2025 brings these QFD training opportunities, as listed below. All are live virtual classes, using the Zoom platform. 

Kick-start your professional development and advancement this year with the cutting-edge QFD application skills. Please contact us if you have questions.

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2025 QFD Green Belt® Training 

Session #1: February 26–28 @ 13:00–17:00 ET (US time)
Session #2: September 8–10 @ 08:00–12:00 ET (US time)
Each session consists of 4 hours x 3 days = total 12 hours

Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure 

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2025 QFD Green Belt® UPDATE

September 12 @ 08:00–12:00 EDT (US time)
4 hours x 1 day

Online Brochure   |    PDF Brochure

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2025 QFD Black Belt® Training

September 15, 22, 29
October 6, 13, 27
November 3, 10, 17, 24.
Weekly 4-hour session x 10 meets (total 40 hours).
Class time to be determined based on attendees' preference.

Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

 

 

 

2024 Training Schedule

Here are the 2024 QFD training dates. All are live virtual classes, using the Zoom platform. Please contact us if you have questions.

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QFD Green Belt® Training 

Session #1: April 1–3, 2024 @ 11:00–15:00 EDT
Session #2: September 9–11, 2024 @ 09:00–13:00 EDT
(4 hours x 3 days = total 12 hours)

Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure 

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QFD Black Belt® Training

2024
September 16, 23, 30
October 7, 14, 21, 28
November 4, 11, 18.
Weekly 4-hour session x 10 meets (total 40 hours). Class time to be determined based on attendees' preference.

Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

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QFD Green Belt® UPDATE

September 13, 2024 @ 9:00–13:00 EDT
4 hours x 1 day

Online Brochure   |    PDF Brochure

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QFD Black Belt® UPDATE

March 4–5, 2024 @ 11:00–15:00 EDT
4 hours x 2 days

Online Brochure   |    PDF Brochure

 

 

 

Invitation to Online QFD Training - July 2023

QFD Green Belt^® Training

July 19–21, 2023

@ 09:00–13:00 Tokyo (UTC+9:00)

Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

• Internationally acclaimed introduction to Modern Blitz QFD^® and ISO 16355;
• Live online training consisting of 4 hours per day x 3 days (total 12 hours);
• Includes case studies and templates for modern QFD, AHP, customer voice table, maximum value table;
• No prerequisites.

Learn how to apply the latest advancements in quality, design, and project management in your work:

• Blitz QFD^®
• ISO 16355 (the new QFD standard)
• Wishbone Diagrams
• Semantic and Situation Analysis
• Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
• Customer Gemba visits, and more...

This training is compatible with ISO-9001, Six Sigma, DFSS, Stage Gate, EFQM, TQM, Baldrige, and other quality initiatives. The attendees of this course are eligible to enroll in the 2023 QFD Black Belt^® training if they so wish. Here is a partial list of the companies who have sent their employees to this training in the past.

For questions, please contact the QFD Institute.

 

 

2023 QFD Training Schedule

Here's the 2023 QFD training schedule.

All are live virtual training. You can attend over the Internet from anywhere in the word.

Please mark your calendar and let us know if you have any questions,

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QFD Green Belt^® Certificate Training
Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

4 hours x 3 days (total 12 hours)

2023 April 3–5  @  11:00–15:00 EDT (UTC−5:00)
2023 July 19–21  @  09:00–13:00 Tokyo (UTC+9:00)
2023 October 2–4  @  09:00–13:00 EDT (UTC−5:00)

Internationally acclaimed introductory workshop to ISO 16355 modern QFD. 
No prerequisites.

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QFD Black Belt^® Update
Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

4 hours x 2 days (total 8 hours)

2023 September 18–19  @  11:00–15:00 EST (UTC–5:00)

Live online, continuing education for QFD Black Belts^®.

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QFD Green Belt^® Update
Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

4 hours x 1 day (total 4 hours)

2023 October 7 

Live online, continuing education for QFD Green Belts^®. The class time will be determined based on attendee preference.

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QFD Black Belt^® Certificate Training
Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

4 hours per week x 10 weeks (total 40 hours)

2023 October: 9, 16, 23, 30
2023 November: 6, 13, 20
2023 December: 4, 11, 18.

Advanced training for current and future project leaders, facilitators, trainers, corporate excellence and DFLS DFSS champions. The class time will be determined based on attendee preference.

