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Establishment of Alarm Criteria for Automatic Water Quality Monitoring System in Korea

  • Lim, Byung-Jin;Hong, Eun-Young;Kim, Hyun-Ook;Jeong, Eun-Sook;Heo, Woo-Myung;Kim, Yoon-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.423-430
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    • 2008
  • As of September 2008,45 Automatic Water Quality Monitoring Systems (AWQMS) have been installed at different sites on the 4 rivers to detect early the presence of pollutants in water and to issue an alarm. We count the number of issuing alarms by AWQMS, however, we will find the alarm has hardly been issued. The reasons for the scarcity of alarm issue are extensively being examined. The National Institute of Environmental Research attributes wrong alarm criteria for each AWQMS station to one the reasons. In this study, a suggestion has been made to modify the current alarm criteria to correspond with characteristics of river water quality. The current system with only two criteria (low and high) should be replaced as four-criteria systems (low, medium, high, and severe) based on cases of other advanced countries and stream conditions of Korea. The highest value of data collected for 5 years was suggested as the alarm criteria for each parameter. Meanwhile the alarm criteria for VOCs, phenol and heavy metals were established as same as drinking water quality criteria.

Critical Success Factors of TQM Implementation in Vietnamese Supporting Industries

  • TRANG, Tran Van;DO, Quang Hung
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.7
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    • pp.391-401
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    • 2020
  • The objective of this study is to prioritize the Total Quality Management (TQM) factors based on fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method in Vietnamese supporting industries. Through an in-depth literature review, eight criteria were identified. These criteria were then divided into 32 sub-criteria. The fuzzy AHP is used to determine the percent weightings of eight categories of performance criteria that were identified via a review of the quality-management literature. These criteria include management commitment, role of the quality department, training and education, continuous improvement, quality policies, quality data and reporting, communication to improve quality, and customer satisfaction orientation. An empirical analysis of the criteria of each stage using the fuzzy AHP methodology and the expert opinion of quality management are used to evaluate the percent weightings of the criteria and sub-criteria that are synonymous with TQM implementation. The results showed that management commitment is the most critical factor; among sub-criteria, supports and responsibilities of top management is the most important. The study also identified the rank order of critical success factors of TQM. The findings suggest a generic hierarchy model for organizations to prioritize the critical factors and formulate strategies for implementing TQM in supporting industries, as well as other industries in Vietnam.

QFD Model for Quality Performance Self-assessment

  • Liu, Yumin;Xu, Jichao
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.112-127
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    • 2006
  • How to measure Quality Performance (QP) or excellence performance in organizations is very important for improving the quality of an organization's products and services. This paper takes Quality Function Deployment (QFD) as a useful tool to identify the key characteristics of quality performance and measure the influence factors on quality performance. Most national quality awards provide a framework of the criteria to show the essential elements of an organization's quality performance and get the Quality Performance Score (QPS) by self-assessment using the criteria. By means of these criteria, especially, the criteria of China Quality Award (CQA), a measurable indicator system for quality performance is set up. A four-phase QFD model of assessment for quality performance is developed. This QFD model not only presents the most important efforts for the deployment of the measurable indicators of quality performance, but also takes great advantage of evaluating the quality performance and obtaining the quality performance score. The measurable indicator hierarchy of quality performance is formed and its implementation method for assessment quality performance is described in this paper.

A Study on the Rule Development for BIM-based Automatic Checking in a Duct System (덕트설비의 BIM 기반 자동검토를 위한 규칙개발에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Jong-Kwan;Cho, Geun-Ha;Ju, Ki-Beom
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.25 no.11
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    • pp.631-639
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    • 2013
  • This study derives quality checking items in Building Mechanical Systems Design Criteria, and suggests quality criteria to review BIM models in the duct system of an air conditioning system for rule-based automatic checking. First, components for the duct system of an air conditioning system were reviewed, and the quality checking items were drawn from Building Mechanical Systems Design Criteria, through assessment according to object, attribute and relationship composing the BIM model. Second, quality checking types were derived, by analyzing the quality checking items and Rule set of the Solibri Model Checker. Finally, methods of algorithm functioning for checking the BIM models for mechanical systems in computers were drawn, and Elements to comprise the quality checking criteria (rule) were suggested. This study means that that checking items are derived from domestic criteria, and a way for the development process of determining quality checking criteria (rules) is suggested.

