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An Empirical Study on the Effects of Defense Materials Supplier's Innovation Capability on Business Performance (방산물자 공급 기업의 혁신역량이 경영 성과에 미치는 영향에 대한 실증연구)

  • Lee, Jaeha;Park, Woojong;Cho, Jungyoung;Kim, Houngyu;Oh, Hyung Sool
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.177-185
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    • 2021
  • Over the past 40 years, Korea's defense industry has been deepening into a low-efficiency industrial structure as the government directly controls prices, quantities, and costs. By implementing the Defense Industry Building Act in 2021, the government is creating a healthy ecosystem for the defense industry and strengthening its global competitiveness. In this study, based on KPC's Productivity Management System (PMS), a diagnostic model of defense companies implemented since 2013, the on-site diagnosis was performed from 4 to 28 days depending on the size of the company data was collected based on the results. The causal relationship was analyzed through structural equation model path analysis for the effect of innovation capability on productivity performance. As a result, it suggests that defense materials suppliers should focus on which core processes to innovate and strengthen and improve their innovation capabilities.

From Technological Transitions to Service Transitions : A Study of Attenuation Effects in IT Service Provisioning

  • Augustsson, Nils-Petter;Holmstrom, Jonny;Nilsson, Agneta
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.337-354
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    • 2015
  • In a day and age when contemporary businesses are transformed, driven by a service-dominance logic and dependent upon IT, we need to understand how firms cope with technological adaptations and how such technological adaptations can lead to service adaptations. Drawing on a framework on technological transitions and an interpretive longitudinal case study of the services provided by a team within a large public IT firm, this article addresses the following questions : How do service transitions come about? Can we distinguish particular patterns in service transition processes? This research unveils how technological and social dimensions mutually constitute each other within development and implementation of service provisioning. The findings show how:(a) IT plays a fundamental role in service provisioning; (b) technological transitions are the necessary but insufficient preconditions for service transitions; and (c) there are attenuation effects when it comes to the move from technology transition to service transition.

Robust Unit Root Tests with an Innovation Variance Break

  • Oh, Yu-Jin
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.177-182
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    • 2012
  • A structural break in the level as well as in the innovation variance has often been exhibited in economic time series. In this paper we propose robust unit root tests based on a sign-type test statistic when a time series has a shift in its level and the corresponding volatility. The proposed tests are robust to a wide class of partially stationary processes with heavy-tailed errors, and have an exact binomial null distribution. Our tests are not affected by the size or location of the break. We set the structural break under the null and the alternative hypotheses to relieve a possible vagueness in interpreting test results in empirical work. The null hypothesis implies a unit root process with level shifts and the alternative connotes a stationary process with level shifts. The Monte Carlo simulation shows that our tests have stable size than the OLSE based tests.

A Study on the 3M′s Approach to Environmental Management by Technological Innovation (3M사의 환경경영시스템에 관한 고찰)

  • 김현수;박영택
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.170-188
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    • 1999
  • In all activities of companies, manufacturing processes are one of those which have the worst effect on our environment. So manufacturing companies have taken the necessary steps to comply with environmental regulations. But, most of them focused on the environmental standard control equipments, using ‘end-of-pipe techniques’ that can obtain the desired reductions in a short time-period. But these methods are essentially symptomatic treatments and are not enough for sustainable development. 3M's solution is the ‘cleaner techniques’which emphasize prevention rather than corrective control. This paper examines the concept of cleaner techniques and the environmental management system of 3M - how to conduct technological innovation to prevent generation of pollution and waste at the source under the 3P program.

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The Immersing Improvement of TDR for the Greatest Results in Business (비즈니스 성과극대화를 위한 TDR 몰입도 향상)

  • Lee Myung Ho;Kim Tai Kyoo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.196-207
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    • 2004
  • TDR(Tear Down & Redesign)means that renounce the past resolutely, from a white paper condition, let's change directions. That is, let's redesign from the basic of the establishment of the construction process. Through the switchover the conception, innovate totally the whole existing processes. TDR is the best core innovation activity. The ultimate aim of the TDR activity induces the employees to do more productive business and obtain excellent results in the future by solving the problems, which are the nonproductive business in the business process on the objective view, the business that customers don't recognize the value, the same old practice of business, and the unsettled business from the restriction of resources. By organizing the related to workers of those business, they can solve the problems for 3-4months by full time working This paper inquires what are the obstruction factors on the process of executing TDR activity. Through the search of the reformation plan for the improvement of immersion degree, it presents some methods to be successful business.

