Showing posts with label software QA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label software QA. Show all posts

28 February 2019

QFD Security Deployment

finger vein authentication system
- graphic by nih.org
In 2007 International Symposium on QFD, a case study was presented involving the development of a finger vein authentication device for the financial and security industries.

Initially designed for medical device, this technology captures high-contrast maps of finger veins from an image obtained from light transmission, with the help of artificial intelligence, and matches them to the pre-registered vein patterns to authenticate the identity of an individual.

At that time, the company, Hitachi Omron Terminal Solutions, Ltd., believed that their system made forgery very difficult because it was the only type of authentication methods that used internal physiological characteristics that are invisible externally and hard to reproduce.

Fast forward, in December 2018, German researchers reported that they were able to hack this particular security system by replicating a human hand's veins by using off-the-shelf materials.

So here is yet another example of the never ending cat-and-mouse game played by technologies and hackers.

How can QFD / ISO 16355 help to build-in better security designs during the produce development process?

Like in many Systems Engineering problems, it is useful to begin by separating the problem space from the solution space. By creating a vertical Security Deployment, we can look at the problem space from multiple perspectives.

Here are some possible charts that may be used:
  1. Security Tree Analysis (STA)
  2. Customer Needs - Security Matrix
  3. Functional Requirements - Security Matrix
  4. Function - Security Technology Matrix
  5. System/Subsystem - Security Matrix
  6. Component - Security Matrix
  7. Build - Security Table

More details on such QFD Security Deployment process are explained at qfdi.org

Also, the QFD Institute is now developing these new tools for training in a number of industries including health care and IT products and services.

Today security concern is everybody's business today, not limited to the responsibility of IT and engineering, since a single security breach could wreck an otherwise well-designed new product or a business plan.

To begin your journey to understanding how ISO QFD tools could be useful for your work, we invite you to the upcoming training.

© QFD Institute & Glenn Mazur



08 August 2013

QFD for input device and software QA, university e-portfolio, fashion and apparel manufacturing, global markets

This continues a preview of the exciting presentations planned for the upcoming The 19th International Symposium on QFD (ISQFD) on September 6-7 in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA.

The 2-day symposium welcomes people of all levels QFD, from the beginner to the experienced, people of countries and industries. It is complimentary to the attendees of QFD Green Belt® Certificate Course and QFD Black Belt® Certificate Course  We hope you will join us!

See the previous posts:



Application of QFD to the Symptom Analysis of Input-device Software Defects

(image - input device QA)The traditional function/regression tests following the design specification do not adequately ensure software quality, due to the evaluation complexity posed by various input-device software such as USB, wireless communication device, sensor, LCD display technologies, etc. This presentation, by a worldwide leader of graphic tablets, will show a better method for evaluating and analyzing software defects by correctly assessing the symptoms of the original causes of failures and then identifying the relationships between the operations and subjects through the use of the function deployment tables and state transition tables.

Keywords: Software QA, QFD, FTA, Symptom Analysis, Test Coverage, Evaluation Deployment, JAPAN

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Improvement of University e-Portfolio System in Consideration of Students' Demands

(image - university e-portfolio system)Using a QFD approach, demand analysis and factor analysis were performed for the successful introduction of the e-Portfolio system in a public university in Japan.By analyzing the students' demands and factors of an existing software, the researchers were able to turn the e-Portfolio system software into an information infrastructure that can be fully utilized by students for their study, helping them complete their own study plan efficiently.

Quality Assurance in Higher Education, e-Portfolio, Requirement Analysis, Software Development, JAPAN

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Starting QFD for Clothing Manufacturers in Hong Kong

(image - QFD for apparel and fashion industry)Some 20 years ago, the clothing manufacturers in Hong Kong only had to deal with the sewing or knitting of the samples for fashion designers.
Today they are expected to provide technical design services as well as sample development process. The increasing degree of abstractness and the shift from quantitative to qualitative nature of technical data have created many communication problems. This paper will identify the areas in which QFD can help Hong Kong clothing manufacturers in their development and design activities, while also outlining the effective QFD approaches.

Keywords: Clothing Manufacturers, Apparel Manufacturing, QFD, Hong Kong, CHINA

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Global QFD — From Japan to the World

Since its conception in Japan in 1966, QFD continues to advance and spread across the world. In this keynote, the global history of QFD will be presented by a founder of the methodology.
(image - global QFD)
The talk will share the inaugural training and projects that Dr. Akao was personally involved in each country, such as South Korea (1981), Taiwan (1882), USA (1983), Italy (1988), and many more. Businesses with international operations may gain an unusual insight into how their overseas competitors might be using QFD in what levels and which regions to look out for in the future.

Keywords: Global QFD, History of QFD, Quality Function Deployment, Japan, USA, South Korea, Taiwan, Italy





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