• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.365-370
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• 2009

The present study proposes the various hypothesis tests and interval estimations for homogeneous and heterogeneous populations in the continuous and discrete process. These results can be used to complement the QC story 15 steps for quality improvement circle and DMAIC processes for six sigma innovation.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.13-21
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• 1983

Small group activity in Korea was introduced from the United States as QC circle, ZD group movements and the like, but it has developed into a Korean style from so-called factory saemaul panel activities contributing much to the management of enterprises. Based on human motivation theory, the principles to activate small group activity is suggested on which a new diagnosis of small group activity is proposed here. It is consisted of checklist and radarchart. The factor to activate small group activity have been obtained in terms of multivariate analysis for data from the new diagnosis.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 1980

This paper describes the role of TQC and its present issues as a management tool, especially in regard of Korean firm's environment. The author, participating in TQC activity for himself, stresses that the introduction and driving programs of TQC activity must include such plans as policy control, reorganization, training, standardization, quality assurance, QC circle activity, office management and auditing. The keypoints and problems in performing these plans are reviewed. And as the future hopeful direction of TQC activity, he remarks that a true recognition of quality control as a management tool in "total" concept and the adoption of industry - wide quality control policy.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.673-681
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• 2007

The integration of Quality Circles and Six-Sigma has gained attentions for the attainment of enhanced customer satisfaction, costs reduction, and improved business performance. The purpose of this paper is to verify the benefit from the integration of Quality Circles and Six-Sigma by applying the integrated process for an alcohol manufacturing line. In the integrated process, we used the first three steps of Six-Sigma of Define, Measure, and Analyze(D-M-A) and then applied the concept of Quality Circle, which has good performance in the Improvement and Control(I-C) process. For the selection of the theme of quality circles, Analytic Hierarch Process(AHP) is used, and we also employed the experimental design, which is designed to find an optimal operating condition. Furthermore, the results of the economic analysis confirm that the integration process would be successful in reducing the incidence of defects and the quality cost.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.81-96
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to survey what strategy BACHE, a bathtub manufacturing company, chooses to implement knowledge management. Generally speaking, the success factors of this case company is follow-up management. The first factor is to use linguistic metaphors for employees to understand difficult knowledge management terms easily. The second one is that CEO tries to set and lead pro-knowledge management corporate culture. The third one is based on the CKO's competence to read business circumstances and apply the theory of knowledge management to the workplace. The fourth one has something to do with a way of knowledge creation, for example, a suggestion system and QC circle. The fifth one depends upon CKO's mission to share knowledge invented from his own company's with the rivals and large companies which order bathtubs so that overall bathtub industry can upgrade knowledge management.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.33-46
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• 1987

The present survey was made through mail questionaires aiming at understanding the conditions of quality control, finding problems and making improvement for manufacturing companies located in the Chonbuk area. The conditions of quality control were compared between KS marking companies and non KS marking companies regardless of manufactured products. The main check points were the function of process control, the function of quality assurance, the function of quality survey, the function of quality system, quality education, quality training, the function of QC circle and general functions excepting the scale of enterprise.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.213-217
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• 2011

The research shows misuse cases of quantitative regression analysis used in QC circle activity and six sigma movement which presents guidelines of correct use for quality practitioners. Additionally, the qualitative regression analysis that responses nonconforming ratio of variable y, is reviewed based on misuse cases for proper use by practitioners in the field. In most cases, there are frequent errors that involve the correlation analysis or ANOVA, regardless of using quantitative regression analysis. In addition, qualitative regression analysis for the nonconforming ratio that has dependent variable of discrete and categorical data, is often applied with quantitative regression and result in ineffective quality improvement.

• IE interfaces
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.75-82
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• 1988

This paper studied on the relationships between productivity and job satisfaction in small group activities. The researches were practiced with the same method which prof. Rao of Babson university et al.(1987) did on autonomous work groups in U.S.A.. The researcher divided companies of Korea and Japan into similar small groups such as high productive groups and low productive groups in each country and analyzed their degree of job satisfaction. According to the result, high productive groups indicated higher degree of job satisfaction than low productive groups. In the case of Korea, besides activating QC circle activity, it is also necessary to equalize the difficulty of the works, or to set up the pay system taken the difficulty of the works into consideration. In the case of Japan, it is important to encourage good human relationships and member's cooperation and unity.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.43-48
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• 2018

This study is focusing on activating and developing the right model of win-win partnership innovative activity for the purpose of win-win relationship among companies. These are the following studies that are conducted for that objective. First, This study systematically analyzes the best cases of the win-win partnership focusing on the proceedings of the companies participating in the field of win-win Partnership at the national quality-circle contest for the last three years(2014~2016). This study reveals the underlying problems of win-win partnership innovative activity and draws the conclusion in the way of improvement about the win-win partnership innovative activity. Second, This study suggests the efficient method of the function and improvement of a system for activating win-win partnership innovative activity by analyzing screening criterion and selecting excellent cases in the field of win-win Partnership at the national quality-circle contest in 2017. Third, This study suggests the method of strengthening the system of sharing result for invigorating and motivating the win-win partnership innovative activity. It is expected that this methodology for reinforcing the system of Win-win Partnership among companies will help to create the environment where a sound and new corporate culture can be settled. And It is also expected that this study can contribute to attaining the goal of growing together through enhancing the competitiveness, productivity and quality among Win-win Cooperation companies.

• 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.