Pugh-matrix
Activities
- Activity 4: Assessing and selecting the solution concept
Description
With the Pugh matrix, several alternative solutions are compared and analysed with regard to their degree of fulfilment of several decision criteria. As a rule, a reference object (e.g. an existing product) is used for comparison. The evaluation is carried out either using a value scale or with the help of a better (+) / worse (-) comparison. The assessment of the individual criteria (in the weighted approach) is offset against their weightings and totalled for each alternative solution. In this way, the alternative solutions are ranked. The main difference between the decision criteria matrix and the (weighted) point evaluation is the option of a reference object and the type of evaluation scale used.
Possibilities for support
Provide procedural potentials to better assess the degree of fulfilment of the evaluation criteria
Procedure
- Selection of evaluation criteria for evaluating the solution concepts
- Weighting of the evaluation criteria if required
- If required, selection of a reference object (e.g. an existing product)
- Assess the degree of fulfilment of the individual evaluation criteria for each solution concept
- Calculate the degree of fulfilment with the corresponding criteria weights and add them up for the solution concepts
- Prioritise the solution concepts
Sources
- isixsigma.com 2021
- trainingsmanufakutur.de 2021
- projektmagazin.de 2021