APPLICATION QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT (QFD) FOR DESIGNING CANE LIVING SET PROTOTYPE AT CANE FURNITURE INDUSTRY AREA IN TRANGSAN AND LUWANG SUKOHARJO

Cane furniture is one kind of export category from Indonesia especially from Sukoharjo, one of premier product is cane living set with main material for producing are natural resources such as mahogany wood, rattan, peel, water hyacinth, banana leaf, and sea grass. This product special for export market, many solutions to develop cane living set with purposed to company survive and compete to competitors.

The improvement that is purposed to meet the consumer’s needs, wiil push the company to create an effort in getting the best solution, so its product is able to compete with others. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is an activity to desain a process as the conception of costumer’s needs. QFD collects the marketing skill, technical engineerning, and manufacturing, therefore the product designed will satisfy the costumer’s needs surely. While the decision to take the chosen alternative solution in product design prosses using weighted objectives score.

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a method used in design and development cane living set research. In this method, design and development based on the voice of customer. The result of design and development is Frame combine of mahogany wood and rattan, strike back type, with sea grass cane, full cane of table and seat, consist of 1 sofa 2 seats, 2 single seat and a major table, with combine of ornaments, with cane of table surface, colouring using melamine, included installation guide. It is hope, that this cane living set be able to accommodate the user’s need and want.

Key word : Cane living set, Quality function deployment

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