OVERVIEW OF TRIPTYCH

Triptych is the informational engine of the SDI Tool suite that defines the opportunity for product development by translating abstract customer requirements to concrete design requirements .

The primary focus for Triptych is:

• Voice of the Customer
• Innovation
• Design Selection

Triptych processes information that is entered in easy-to-use, interactive Excel worksheets and the results become a key part of the product development process.

Features

Triptych has many features associated with each worksheet type. Click on the links below to see more information, detailed features and screenshots.

• QFD: Captures the voice of the customer and translates it into engineering requirements using Quality Functional Deployment methods
• Affinity Diagram: A Tool for sorting large number of ideas or concepts into logical groupings.
• AHP (Importance): Prioritizes (or ranks) Items by performing pair-wise comparisons of Items against each other in terms of relative importance.
• TRIZ: Generates ideas for solving technical contradictions
• Pugh Matrix: Qualitative Selection for preliminary designs
• TOPSIS: Goal-based Selection for preliminary detailed designs
• SDI Matrix: Quantitative Selection for detailed designs
• FMEA: A risk assessment technique for systematically identifying potential failures in a system or a process.

Unlike our competitors, Triptych worksheets are not static Excel templates. They are intelligent, interactive worksheets that automate the flow of information from worksheet to another to support the product development process. The diagram below shows how information can flow among the Triptych worksheets.