Title: A framework for electricity utility service by QFD technique

Authors: Suchismita Satapathy; S.K. Patel; Shiva Shankar Mahapatra; Amitabha Biswas

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, KIITs University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, 765022, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Rourkela, Odisha, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Rourkela, Odisha, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, GIET, Gunupur, India

Abstract: The basic function of a modern electric power system is to satisfy the system load and energy requirements at the lowest possible cost, while maintaining an adequate degree of continuity and quality of supply. In addition, utilities are encountering increasing uncertainties in economic, political, societal and environmental constraints. This has resulted in a requirement for more extensive justification of new system facilities and more concentration on service system. A brief review of the typical operation of a utility system will demonstrate what a utility customer might reasonably expect in his electric service to identify and rank the system design requirements to improve services of utility.

Keywords: customer satisfaction; quality function deployment; QFD; electric power systems; service quality; utility services; electricity services; system design; service improvement.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSCI.2013.057659

International Journal of Services Sciences, 2013 Vol.5 No.1, pp.58 - 73

Accepted: 29 Jul 2013
Published online: 12 Jul 2014 *

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