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A Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) Based on SERVQUAL for Hotel Service Quality Management: Evidence from Vietnam

  • NGUYEN, Phi-Hung
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.1101-1109
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    • 2021
  • Nowadays, quality affects product or service performance and customer loyalty in the competitive business' environment. This is truly important when it comes to how the customer interprets the service's satisfaction and the judgment of the purchase process as a whole, in view of the fact that service quality is an abstract and elusive construction due to the three characteristics of services: intangibility, heterogeneity, and inseparability of output and consumption. The main purpose of this paper is to determine the hotel service quality using the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and SERVQUAL method. In this study, a five-star hotel's real case is considered in evaluating the service quality criteria. The results revealed that Tangibles and Assurance are the most critical service quality criteria in the hotel industry. Accurate records, service consistency, Necessary arrangements for disabled people, Service flexibility to guests' demands, and Providing the services at the time it promises are the most influencing sub-criteria of service quality. These findings indicate that hotels should concentrate on sequentially and organized priority factors to enhance service quality. This method of service quality assessment may also aid in distinguishing between hotels. Finally, as a future direction, more additional parameters can be used as a potential guide in our proposed model for the dynamic decision-making approach.

A Study on Quality Improvement Methodology based on SE and M&S for Navy Ship Acquisition Process (함정의 품질 제고 방법론 연구)

  • Cho, Man-Hyeong;Choi, Bong-Wan
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.198-213
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    • 2012
  • Navy ship acquisition management business contributed to the korean Navy and defense exports with government suppliers in Korea for over 40 years. But due to advanced technology, development trend of Navy ship and defense export requirements, it enable to make a contribution to a better system improvement are being demanded. In this paper, an adjective Navy ship acquisition process is presented in order to improve the acquisition process takes the first step for acquisition planning process to enhance the efficiency and rationality that is based on consensus of Navy ship expert and experienced. In addition, systems engineering (SE) and quality control (QC) techniques based on Modeling and Simulation are investigated to carry out efficient project management and scientific quality control system in Navy ship acquisition process. Finally, it is suggested to apply SE/QC based on M&S for Navy ship acquisition process using civilian infrastructure and organizations in order to take advantage of the world's leading domestic industry based on considering the difficult conditions of Navy ship suppliers.

Optimization of injection molding process for car fender in consideration of energy efficiency and product quality

  • Park, Hong Seok;Nguyen, Trung Thanh
    • Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.256-265
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    • 2014
  • Energy efficiency is an essential consideration in sustainable manufacturing. This study presents the car fender-based injection molding process optimization that aims to resolve the trade-off between energy consumption and product quality at the same time in which process parameters are optimized variables. The process is specially optimized by applying response surface methodology and using non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA II) in order to resolve multi-object optimization problems. To reduce computational cost and time in the problem-solving procedure, the combination of CAE-integration tools is employed. Based on the Pareto diagram, an appropriate solution is derived out to obtain optimal parameters. The optimization results show that the proposed approach can help effectively engineers in identifying optimal process parameters and achieving competitive advantages of energy consumption and product quality. In addition, the engineering analysis that can be employed to conduct holistic optimization of the injection molding process in order to increase energy efficiency and product quality was also mentioned in this paper.

A Hybrid Approach to Statistical Process Control

  • Giorgio, Massimiliano;Staiano, Michele
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.52-67
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    • 2004
  • Successful implementation of statistical process control techniques requires for operational definitions and precise measurements. Nevertheless, very often analysts can dispose of process data available only by linguistic terms, that would be a waste to neglect just because of their intrinsic vagueness. Thus a hybrid approach, which integrates fuzzy set theory and common statistical tools, sounds useful in order to improve effectiveness of statistical process control in such a case. In this work, a fuzzy approach is adopted to manage linguistic information, and the use of a Chi-squared control chart is proposed to monitor process performance.

Development of Improved Process Allocation Method in Process Industry (장치산업에서의 개선된 공정할당방법 개발)

  • 김종열;강창욱
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.91-103
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    • 2000
  • It is very important to rationally allocate manufacturing processes because customer's needs are being various, and product life cycle in the market Is being shortened. The process allocation is needed before making process control plan and is mostly being done by the field experience or intuition of machine operator, process engineer and/or maintenance technician. Therefore, a modified allocation method using the process variation is proposed. This paper presents the result of comparative studies between current method and the proposed one.