QFD for Digitalized Products

The way traditional products and services have been designed, produced, and operated is now going through dramatic changes as software and information systems expand their roles.

For example, John Seabrook in his January 24 2022 New Yorker article “America’s Favorite Pickup Truck Goes Electric” reported Ford's new approach to designing and building its new F-150 Lightening trucks.

“This industry is overly focused on the propulsion change. But the real change is that we are moving to a software-defined experience for our customers,” Ford's CEO, Jim Farley was quoted in the article.  “... the most important thing was that the software decided what kind of hardware got put on those machine... Ford will no longer wait for the next model change to rework a vehicle..."

The gist of the article, from a QFD perspective, is that hardware will be designed in the future to support the software, and not the other way around.

This means, these vehicles may come in “versions” where design changes are released on an ongoing basis, like other software-intensive products, affecting the entire supply chain for components and the entire value chain for after sales support and service/maintenance.

One can anticipate a broad range of ramification from this, including the right to access proprietary software operating systems on mechanical products such as automobiles, agricultural implements, and others by product owners and non-dealer service technicians has been contentious, and the Right-to-Repair laws for independent repair shops and car owners, as well as most importantly, data security.

Recently the ISO 16355-7 standard for digitalized products and services has passed the draft stage. It is set for final publication in late 2022. There is a great urgency to this standard as the current information revolution is taking place across all industries.

For QFD practitioners, this presents opportunities for us to improve our methods. For example, a novel approach that includes hackers as one of the Voice of Customers is being studied by three QFD experts at the International Academy for Quality. Their research will be shared in the next QFD symposium and/or in the QFD newsletter.

Read about more opportunities for QFD practitioners...

Find 2022 Public QFD Courses

 

 

 

 

2022 Public QFD Training Schedule -- Virtual Workshops

Please mark your calendar. The 2022 public QFD training schedule has been just announced.

Join us this year, to develop new skill-set and/or update your knowledge, to stay on top of your profession. 

All courses will be a live online workshop, with each session lasting 4-hours per day and led by internationally renowned expert(s). You can attend from anywhere in the world over the Internet; no need to travel!

The list below summarizes the 2022 course dates. For details, please visit the individual course brochures. For questions, please contact the QFD Institute.

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QFD Green Belt^® Certificate Course  
Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

Internationally acclaimed introductory workshop to ISO 16355 modern QFD. 
4 hours x 3 days (total 12 hours). No prerequisites.

April 4–6 @ 11:00–15:00 EDT (UTC−5:00)
July 19–21 @ 09:00–13:00 Tokyo (UTC+9:00)
October 3–5 @ 09:00–13:00 EDT (UTC−5:00)

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QFD Black Belt^® Update Course
Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

4 hours x 2 days, live online, refresher course (total 8 hours)

March 7–8 @ 11:00–15:00 EST (UTC–5:00) 

 

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QFD Green Belt^® Update Course
Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

Live online refresher for the past graduates of QFD Green Belt^®

October 7 (4 hrs x 1 day)
The class time will be determined based on attendee preference.

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QFD Black Belt^® Certificate Course
Online Brochure   |   PDF Brochure

Advanced training for project leaders, facilitators, trainers.
4 hours per week x 10 weeks (total 40 hours)

October 10, 17, 24, 31
November 7, 14,
December 5, 12, and 19.
The class time will be determined based on attendee preference.

 

 

 

 

 

2021 QFD Black Belt® Update Course

You might have moved up within your company, are leading important projects, or might seek new opportunities elsewhere in the future. Staying on top of the advanced QFD knowledge and application skill is important, especially for the QFD Black Belts^®.

We are offering the QFD Black Belt^® Update Course this November, in response to the inquiries from past attendees of our QFD training who wish to refresh what they had learned in their previous classes so that they can a better QFD practitioner and leader at work. 

QFD Black Belt^® Update Course
November 18–19, 2021 (Thur–Fri)
@ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm  EST (New York Time)
Online Brochure
PDF Brochure
How To Attend

This 2 half-day live online seminar (4-hours each day x 2 days) is for the past graduates of the QFD Black Belt^® Courses. This refresher course will bring you up to date to the current global best practices and assist you in transitioning to the new ISO 16355 standard for QFD.

