Quality Function Deployment of Firepipe - The foldable cooking stove

Sammanfattning: Each year, millions of people flee their homes due to political conflicts, fearing the risk of being persecuted. As well, mounting environmental issues engenders an increasing stream of people-displacement. Humanitarian organisations have for decades acted in order to help people of concern in refugee situations. For them, it is vital to be able to provide quick relief and must therefore be mobilized via suppliers and distribution channels with needed goods for humanitarian care in case of an emergency. Gustav Innovation in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) and the authors of this document, is developing a field cooking stove called FirePipe which is both quick and easy to distribute, as well as sustainable financially, environmentally and humanitarily in provisional settlesments. The following document treats the development of a Quality Function Deployment (QFD) evaluating the most important characteristics of such a stove in order to create an as succesful product as possible. It also contains a competitive analysis to illuminate FirePipe’s strengths and weaknessess in relation to similar products. According to the QFD analysis the most important Quality Characteristic to focus on in future engineering work is the reduction of the fuel mass consumption of FirePipe. Other important paramterers are the ability to save time using FirePipe as well as reducing harmful emissions. If the target values for these features can be met, FirePipe will be a qualitatively consistent alternative to the existing market that particularly will deliver great opportunities for easy cost-effective logistics.