CTQ Flowdown Tool

An Excel-based tool to help prioritize resources--The Excel Critical-To-Quality (CTQ) Flowdown tool provides an aid for quality improvement teams to identify the functions, processes, tasks, factors, etc. that exert the greatest influences on critical-to-quality requirements (CTQs). It allows them to bring different teams of subject matter experts in to address varying levels of processes and/or sub-assemblies of artifacts. By revealing these factors, quality improvement teams can prioritize their efforts and best assign their limited resources. It facilitates "discovery" by all parties. The concept of critical-to-quality requirements and features are well known to users of the Six Sigma. CTQ flowdown seeks to provide a mechanism to take a system of procedures or artifacts composed of sub-assemblies and parts to allow different groups of subject matter experts, or SMEs, to designate CTQ values, units of measure, maximum and minimum acceptable values for succeeding "decomposed" levels