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Volume 5, Issue 2(Suppl) Adv Automob Eng 2016
ISSN: 2167-7670, AAE an open access journal
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Prioritizing sensor performance characteristics for automotive seat weight sensors in quality function
deployment (QFD)
Derya Haroglu1, 2, Nancy Powell1 and Abdel Fattah M Seyam1
1North Carolina State University, USA
2Erciyes University, Turkey
Quality function deployment (QFD), a key tool to convert the customer needs into product fea-tures, is generally integrated
into the new product development (NPD) process at the design stage. Prioritizing customer needs in a QFD process leads to
using the resources (time, money and staffing) effectively by eliminating the unimportant customer needs. The overall goal of the
research was to develop a textile-based optical fiber sensor for automotive seat occupancy. The findings of this paper were focused
on the design of experiments in our previous publication. In this paper, a research study was conducted to better understand
market demands in terms of sen-sor performance characteristics for automotive seat weight sensors, as a part of the QFD House
of Quality (HOQ) analysis. A survey was sent to more than 20 companies operating in the field of automotive seat weight sensors
and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) via e-mail. Only 5 companies participated in this study due to competitive concerns
and confidentiality reasons. However, the companies responded to the survey were of quality relevant to the research and could be
perceived as representative of the group of experts. All 5 companies participated in the survey agreed on the first 5 most important
sensor characteristics: Reproducibility, accuracy, se-lectivity, aging and resolution; where the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was
applied to pri-oritize the sensor characteristics.
Biography
Derya Haroglu has completed her PhD in December 2014 from North Carolina State University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Design
Engineering at Erciyes Uni-versity, Turkey.
Derya Haroglu et al., Adv Automob Eng 2016, 5:2(Suppl)