• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.40-49
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• 1984

The first national QC Circle Convention sponsored by Industry Advancement Administration in 1975 was the beginning of employees group activity from a national point of view. Subsequently some events such as the firs Nationwide Factory Seamaul activity small Group Convention, which was supervised by the ministry of Trading and Industry and Factory Seamaulundong promotion Center, paved the way for proliferation of the group activity through all kinds of manufacturing. Although since November 1982 these two conventions has been united, many problems have been disclosed that are against the basic principles more or less. Worker's group activity is, essentially, a trouble shooting oriented voluntary small group within their working place to improve the surroundings creatively. In practice, however, many groups are so typical and so impetuous of the material effect that it is worried to be inclined to outform rather than contents. To prevent this point it is recommended that worker's group activity be promoted continuously and on the basis of the original principle of small group activity to obtain practical and rich results, and systematically to be more effective and active considering the managerial environment and the intellectual level of the consisting members.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.75-94
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• 2005

This study is focused on evaluating the computer-integrated just-in-time (CI-JIT) production system of a semi-conductor manufacturing firm in Korea. Approaching the mid-1980s, the emphasis was on low price, low-cost operations, and quality, especially in USA. American companies have shifted output to low-wage countries like the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Malaysia and allied countries that can make quality products at low prices. Korea and other Asian countries forego short-term profits to gain a solid foothold in a product market, recognizing that larger market share leads to lower cost and higher profit in the long run. They bring manufacturers and suppliers together to improve material management and operation management, using project teams that investigate topics, such as Just-In-Time(JIT)manufacturing, among others. The "Kanban" word means "card" in Japanese, and is used to indicate the desired final delivery schedule. The operation for a particular item produced is scheduled for a specific time. The same process is extended to the external suppliers. More recently, the cards are gradually being replaced by electronic procedures that follow the same concept. Its capacity must be capable of handling the various transactions required by the JIT coverage as well as some allowances for expanded applications.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.49-60
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• 1982

In Korea small-medium companies constitute 96.7% of all of the mining and manufacturing industries, about 34.2% of the total production of value added business, an average of 34.8% of #he actual export of industrial goods, and 49.4% of employment at the end of 1980. Now then small-medium industry companies organization style constitutes 82.1% of private companies and 82.7% of the total on an small scale under 49 persons in regular empolyees. Small-medium industry Companies have growing problems and bottle-necks in their physical conditions. Total Quality Control is contributed by small-medium industry company for more growth than present conditions. But now, Small-medium industry company do not use systematic application of Quality Control Method, the small-medium business company products quality is not better as compared with big business company. Specially, TQC is needed for Small-medium company for imperishable enlargement . In order to promote good will and the major stress of this paper is first of all on the problems of Quality Control, which covers the present states and derived problems of Quality Control, ill Korea Small-medium industry Companies. These are investigated and analyzed to insure the rational application of Quality Control to the Small-medium companies with a view of the establishment of the direction and systematic improving means of Quality Control application Model building for Korea Small-medium industry.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2003

This study is concerned with the operational methods of Quality Management employed by the small and medium-sized companies in Gang won-do to improve their power of competition. This study is particular, studied the consortium-participating companies on their Plans of Quality Management as to how they carry them out in order to advance to the first-class business enterprises. The results of this study showed that the of shortage manpower and funds that the local small and mediumsized companies commonly face played a significant role as major obstacles in implementing their Quality Management programs. The study results also suggest that it is necessary to promote some periodic manpower train- ing programs in cooperation with local universities, to utilize professors and experts to build management strategies that can bring and secure the power of competition, and to construct a system of educational-industrial cooperation, as ways leading these companies to the 21s1 century's type of business enterprise.