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A study on the maximum thrust of the Linear Pulse Motor for the head driver (헤드 구동용 Linear Pulse Motor의 최대 추력에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Gyo;Jun, Hee-Deuk;Lee, Ju
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.11d
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    • pp.70-72
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    • 2002
  • LPM that is used for head driver is problem of miniaturization of construction and cost. This can be achieved by most suitable shape decision. and suitable selection of control system. Specially, in LPM that Full step is mm$\sim$um unit. the large change of thrust receives much effect by tooth number per pole. tooth width and slot width about change of the air gap length. Therefore, this paper presents LPM that use for suitable head driver to reduce of the structure and the cost. to generate maximum thrust of LPM, and finds the proportion of the tooth pitch to tooth width and the slot width about change of the air gap length through FEM analysis. Also, applying different tooth width and slot width that is given as analysis result. this paper presented model that thrust is improved.

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A Study on the Effects of the Manufacturer's Market Orientation on Quality Management activity and Business Performance (제조기업의 시장지향성이 품질경영활동과 경영성과에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Won, Yu-Young;Park, Jong-Woo;Song, Gwang-Suk;Shin, Ho-Chul
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.81-89
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    • 2013
  • Purpose - The market orientation of a manufacturer is a very critical competitive advantage factor in the development of new markets and the sustainability and maintenance of existing ones, achieved through the design of customer-oriented products. This is recognized as a virtuous circle, in which firms grow by means of promoting quality management. However, though market-oriented activities are important in management and operations, they seem to be promoted mainly by large-scale enterprises rather than by small- and medium-scale firms, the latter having invested relatively few company resources. Furthermore, few studies and analyses have examined how market orientation relates to the expansion of quality programs within organizations or with business performance; the market orientation and customer-orientation concepts are mixed together when both are used in research. Given the current market situation in which the servitization of manufacturing firms is rapidly expanding, this study's analysis of the effect on market orientation of manufacturers is a significant contribution. From this perspective, this study has several objectives. First, is to analyze and suggest the relationship between market orientation and quality management activity for manufacturers, focusing on three sub-activities: products, process, and quality management activities. Second, it is intended to identify correlation between manufacturers' market oriented activity and their management performance and then to analyze how market orientation affects business performance. The results of a number of prior studies on the correlation between market orientation and management performance have indicated that market orientation does affect management performance. Third, this study also investigates whether any differences in the relationship among market orientation, quality management activity and business performance occur according to company size. The results are used to present operational suggestions for large- and small- and medium-size firms. Research design, data, methodology - This study seeks to analyze and identify the causal features of the organic relationship among market orientation, quality management, and management performance for Korean manufacturing companies using three years (2005-2007) of market orientation, quality management, and business performance data. Subsequently, structural equation modeling was used to analyze the causal features of related factors and it aims to identify the features of market orientation, quality management, and business performance. Results - The analysis examined how market orientation affected the quality management and management performance of 159 smalland medium-size companies. In particular, enterprise quality management was analyzed in relation to management performance with a focus on activities such as leadership, measurement and improvement, quality control, cost management, and process management. Conclusions - The result of the analysis show that market orientation significantly affected all of the quality management activities and that market orientation in turn significantly affected organizational performance. The result of analysis indicate that quality management activities have a significant effect on quality control and cost management.

The Effect of Knowledge Management on the Innovation Activities of Employee in Small Business (중소기업의 지식경영이 구성원의 혁신활동에 미치는 효과)

  • Ahn, Kwan-Young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.154-160
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    • 2012
  • This paper reviewed the two proposed hypotheses. The first hypothesis is to test the relationship between knowledge management and incremental innovation, and the second hypothesis is to test the moderating effect of firm-size on that relationship. Data were gathered from 434 employees in service industry, and multiple regression analysis was used to test two proposed hypotheses. In the first hypothesis, it was appeared that knowledge acquisition and knowledge transfer have positive effects on all incremental innovation factors (process innovation, operation innovation, service innovation). In the second hypothesis, it was appeared that firm-size has an positive interaction effect on incremental innovation in knowledge transfer, but not in knowledge acquisition. It means that knowledge transfer has more positive effect on incremental innovation in large firm-size than in small firm-size.

An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of ISO 9000/14000-Registered Companies in Korea (ISO 9000/14000 인증효과에 대한 실증적 연구)

  • Lee, Gun-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.98-106
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    • 2006
  • ISO 9000/14000 certification is increasingly becoming 'a passport for business' in the marketplace. However, its effectiveness of both internal and external performance is highly controversial. In this study, empirical research is performed to identify the main objectives and expectation of ISO 9000/14000 and evaluate the effectiveness of certification. Our empirical results show that there are big differences between small and medium companies and large companies for the effectiveness of ISO 9000/14000. Especially, ISO 14000 certification provides very low effectiveness for the small and medium companies in Korea.

