Abstract:
This research was an application of two techniques: QFD and FMEA utilized in order to improve quality of case study's kitchen knock-down furniture. The purpose of this study was not only to reduce the failure of products from customer complaints but also improve the customer satisfaction of the product. Parato diagram was used for finding failure mode of customer complaints, which were requested on design process and knock-down process. In design process, QFD technique was used for changing the voice of customer into characteristics of the product. Mean while knock-down process, the researcher analyzed by using fish bone diagram to find the root causes of failure mode and FMEA technique to improve the process by firstly, rectifying the defects which RPN scores were above 120. After process rectification using both techniques, the study can indicates that the number of failure mode of customer complaints were decreased from 34.12% to 11.81%. Whereas, the percentage of customer satisfaction of kitchen knock-down furniture was increased to 36.18%.