Building a Product Design of Innovative Strategy for Creating Enterprise Development

  • Liao, Shih-Chung
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.17-25
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - Nowadays, the innovative design concept is being implemented in product design. In order to satisfy market trends and the demand for quality, designers should employ customer satisfaction questionnaires and analyze them with various experimental processes. Research design, data, and methodology - These methodologies would help designers have a better understanding of their customers and judge the market size and clustering validity, by diverse product strategies, for dealing with the rapid change prevailing in the market today. Results - By considering the innovative design with regard to telephones as an experimental case, the study investigates and demonstrates how the product can benefit from market-oriented and customized management concepts, when creative design ability is utilized for developing the product. Conclusions - Along with the benefit of having an innovative product value, the product can stimulate progress inthe development of the enterprise management, which has emerged as the main issue in the area of social and economic development in every developed country.

A Case Study of Design for Six Sigma for Order-Based Industry (수주산업의 DFSS 적용사례 연구)

  • Sung, Su-Gyeong;Kim, Joon-Seok;Byun, Jai-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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    • 2010.04a
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    • pp.454-461
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    • 2010
  • Six sigma is a business management strategy and is used to improve the quality of the products and processes in many organizations. However traditional six sigma methodology, namely DMAIC, is not suitable for developing products. This paper investigates DFSS methodologies and presents a DFSS methodology for order based industry. Specifically, we suggest a customized DMADV method for order based industry and present a case study for developing a configuration optimization of the flying simulators.

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An Experimental Suggestion on the Transformation of Korean Energy Policies (한국 에너지 정책체계의 전환방안 연구)

  • Park, Jung-Gu
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2010
  • This experimental study suggests some alternatives for stable growth and environmental conservation, responding to the unstability of global energy market and the regulations to greenhouse gas reduction. It introduces the energy-chain approach optimizing the whole processes extending energy production, transfer, and exploitation. And the alternatives are covered from low-carbon & environment-friendly energy-specific innovation system, transformation of major industries to low-carbon & environment-friendly industries, upgrading of energy efficiency, procurement of energy sources to policy cluster.

Supplier-assembler Network Structure and Capability Improvement of Suppliers in Newly Emerging Vietnam's Motorcycle Industry

  • Pham Truong Hoang;Shusa Yoshikazu
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.143-165
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    • 2006
  • By analyzing five in-depth case studies of suppliers in newly emerging Vietnam's motorcycle industry, this paper explores the differences in patterns and processes of capability improvement of suppliers who participate in different kinds of supplier-assembler network with different structures. The paper finds the correlation between the kinds of suppliers' capabilities improved and the structure of networks they participate in. While suppliers in arm-length networks can improve more upstream capabilities (structure design, process desist), suppliers in embedded networks can improve more downstream capabilities (process design, process setup, process maintenance and delivery control). Two capability improvement patterns of firms in newly emerging economy are indicated. The first pattern is asymmetrical improvement, either upstream or downstream capabilities, by participating in either arm-length or embedded networks. This pattern obstructs the suppliers to meet the requirements of new buyers rho come from different kinds of network. The second pattern is symmetrical improvement by joining both arm-length and embedded networks.

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A Review of Outgassing and Methods for its Reduction

  • Grinham, Rebecca;Chew, Dr Andrew
    • Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.95-109
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    • 2017
  • There are several contributions to the gas load of a system of which often the most important is outgassing. Adsorption occurs via two main processes, physisorption and chemisorption, and can be described using five (or six) classifying isotherms. Outgassing is the result of desorption of previously adsorbed molecules, bulk diffusion, permeation and vapourisation. Looking at the desorption rate, pumping speed and readsorption on surfaces, the net outgassing of the system can be calculated. There is significant variation in measured outgassing rates between different materials but also between published rates for the same materials, in part due to the number of different methods used to measure outgassing. This article aims to review the outgassing process, outgassing rates, measurement methods and techniques that can be used to reduce the outgassing of a system.