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QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR NUCLEAR EDUCATION CENTRES

  • Sadagopan, Geetha;Kim, Hyunkee;Son, Miyeon
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.173-176
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    • 2012
  • Quality Management is a recent phenomenon. This is applied to products or services, with an objective to deliver high quality, reliable, worthy, enduring, product or service. The process is considered to have four main components: quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement. Focusing on quality control and quality assurance leads to achieving quality management or ensures that an organization or product is consistent. In this paper, the applicable international standard for learning services and for the organization for education and training (learning service provider) is discussed and also the procedure to implement the management system.

Survey and Analysis of International Standards for Practical Apply to Guideline on Software Quality Assurance and Human-Centred Design for e-Navigation (e-Navigation 소프트웨어 품질 보증 및 인간중심설계 가이드라인의 실무 적용을 위한 국제표준 조사 및 분석)

  • Jung, Jieun;Lee, Seojeong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.9-10
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    • 2015
  • e-navigation is a Strategy developed by the IMO. It aims to implement the strategy in 2018. To this end, e-navigation Software Quality Assurance and Human-Centred Design Guidelines has been developing for the implementation and development of e-Navigation. The IMO MSC approved this guideline as a MSC circular in June 2015. In this paper, international standards of software quality assurance and human-centred design has been surveyed and analyzed in terms of usability testing for the practical application of this guideline. The result is planning to be reflected in the practical application guidance for the development of e-navigation equipment hardware-software combination.

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Report on the External Audits Conducted by Korean Society of Medical Physics (한국의학물리학회 선형가속기 외부 품질관리 실시 현황보고)

  • Huh, Hyun Do;Cho, Kwang Hwan;Cho, Sam Ju;Choi, Sang Hyoun;Kim, Dong Wook;Hwang, Ui-Jung;Kim, Ki Hwan;Min, Chul Kee;Choi, Tae Jin;Oh, Young Kee;Lee, Seoung Jun;Park, Dahl;Park, Sung-Kwang;Ji, Young Hoon
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.315-322
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    • 2013
  • The aim of this work is to verify the self-quality assurances in medical institutions in Korea through the external audits by the group of experts and have a mutual discussion of the systematic problems. In order to validate the external audits 30 of 80 medical institutions across the nation were picked out considering the regional distribution and the final 25 institutions applied voluntarily to take part in this work. The basic rules were setup that any information of the participants be kept secrete and the measurements be performed with the dosimetry system already verified through intercomparision. The outputs for 2 or more photon beams, the accuracy of gantry rotation and collimator rotation and the poistional accuracy of MLC movement were measured. The findings for the output measurement showed the differences of -0.8%~4.5%, -0.79%~3.01%, and -0.7%~0.07% with respect to that of the verified dosimetry system for the 6MV, 10MV, and 15MV, respectively. For the reference absorbed dose 8 (16%) of 50 photon beams in 25 medical institutions differed 2.0% or greater from the reference value. The coincidences of Field size with x-ray beam and radiation isocenters of Gantry roration and collimator rotation gave the results of within ${\pm}2$ mm for every institute except 2 institutions. The positional accuracy of MLC movement agreed to within ${\pm}1$ mm for every institute. For the beam qualities of 6 MV photon beams kQ values showed the distribution within 0.4% between maximum and minimum. For the protocols 21 institutions (84%) used absorbed dose to water based protocol while 4 insitutions (16%) used air kerma based one. 22 institutions employed the SSD technique while 3 institutions did the SAD one. External audit plays an important role in discovering the systematic problems of self-performing Quality Assurances and having in depth discussion for mutual complementation. Training experts of international level as well as national support system are required so that both the group of experts of medical physicists and government laboratory could perform together periodical and constant external audits.

GENERAL QUALITY ASSURANCE STRATEGY IN MASS CONSTRUCTION OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

  • A.Rashidi;M.H.Sebt
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2007.03a
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    • pp.769-776
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    • 2007
  • The comprehensive Topic of Total Quality Management (TQM) has been put forward since the 6th decade in industrial countries. The serious attention to it in developing countries goes back to recent years. Unfortunately serious attention is not paid to quality issues in building industry. Therefore, the construction of buildings is highly vulnerable against natural events while having low effective lifetime. Wide-range destruction of the residential buildings in the earthquake of Bam ( in IRAN ) is a clear proof for this claim. In this paper we tried to present the corresponding effects between quality issues and other aspects of a building project (such as costs) and proposed general solutions to improve quality indices in construction industry.

