• 품질경영학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.73-80
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• 2007

The learning, which is a view extended from and replaces the concept of continuous improvement, has become the very core concept in Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The most potent one among 11 core values in MBNQA Model is 'organizational and personal learning'. Learning also plays a critical role to get the good scores for 6 categories except results category among 7 categories of MBNQA Model. But the concept of learning often has been overlooked by the people who are interested in the MB award or TQM. This paper reviews and analyzes the concept of learning in the MB criteria since it first appears in 1993 to enlighten the importance of learning.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.93-103
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• 2022

This study investigated the method of continuous improvement of small-medium company production processes through POSCO's QSS(Quick Six Sigma) activities. QSS is a field operation technique that encompasses the advantages of Six Sigma, TPS(Toyota Production System), TQM (Total Quality Management), and IE(Industrial Engineering). Through this, POSCO not only encourages activities centered on related small and medium-sized partners, etc., but is also expected to contribute to the continuous improvement of the company's own production process through QSS activities. In this study, rather than unconditionally carrying out activities according to the needs of large companies, the research is to help the continuous improvement of the actual production process of small and medium-sized enterprises by effectively applying and spreading QSS activities in consideration of the characteristics and environment of the company. For this purpose, empirical research is conducted on the process improvement activities and QSS activities of company Y, which has less than 100 assembly and production quality and inspection processes among SMEs. The changes in the production process improvement of SMEs through the application of the final QSS were investigated through empirical studies.

• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.186-207
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• 2001

Background : This study presented an analysis of healthcare quality indicators using data mining and a development of decision support system for quality improvement. Method : Specifically, important factors influencing the key quality indicators were identified using a decision tree method for data mining based on 8,405 patients who discharged from a medical center during the period between December 1, 2000 and January 31, 2001. In addition, a decision support system was developed to analyze and monitor trends of these quality indicators using a Visual Basic 6.0. Guidelines and tutorial for quality improvement activities were also included in the system. Result : Among 12 selected quality indicators, decision tree analysis was performed for 3 indicators ; unscheduled readmission due to the same or related condition, unscheduled return to intensive care unit, and inpatient mortality which have a volume bigger than 100 cases during the period. The optimum range of target group in healthcare quality indicators were identified from the gain chart. Important influencing factors for these 3 indicators were: diagnosis, attribute of the disease, and age of the patient in unscheduled returns to ICU group ; and length of stay, diagnosis, and belonging department in inpatient mortality group. Conclusion : We developed a decision support system through analysis of healthcare quality indicators and data mining technique which can be effectively implemented for utilization review and quality management in a healthcare organization. In the future, further number of quality indicators should be developed to effectively support a hospital-wide Continuous Quality Improvement activity. Through these endevours, a decision support system can be developed and the newly developed decision support system should be well integrated with the hospital Order Communication System to support concurrent review, utilization review, quality and risk management.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.218-228
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• 2020

소재 산업은 공정 기술을 활용하여 최종 제품에 적용되는 부품을 생산하며 완성품의 품질을 결정하는 중요한 기반 산업이다. 그러나 최근 시장 환경이 악화되고 3D 업종으로 인식되어 다른 소재 산업 국가에 비해 경쟁력을 잃어가고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구는 단조 기업의 특성을 분석하고 품질 비용 범위를 설정하여 해당 산업에 특화된 품질 비용 관리 체계 및 지속적 품질 개선 방안에 대한 프로세스를 개발한다. 본 연구를 통해서 단조 산업의 세 가지 특성인 설비 의존, 수주 위주, 현장 중심을 발견하고 내부 실패 비용과 외부 실패 비용을 품질 비용 범위로 설정하였다. 대형 단조업체인 A기업에 대해서 개발된 품질 비용 관리 체계와 지속적 품질 개선 프로세스를 적용하여 총 8개의 품질 과제를 발굴하였으며, 개선 활동 결과 전년 대비 약 63.3%의 품질비용 저감을 확인하여 그 실효성을 증명하였다. 본 연구는 단조 기업들이 체계적으로 품질 비용을 관리하고 분석하여 품질 경영전략 방향성을 수립할 수 있도록 도움을 줄 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국품질경영학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국품질경영학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.149-152
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• 2006

In this paper, We study several method of CTQ measurement for improvement of Quality. Measurement are cornerstone of basic improvement of Science and Technology and are considered continuous thesis. In this paper, we survey measure several variable for CTQ for Six sigma. We introduce Taguchi's SN ration Which is important example good measure for improve quality Improvement are succeed by good select measure variable which is called CTQ which should agree problem define and final goal.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2020

