• Title/Summary/Keyword: Reliability and quality assurance

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An Accelerated Test Acceptance Control Chart for Process Quality Assurance (공정보증을 위한 가속시험 합격판정 관리도)

  • Kim Jong Gurl
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.123-134
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    • 1999
  • There are several models for process quality assurance by quality system (ISO 9000), process capability analysis, acceptance control chart and so on. When a high level process capability has been achieved, it takes a long time to monitor the process shift, so it is sometimes necessary to develop a quicker monitoring system. To achieve a quicker quality assurance model for high-reliability process, this paper presents a model for process quality assurance when the fraction nonconforming is very small. We design an acceptance control chart based on variable quality characteristic and time-censored accelerated testing. The distribution of the characteristics is assumed to be normal or lognormal with a location parameter of the distribution that is a linear function of a stress. The design parameters are sample size, control limits and sample proportions allocated to low stress. These paramaters are obtained under minimization of the relative variance of the MLE of location parameter subject to APL and RPL constraints.

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A Study on the Consumers' Expectation, Perception, Quality, and Satisfaction with the Industrial Nursing Services (간호서비스에 대한 대상자의 기대와 지각, 만족에 관한 연구 -SERVQUAL 척도의 적용-)

  • Jung, Myun-Sook;Youn, Mi-Jin
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.570-581
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze consumers' expectation. perception and satisfaction. The subjects in this study were 200 employees who were employed in a department store. They experienced nursing services from the primary care center at the department store. The results were as follows: 1. The rank of perceived significance of nursing services is tangibility, reliability, assurance, responsiveness. and empathy, respectively. 2. The rank of perceived service quality is empathy. responsiveness. assurance. reliability. and tangibility. 3. The rank of expectation and the rank of perception about nursing services are same. They are assurance, reliability, responsiveness, tangibility, and empathy respectively. 4. The regression analysis, which related the effect of perceived service quality to consumers satisfaction, had R2 value of 22.9%. From the above results, it can be concluded that the higher consumers' satisfaction can be explained by the greater perceived service quality.

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The Effects of Service Quality of Ship Management Company on Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty (선박관리회사의 서비스품질이 고객만족 및 고객충성도에 미치는 영향)

  • KWAK, Choong-Gon;PARK, Jong-Un;BACK, In-Heum
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.1378-1387
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to extract the factors affecting service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty and to find out what effect service quality & customer satisfaction, service quality & customer loyalty, and customer satisfaction & customer loyalty respectively. The results of hypothesis testing through regression analysis showed that the hypothesis between service quality of ship management company and customer satisfaction was accepted in terms of all 5 service quality dimensions of tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. Also, the hypothesis between service quality of ship management companies and customer loyalty was accepted in terms of all 5 service quality dimensions of tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. Lastly, the hypothesis between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty was accepted.

A Study on the Determinants of Consumer-Oriented Nursing Service Quality;SERVQUAL Model based (소비자 중심의 간호서비스 질 결정요인에 관한 연구;SERVQUAL모형을 중심으로)

