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Michiko WATANABEArticle type: Features 〔Train the Quality Engineers who Support the Quality of Products and Service〕
2010 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 338-344
Published: October 15, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSAccording to the new curriculum guidelines issued in 2008 for elementary and junior high schools and issued in 2009 for high schools, a strand for statistics has been newly established in mathematics. Then all students must now learn the basic statistics and school educators draw their attentions what the new curriculum guidelines imply for statistics education. In this article, I show first the current background where statistics education is needed in knowledge-based society and secondly give a concrete explanation on a modernized framework of statistics education to be promoted internationally, where it is paid more attention for students to develop their problemsolving skills and competencies. Finally I show the table of statistics contents treated in the new national curriculum in Japan and discuss the need to support school education through industry-academia cooperation towards future human resource development.View full abstractDownload PDF (1431K) -
Ken NISHINA, Kazuyoshi ISHIIArticle type: Features 〔Train the Quality Engineers who Support the Quality of Products and Service〕
2010 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 345-348
Published: October 15, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSThe practical engineering education in university has a very important role; however, in the field of the industrial engineering and management it is not so easy to implement it because its subjects are intangible. Nagoya Institute of Technology and Kanazawa Institute of Technology originated two human resource development programs for core engineers in the manufacturing industries, respectively. Master's course students of each university take part in the program. It is just a practical education of industrial engineering and management. In this article the two programs are introduced.View full abstractDownload PDF (642K) -
Norihiko NAKAJIMAArticle type: Features 〔Train the Quality Engineers who Support the Quality of Products and Service〕
2010 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 349-352
Published: October 15, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSIn order to survive as a company that is capable of demonstrating global competitiveness and of creating continuous customer values under the rapidly changing business environment at present, it is necessary to go back to the point of origin for quality, always develop a stronger sense of quality first, and regard cultivating knowledgeable quality engineers as one of the significant assignments for management. It should be noted that actions through cooperation among industries, academicians and government are required to foster those quality engineers. In this article, a part of education and training programs provided by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) is introduced as regard to "Education and Training for Quality Engineers at the QC Education Institute."View full abstractDownload PDF (555K) -
Toshiyuki IIZUKAArticle type: Features 〔Train the Quality Engineers who Support the Quality of Products and Service〕
2010 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 353-359
Published: October 15, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSThe QM/QC examination aims to raise the level of the quality of manufacturing and services in Japanese industry. It is just a system for supporting the purpose of the examination, not effects directly to the purpose. Accordingly, this article deals with introduction of our activities to promote QM/QC examination that the QM/QC examination center operates. And it is recommended that the examination is to be utilized widely and continuously in industry as a way of training of technical expert for quality.View full abstractDownload PDF (1120K) -
Hiroyuki SATOArticle type: Features 〔Train the Quality Engineers who Support the Quality of Products and Service〕
2010 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 360-365
Published: October 15, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSRecently, The framework of the manufacturer in Japan characterized in the high quality begins to collapse. As for this cause, a rapid global expansion, the faster time to market, a mass retirement of experts, a virtual design, and the system complication, etc. In this report, I describe a strong will of top managements and the quality of an ideal way of DESIGN, DRBFM and FMEA that is the communications tool of the team members. Especially, it introduces quality engineer's promotion situation and problem what is necessary to be done as a quality engineer during the new employee layer, the layer during year fifth, the layer during year tenth and expert/management layer.View full abstractDownload PDF (837K) -
Toru NAKAMURAArticle type: Features 〔Train the Quality Engineers who Support the Quality of Products and Service〕
2010 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 366-371
Published: October 15, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSThe Panasonic aims to achieve a "manufacture-oriented corporation" status. The "manufacture-oriented corporation" vision is centered in the management philosophy, upon which the wisdom gathered at the operational frontline relies, with focus on development, manufacturing and sales. Starting with this wisdom gathered at the operational frontline, the corporation strives to meet the demand of quality assurance, unparalleled cost competitiveness, reduce lead-time and inventory. For this, competitive products need to be developed under unique and differentiated technologies. That is what the education of the quality technology is very important for. Therefore, this article describes how to develop human resources engaged in the quality of products on the basis of skill evaluation we have been working on, in particular, the quality safety education for quality engineers and the corporate culture as well as making use of scientific methodologies in the product development.View full abstractDownload PDF (1480K) -
Tadanori HARADAArticle type: Features 〔Train the Quality Engineers who Support the Quality of Products and Service〕
2010 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 372-376
Published: October 15, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESS"The skill tradition" is one of important issues in the construction industry. Therefore, I would like to examine on essence as Training of Quality Engineer, through the case of "Education system" and "Quality assurance system" in Maeda Corporation.View full abstractDownload PDF (1597K) -
Yousuke IBARAKIArticle type: Features 〔Train the Quality Engineers who Support the Quality of Products and Service〕
2010 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 377-383
Published: October 15, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSThe computer spreads, and the importance of software in our life increases. The expectation and the demand for software have upgraded at the same time. However, the number of the software engineer and the development period and budget is limited. There are the software quality engineer's being able to contribute in such a situation a lot. It explains the following in the main discourse. The difficulty to software development. Ability and promotion necessary for software quality engineer.View full abstractDownload PDF (990K) -
Shuhei IIDAArticle type: Features 〔Train the Quality Engineers who Support the Quality of Products and Service〕
2010 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 384-392
Published: October 15, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSThe issue of quality is frequent in every social field, and "reconstruction of the country by quality" is demanded. A quality manager is the talented person who regards the quality that we understand quality technology definitely, can practice, and consider quality first. As well as result, all processes of healthcare service are evaluated from all stakeholders. A quality manager in healthcare is all staffs as well as the managerial class and the education person in charge. In Nerima General Hospital, we regard a post about quality as the director direct control. We are rare in healthcare world, but install a quality assurance room. We build information infrastructure and utilize information and plan quality improvement and depend on a thought, as a result, to safety. We develop Medical Quality Improvement (MQI) activity. A staff of quality assurance room and an MQI promotion committee are core of a quality manager. Realization of quality namely customer satisfaction (CS) is made much of, but does not become it to get customer satisfaction if there is not employee satisfaction (ES). By cooperation with healthcare world and engineering world / industry, an action from the viewpoint of quality improvement / quality management considerably advances.View full abstractDownload PDF (1826K)
Research Papers
Technical Note
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Yuko NISHIURA, Shu YAMADAArticle type: Technical Note
2010 Volume 40 Issue 4 Pages 411-419
Published: October 15, 2010
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSDesign review is one of the most important methods to prevent product problems. While the design review is applied to prevent problem at many stages, unpredictable problems occur after releasing to the market. This paper proposes an approach to make design review maturing by analyzing the past trouble data and utilizing the data analysis results into design review process. Specifically, the approach focuses on the relationships between trouble phenomena and parts and among parts in the data analysis. The results of the data analysis are utilized as items for the design review to prevent the problem occurrence. Furthermore, the effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated by the case study of this approach.View full abstractDownload PDF (1366K)
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