Two-dimensional quality function deployment: An application for deciding quality strategy using fuzzy logic

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 451-470

  Cheng, Bor Wen ^a   Chiu, Wen Hong ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIN MIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Kano's model; Quality Function Deployment (QFD); Quality strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248595779     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360701231948     Document Type: Article

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