  • Joo, Mee-Kyoung
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.169-191
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    • 2002
  • As the tendency of the society is centralized into consumers and services, patients are getting to ask better medical services. The consumers influenced from various social surroundings became to have some expectation of nursing service. Compared with their expectation, the quality of the services which they virtually get may be recognized and evaluated. So it is necessary to know exactly what the consumers want in nursing services. The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants which can evaluate the quality of nursing services by researching into consumers' expectation and perception of the nursing services depending on the consumer-oriented attributions on the basis of the model of SERVQUAL. 1,144 of outpatients were selected as the subjects for this research. They used to continuously visit the same hospital after being hospitalized and nursed in 9 hospitals randomly selected among the second-level medical organizations in Seoul from January to February, 2001. The collected data are analyzed into the Descriptive Statistics, t-test, GLM and Multiple Regression through the SAS program. Delphi was used for the research tool and the results of the research are as follows; the determinants in evaluating the quality of nursing services consist of 5 categories such as Tangibility, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, Empathy. The values of Cronbach' $\alpha$ appeared to be 0.96 in the expectation of nursing services, 0.94 in the perception of nursing services and 0.96 in the importance of nursing services. The determinants in the expectation of nursing services were ranged in the order of Assurance, Empathy, Reliability, Responsiveness and Tangibility. And those in the perception of nursing services were in the order of Assurance, Empathy, Reliability, Tangibility and Responsiveness. Those in the importance of nursing service were in the order of Empathy, Assurance, Reliability, Tangibility and Responsiveness. Finally, those in the quality of nursing service were in the order of Tangibility, Responsiveness, Empathy, Reliability and Assurance. Each expectation of nursing services appeared different depending on the subjects' age, gender, clinical department and reason for hospitalization. The hypothesis examined in this research shows that the group having higher personal needs shows meaningful differences in the expectation of nursing services, and the subjects who have had external communication show higher perception of nursing service than uncommunicative ones. After all, we can see that the statistical differences in the perception of nursing services depend on whether the subjects have external communications or not. The determinants in the expectation of nursing services can explain the quality of nursing service up to 14.96%. The statistically meaningful determinants in the expectation could be arranged in the order of Reliability, Assurance and Tangibility. And the more expectation brings about the lower evaluation of the quality of nursing services. The determinants in the perception of nursing service can explain the quality of nursing services up to 29.85%. The statistically meaningful determinants in the perception could be arranged in the order of Responsiveness, Reliability, Tangibility, Empathy, and Assurance. And the more perception brings about the higher evaluation of the quality of nursing services. According to the result of the above research, I would like to propose as follows. As long as this research is oriented to get knowledge of the consumer-oriented nursing services, it should be continued to draw the other elements determining the quality of the nursing services. Furthermore, this research is based upon the Parasuraman, A., et al.'s SERVQUAL Model(1991), which deals only expectation, perception and quality of consumer-oriented nursing services, so it will be necessary to inspect and verify it through the other models containing the offerers of nursing services in the future. On the other hand, as this research evaluates the actual quality of nursing services based on the expectation and perception of nursing services, it can be utilized as fundamental data to develop the marketing strategies and to estimate the qualities as well. I hope this research will be periodically estimated to be the useful data to develop the marketing strategies in the nursing service area.

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Female Customers' Trust on Internet Stores and its Relationships with Service Quality and Loyalty (인터넷 상점에 대한 여성고객의 신뢰와 서비스 품질$\cdot$고객 충성도 간의 관계)

  • Min Dong-Kwon
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.293-317
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    • 2005
  • Female customers form a major customer group for Internet shopping and their trust on Internet stores seems to be significantly related with their transactions. This paper focuses on female customers' trust on Internet stores, hypothesizing that online service quality has a positive impact on trust and that trust, in turn, together with service quality has a positive effect on loyalty. We investigate trust from three dimensions(benevolence, integrity, and ability) and at the same time, unlike existing research, treat service quality to have five dimensions (intangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy) as known in SERVQUAL(Parasuraman et al., 1988). Survey data is obtained from the female college student sample. Our research model is justified in terms of construct validity, internal consistency, and goodness of fit. Research hypotheses are tested using SEM(Structural Equation Modeling). The results are as follows: First, assurance and empathy dimensions of service quality have significant impacts on benevolence/integrity dimension of trust. Second, out of the five service quality dimensions, only assurance has a positive effect on ability dimension of trust. Third, assurance dimension of service quality and ability dimension of trust are positively related with customer loyalty. The most important factors for female customers' loyalty are found to be assurance(service quality) and ability(trust). The significance of assurance is in line with findings from existing research. But its relationship with the trust dimensions is uncovered in this research, and the only dimension that impacts on ability is assurance. We find that female customers build trust about internet stores based on their ability rather than on their benevolence/integrity and that the female customers' perception on the internet stores' ability can be improved by higher service quality from the aspect of assurance. Importantly enough, these findings offer practical guidelines to Internet stores to boost female customers' loyalty.

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Relationships among Service Quality of Brand Coffee Shop and Customer Satisfaction (브랜드 커피전문점의 서비스품질 및 고객 만족도의 관계: 중국 베이징 지역 중심으로)

  • Ma, Hong-Bo;Kim, Yeong-Gug
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.45-57
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this research is to explore the relationships among service quality's five factors(i.e., tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, empathy, and assurance) and customer satisfaction. The study used convenience sampling and selected certain consumers who visited coffee shop in BeiJing, China. Total 300 questionnaires was distributed and 18 unsuitable data were excluded for data analysis. These data were tested using SPSS 21.0. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the result of the relationship between coffee shops'service quality and customer satisfaction reveals that two of 5 service quality factors (i.e., assurance and empathy) had a positive effect on customer satisfaction only, and other service quality factors (i.e., tangibles, reliability, and responsiveness) had no positive influence on customer satisfaction. Limitations and future research directions of the study were also discussed.

