An Intelligent Quality Function Deployment (IQFD) for Manufacturing Process Environment

This research work provides methodology for development of intelligent quality function deployment (IQFD) application in the manufacturing process environment. The paper is composed of the background of QFD, related research work review, and points for developing in manufacturing environment. Then, it describes the needs of development on intelligent QFD due to uncertainty on the available human experts in product development and expansion, so we overcome the lack of the human availability and achieving an expert environment that can predicate the quality of the assuming product with respect of customer demand, so that it can provide system for retrieving design and manufacturing data . The paper applied the proposed methodology on the case study of the air cooler manufacturing process. IQFD was developed in Microsoft Excel environment with the matlab R 2006 language.