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Exploring product design quality control and assurance under both traditional and crowdsourcing-based design environments Open
Small and medium-sized enterprises face the challenges that they do not have enough employees and related resources to produce high-quality products with limited budget and time. The emergence of crowdsourcing provides an opportunity for t…
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An integrated lean and green approach for improving sustainability performance: a case study of a packaging manufacturing SME in the U.K. Open
Competitive landscape, informed consumers and stringent regulations have forced many manufacturing
\nsmall- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to focus on operational efficiency along with sustainability
\nissues in recent years. While ma…
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NEW INTEGRATION OF MCDM METHODS AND QFD IN THE SELECTION OF GREEN SUPPLIERS Open
Currently, topics of operations management and supply chain systems have been gaining more interest of researchers. Efficiency in supply chain activities and operations management firstly benefit organisations. One of the main operations i…
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Commonly Used External TAM Variables in e-Learning, Agriculture and Virtual Reality Applications Open
In recent years information and communication technologies (ICT) have played a significant role in all aspects of modern society and have impacted socioeconomic development in sectors such as education, administration, business, medical ca…
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Integrating QFD for product-service systems with the Kano model and fuzzy AHP Open
The paper proposes a systematic procedure for the development of Product-ServiceSystems (PSSs) by focusing on the analysis of customer requirements, and theselection of those that can practically enhance the offerings’ value. With this goa…
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AN INTEGRATED FUZZY ANP–QFD APPROACH FOR GREEN BUILDING ASSESSMENT Open
One of the major concerns in the construction industry is the sustainability of building projects. There are various trade-offs between functionality and design, which often lead to an issue of whether sustainably designed buildings would…
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Using Six Sigma Methodology to Improve the Assembly Process in an Automotive Company Open
The exigencies of the permanently evolving markets require continuous adaptation of company offers. The development and continuous improvement of the quality and environment management systems would be to anticipate these developments and …
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Integrating Refined Kano Model and QFD for Service Quality Improvement in Healthy Fast-Food Chain Restaurants Open
People are paying greater attention to health. To maintain a good health status and obtain food fast, customers may go to healthy fast-food chain restaurants such as Subway more often than before in China and Taiwan. Healthy fast-food chai…
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Smart Product Design Process through the Implementation of a Fuzzy Kano-AHP-DEMATEL-QFD Approach Open
Product design has become a critical process for the healthcare technology industry, given the ever-changing demands, vague customer requirements, and interrelations among design criteria. This paper proposed a novel integration of fuzzy K…
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A scale development of industrial designer ability index through quality function deployment and grey relational analysis methods Open
In recent years, the design and development capabilities, which provided products with vitality and value, had become one of the key factors in transforming and upgrading enterprises. Also, the industrial design ability had become a powerf…
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Integrating QFD and TRIZ for innovative design Open
Sustainable design aims at the creation of physical objects, environment and services that complies to optimize social, economic, and ecological impact. QFD is able to assess the product design by the choice and definition of parameters th…
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A Hybrid Plithogenic Decision-Making Approach with Quality Function Deployment for Selecting Supply Chain Sustainability Metrics Open
Supply chain sustainability has become one of the most attractive decision management topics. There are many articles that have focused on this field presenting many different points of view. This research is centred on the evaluation of s…
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Framework for prioritizing infrastructure user expectations using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Open
Customer involvement in infrastructure maintenance activities is a complex process due to various decision-making parameters surrounding maintenance. Compared to manufacturing and other disciplines where QFD is widely used, expectations of…
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Product Development with Quality Function Deployment (QFD) : A Literature Review Open
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is one method for developing customer-oriented products. QFD is a planning process that helps the organization plan to implement various technical support tools effectively and complement each other to pri…
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New Integrated Quality Function Deployment Approach Based on Interval Neutrosophic Set for Green Supplier Evaluation and Selection Open
Green supplier evaluation and selection plays a crucial role in the green supply chain management of any organization to reduce the purchasing cost of materials and increase the flexibility and quality of products. An interval neutrosophic…
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Quality Function Deployment and operational design decisions – a healthcare infrastructure development case study Open
