Lack of Prior Knowledge

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How do you stop the "strap a buzzsaw on a go cart and add a flame thrower", we use QFD to initialize our brainstorming process. QFD stands for Quality Functional Deployment, a process used by top companies to build in quality into their products. See the QFD tab in our website: theflyingtoasters.org

We adapted the Ford Quality system in our rendition of QFD. We attribute our very successful third year with FIRST to the use of QFD; Chairman's award, District Winners, Michigan State Championships-Qualifying for Worlds, 17th in our division at Worlds, 2nd Seed team at MARC, and IRI.

QFD helped our team to focus on the Whats and Hows. If you want more information, check out our website or contact me.