• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.77-92
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• 2005

This study examined the differences on the amount of purchase of and willingness-to-pay more for organic products by socio-economic variables, knowledge and reliability of organic products, and concern for food. In addition the effects of the reliability and the price of organic products on the amount of purchase and willingness-to-pay more for organic products in the Path analysis. The results were below. First, consumers who had high education, were the age of 40's, high income, high level of knowledge and reliability for organic products were more likely to purchase organic products. Second, the level of willingness-to-pay more for organic Products were high when consumers with more than three children, not lowest level of health, and higher reliability. Third, the reliability of organic products impact the amount of purchase of organic products, but not the perception of organic products' price. Forth, both the reliability and the perception of those price impact the level of willingness-to-pay more for organic products.

• Journal of Applied Reliability
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.125-134
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• 2008

Global Positioning System(GPS) is prospects item of information infrastructure with internet. Global Positioning System module made by domestic have high technology, but its international competitive power is very weak because of reliability. In this paper, we compare domestic products with foreign advanced products exactly, and confirm excellence of domestic products.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.133-136
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• 2003

In these days, the reliability analysis and prediction are applied for many industrial products and many products require guaranteeing the quality and efficiency of their products. In this study reliability prediction for core units of machine tools has been performed in order to improve and analyze its reliability. ATC(Automatic Tool Changer) and interface Card of PC-NC that are core component of the machine tools were chosen as the target of the reliability prediction. A reliability analysis tool was used to obtain the reliability data(failure rate database) for reliability prediction. It is expected that the results of reliability prediction be applied to improve and evaluate its reliability. Failure rate, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) and reliability for core units of machine tools were evaluated and analyzed in this study.

• Proceedings of the Korean Reliability Society Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.141-145
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• 2005

Nowadays, most industries take $B_{6\sigma}$ quality level as a goal of the ultimate quality level of their products. On the other hand, $B_{10}$ to life indicates the time that $10\%$ of products are failed. There is no relation between the $B_{6\sigma}$ quality level and the $B_{10}$ to life. Therefore, some industries perform their quality control activities and reliability engineering activities separately. So I propose one measure which can express quality and reliability level simultaneously for the products to pursue quality and reliability activities together in the industry.

• Journal of Applied Reliability
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.248-255
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• 2015

Purpose : The purpose of this research is to develop the optimized method and process in the reliability-growth target setting, especially for complex and repairable system (or products) such as vehicle and airplane, construction equipment. Method : A reliability-growth test plan specifies a scenario to achieve the planned reliability value (or reliability target). The major elements in test planning are reliability-growth starting time and reliability level at that time, reliability-growth rate and reliability-growth target. All of them except a reliability target can be referred to the previous development data and reference researches. The reliability target level is directly influencing to test period (or time) which is related to test and warranty cost together. There are a few researches about the reliability target setting method and but showing the limitations to consider the views of engineering, business and customer together. There is no research how to handle the target setting process in detail. Result : We develop the optimized method and systematic process in reliability target setting with considering such views. This research also establish the new concept as production capability which means company (or supplier) capability to product its products. Conclusion : In this research result, we apply the new method to a few projects and can set the reasonable test planning. The developing results is showing the good balance between the developing cost and warranty cost at market.

• Journal of Applied Reliability
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.162-168
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• 2014

This paper discusses the application of Bayesian techniques with test data on similar products for performing the Economical Reliability Test of new one-shot device. Using the test data on similar products, reliability test required lower sample size currently being spent in order to demonstrate a target reliability with a specified confidence level. Furthermore, lower sample size reduces cost, time and various resources on reliability test. In this paper, we use similarity as calculating weight of similar products and analyze similarity between new and similar product for comparison of the essential function.

• Journal of Applied Reliability
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.41-58
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• 2003

Recently, the reliability evaluation and analysis are applied for many industrial products, and many products are required to guarantee in quality and in efficiency. The purpose of this paper is to present some of reliability prediction methodologies that are applicable to machine tools. Especially ATC (Automatic Tool Changer) and Interface Card of PC-NC, which are core components of the machine tools, were chosen as the target of the reliability evaluation and analysis. The results of this research has shown the failure rate, MTBF(Mean Time Between Failure), and reliability for those components. It is expected that proposed methodologies will be applicable to evaluation of reliability for other industrial products.

• Proceedings of the Korean Reliability Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.48-54
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• 2006

In this thesis, accelerated life test (ALT) method and procedure for rubber O-ring are applied to assure specified reliability of the products at guaranteeing the life of the products. Rubber O-ring is parts that keep intensity or make machine operation smoothly on attrition portion of machine and is used to prevent that oil is leaked. Usually. Rubber O-ring used NBR that is copolymer of acrylonitrile and butadiene. this are superior oil resistance, heat resistance, durability of abrasion, cold resistance, chemical resistance etc. The accelerated life test model for rubber O-ring are developed using the relationship between stresses and life characteristics of products. Using the accelerated life test method and the acceleration life test equipment which is developed, we performed life test, collected life data and analyzed the results of tests. The proposed accelerated life test method and procedure may be extended and applied to testing similar kinds of products to reduce test times and costs of the tests remarkably.

• Proceedings of the Korean Reliability Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.3-19
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• 2006

The Status quo of the reliability in China is described in this paper, a reliability surge is now spreading in China, covering the fields such as hardware, software, machinery and electronics. The reliability work in China was firstly conducted by the CEPREI Lab as far as early in the 1950s, and the reliability engineering in China has developed from the reliability of electronic products to that of machinery and non-electronic products, from hardware reliability to software reliability, from the attention to the reliability statistical test to emphasis on the reliability engineering test. Concern of Chinese companies about the reliability is the complete import of reliability engineering, the reliability testing, the software reliability and the reliability of lead-free soldering. Demonstration of reliability cases is given.

• Journal of Applied Reliability
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.357-369
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• 2011

Eco-robot for collecting recycling products is the machine which collects non-industrial wastes such as cans, PET bottles and etc. to reuse them as recycling resources. This eco-robot is operated in the condition that it should compress and hold various products without knowing their geometric shapes and material properties. For this reason reliability problems like malfunction or failure. comes to emerge, but the reliability test conditions to assess its performance and durability have not been founded yet. Therefore in this research failure mechanism of the eco-robot was analyzed and life test equipment which can reproduce actual usage conditions was developed. The compression levels in the life test were determined by measuring the crushing force acting on test products and Furthermore the test specimens which have equivalent shape and material properties with those of cans and PET bottles were proposed by simulating the deformation characteristics so that the actual compression conditions were set up in the test.