system architect.
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* [http://sigmazone.com/Example_QFD_Intro.htm QFD and the Family Vacation]: Example of QFD applied to the family vacation.
== Summary ==
Would someone who knows how to phrase this care to change the page so that the first thing is says is 'QFD is ...' - a definition would be rather more helpful as the first thing I read than who wrote it or what they think of it, as things presently stand. --[[User:Froggienation|Froggienation]] ([[User talk:Froggienation|talk]]) 11:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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