QFD in Malaysian SMEs Food Packaging CAD (PackCAD) Testing

AbstractNowadays, most of the Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) entrepreneurs improves the effectiveness of product markets through the strategic implications of using a Computer Aided Design system (CAD) in an attractive packaging design. Therefore, a CAD Packaging-Computer Aided Design (PackCAD) prototype system was developed to support the design process of food products packaging. Modules developed provide user convenience to choose the pull-place (drag-drop) packaging form prepared in template (stored in the data library). Quality function development (QFD) method is used in both phase; the identifying user requirements phase and the verification and validation phase. Food packaging design files from CATIA V5R18 and AutoCAD2012 is used to perform verification and validation. This paper focus on produce House of Quality QFD diagrams related to the geometry data exchange from design files that have been constructed using PackCAD is readable and can be opened in other CAD software. SME entrepreneurs are able to design product packagings that were being produced by using PackCAD system with minimal skills in computer handling