Developing Environmental Quality Deployment for Designing Environmentally Friendly Product

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Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management > Volume 31(2); 2003 > Article

Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management 2003;31(2): 40-.

ABSTRACT

This study proposes Environmental Quality Deployment (EQD) by combining an instrument for measuring customer satisfaction (ENVIROQUAL) with a standard tool of product design in manufacturing called quality function deployment (QFD). The EQD presents the conceptual map of House of Environmental Quality as a means to implementation to help a company know what customers perceive as important in making environmentally friendly product and provide a framework for the translation of customer satisfaction into identifiable and measurable conformance specifications for environmentally friendly product design.

Key Words: EQD(Environmental Quality Deployment);QFD(Quality Function Deployment);Product Design;AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Precess);