• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2018

US transportation agencies are dealing with shrinking budgets, limited work forces, and deteriorating infrastructure. In order to cope with funding uncertainty, state highway agencies are now looking into their own organizations and identifying programs, practices, and processes that have potential for cost saving. A quality assurance (QA) program is an integral part of highway construction and ensures a project's contracted level of quality. The cost of quality (conforming and nonconforming) can constitute a sizable part of total construction cost. As the quality assurance programs evolved, various practices and processes were developed over time and later adopted by state highway agencies. These practices and processes include different QA standards and specifications, varying testing methods, central testing lab vs. on site testing, performance based vs. prescribed quality assurance practices, implementation of innovative quality assurance practices, etc. Therefore, there is an opportunity to assess different QA strategies and recommend those practices that are effective and cost efficient. A national survey was conducted by the authors, which provided a detailed mapping of various QA practices and processes used as part of QA programs and identified areas where agencies can focus on for cost savings. The survey found that QA sampling and testing plans, optimization of sampling plans, optimization of QA standards and specifications, and implementation of innovative test methods and processes are the main areas the agencies should focus to lean the current QA programs.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.15-22
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• 1980

This paper deals with the problem of determining a minimum cost sampling inspection plan for a single destructive testing by attribute. The cost for inspection lot is constructed by following three cost factors: (1) cost of inspection, (2) cost of accepted defective, (3) cost of rejected lot Using Hald's Bayesian approach in a single non-destructive testing, procedure's for finding the minimum cost single destructive sampling inspection plan by attribute are given. Assuming the uniform distribution as a prior-distribution and using numerical analysis by computer, a minimum cost single destructive sampling inspection plan by attribute for several lot sizes, unit cost, destructive testing cost, and salvage cost is given.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.68-75
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• 1987

A rectifying inspection plan is considered for the case of destructive testing. Screening inspection for rejected lots is performed by some nondestructive testing which is prone to misclassification errors. Apparent defectives found in the screening process is replaced with apparent good items. The plan provides LTPD protection on each individual lot while the sum of the cost of testing and the cost due to producer's risk at process average quality is minimized. A brief discussion on average outgoing quality is also given.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.17-26
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• 1989

This paper is concerned with forecasting the existing number of errors in the computer software and optimizing the stopping time of the software test based upon the forecasted number of errors. The most commonly used models have assessed software reliability under the assumption that the software failure late is proportional to the current fault content of the software but invariant to time since software faults are independents of others and equally likely to cause a failure during testing. In practice, it has been observed that in many situations, the failure rate decrease. Hence, this paper proposes a mathematical model to describe testing situations where the failure rate of software limearly decreases proportional to testing time. The least square method is used to estimate parameters of the mathematical model. A cost model to optimize the software testing time is also proposed. In this cost mode two cost factors are considered. The first cost is to test execution cost directly proportional to test time and the second cost is the failure cost incurred after delivery of the software to user. The failure cost is assumed to be proportional to the number of errors remained in the software at the test stopping time. The optimal stopping time is determined to minimize the total cost, which is the sum of test execution cast and the failure cost. A numerical example is solved to illustrate the proposed procedure.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.119-125
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• 1985

It is very important to assure the software quality. The static and dynamic testing are to be performed on the program to find some error in it, and it's purposes are to assure the software quality with cost-effectiveness. For it we use the automated tool. In this paper, it suggest the design of the software tool for COBOL static testing.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2019

이 논문은 즉석섭취식품으로 분류되는 김밥용 김에 관한 자가품질검사의 개선안을 제시하였다. 김밥용 김에 적용하는 검사항목 중 장염비브리오균은 3가지 측면에서 적합하지 않다. 첫째, 선행연구 가운데 김밥용 김에서 장염비브리오균을 발견한 사례가 전무하다. 둘째, 전수조사 성격의 자가품질검사 부정합 내역(2015~16년)에 김밥용 김이 적시된 적이 없다. 셋째, 국제기준인 CODEX 규정은 해조류에 장염비브리오균 검사 의무를 부여하지 않는다. 끝으로, 수출용 김과 조미김 및 기타 수산물가공품 유형에 해당 검사가 면제된다. 이에 따라 김밥용 김에 대한 장염비브리오균 검사의무의 면제는 타당하며 그에 따른 경제적 이득은, 특히 영세업체에 클 것으로 추정된다. 2018년 3월 중 총 75곳의 자가품질 검사기관에 대한 전화 및 서류조사 결과 업체당 수수료 절약 규모는 업체당 연평균 13만 원에 이를 것으로 산출하였다. 또한, 검사의 투명성과 효율을 제고하기 위해서는 검사기관 간 수수료의 조화가 필요할 것으로 판명되었다.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.25-31
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• 1983