Multiple Case Analysis Study on Business Model Types and Components of Startups: Focusing on Leading Overseas Smart Farm Companies (스타트업의 비즈니스 모델 유형 및 구성요소에 대한 다중 사례 분석 연구: 해외 스마트팜 선도기업을 중심으로)

  • Ahn, Mun Hyoung
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.41-55
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    • 2023
  • In order to secure sustainable competitiveness of startups, business model innovation is an important task to achieve competitive advantage by transforming the various elements that make up the business model. This study conducted a multi-case analysis study on leading smart farm companies around the world using an analysis framework based on business model theory. Through this, we sought to identify business model types and their constituent elements. For this, 19 companies were selected from the list of top 10 investment startups of the year for the past three years published by Agfunder, a global investment research company specializing in AgTech. Then data collection and analysis of the company cases were conducted according to the case study protocol. As a result of the study, the business model types were analyzed into four types: large-scale centralized production model, medium-to-large local distributed production model, small-scale hyperlocal modular FaaS model, and small-scale hyperlocal turnkey solution supply model. A comparative analysis was conducted on five business model components for each type, and strategic implications were derived through this. This study is expected to contribute to improving the competitiveness of domestic smart farm startups and diversifying their strategies by identifying the business models of overseas leading companies in the smart farm field using an academic analysis framework.

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A Study on improving manufacturing environment using IoT technology in small business environment (중소기업 환경에서 IoT 기술을 이용한 제조 환경 개선에 관한 분석 연구)

  • Jeong, Yoon-Su
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2017
  • To launch the product recently attached to IoT consumer electronics, smart phones and healthcare products around the large companies is a trend that is growing interest in the IoT. However, the country's small business environment is what the environmental improvement process that is easily accessible to the small business environment because the IoT technologies are difficult to apply the IoT technologies than any other country environment than desperate situation. In this paper, we propose a service operating model to improve production efficiency when the fusion manufacturing process is currently operating in the country SMEs and IoT technology. Proposed model using the manufacturing product information and sensor / dabayiseu information in the entire manufacturing process has as its object to utilize the IoT technology. Performance evaluation, the proposed model is more efficient than the previous model and 23.1% of the manufacturing process. In addition, it is increasing the manufacturing process was reduced by 17.3%, the average processing time as compared to the previous model. Finally, the personnel cost to be used in the manufacturing process was found to be an average decrease of 19.8% than previous model.

Economic Evaluation of the IT SoC Industry Infrastructure Program

  • Oh, Wan-Keun;Min, Wan-Kee
    • 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.79-99
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    • 2007
  • This paper evaluates the economic effect of the IT SoC Industrial Foundation Composition Project. The evaluation was done in three steps. The first step was to estimate the contribution effect of the fabless small and medium venture business' sales. The step includes interview with all the CEOs of the firms under the support of the Enterprise Incubation System, The second step was to apply input-output analysis and then estimate the production inducement effect. The last step was to compare the results of estimation with the costs of the project. We have concluded this project had achieved 6.3 times greater economic effect compared to the budget. The reason for the large economic effect is that the project provided various infrastructures to the small and medium venture businesses.

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The Possibility and the Way to Introduce of Venture Debt to Encourage Growth of Ventures (벤처기업의 성장 촉진을 위한 벤처부채의 가능성과 도입방안)

  • Hong, Jong Soo;Na, Sumi;Park, Jaesung James
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.17-25
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    • 2020
  • Venture debt is a prominent funding tool to promote scale-up of ventures. In the growth stage, venture firms that need large-scale funding can accelerate their growth by leveraging venture debt without diluting their shares, while venture capitals can quickly recollect their investments by accelerating the growth of the ventures they invest. By supplying venture debt, banks can diversify their asset primarily concentrated on loans, and improve the return on assets. As in the case of Silicon Valley Bank, a leading venture lender, closer cooperation between the two agents is essential to supply venture debt. One is the venture capital, an equity capital supplier, and the other is the bank, a debt capital supplier. To this end, we propose "credit risk sharing venture loans" and "venture loan pooling". The former encourages banks' participation in the venture debt market where the manager of Korean Fund of Funds, KVIC and policy guarantee schemes such as KODIT and KIBO screen or partially absorbe the risks inherent in venture loans. The latter reduces the burden of banking on individual venture loans through securitization.

An Analysis of the Growth Factors of Local Food (로컬푸드의 성장요인 분석: 완주 로컬푸드의 신뢰성향상을 중심으로)

  • Yoon, Jangwon;Song, Jaehoon
    • Journal of Applied Reliability
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.15-25
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the success factor of local food markets compared to other types of markets such as large discount stores. Methods: SWOT analysis was conducted. In addition to the analysis, we also have interviewed the local farmers and retailers to elaborate the analysis results. Results: The study shows the success factors to the local markets are minimizing the stages of distribution channels, shortening the travel distance from producers to consumers, providing fresh foods, maintaining small amount of production system, and supporting customers. Conclusion: Customer satisfaction is one of the key factors for the successful growth of local food markets. It is strongly recommend to find strategic ways of meeting customer needs since the local food markets are facing tough competition form the large retail stores armed with huge amount of capitals and infrastructures.

Customer Classification Method for Household Appliances Industries with a Large Number of Incomplete Data (다수의 결측치가 존재하는 가전업 고객 데이터 활용을 위한 고객분류기법의 개발)

  • Chang, Young-Soon;Seo, Jong-Hyen
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.86-96
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    • 2006
  • Some customer data of manufacturing industries have a large number of incomplete data set due to the customer's infrequent purchasing behavior and the limitation of customer profile data gathered from sales representatives. So that, most sophisticated data analysis methods may not be applied directly. This paper proposes a heuristic data analysis method to classify customers in household appliances industries. The proposed PD (percent of difference) method can be used for the discriminant analysis of incomplete customer data with simple mathematical calculations. The method is composed of variable distribution estimation step, PD measure and cluster score evaluation steps, variable impact construction step, and segment assignment step. A real example is also presented.