Quality Control of Pharmacopuncture: A Comparative Study of Good Manufacturing Practice and External Herbal Dispensary Standards

  • Han, Ji-Eun;Park, Minjung;An, Tteul-E-Bom;Park, Jong-Hyun;Oh, Danny;Kim, Kyeong Han;Sung, Soo-Hyun
    • Journal of Pharmacopuncture
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: We aimed to compare the external herbal dispensary (EHD) evaluation criteria for pharmacopuncture and the Korea Good Manufacturing Practice (KGMP) sterile medicine standards to contribute to the establishment of quality control criteria for pharmacopuncture. Methods: We obtained the KGMP standards from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the pharmacopuncture certification criteria from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of South Korea. The EHD evaluation items were classified into three categories: facilities, quality control, and validation. The evaluation items were compared with the KGMP sterile medicine criteria to determine their conformance with each other, followed by a discussion among the committee of six experts and their consensus to suggest the items to complement the EHD evaluation criteria. Results: Among the KGMP sterile medicine criteria, 44 were related to the management of the facilities, and 32 pharmacopuncture evaluation items corresponded to these KGMP items (66.7%). Fifty-eight KGMP criteria were related to quality management, and 42 pharmacopuncture evaluation items corresponded to these KGMP items (72.4%). Twentyfive KGMP sterile medicine criteria were related to validation, and 11 pharmacopuncture evaluation items corresponded to these KGMP items (44.0%). Sixteen items under the pharmacopuncture EHD criteria corresponded to the KGMP sterile medicine criteria based on the consent of the experts. Among these, 4 were related to facility management, 6 were related to quality control, and 6 were related to validation. Conclusion: For the safety and quality control of pharmacopuncture, there is a need to select the criteria for the mandatory items among the proposed pharmacopuncture-EHD criteria laws and systems to ensure that the pharmacopuncture materials are produced under the pharmacopuncture-EHD in compliance with the relevant requirements. More studies are needed to secure the safety level of pharmacopuncture materials corresponding to that of conventional medicine.

Analysis of Factors Influencing on Food Supplier Selection Criteria in the Health-care Foodservice Operations (의료기관의 식자재 공급자 선정기준에 영향을 미치는 요인 분석)

  • Kim, Jeong-Ri;Choe, Seong-Gyeong;Gwak, Dong-Gyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.372-386
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    • 2002
  • The purposes of this study were to find factor which influence on the selection criteria of food supplier. Questionnaire were distributed to 52 general hospitals with more than 400 beds located in Seoul and Kyongin province, and responded questionnaires were collected from 44 dietetic departments (84.6%) and 18 purchasing departments (34.6%). The main results of this study can be summarized as follows: (1) supplier selection criteria include quality, service, cost and supplier competency. (2) With having been met with tight competition and market opening, hospitals plan a strategy to improve quality, service and they tend to have more interest in various supplier selection criteria. (3) Purchasing departments estimate more highly the rate of reflection in considering supplier selection criteria than the rate of importance about cost criteria, which reveals that purchasing departments sensitively respond to cost cutdown. (4) When selecting suppliers, a significant(p<.01) influence of stability of supplier industry environment on the selecting criteria such as the importances of quality, service, and supplier quality are recognized only after recognizing the stability of food delivery industry. Food supplier industry secures stability more quickly through major companies' participation in food distribution industry and this will reveal the importance of supplier selection criteria. (5) Suppliers which are selected by the quality criteria, service criteria, supplier quality criteria make efforts to communicate with foodservice departments, to give more proper information about substitute food, new product, and to make commitments, while suppliers which are decided by cost criteria do not establish supportive relationships with foodservice departments.