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how QFD can enhance a healthcare organisation’s strategic operational alignment, by synchronising the infrastructure design with the service intention. In this empirical paper, a case study of a …
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The use of QFD method advantages and limitation Open
The following paper concentrates on some problems resulting from the use of Quality Function Deployment method in industrial enterprises. It is not an easy task although the method itself has many advantages. The aim of the paper is to ana…
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BIM and Sustainability Education: Incorporating Instructional Needs into Curriculum Planning in CEM Programs Accredited by ACCE Open
Higher education ought to support the identification of training needs for industrial building information modelling (BIM) curriculum development and sustainability education in the fields of civil engineering and management (CEM). This pa…
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Strategic maintenance technique selection using combined quality function deployment, the analytic hierarchy process and the benefit of doubt approach Open
The business performance of manufacturing organizations depends on the reliability and productivity of equipment, machineries and entire manufacturing system. Therefore, the main role of maintenance and production managers is to keep manuf…
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Development of quality improvement procedures and tools for facility management BIM Open
Despite the potentially significant benefits that Building Information Modeling (BIM) can offer during a facility’s
\noperation and maintenance (O&M) phase, the construction industry has thus far mainly implemented BIM in the
\ndesign and …
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Integrating Evaluation Grid Method and Fuzzy Quality Function Deployment to New Product Development Open
The success of a new product is usually determined not by whether it includes high-end technology, but by whether it meets consumer expectations, especially key Kansei demands. This article aims to evaluate attractive factors (Kansei words…
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Hazard function deployment: a QFD-based tool for the assessment of working tasks – a practical study in the construction industry Open
Despite the efforts made, the number of accidents has not significantly decreased in the construction industry. The main reasons can be found in the peculiarities of working activities in this sector, where hazard analysis and safety manag…
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Securing IT/OT Links for Low Power IIoT Devices: Design Considerations for Industry 4.0 Open
Manufacturing is facing a host of new security challenges due to the convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) in the industry. This article addresses the challenges that arise due to the use of low power I…
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Evaluating Recognitive Balanced Scorecard-Based Quality Improvement Strategies of Energy Investments With the Integrated Hesitant 2-Tuple Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Decision-Making Approach to QFD Open
This study aims to identify quality improvement strategies for energy investments. For this purpose, a model is proposed which includes 4 different stages. In the first stage, the MCDM problem is identified for evaluating the service devel…
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A Novel Two-Stage Integrated Model for Supplier Selection of Green Fresh Product Open
The selection of fresh product suppliers is a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem with great significant and application value. This requires trade-offs between multiple criteria to prove its ambiguity and uncertainty. Therefore,…
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Developing a Quick Response Product Configuration System under Industry 4.0 Based on Customer Requirement Modelling and Optimization Method Open
In the Industry 4.0 environment, the new manufacturing transformation of mass customization for high-complexity and low-volume production is moving forward. Based on cyber-physical system (CPS) and Internet of things (IoT) technology, the …
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Theory of New Product Development and Its Applications Open
A product which can be a physical object or a service should be functional and emotional to satisfy the customer’s need, and to offer value, be delivered as the way customer demanded. Also, it has to include other specific elements like pr…
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Product Life Cycle Design for Sustainable Value Creation: Methods of Sustainable Product Development in the Context of High Value Engineering Open
This study proposed a framework for sustainable product development in the context of high value engineering, using life cycle based approaches combined with methods of sustainable value modeling and analysis. A Sustainable Value model was…
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Integrating Kano Model, AHP, and QFD Methods for New Product Development Based on Text Mining, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets, and Customers Satisfaction Open
Online reviews are crucial to any online business that wants to increase sales on the Internet. Customer reviews have information about product attributes, customer requirements (CRs), and shopping experience; mining reviews provide the di…
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Sustainable Product-Service Systems Customization: A Case Study Research in the Medical Equipment Sector Open
The paper proposes a Product-Service System (PSS) methodology for customizing solutions to different patterns of use while achieving a better environmental performance than a stand-alone product. The approach is based on combining the Qual…