Part I: True or False $(10$ Marks$)$

Chapter $7$:

Quality function deployment $($QFD$)$ describes a method for translating customer requirements into functional design.

Customer requirements with high competitive assessments and low importance are candidates for improvement.

Concurrent engineering leads to increased interaction with the customer.

As product life cycles become longer, product variety and change become much more important to a successful competitor.

Failure modes and effects analysis results in reduction in product development cost.

Chapter $13$:

Six Sigma is popular with CEO's because it is more cost$-$reduction$-$oriented than traditional continuous improvement.

The basic seven $($B$7)$ tools of quality can be used to handle $90\%$ of the quality problems that a firm typically encounters.

DMAIC is very similar to Deming's PDCA cycle.

The analyze phase of a Six Sigma project is used to select an appropriate project for improvement.

The quality loss function reveals that all points that are within upper and lower specification limits are equal.

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