Planning successful products (on purpose)

Development of successful products requires an intimate understanding of the customer wants and needs, translation of those needs into engineering specifications and rapid but highly cost effective implementation of a product which satisfies the customer wants and needs. Through the use of quality function deployment (QFD) the engineering specifications are derived. Through the robust design approach the engineered system is developed to optimize energy transfer to accomplish the ideal function of the system. In this way problems and performance deficiencies are minimized by reducing the amount of stray energy not directed to the intended purpose