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Article: ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL AND DIGITAL EQUIPMENT FORM QFD ALLIANCE
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- August 26, 1993
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SEAL BEACH, Calif., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockwell International Corp. (NYSE: ROK) and Digital Equipment Corp. (NYSE: DEC) have announced an alliance to share and transfer technologies in the area of Quality Function Deployment (QFD).
QFD is a methodology used by product design teams to promote better and easier cross-functional planning within an organization. While QFD was developed for the design of industrial products, such as automobiles, it is equally applicable to the design of electronic products, computer software and service products.
The methodology helps to ensure that critical customer needs are understood and addressed in a cost-effective manner, ...