This paper presents an environment for rule-based English-Korean machine translation system, which supports the translation domain adaptation and the continuous translation quality improvement. For the purposes, corpus is essential, from which necessary information for translation will be acquired. The environment consists of a corpus construction part and a translation knowledge extraction part. The corpus construction part crawls news articles from some newspaper sites. The extraction part builds the translation knowledge such as newly-created words, compound words, collocation information, distributional word representations, and so on. For the translation domain adaption, the corpus for the domain should be built and the translation knowledge should be constructed from the corpus. For the continuous improvement, corpus needs to be continuously expanded and the translation knowledge should be enhanced from the expanded corpus. The proposed web-based environment is expected to facilitate the tasks of domain adaptation and translation system improvement.

• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.244-261
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• 2000

Background : In order to cope with changes in the management environment at hospitals, increased interests are drawn in patient foodservice system on Continuous Quality Improvement Activity as the method of approaching a quality food service and effective management. Thus, as a part of this activity, this study was conducted to evaluate job flow improvement that was already performed and the results of that process at the dietetic department of a university hospital, focusing on improving management. Method : On February 15 of 1998. the dietetic department formed a job flow-improvement to decide on the priority of job flow improvement, and prepared specific action strategies and schedule of the priority: after a 5 month process period, job improvement achieved on June 15. 1998. Also, economic achievement of the task was evaluated through labor productivity analysis and cost-benefit analysis. Results : The patient food service system which was managed decentralized at the present hospital was centralized, some steps of the food service process were integrated, and quality of patient food was improved. Also, as a solution of the problems expected when conducting job flow improvement was made on food service equipments and utensils. The result of evaluating the job flow improvement that labor productivity improved by 18.2% compared to before the improvement and the result of the analysis of cost-benefit showed that Benefit-Cost (B/C) ratio was 2.22. showing financial merit on the investment. Conclusions : Continuous Quality Improvement Activity needs to be initiated and conducted in the future in various areas of hospital foodservice system in order to actively adopt to ever changing hospital management environment. In order to achieve this goal, many researches and more efforts need to be put in by people in charge of hospital food service management, and interests and support are needed from hospital policy makers.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.73-88
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• 2011

Continuous usages of Internet Protocol Television(IPTV) is regarded as one of key factors for IPTV success. Quality improvement and increasing user satisfaction are generally contributed to intention to continue using of innovation technology. We classify the quality constructs into information quality, service quality, system quality, and experience quality and find how these constructs affect on user satisfaction and intention to continue using of IPTV. We perform factor analysis to IPTV users by developing a causal relationship model and defining measurement variables for the constructs. Through regression analysis, we found information quality and experience quality are significant to affect on intention to continue using of IPTV.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.43-54
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• 2019

Purpose: Marine transportation companies must improve service quality to secure competitive advantage and continuous relationships with customers. This study explores the value and necessity of service quality in the industry by empirically identifying the factor that would have the largest effect on the improvement of service quality, also examining whether such improvement may actually influence continuous relationships. Research design, data and methodology: Based on an online survey with those in the Korean marine transportation industry, this study conducted statistical analyses using structural equation modeling. Based on relevant previous studies, the current study constructed a total of 55 survey questions. Finally, 281 questionnaires were collected, but 68 were excluded owing to invalid responses. Results: Information service attribute had the largest effect on service quality, whereas communication did not demonstrate a significant influence. In addition, distribution and information services exerted a positive effect on service satisfaction through service quality, and finally influenced relationship continuity. Conclusions: The results shows that marine logistics service quality strategies which were centered on time or local factors, should be considered in terms of the development of innovative services. In particular the improvement of information service systems and strategies in changed business environment.

• Spatial Information Research
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.27-37
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 국가공간정보통합체계 구축 시범사업의 일환으로 추진된 "연속지적도 품질개선 및 용도지역지구도 전환"의 성과를 분석하고 추진상의 문제점을 도출하여 본사업을 원활히 추진하기 위해 수행되었다. 시범대상지역 중 안성시를 대상으로 전환 전후의 면적변화를 비교하고 연속지적도와의 상관성을 분석하였으며, 사업 수행과정에서 나타난 문제점을 토대로 제도적 개선방안을 제시하였다.