• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 2000

Robust design is an approach to reducing performance variation of quality characteristic values in quality engineering. Taguchi parameter design has a great deal of advantages but it also has some disadvantages. The various research efforts aimed at developing alternative methods. In the Taguchi parameter design, the product-array approach using orthogonal arrays is mainly used. However, it often requires an excessive number of experiments. An alternative approach, which is called the combined-array approach, was suggested by Welch et. al. (1990) and studied by others. In this paper we make a comparative study on optimization procedures to robust design in the two different experimental design(product array, combined array) approaches the Mough the Monte Carlo simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.449-450
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.108-113
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• 2005

In this study, rotary type diamond dressing system for ultra-precision centerless grinding for ferrule was developed at the first time and experiments were conducted with AE sensor and hall sensor system to verify the optimum dressing condition for ultra-precision centerless grinding for ferrule. The correlations with the condition of dressing are evaluated by AE signal analysis with root mean square (RMS) and frequency analysis. And current signals from hall sensor are also studied as a factor of dressing optimum condition selection. Dressing process was conducted to investigate the effects of depth of cut, rotating speed, and the number of overlap to select the optimum condition of rotary dressing system of ultra-precision centerless grinding machine for ferrule fabrication. In order to verify the optimum condition of dressing, AE and current signals were compared with the surface quality of dressing wheel and grinding wheel for ultra-precision ferrule grinding. All of these experiments were completed by Taguchi Methodology to reduce experimental time. Hence, the optimum condition of rotary dressing system for ultra-precision centerless grinding for ferrule fabrication can be selected following to the experiment result from signals of AE and hall sensor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.365-372
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• 2006

신제품 개발 과정에 있어 시장 요인과 기술 요인의 통합적 설계가 강조되면서 마케팅 영역(marketing domain)과 제조 영역(manufacturing domain)의 경계면(interface) 사이의 의견을 균형 있게 조정, 수렴해 주는 경계 시스템(interface system)에 대한 연구의 중요성이 커지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 배경을 토대로 각 영역(domain)에서 대표되는 신제품 파라미터 설계 방법인 컨조인트 분석과 다구찌 방법을 비교함으로써 두 영역의 신제품 개발 관점을 대비시키고 나아가 신제품 파라미터 설계를 위한 통합적 해결방안(integrated solution)을 제시한다. 그리고 도출된 방법론을 자동차 운전석 내부 설계 사례에 예시적으로 적용함으로써 유용성을 검증한다. 본 연구에서 제시된 방법론의 핵심적 특성과 차별적 의의는 기존의 연구들처럼 두 방법론을 선택하여 사용하는 것이 아니라 순차적으로 결합한 새로운 프로세스를 사용함으로 두 영역에서 발생하는 상충 관계(trade off)를 해결하여 고객의 효용도와 품질의 강건함이란 목적을 동시에 만족시키는 설계가 가능하다는데 있다. 나아가 신제품 개발 목표와 기업의 전략에 따라 분석의 순서와 설계수준의 크기를 조정할 수 있는 신축성을 확보할 수 있다는 점도 제시할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.1263-1272
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• 2016

Product array approach which is used in the Taguchi parameter design has a number of advantages by considering the noise factor. However, a disadvantage of this method is that it requires an excessively large number of experiments. So combined array approach have been proposed to reduce the number of experiments. Taguchi has used the signal-to-noise ratio to find the optimum conditions in the Taguchi parameter design. In analyzing the data from the parameter design various problems tends occur by using an SN. In this paper, we propose an alternative solution for reducing the number of experiments without depending on the signal-to-noise ratio to overcome the shortcomings of the parameter design. Two examples illustrate this procedure in the two different experimental design (product array, combined array) approaches.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.203-209
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• 2014

The rear center-hinge bracket is designed for supporting and folding the rear-seat backrest. This bracket needs to be strong enough to be able to rigidly hold the rear-seat backrest and to withstand luggage loads from the car trunk that are generated when a vehicle is driving on the roads. Particularly, current accident studies report that many serious occupant injuries occurred when the rear-seat back easily folded inward toward the car interior, driven by the luggage loads in the trunk. Given this fact, the robust design of the rear center-hinge bracket that mainly supports the rear backrest has become more important for providing customer safety and preventing high warranty and durability problems. However, none of the studies have emphasized its significant role and considered its robust optimization. Therefore, this paper presents how the hinge-bracket design is optimized based on an application of the finite-element method coupled with the parameter design using Taguchi's design experiment. Finally, Taguchi method's application optimizes a robust center-hinge bracket that shows more rigid performance although it has lighter weight and thinner thickness.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.45-51
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• 2004

Recently, the severe competition in the internet shopping mall has forced firms to increase the customer satisfaction and to enhance service quality Despite the internet shopping mall's fast and superficial growth and extraordinary potential, study on (actors affecting service quality based on its characteristics is meager. Most researchers have studied on the service quality related with the internal shopping mall by just applying measurement items in internet environment. This paper tries to analyze whether the internet shopping mall can be reorganized by introducing factors of service quality specifically with reference to the internet showing mall. In addition, this study focuses on developing the method to measure the service quality more effectively. For this purpose, this study applies the Taguchi Method using quality loss function (QLF) which can be used to measure quality quantitatively. The proposed method provides the measurement of the internet shopping mall's service quality and offers to the practitioner a measurement tools suitable for service industry.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.427-433
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• 2013

Stair climbing is one of critical issues for field robots to widen applicable areas. This paper presents optimal design on kinematic parameters of a new robotic platform for stair climbing. The robotic platform climbs various stairs by body-flip locomotion with caterpillar type main platform. Kinematic parameters such as platform length, platform height, and caterpillar rotation speed are optimized to maximize stair-climbing stability. Three types of stairs are used to simulate typical user conditions. The optimal design process is conducted based on Taguchi methodology, and resulting parameters with optimized objective function are presented. In near future, a prototype is assembled for real environment testing.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.23-31
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• 2009

Since 9.11 terrorist attacks against the USA, the new paradigm for "supply chain security" has been established. And at the same time a lot of researches are being made on supply chain security by many foreign companies or research institutes. However, domestically the terms "supply chain security" themselves are not yet familiar, and the paradigm of security are not being used in the logistics, while little researches are being made on them But recently along with development of "ConTracer," a supply chain security technology, which is to be used as the equipment for container cargo transportation safety based on RF1D technology, related researches have begun to be activated. The key issues for the development of equipment for container transportation safety are to obtain both a high recognition rate and enough recognition distance. To this end, this study has tested the ConTracer (433 MHz type and 2.4 GHz type) by using Taguchi Method. According to our test results, in the case of 433 MHz type, it is a little more effective that the reader faces to the front-right side, and in the case of 2.4 GHz, reader direction does not make difference in the view of sensitivity. The test also has proved that it is better that antenna location, as expected, is to be installed on the outside for both types alike.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.589-599
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• 2013

The concept of robust optimization is based on Taguchi's method. Especially, robustness indices of objective function pursue an insensitive and conservative design when there are variations on design variables and parameters. To accomplish the purpose, various robustness indices on the objective function have been developed. However, it can be caused limitations to develop the robustness index, because there is difference between the Taguchi's method and robust optimization. In this paper, an investigation is performed to identify the characteristics and the drawbacks of the previous studies. To achieve the purpose, evaluations are conducted by using the examples which have both a deterministic optimum and a robust optimum. Moreover, a new viewpoint as well as a robustness index using a supremum value of the objective function is proposed based on the investigation.