Determining the importance weights for the design requirements in the house of quality using the fuzzy analytic network approach

  • Authors:

  • Gülçin Büyüközkan;Tijen Ertay;Cengiz Kahraman;Da Ruan

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Industrial Engineering, Galatasaray University, Ortaköy 34357 Istanbul, Turkey;Department of Management Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Macka 34367, Istanbul, Turkey;Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Macka 34367, Istanbul, Turkey;Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN), Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Quality function deployment (QFD) has been used to translate customer needs (CNs) and wants into technical design requirements (DRs) in order to increase customer satisfaction. QFD uses the house of quality (HOQ), which is a matrix providing a conceptual map for the design process, as a construct for understanding CNs and establishing priorities of DRs to satisfy them. This article uses the analytic network process (ANP), the general form of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), to prioritize DRs by taking into account the degree of the interdependence between the CNs and DRs and the inner dependence among them. In addition, because human judgment on the importance of requirements is always imprecise and vague, this work concentrates on a fuzzy ANP approach in which triangular fuzzy numbers are used to improve the quality of the responsiveness to CNs and DRs. A numerical example is presented to show the proposed methodology. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.