• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.225-232
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• 1999

The effect of manufacturing parameters such as molding and curing conditions on friction characteristics of friction materials was studied using a pad-on-disk type friction tester. Friction materials containing 15 ingredients were investigated for an optimal manufacturing condition for the best friction characteristics employing Taguchi robust experimental design. The main effects were different for mechanical properties and friction characteristics and were strongly influenced by manufacturing conditions. An optimum manufacturing condition was obtained to achieve the best friction characteristics concerning mechanical properties(hardness, porosity, wear resistance), friction stability, and change of rotor temperature.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.101-111
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• 1999

The purpose of Taguchi's robust design lies in quality improvement by making the performance of a system robust against noise. Robust design with continuous performance characteristics has been the subject of much interest. However relatively little work has been done for discrete characteristics such as 0-1, good-medium-bad, etc. This paper is concerned with robust design of a discrete dynamic system. We first investigate the Taguchi method for robust design with discrete dynamic characteristics and discuss his standard error probability (SEP). Then we propose a generalized SEP, which makes it possible to encompass a wider class of robust design problems. An illustration is also given by example.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.112-125
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• 1999

In a robust regression model, it is typically assumed that the errors are normally distributed. However, what if the error distribution is deviated from the normality and the response variables are not completely observable due to censoring? For complete data, Kim and Lai(1998) suggested a new adaptive M-estimator with an asymptotically efficient score function. The adaptive M-estimator is based on using B-splines to estimate the score function and simple cross validation to determine the knots of the B-splines, which are a modified version of Kun( 1992). We herein extend this method to right-censored data and study how well the adaptive M-estimator performs for various error distributions and censoring rates. Some impressive simulation results are shown.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.126-142
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• 1999

Robust design is an approach to reducing performance variation of quality characteristic values in quality engineering. Taguchi has an idea that mean and variation are handled simultaneously to reduce the expected loss in products and processes. 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 these studies, only single quality characteristic was considered. In this paper we propose how to simultaneously optimize multiple quality characteristics using desirability function when we used the combined-array approach to assign control and noise factors. An example is illustrated to show the difference between the Taguchi's product-array approach and the combined-array approach.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2001

We consider the problem of detecting special variations in multivariate $T^2$-control chart when two or more multivariate outliers are present. Since a multivariate outlier may reflect slippage in mean, variance, or correlation, it can distort the sample mean vector and sample covariance matrix. Damaged sample mean vector and sample covariance matrix have difficulty in examining special variations clearly, An alternative to detection outliers or special variations is to use robust estimators of mean vector and covariance matrix that are less sensitive to extreme observations than are the standard estimators $\bar{x}$ and $\textbf{S}$. We applied popular minimum volume ellipsoid(MVE) and minimum covariance determinant(MCD) method to estimate mean vector and covariance matrix and compared its results with standard $T^2$-control chart using simulated multivariate data with outliers. We found that the modified $T^2$-control chart based on the above robust methods were more effective in detecting special variations clearly than the standard $T^2$-control chart.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.99-105
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• 2007

According to the automated manufacturing processes followed by the development of computer manufacturing technologies, products or quality characteristics produced on the processes have measured and recorded automatically. Much amount of data daily produced on the processes may not be efficiently analyzed by current statistical methodologies (i.e., statistical quality control and statistical process control methodologies) because of the dimensionality associated with many input and response variables. Although a number of statistical methods to handle this situation, there is room for improvement. In order to overcome this limitation, we integrated data mining and robust design approach in this research. We find efficiently the significant input variables that connected with the interesting response variables by using the data mining technique. And we find the optimum operating condition of process by using RSM and robust design approach.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.84-91
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• 2000

This paper describes a state feedback controller design method of the integral type magnetic levitation servo system which satisfies the design objectives. The design objective is a $H_{\infty}$ performance, asymptotic disturbance rejection and a robust pole assignment in linear matrix inequality(LMI) region. To the end, we investigated the validity of the designed controller which considering a robust pole assignment region, through results of simulation.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.15-20
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• 2015

Control charts are generally used for process control, but the role of traditional control charts have been limited in case of a non-contaminated process. Traditional ${\bar{x}}$-s control chart has not been activated well for such a problem because of trying to control processes as center line and control limits changed by the contaminated value. This paper suggests modified ${\bar{x}}$-s control chart based on robust estimation. In this paper, we consider the trimmed mean of the sample means and the trimmed mean of the sample standard deviations. By comparing with ARL value, the responding results are decided. The comparison resultant results of traditional control chart and modified control chart are contrasted.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.203-209
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• 2011

This study develops three new models that are practically applicable to three stages of Taguchi's robust design, which includes system design, parameter design and tolerance design. In system design, the Multiple Loss Function Analysis(MLFA) and Overall Loss Index(OLI) which reflect upon weight of characteristics and importance of specification are developed. Moreover parameter design presents Process Capability Index(PCI), $C_{PUK}$ and $C_{PLK}$, in order to segregate Signal-To-Noise Ratio(SNR) into accuracy and precision for an evaluation of relative comparison. In addition, tolerance design presents the new model of allowance computation for assembled product which is primarily derived from safety margin(SM) considering functional limit and specification. The guideline of those three new models, which include systematic charts and applicable illustrations, offers convenience for practitioners in the field. Hence, the practical applications could be made with the steps of robust designs such as system design, parameter design and specification allowance design.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.151-156
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• 2014

Control charts are generally used for process control, but the role of traditional control charts have been limited in case of a contaminated process. Traditional $\bar{x}$ control charts have not been activated well for such a problem because of trying to control processes as center line and control limits changed by the contaminated value. This paper is to propose robust $\bar{x}$ control charts which is considering a location parameter in order to respond to contaminated process. In this paper, we consider $\bar{x}_{\alpha}$, that is trimmed rate; typically ten percent rate is used. By comparing with p, ARL value, the responding results are decided. The comparison resultant results of proposed two control charts are shown and are well contrasted.