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A Fundamental Study on the Establishment of Environmental Quality Criteria for Railway Noise(I) (철도소음환경 기준설정을 위한 기초적 연구(I))

  • Ko, Kwang-Pil;Kim, Myaung-Jae;Gi, No-Gab;Jang, Gil-Soo;Kim, Sun-Woo
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2002
  • With rapid industrial development, railway has become a main traffic means. But, the railway noise has caused much annoyance for the residents living nearby railway track. Therefore, it is necessary to establish the environmental Quality criteria for railway noise like the environmental quality criteria for traffic noise. In this study, the domestic and foreign criteria for railway noise were investigated with analysis of existing data and an field survey of noise condition near a railway. Fundamental data are provided for establishment of environmental Quality criteria for railway noise.

Development of Monitoring Site Selection Criteria of the Korean Soil Quality Monitoring Network to Meet its Purposes (토양측정망 운영목적에 따른 토양측정망 지점 선정 방안 연구)

  • Jeong, Seung-Woo
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2013
  • This study developed the classification of National Soil Quality Monitoring Network (NSQM) and its site selection criteria to meet the recently established purposes of the NSQM. The NSQM were suggested by this study to classify into the six-purposes site groups from the current classification of land uses. The six purposes site groups were 1) intensive observation sites, 2) contaminant loading sites, 3) human activity sites, 4) background sites, 5) river soil sites, and 6) sites near the groundwater quality monitoring wells. Furthermore, this study developed the site selection criteria of NSQM utilizing the accumulated NSQM data, road traffic data, chemical emission data, census, soil information, and the literature related to soil quality variation due to contaminant loads. For selecting suitable sites for NSQM, this study used road traffic, chemical emission, the distance from the contaminant sources, and population information as specific criteria. The suggested site classification and criteria were appled for the current 100 NSQM sites for evaluation. Forty sites were met to the criteria suggested by this study, but sixty sites were not met to the criteria. However, some of the sixty sites also included the obscure sites that their addresses were not apparent to find them.

A Study on Generic Quality Model from Comparison between Korean and French Evaluation Criteria for e-Learning Quality Assurance of Media Convergence (한국과 프랑스의 IT융합 이러닝 품질인증 평가준거 비교와 일반화 모형 연구)

  • Han, Tea-In
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.55-64
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    • 2017
  • This study identified the important categories and items about evaluation criteria of e-learning quality assurance by comparing evaluation criteria between Korea and France case. For deriving the conclusion, this research analyzed the Korea quality assurance case which is consist of success or failure for evaluation of quality assurance, and built the generic quality model of e-learning evaluation criteria. A generic model about evaluation criteria, categories, and item of e-learning quality assurance, which should be reflected on French quality criteria, were developed based on statistical approach. This research suggests a evaluation criteria which can be applied to African and Asian countries, that are related to AUF, as well as Korea. The result of this study can be applied to all organizations around the world which prepare for e-learning quality assurance, and at the same time it will be a valuable resource for companies or institutions which want to be evaluated e-learning quality assurance.

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model Using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Method for the Most Suitable Temporary Earth Retaining System

  • Jung, Bae Yu;Byung, Cho Han;Jin, Han Sang;Won, Kwon;Ho, Jo Jae;Youl, Chun Jae
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.620-621
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    • 2015
  • In this study, the multi-criteria decision-making model based on Quality Function Deployment Method is proposed. Multicriteria decision-making is an attempt to link QFD method with the TOPSIS. By this effort, a model that makes client's decision-making more rational and objective in design phase is suggested. The multi-criteria decisionmaking model confirming to the Owner's requirements will improve the productivity of the construction industry and the satisfaction of the customer. Further study extending the range of the requirements, not only the Owner's requirement will be necessary to cover the various factors as much as possible. And then, finally as a flexible platform to achieve a sustainable quality management, web-based multi-criteria decision-making model can be utilized by the relevant stakeholders simultaneously with the feed-back and sharing the necessary informations.

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