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The effects of job characteristics on service quality (종업원의 직무특성이 서비스품질에 미치는 효과)

  • Ahn, Kwan-Young;Bae, Hong-Gyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.444-448
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this research is to test the effects of employee perceived job characteristics on service quality. Empirical analysis was based on the data of 692 hotel employees from Seoul and Gyung-gi province. To test the relationship between job characteristics and service quality, multiple regression analysis was applied, and hierarchial regression analysis(Cohen & Cohen, 1983) applied to test the moderating effects of gender and tenure. Multiple regressional analysis showed that job importance, job variety, and feedback had an affirmative impact on tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, but autonomy had a negative impact on tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance.

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The study of accelerating method for Mobile Product with sweat resistance (Mobile 제품 도장의 내한성(耐汗性) 가속 평가법 개발)

  • Park, Kwang-Young;Lim, Sung-Gyun;Cha, Seung-Kyu
    • Journal of Applied Reliability
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.205-212
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this article is about the accelerated product-reliability-test method of the changing colors of mobile products, which are majorly from the frequent touching of sweating fingers. Such problems of changing colors of mobile products have found mostly In metallic paint containing aluminum paste pigments. Also we found that the color of Al Paste is changed by human sweat. Therefore, the accelerated experimental method has been tested as follow: applying the various concentration of lactic acid, which is the changing color components from human sweat, and deeping the testing sample under temperature of $60^{\circ}C$ in dilutelactic acid with water. From the series of tests, the most optimum concentration of lacticacid has been obtained in 10wt% and the sample is observed to be almost same effect as natural changing of colors by human touching after the test. It has been also confirmed from the cross-sectional analysis. In detail, the testing sample has changed its color in 48hr by changing color effect of Alpaste with 10 wt% of lactic acid, and the digit of $\Delta$ E has measured 10.9 after the test.

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A Study on the Reliability Improvement for Assurance Pressure of Tank Gun Barrel (전차 포신의 보증압력 신뢰성 향상 연구)

  • Kim, Sung Hoon;Park, Young Min;Noh, Sang Wan;Jun, Sang Bae
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 2020
  • This study aimed to improve the reliability of the assurance pressure of a gun barrel due to the difference between the US Standard and Korean Standard. In addition, the reliability was found to differ according to the maximum pressure of the Ammunition, so restrictions are expected. During the development of the new bullet, the maximum pressure of the bullet was approximately 3,000 psi higher than the assurance pressure of the gun barrel. To solve this problem, the reliability of the cannon was analyzed when the assurance pressure of the gun barrel increased. First of all, the technical data from overseas were reviewed to check for cases of increased assurance pressure, and tests were performed to determine if it could withstand high pressure through a verification firing test. Finally, the simulation analyzed the stability of the recoil buffer. The study found no abnormal results in all items, suggesting that an increase in the assurance pressure for a gun barrel was possible. This study is expected to be used as basic data for future reliability studies of similar equipment.

The Relationship between Job Characteristics and Service Quality, and Moderating Effect of Gender and Tenure (호텔 종사원의 직무특성 인지도와 서비스품질의 관계: 성과 재직기간의 조절효과를 중심으로)

  • Ahn, Kwan-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.473-478
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    • 2006
  • Empirical analysis was based on the data of 692 hotel employees from Seoul and Gyung-gi province. To test the relationship between job characteristics and service quality, multiple regression analysis was applied, and hierarchial regression analysis(Cohen & Cohen, 1983) applied to test the moderating effects of gender and tenure. Multiple regressional analysis showed that job importance, job variety, and feedback had an positive impact on tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, but autonomy had a negative impact on tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance. Hierarchical regressional analysis showed that gender had moderating effects on 4 relationships between job characteristics and service quality, and tenure had moderating effects on 3 relationships.

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