Often arrangement for effective product assessment and audit have not been completely satisfactory. The underlying reasons are: (a) The lack of early evidence of new unit quality. (b) The collection and processing of data. (c) Ineffective data analysis techniques. (d) The variability of information on which decision making is based. Because of the nature of the product the essential outputs from an affective QA organization would be: (a) Confirmation of new unit quality. (b) Detection of failures which are either epidemic or slowly degradatory. (c) Identification of failure cases. (d) Provision of management information at the right time to effect the necessary corrective action. The heart of an effective QA scheme is the acquisition and processing of data. With the advent of data processing for quality monitoring becomes feasible in an automotive testing environment. This paper shows how the method enables us to use Automotive Testing data for the cost benefits of QA management.

• International Journal of Quality Innovation
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.81-112
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• 2007

In the competitive global market, firms have to keep profit from innovation activities. A firm makes profits by offering products or services at a lower cost than its competitors or by offering differentiated products at premium prices that more than compensate for the extra cost of differentiation. The IC Package and Testing technology industries were the first high technological industry to build in Taiwan. The Package and Testing industries in Taiwan adopted competitive innovation activities to become stronger. In our study, we want to know how innovation activities influence a firm operating in the IC Package and Testing industries. Our study used a questionnaire and Likert five-point scale to survey the innovation activities, customer and feedback in innovation performance in the IC Package and Testing industry. The wafer level chip size packing technology in our study indicates the innovation activities. Because we need to compare the difference between the wafer level chip size packing technology and wire bonding technology to recognize innovation and how the innovator and customer were influenced. Our conclusions are described below: (1) When the innovator adopts innovation activities that can be maintained using experiments and knowledge, using machine and decision variables more quickly will produce success; (2) Innovators should adopt innovation activities that focus on customers that use knowledge and experimentation, training time and cost. If an innovation forces customers to spend much time and cost to learn new technology or applications, the innovation will not be adopted; (3) Innovators that create innovation performance higher than his customers must also consider the impact upon their customers. We have to remind innovator to focus on why their customers have a different level of evolution in the same innovation activities.

• International Journal of Quality Innovation
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.137-153
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• 2007

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a preventive technique in reliability management field. The successful implementation of FMEA technique can avoid or reduce the probability of system failure and achieve good product quality. The FMEA technique had applied in vest scopes which include aerospace, automatic, electronic, mechanic and service industry. The marking process is one of the back ends testing process that is the final process in semiconductor process. The marking process failure can cause bad final product quality and return although is not a primary process. So, how to improve the quality of marking process is one of important production job for semiconductor testing factory. This research firstly implements FMEA technique in laser marking process improvement on semiconductor testing factory and finds out which subsystem has priority failure risk. Secondly, a CCD position solution for priority failure risk subsystem is provided and evaluated. According analysis result, FMEA and CCD position implementation solution for laser marking process improvement can increase yield rate and reduce production cost. Implementation method of this research can provide semiconductor testing factory for reference in laser marking process improvement.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.474-485
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 GIS(Geographic Information System) 소프트웨어의 품질을 평가하기 위해 10개의 GIS 소프트웨어에 대한 평가사례를 조사한 결과로 GIS 소프트웨어의 품질수준지표를 나타냈다. 이를 기반으로 GIS 소프트웨어 시험 사례의 축적된 결함 데이터의 분석을 통해 결함 개선비용에 관한 분석을 하였다. 이를 통해 품질에 대한 투자와 효과를 측정하여 품질확보에 필수적인 비용을 정량적으로 산출함으로써, 기업 또는 산업 단위의 품질투자의 당위성을 홍보하는데 적극 활용할 수 있는 결과를 도출하고자 한다.