House of Quality (HOQ)

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House of Quality (HOQ) is a diagram, used for defining the relationship between customer desires and the firm/product capabilities. The "house of quality" is a basic design tool of the management approach known as quality function deployment (QFD). It is originated in 1972 at Mitsubishi's Kobe shipyard site.
The house of quality provides the means for functional planning and communications. With Edraw's HOQ software, people with different problems and responsibilities can work out design priorities while referring to patterns of evidence on the house's grid. The house of quality diagram is created to develop a design quality aiming at satisfying the consumer and then translating the consumer's demand into design targets and major quality assurance points to be used throughout the production phase.

Edraw contains pre-defined templates and rich shapes that help you easily create house of quality diagram to analyze the relationship between customer desires and the firm/product capabilities. With drag and drop simplicity and automated tools, an intricate House of Quality chart could be done in just minutes. You can output the chart to different formats like PDF and other graphic formats, or print without and quality loss.
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Video Tutorial - How to Create a HOQ Diagram

Edraw HOQ templates provide you plenty of special shapes used in the HOQ charts, main matrix, single column, single row, right matrix, bottom matrix, roof matrix, left roof matrix, HOQ, text block, legend, 12-role flag, 10-role flag and arrow flags, etc. With these special shapes, your HOQ chart will look more professional.

Click the following link to view the video tutorial: Video Tutorial - How to Create a HOQ Diagram

Now we show a house and quality template for better understanding of the technique and easier design.

How to Create House and Quality Diagram

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