geNerate proGress Report and HouSe of QualitY

Date & Time: 19 Jan 2010 & 11.15am - 1.15pm

Venue: Official Engineering Cafeteria 

Agenda:

1. Progress Report  
2. House of Quality.

We chose to discuss on the house of quality later as some of the elements inside it is not clarify yet. At the same time, we generate the progress report for Thursday submission. After gone through a discussion we manage to understand about this House of Quality Smart Backpack. It is shown as below;

The progess report still under developement..he he.. We postponed our meeting to Wednesday.

fheew, a lot have been done for today!

Date & Time: 17 Jan 2010 & 9.00-4.00pm

Venue: PG Lounge, Level 3 Library

Agenda: 

1. Specification Breakdown list
2. List of Metrics
   
3. Needs-Metrics Matrix
4. Problem Decomposition
   
5. Functional Decomposition
   
6. Classfication Tree
7. Concept Combination Table
8. Pugh's Method
9. Modified Pugh's Method

All listed above was discussed. Before came up with Needs- Metrics Matrix, we need to have a specification break down list and list of Metrics. The final Needs- Metrics Matrix for our Smart Backpack as shown below;

Then the Problem Decomposition was identified. Then functional Decomposition was derived. The functional decomposition as shown below;

 

From this Problem decomposition, we chose to create the Functional Decomposition of our sub-system as below;

 

From that ,we  generated our classification tree as shown below;

 

By referring to the info above, we came up with the Concept Combination Table. In this table, we drew out the possibilities components to be used in our system. The table as below;

From the table we drew out the alternaives for our subsystem that is;

In order to make a concept selection, we used Pugh's Method to identify the advantages and drawback  of each alternatives available by comparing among them. Then from there, we apply Modified Pugh's Method to choose the best subsystem that we would like to employ in our system soon. The SmartBackpack Modified Pugh's Method as shown below;

 

Our evaluation shows that Alternatives 1 would be the most appropriate option. Thus, our Concept selection would be Alternative 1.

We Postponed our meeting to Tuesday afternoon. TQ 

ooOOOoo Objective tree

ate & Time: 14 Jan 2010 & 9.00-10.45 pm

Venue: Library

Agenda: Objective tree

again another brain storming (??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) session was done. Below is the outcome..fuhhh............

Gathering raw data

Date & Time: 12 January 2009 & 11.30- 1.00 pm
Venue: Reseach Room E2
Agenda: Interpreting Data & need indentification

We interpreted the interview results and brain strom on the need identification to produce our product well and meet the customers' satisfaction. Meeting was postponed to Thusday night to produce the objective tree.

Date & Time: 7 January 2010 (at any convenience and free time)

Venue: IIUM

Agenda: Interview

Each of our group member was assigned to conduct interviews to 3 IIUM students respectively on Thursday evening, 7 January 2010. We used the questionnaire during the interview sessions to organize the responses from our potential customers about our smart backpack product. Alhamdulillah, we managed to conduct the interviews successfully, with positive responses from the customers.

Some helpful questions that are asked during the interview process are:

• When was the last time you lost your valuable belongings just because of your carelessness? (How much is it cost you?
• Besides the price of the backpack, how much more would you pay to make it smart?
• How do you like the smart backpack inform you about things that you may left behind?
• What do you like the most about this product?
• What do you think about the placement of LCD Display on your backpack?

questionairee

Date & Time: 6 Jan 2010

Venue: Engin open air cafeteria

Agenda: Finalize Qaire

Through the discussion we had, we come up with some ideas and problems that customer may face when using our proposed product. So based on that we create a questionnaire and to consider the chances of learning new ideas from the customers need. We made some questions which are suitable for the interview and by doing that we can be able to know the details that we seek through customer needs. Furthermore, the open discussion and interview with the customers can help us to learn the needs that may not be discovered by us......

Date & Time: 5 Jan 2010

Venue: E2-1- 2

Agenda: Questioaire Kick off

After MSD class we gathered to discuss on Qaire. In this meeting, Aida agreed to draft the Qaire and sent to group members for review and amendment. We postponed our meeting to tomorrow.