Asian Journal on Quality: Volume 3 Issue 1
Table of contents
Comparison of Linear Trend on Control Charts
Sinsup Cho, Jeong Hyeong LeeOn control chart, one may use regression, cusum and exponential smoothing methods to detect any change in the trend of the process. When the data is observed with equally spaced…
Knowledge‐enriched Process FMEA Model For Process Planning
Lian Yu Zheng, Kwai Sang Chin, Li WeiMost process FMEA systems in the market simply fill out the worksheet/form, and can not effectively express, organize, and utilize process failure knowledge of production process…
An Empirical Study of Employee Involvement, Total Quality Management and Organisational Performance in Manufacturing Enterprises
Kit Fai PunRecent studies advocate that there is a positive relationship between levels of employee involement (EI) and the productivity and long‐term financial performance of organisations…
Screening Synchronously Occurred Multiple Abnormal Quality Characteristics in a Silicon Wafer Slicing Process
Chin‐Tsai Lin, Chie‐Bein Chen, Che‐Wei ChangSilicon wafer slicing manufacturing process exhibits several characteristics. They are: (1) the product type is small batch production, (2) saw cutting must be very precise, (3…
Process Capability Evaluation for a PVC Pipe Product Family
M.L. Huang, K.S. Chen, R.K. LiProcess capability indices can be viewed as convenient and excellent tools to measure and define process output. Several capability indices including Cp, Cpu, Cpl, Cpk, Cpm and Cpp…
Integration of Design of Experiments into Quality Function Deployment
Jing Sheng, Zhen He, Xing ShiQuality Functioni Deployment (QFD) is a useful planning process in new product development. It achieves the maximum custom satisfaction through translating Voice of the Customer…
Integrated Management Systems – Quality, Environment and Safety
Hasan Akpolat, Jichao XuThe implementation of management systems such as the quality, environmental and occupational health and safety management systems to the national and/or international standards I…
Application of TRIZ to Inventory Management
Seong‐Dae Kim, Young‐Taek ParkSince there are fundamental contradictions in difficult engineering problems, most solutions have been trade‐offs between conflicting requirements. In those cases, an improvement…
Quality Management based on ERP
Jing SunMany enterprises didn’t ask to involve the module of Quality Management in ERP system, even an enterprise having implemented ERP successfully thought about to implement Quality…
A Framework for Developing Customer Satisfaction Evaluation System: An Empirical Illustration
Te‐King Chien, Chao‐Ton SuCustomer satisfaction is one of the important goals of Total Quality Management (TQM). The outcome of a customer satisfaction activity has a decisive effect on an enterprise’s…
A Multivariate Discriminator for Process Drift
Yumin Liu, Jichao Xu, Hasan AkpolatMultivariate Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (MEWMA) chart is a control chart under multivariate process based on the idea of EWMA that rapidly detects small dispersion with…
The Study for Principles and Conceptual Models of Quality Management in Virtual Enterprise
Su Qin, Xu BeiVirtual enterprise is considered as the leading enterprise paradigm of 21st century. Based on the study of a lot of literature on VE, this paper summarizes 7 hypotheses about VE…
A Process Model for Deciding Elderly Care
Tomomichi Suzuki, Takayuki Imai, Toru Yaezawa, Tadahiro Wakasugi, Yoshinori Iizuka, Yoshikazu OjimaCare to an older person is provided based on the care plan that was made by a care manager. Therefore, to improve the quality of elderly care, the quality of the care plan must…