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Impact of Special Causes on EWMA Feedback Process Adjustment (EWMA 피드백 공정 조정에서 이상원인의 영향)

  • 이재준;전상표;이종선
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.183-193
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    • 2003
  • A special cause producing temporary deviation in the underlying process can influence on process adjustment in responsive feedback control system. In this paper, the impact of special causes on the EWMA(Exponentially Weighted Moving Average) forecasts and the process adjustment that is based on the EWMA forecasts are derived. For some special causes with patterned type of contamination, the influence of the causes on the output process are explicitly investigated. A data set, contaminated by a special cause of level shift, is analyzed to evaluate the impact numerically.

Improving Process Capability by Applying Design and Analysis of Experiment (공정능력(工程能力) 향상(向上)을 위한 실험계량적(實驗計劃的) 연구(硏究))

  • Song, Seo-Il
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.15-22
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    • 1988
  • This paper analysis the process capability by applying experiment design to control alcohol in soluble matter mixing process of laundry soap. The results are summarized as follows: (1) Alcohol insoluble matter shows the tendency of increasing according to the mixing temperature (A) and beating velocity (B). (2) The most suitable working condition of the mixing process is $A_2B_2$, and 95% confidence limit of alcohol insoluble matter is $22.06{\pm}0.77%$. (3) The process capability index ($C_p$) of the mixing process is improved from 0.64 to 1.68.

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A Study Evaluating Welding Quality in Pressure Vessel Using Mahalanobis Distance (마할라노비스 거리를 이용한 압력용기 용접부 용접성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ill Soo;Lee, Jong Pyo;Lee, Ji Hye;Jung, Sung Myoung;Kim, Young Su;Chand, Reenal Ritesh;Park, Min Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.22-28
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    • 2013
  • Robotic GMA (Gas Metal Arc) welding process is one of widely acceptable metal joining process. The heat and mass inputs are coupled and transferred by the weld arc to the molten weld pool and by the molten metal that is being transferred to the weld pool. The amount and distribution of the input energy are basically controlled by the obvious and careful choices of welding process parameters in order to accomplish the optimal bead geometry and the desired quality of the weldment. To make effective use of automated and robotic GMA welding, it is imperative to predict online faults for bead geometry and welding quality with respect to welding parameters, applicable to all welding positions and covering a wide range of material thickness. MD (Mahalanobis Distance) technique was employed for investigating and modeling the GMA welding process and significance test techniques were applied for the interpretation of the experimental data. To successfully accomplish this objective, two sets of experiment were performed with different welding parameters; the welded samples from SM 490A steel flats. First, a set of weldments without any faults were generated in a number of repeated sessions in order to be used as references. The experimental results of current and voltage waveforms were used to predict the magnitude of bead geometry and welding quality, and to establish the relationships between weld process parameters and online welding faults. Statistical models developed from experimental results which can be used to quantify the welding quality with respect to process parameters in order to achieve the desired bead geometry based on weld quality criteria.

A Study on the Structural Relationship between SCM Activity and Process Innovation, and Quality Performance in SMEs (중소기업의 SCM활동과 프로세스 혁신 및 품질성과 간의 구조적 관계 분석)

  • Lee, Seol-Bin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.170-185
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    • 2019
  • This study is intended to look into the structural relationship between SCM activity, process innovation and quality performance in small and medium sized enterprisers(SMEs). To achieve this, a survey was empirically carried out to 354 SCM operating officers and managers who perform the SCM activities in small and medium sized manufacturing firms. The results are summarized as follows. Overall, the SCM activity and process innovation had a significant effect on the quality performance, having a structural relationship with the quality performance in SEMs. This implies that the strategic alliance of the SCM activities and competence concentration based on technology development in SEMs can organize the unity through organizational members' information sharing. In other words, when the information integration supports the compatibility and reliability of shared information system by raising technological competence through this, the process innovation can lead to non-financial cost reduction, product quality, delivery compliance and inventory cost reduction as quality performance of the structured process, management and distribution.

A Quality Forecasting System in Glass Melting Processes using Genetic Algorithms (유전 알고리즘을 이용한 유리 용해 공정에서의 불량예측 시스템)

  • Jung, Ho-Sang;Jeong, Bong-Ju
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.78-91
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    • 2000
  • This paper presents a computerized quality forecasting system for glass manufacturing. In forecasting the molten glass quality, we are concerned with three major issues : (1) to find the reasonable time lags between a set of process conditions and the quality measurement of glass products, (2) to find the most significant process variables affecting the quality, and (3) to construct the appropriate causal forecasting models using genetic algorithms. The experimental results show the proposed model results in better forecasting than linear regression model. The suggested forecasting model was implemented successfully and is being currently used in a real manufacturing line.

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