Students will receive a copy of the latest QFD Green Belt^® and QFD Black Belt^® training manuals and templates, plus a 2-year extension of your provisional QFD Black Belt^® status. 

For questions, please contact the QFD Institute.

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PS:
New to QFD? Not qualify for this Update course?
We recommend you attend the upcoming QFD Green Belt^® Certificate Course, December 13–15, 2021 (4-hours x 3 days) that is also offered as a live virtual workshop.

 

 

2021 QFD Black Belt® — Virtual Training

The QFD Black Belt® Certificate Course is now offered as a live online training, using the Zoom platform. 

It will be delivered over a 10-week period, with a 4-hour session every week (total 40 hours). This makes it less disruptive to students’ work schedule and allows more time to absorb the intense knowledge. 

2021 QFD Black Belt® Course:

• Every Monday @ 9 AM – 1 PM (US Eastern/New York Time),
  starting from September 13 and continuing every Monday
  through November 22 (except for September 27).

• Online Brochure

• PDF Brochure

• Registration Form (PDF)

The curriculum encompasses the breadth and depth of modern Comprehensive QFD per compliance with ISO 16355, and relevant advanced quality and design methods. Most of all, you will be taught how to adapt QFD to unique requirements of the company and project.

This advanced QFD course has prerequisites. 

If you would like to attend the 2021 QFD Black Belt® but do not meet the prerequisites, please contact us as soon as possible.

 

2021 QFD Black Belt® Course

 Online Brochure  |  PDF Brochure  

Registration Forms:  PDF or MS Word

 

Starting September 2021, the QFD Institute will be offering the QFD Black Belt^® Certificate Course as a live virtual training, using the Zoom platform. 

This facilitator-level advanced course consists of ten 4-hour sessions (40 hours total), currently planned to start in the week of  September 13–17, 2021. 

Those who would like to attend are invited to send their registrations soon — because the dates and time zone will be finalized based on attendee preferences, after their registration forms are received.

Registration Options:

• You have a Full QFD Green Belt^® (with a Gold seal on your certificate):
  Please select [QFD Black Belt^® only] on the registration form.
  

• You attended a QFD Green Belt^® in 2020 or 2021:
  Select [QFD Black Belt^® only] on the registration form.

• You have a Provisional QFD Green Belt^® from 2019 or earlier courses:
  Select [QFD Update Package] on the registration form.
  

• You are attending the July 2021 QFD Green Belt^®:
  Select [QFD Facilitator's Package] on the registration form.
  
  

We look forward to your joining us in this new virtual training. For questions, please contact us.

PS: You might be also interested in
July 26–28, 2021 QFD Green Belt^® Certificate Course
@ 11am–3pm EST (New York time)

Virtual QFD Green Belt® Certificate Course

April 7 – April 9, 2021  (4 hours x 3 days)
@ 7pm – 11pm Japan Time
@ Noon – 4 pm Central European Summer Time
     See what time this is in your zone
Online Brochure
PDF Brochure
Contact us to attend, reserve your seat, or ask questions

Now you can attend the QFD Green Belt^® Course from anywhere in the world over the Internet. Please join us in the upcoming course:

• Internationally acclaimed introduction to the cutting-edge modern QFD and ISO 16355, current best practices and tools;
• How QFD can solve issues you face in product, service, software and process development, and help identify innovative solutions and new opportunities;
• Modern Voice of Customer analysis;
• Gemba study tools;
• Prioritization using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP templates included);
• Solid ISO 16355 QFD foundation and sound practices essential for Design for Lean Sigma / Six Sigma;
• Introduction to Kansei Engineering / Lifestyle Deployment, Hoshin, TRIZ, New Kano Model;
• Modern QFD templates, including Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Customer Process Model, Maximum Value Table, modern House of Quality with sound math, and more;
• Hands-on practice of the tools and deployment — on your own work project (when possible);
• No prerequisites.
• After-class support for attendees.

This is a live online workshop (you will need a free Zoom account).

For questions, please contact us. To receive timely announcements about future QFD training and implementation tips, please sign up for the free newsletter.