UNRIVALED Power

Simply the Best QFD Software

Create unlimited matrix layouts with custom calculations

Over 20 Templates included.  Or, build new reusable templates - great for standardization

Work right on charts!  No lists required.  Great in team meetings

Import custom drawings (.bmp), great for visualizing concepts

Project View displays the multiple charts that comprise the project with chart linkages clearly visible

Sort requirements by any numeric room

Now, you can truly "deploy" quality functions using Phase Progression.  It automatically transfers columns to rows on downstream charts (with linkages)!  Watch changes "ripple through"

High Priorities Report pinpoints the issues with the biggest impact

Benchmark Analysis automatically finds opportunities for improvement; inconsistencies between external (customer) and internal (company) performance ratings.

Drag & Drop to establish hierarchies of requirements

Create a Design Knowledgebase

Keep a record of the Voice of the Customer

Keep a record of critical design requirements (CTQs) and their relationships to the customer's needs

Record competitive benchmarking data

Record target values in your design

Make the VOC Actionable

1.   Gather the VOC manually or with IDEACore’s online WebMine surveyor

2.   Enter it into QFD Designer

3.  Brainstorm Success Factors then rank them against the VOC

4.   Review the highest impacting priorities

5.  Draft targetted/focused action plans

Simplify team collaboration

Team members working together to complete project matrices gain greater understanding of project goals and assignments.

Want to view only a subset of the QFD data?  It's simple...just Extract a subset chart.  It can be comprised of any combination of chart regions.  View a scaled down look at the problem, a great way to divide tasks.

Link supporting data

Add Video and Audio clips for greater understanding...document focus groups or product clinics

Applinks allow launch of any supporting software from within charts (e.g. Excel, CAD/CAM, Minitab, Word etc.).  Great for briefings

Add internet/intranet hyperlinks anywhere

Prioritize with a click

The list of priorities in the color Pareto/Bar Chart  updates with a click, whenever you enter a relation symbol or modify an importance value.

A powerful design framework

All charts in your project are kept together in one place.

 CORE Benefits

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)

Customer-Focused Designs

Power QFD/Concept Selection

Strategic Plan Deployment

Optimize Resource Allocation

Stellar Product Development
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The Global Standard . . .

Why have thousands of users in so many Fortune 1000 corporations worldwide standardized on QFD Designer since 1990? Why have so many switched to QFD Designer after wasting countless hours trying to "tweak" Excel or other software?
 

It is So Easy to Use

It not only helps you do QFD faster and better, you can use if for any business improvement task requiring "many to many" comparisons.  Here are a few examples from an endless list of uses:

  • Choosing a supplier
  • Prioritizing a task list
  • Designing a website
  • Setting up your company's marketing plan
  • Designing a better service or product

It was the world's first Windows application for QFD, regarded by many to be the simplest to learn and use.  But, the simplicity is not at the expense of power, it is very robust.  You can build all the charts and reports you need to practice QFD successfully in one package.
 

QFD translator Glenn Mazur says: "QFD Designer integrates many modern hyperlink and web features, nicely thought out.  I still recommend (it) to clients who are seeking QFD software."  
 

It will help you translate customer needs into a surefire winning design.

Competing products force you to work in a series of text lists. Not here! You work right on the chart. Make a change and your chart updates immediately. Change a customer importance value for a marketplace need and see the effect in real-time.  Built-in formulas quickly recalculate and redraw the Pareto bar chart designating the most critical priorities you need to focus on to achieve success.  No other product, even requirements management and project management tools, allow you to map out project priorities so clearly. 
 

WebMine's Natural Companion

If you want the ultimate in streamlined Voice of Customer gathering, pair QFD Designer with WEBMine online.  Voice of Customer data gathered using WEBMine becomes the input to your QFD studies.  WEBMine allows you to assemble and rank the needs of your target audience quickly.  You leverage the reach of the web to assemble project goals or marketplace needs from the types of people (or the actual people) in the target population.  While we still advocate in-person customer interaction, compiling the inputs for QFD with WebMine costs just a fraction of in-person meetings so it serves as a great supplement to your GEMBA research. 
 

 Screen Shots

A few screen shots are provided below for you to enjoy.  Request a demo to get the feel firsthand.
Choosing Templates
Working on a Chart
Project View
Custom Calculations
 UNLIMITED Uses

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) or any other business improvement task requiring “many to many” comparisons is a breeze with QFD Designer. It will help you improve satisfaction and gain market success. Templates include:

Strategic Planning - Hoshin

Customer Segmentation Analysis

Project Feasibility and Resource Allocation

Voice of Customer Tables

QFD, House of Quality, 4-phases

Six Sigma - DMAIC and DFSS

Failure Analysis - FMEA

Design Tradeoffs - TRIZ Problem Solver

TESTIMONIALS

"QFD Designer integrates many modern hyperlink and web features, nicely thought out"

Glenn Mazur, QFD author/translator

"QFD Designer is the most robust table-building tool on the market"

Minitab Software's JP Mulley

Quality Associates International has been using QualSoft tools, including QFD Designer and Opportunity Mine Web-Tools in their consulting business for many years, including at BMW, Caterpillar and Harley Davidson.

"I consider QualSoft tools a secret weapon for solving business and product development issues with cutting-edge technologies"

Quality Associates International's Lee Dawson - Author, FMEA and APQP expert

The US Army together with DARPA did an analysis of the competing QFD software tools, and awarded QualSoft a critical defense contract, choosing QFD Designer V4 as the QFD software of choice for the Future Combat System (FCS) initiative, forming the vision of the Army for the year 2012.

"QFD Designer is like Excel on Steriods"

DARPA's Dan Pierson

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) facilitators use QFD Designer.

"I have recommended QFD Design to everyone I talk to about QFD or DFSS. PwC is making QFD Designer V4 part of their proposals. It is a powerful and versatile tool, which can conceivably support all of their business clusters, because they all use matrices for comparative analysis."

PricewaterhouseCoopers' Charles Rupprecht - Six Sigma Expert and Facilitator

CASES - Applications

After a thorough analysis of competing tools, Dow Corning chose QFD Designer for Unlimited-use Enterprise-Wide for their Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and DMAIC Six Sigma program.

The US State Department recently utilized our software tools and Joe Craig as a QFD facilitator for help rationalizing a redesign of its critical worldwide communication system.

Dow Chemical gave V4 their acid test for a tool change, changing their corporate standard from QFD Capture to QFD Designer.

Black & Decker attributed a large part of their success in small motor development to their usage of QFD, including their implementation through QFD Designer.

Lockheed Martin has recently adopted QFD Designer as their software of choice for their Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) program. They also use the software at the request of the US Army for proposals and as a communication tool for co-development of weapon systems assuring customer driven iterative design on large government contracts.

NASA employed QFD Designer for its critical 3-day Technical Challenge prioritization workshop. This intensive session was facilitated by LMI (Logistics Management Institute) and Joe Craig of QualSoft . QFD related methods and QFD Designer were used by over 100 NASA planners focused on establishing a NASA multi-year strategic plan. Future mission goals were drafted along with associated technical hurdles required for achievement. These "hurdles" were then analyzed using the power of QFD Designer to optimize and prioritize the core resource allocation in preparation of future missions:

"The customer support your company has provided is outstanding, far exceeding our expectations and by far the best we have seen in the industry. Thanks again to you and your terrific staff."

Logistics Management Institute's Brian 2.  E. Mansir - NASA Vehicle Workshop Coordinator and Facilitator