Development in today's shipbuilding economy is transforming from the quantitative growth to the quality growth. Quality function deployment (QFD) and failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) adopt different ways of thinking, they remedy their respective limitations for each other, that can effectively guide the quality control. This paper is combined of HuDong ZhongHua Shipbuilding (group) co. LTD.’s shafting installation process, starting from the QFD customer requirements for finding the importance of production process elements and correction by FMEA, ultimately acquire the comprehensive importance of shafting installation process elements.