A QFD-Based Mathematical Model for New Product Development Considering the Target Market Segment

Responding to customer needs is important for business success. Quality function deployment provides systematic procedures for converting customer needs into technical requirements to ensure maximum customer satisfaction. The existing literature mainly focuses on the achievement of maximum customer...

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Main Authors: Liang-Hsuan Chen, Cheng-Nien Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/594150
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description Responding to customer needs is important for business success. Quality function deployment provides systematic procedures for converting customer needs into technical requirements to ensure maximum customer satisfaction. The existing literature mainly focuses on the achievement of maximum customer satisfaction under a budgetary limit via mathematical models. The market goal of the new product for the target market segment is usually ignored. In this study, the proposed approach thus considers the target customer satisfaction degree for the target market segment in the model by formulating the overall customer satisfaction as a function of the quality level. In addition, the proposed approach emphasizes the cost-effectiveness concept in the design stage via the achievement of the target customer satisfaction degree using the minimal total cost. A numerical example is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach and its characteristics are discussed.
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spelling doaj-art-0cd4d05ffc9e4ba28c08971f244a44bd2025-08-20T03:54:15ZengWileyJournal of Applied Mathematics1110-757X1687-00422014-01-01201410.1155/2014/594150594150A QFD-Based Mathematical Model for New Product Development Considering the Target Market SegmentLiang-Hsuan Chen0Cheng-Nien Chen1Department of Industrial and Information Management, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, TaiwanDepartment of Industrial and Information Management, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, TaiwanResponding to customer needs is important for business success. Quality function deployment provides systematic procedures for converting customer needs into technical requirements to ensure maximum customer satisfaction. The existing literature mainly focuses on the achievement of maximum customer satisfaction under a budgetary limit via mathematical models. The market goal of the new product for the target market segment is usually ignored. In this study, the proposed approach thus considers the target customer satisfaction degree for the target market segment in the model by formulating the overall customer satisfaction as a function of the quality level. In addition, the proposed approach emphasizes the cost-effectiveness concept in the design stage via the achievement of the target customer satisfaction degree using the minimal total cost. A numerical example is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach and its characteristics are discussed.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/594150
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