Application of the Quality Functional Deployment Method for the Development of an Independent Locking Securement System for Mobility Aids on Public Transportation Vehicles: Executive Summary

摘要

The Quality Functional Deployment (QFD) method was used for the design of the Independent Locking Securement (ILS) System. The project entailed the design, construction, and testing of the ILS system prototypes. The QFD approach included surveying the present technology, establishing customer requirements, studying design loads, determining functional decomposition of the device requirements, establishing engineering requirements, bench marking present technology, generating new ideas, selecting a final design, construction of several prototypes, conducting human-factor testing, and undertaking both static and dynamic tests, and making a final recommendation of the design. The Executive Summary describes both the development and the concept of the ILS system.