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Designing a Modular Safety Certification System for Convergence Products - Focusing on Autonomous Driving Cars - (융복합제품을 위한 모듈방식의 안전인증체계 설계 -자율주행 자동차를 중심으로-)

  • Shin, Wan-Seon;Kim, Ji-Won
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.1001-1014
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: Autonomous driving cars, which are often represent the new convergence product, have been researched since the early years of 1900 but their safety assurance policies are yet to be implemented for real world practices. The primary purpose of this paper is to propose a modular concept based on which a safety assurance system can be designed and implemented for operating autonomous driving cars. Methods: We combine a set of key attributes of CE mark (European Assurance standard), E-Mark (Automobile safety assurance system), and A-SPICE (Automobile software assurance standard) into a modular approach. Results: Autonomous vehicles are emphasizing software safety, but there is no integrated safety certification standard for products and software. As such, there is complexity in the product and software safety certification process during the development phase. Using the concept of module, we were able to come up with an integrated safety certification system of product and software for practical uses in the future. Conclusion: Through the modular concept, both international and domestic standards policy stakeholders are expected to consider a new structure that can help the autonomous driving industries expedite their commercialization for the technology advanced market in the era of Industry 4.0.

A STUDY ON THE INTRODUCTION OF THE PAY ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM FOR THE VOLUNTARY ASSURANCE OF QUALITY BY THE CONTRACTORS

  • Byung-Ok Noh;Sang-Beom Lee;Jai-Dong Koo
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.521-525
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    • 2011
  • Although the Korean construction industry has risen rapidly, the quality of the buildings is not met with the industry standard compared to the potential of the technology development and the cost of maintenance has been increased. The user's request for quality have been increased, but in the current building construction, the contractors only follow the specifications of design, material and technology, and their main concern is whether they are in right track with the specification or not. Thus, the necessity of developing technology has been ignored and sufficient opportunities for the development have not been provided as well. In the developed countries, in contrast, the quality assurance and the payment regulation system has been utilized for the active response to the changes of users' request. As a result of this, the maintenance cost has been decreased and the development of construction technology has been improved. Therefore the pay adjustment system is needed to create the improvement of the quality of the buildings by the contractors' earnest building construction. In order to introduce the pay adjustment system suitable to the Korean construction industry, this study presented the logical method of adjusting the construction cost and making payment with the pay adjustment index that is created based on the result of the performance test, after making a set of the indicators of the building performance standard and applied them to the targeted building.

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A Study on the Perceived Service Quality of Airport users of Incheon International Airport (인천국제공항의 화물운송서비스 이용자의 지각된 서비스품질에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Byoung-Kwon
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.33
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    • pp.167-190
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    • 2007
  • The aim of the study is to investigate the factors which decide an airport service quality and the differentiation of perception on the airport service quality between airport users and airport authority. For the purpose of this study, the determinants of airport service quality were factors analyzed on the basis of service marketing concept. In order to identify an airport service quality dimension, the writer conducted mail survey and individual interview from the Korean freight forwarders, the 3PL entities, integrators and the airport operation authority. The result of this study is summarized as follows. 1. The dimen measurement was confirmed as a superior method to dimension of service competitiveness.sions of airport service quality consist of five factors; tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy. 2. There are notable differences in cognition of airport service quality between airport authority's perception and airport customer, and between airport customer's perception and expectation.

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QUALITY ASSURANCE IMPLEMENTATION IN THE NATIONAL CANCER CENTRE

  • Jui, Wong-Toh
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.19-22
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    • 2002
  • The importance of accurate dose delivery in radiotherapy is well documented. Studies have shown that a mere 5% deviation of the prescribed dose can produce an undesirable treatment outcome. Uncertainties in the dose delivery can arise at different stages of the radiotherapy process. Therefore, a good quality assurance programme will ensure the best possible results and consistency of the radiotherapeutic treatment. Quality assurance in any radiotherapy department involves the responsibility of a multi-disciplinary team of radiation oncologists, medical physicists and radiation technologists. This paper will focus on the physical and technical aspects of QA. The organizational structure and responsibility of the physics QA team is outlined and also included the types and frequencies of QA checks. For a QA program to be effective, action levels should be clearly defined and understood by all staff concerned. Data of the Singapore National Cancer Centre's participation over the last ten years with the IAEA / WHO Postal TLD Dose Inter-comparison programme is presented. The data obtained were within the international criteria. For a QA program to be successfully implemented, there must be a commitment by management to provide adequate staff, test equipment, machine time as well as continual training and education. This is in addition to the positive attitudes of all the staff. A quality audit is also necessary to serve as a check and balance to ensure that the QA is in order.

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Record keeping system of bugs for software quality assurance

  • Mateen, Ahmed;Zhu, Qingsheng;Afsar, Salman
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.207-213
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    • 2019
  • Assistance for the quality assurance management and developers to provide high quality software products. Using a bug record keeping system is exceptionally important in software progress, and it is followed vastly by majority of software producing companies in modern era. Regular application of a bug record keeping system is very helpful in developing software systems. We developed this system which helps the software testing team to keep a complete record of their testing activities during the software testing, also increases your confidence in the software quality, class and worth. Our proposed system offers trouble-free and effortless approaches to acquire desired information about bug, also produces different kinds of reports like summary reports, detailed reports etc. It gives facility to create, delete and update any project. Our developed application system is designed by using visual c# at front end and sql server 2008 management studio express at back end.