Asian Journal on Quality: Volume 3 Issue 2
Table of contents
Quality‐Sustainable Way to Business Excellence
Yoshio KondaQuality is distinguished from the other important management indicators, cost and profitability, by the features of its far longer history and of common concern to both…
Beyond robust design: an example of synergy between statistics and advanced engineering design
Stefano Barone, Pasquale Erto, Antonio LanzottiHigher efficiency and effectiveness of Research & Development phases can be attained using advanced statistical methodologies. In this work statistical methodologies are combined…
A Structured Approach for Integrating Technology and Business Strategies
Park, Young HyunThis paper presents a framework for processing a structured approach of R&D investment. It presents nine steps to operate R&D investment from analysis of environment situation to…
Continuous Improvement Through Integration of Quality Tools
Zhen He, Ershi Qi, Zixian LiuContinuous quality improvement is now the focus of research and application in quality engineering. To achieve continuous improvement, it’s necessary to integrate quality tools…
The Effects of Imprecise Measurement on the Economic Asymmetric X and S Control Charts
Su‐Fen YangThe presence of imprecise measurement may seriously affect the efficiency of process control and production cost. A cost model is derived to determine the design parameters of the…
A Proposed Self‐assessment Framework for Measuring and Benchmarking Organizational Performance
Kit Fai Pun, Karis Ka Yan Ho, Hongyi SunRecent interests in total quality management (TQM) and business excellence (BE) had been fuelled with a range of national and regional awards. These awards are being increasingly…
Dynamic Process Capability Indices
Jing SunProcess capability indices as an important kind of indices are intended to provide single‐number assessments of the inherent process capability to meet specification limits on…
Logistic Performance Measure Cubic Model in Logistic Industry
Ree, SangbokIn this paper, we propose new performance measure model in logistic industry. New model has been learned by key points of PZB model and advanced structure of MBNQA which has cause…
A Panoramic Review and Vision on “Integration” for Quality Management
Guijiang Duan, Xiaoqing Tang, Kwai‐Sang ChinThe issues of “Integration” in quality management and related fields have been discussed for a few years. Literature review reveals that this is a large and multi‐disciplinary…
Neural and MTS Algorithms for Feature Selection
Chao‐Ton Su, Te‐Sheng LiThe relationships among multi‐dimensional data (such as medical examination data) with ambibuity and variation are difficult to explore. The traditional approach to building a…
Selecting Six Sigma Projects
Hasan Adpolat, Jichao XuThe quality improvement methodology Six Sigma gained enormous international popularity in the past few years, mainly due to its successful implementation at General Electric. Six…
A Hybrid QFD Framework for New Product Development
Y.C. Tsai, K.S. Chin, J.B. YangNowadays, new product development (NPD) is one of the most crucial factors for business success. The manufacturing firms cannot afford the resources in the long development cycle…
Six Sigma and the Cost of (Poor) Quality
Lou PE Magritzer, Jichao XuAny suggestion’s Six Sigma program may be at high risk without heeding the lessons learned from the past and that tries to operate without a robust business foundation. A…
A Comparison of Consumer Behaviors in China and Taiwan
Ching‐Chow YangThe purpose of this research is mainly to make an analysis and comparison of the purchasing behaviors of consumers in Mainland china and Taiwan. We precede this research with a…