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Tadashi YOSHIZAWAArticle type: Features 〔Environmental Management and Quality Management〕
2011 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 6-12
Published: January 15, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSIn this paper, with reviewing the development of environmental management, we discuss total optimization of corporate management systems and the fusing relationship between quality and environmental management, from the following points of view : the first, total quality assurance including environmental characters in expanding value chain or supply chain; the second, integrated management systems with optimized managing points; last and the third, communication and engagement with stakeholders in corporate social responsibility.View full abstractDownload PDF (890K) -
Masamitsu TAKAYAArticle type: Features 〔Environmental Management and Quality Management〕
2011 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 13-18
Published: January 15, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSOur corporate message, "Suntory, Bringing Water to Life, " expresses our wish to create a more prosperous society for all people and exist in harmony with the natural world. For the Suntory Group, the global environment itself is an important business resource. We are dedicated to protecting water resources, and are actively working on the development of environmentally friendly products, container recycling, and resource recovery at our plants. We will continue to promote environment protection activities so that we can pass on a sustainable world to the next generation.View full abstractDownload PDF (830K) -
Masayasu TANIGUCHIArticle type: Features 〔Environmental Management and Quality Management〕
2011 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 19-22
Published: January 15, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSThe Sekisui Chemical Group is working to reduce its impact on the Earth's environment through its products, businesses, and services. We have drawn up a vision for 2030 that strives for the achievement of 'Carbon Minus' and preservation of biodiversity through an emphasis on reducing the CO_2 emissions and waste related to our products.View full abstractDownload PDF (660K) -
Katsumi TOMITAArticle type: Features 〔Environmental Management and Quality Management〕
2011 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 23-28
Published: January 15, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSThe Panasonic's environmental management is outlined. Panasonic has worked on the global environmental protection before environmental issues are paid attention in the society. Why does Panasonic work on environment management so eagerly? The reason is in Konosuke Matsushita's "Basic Business Philosophy" as a founder. Specifically, it's explained conversantly about the following case; "Green Plan 2010" which is an environmental action plans, "The 'eco ideas' strategy", "Vision Looking to the 100th Anniversary of Our Founding" and "Green Plan 2018" which is the next environmental action plans. Environmental management of Panasonic is explained conversantly through the explanation abovementioned. And the "Basic Business Philosophy" of Panasonic considers about a common point about environmental management and quality management.View full abstractDownload PDF (1066K) -
Hidehiko SUGIMOTOArticle type: Features 〔Environmental Management and Quality Management〕
2011 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 29-32
Published: January 15, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSThe Kansai Electric Power Group plans the Kansai Power Group Long-Term Growth Strategy 2030 including becoming a main player in the low-carbon society. Challenge of becoming a main player in the low-carbon society will be realized by three initiatives, "Accelerate conversion to low-carbon electricity" "Contribute to energy conservation, cost reduction and CO_2 reductions by customers and society" "Construct the Kanden Smart Grid" in an integrated manner. We will work toward the Realization of a Low-Carbon Society in a positive way.View full abstractDownload PDF (671K) -
Shunichi IMAMURAArticle type: Features 〔Environmental Management and Quality Management〕
2011 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 33-38
Published: January 15, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSToyota Motor Corporation is working to reduce CO_2 emissions and other environmental impact, at all stages from vehicle development to production, use, disposal, and recycling, while also promoting resource recycling. Towards this end, Toyota is undertaking environmental activities in all its business areas, including information technology, biotechnology, and afforestation. Additionally, in order to conduct environmental activities at the highest levels in every country and region, Toyota has established environmental management systems in all regions and areas of operation and working with related companies in Japan and overseas to implement consolidated environmental management and promote environmental management on a global scale.View full abstractDownload PDF (1684K) -
Masamori IHARAArticle type: Features 〔Environmental Management and Quality Management〕
2011 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 39-41
Published: January 15, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSIn this paper we present short summary on this special issue. It can be concluded that we can grow environmental management into quality management through accepting environmental items as quality, and we have to construct an appropriate environmental management policy and developing it as quality management policy.View full abstractDownload PDF (344K)
Research Papers
Contributed Paper
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Junpei NITTA, Satoko TSURU, Yoshinori IIZUKAArticle type: Contributed Paper
2011 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 107-120
Published: January 15, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSToday, many inpatients that are highly dependent on medical treatment are admitted in acute hospitals as the period of inpatient hospitalization has decreased. Therefore, it is important to establish a methodology for allocating inpatients in order to providing appropriate care to them. To achieve this, it is necessary to clarify appropriate processes to determine sickbeds according to the state of an individual patient. In this paper, we first identified "attributes and needs associated with inpatients" and "functions related to sickbeds" by considering "the role of hospital treatment." In addition, we designed a process model for determining adequate functions of sickbeds by use of inpatient's needs. Then, we constructed "a supporting system for bed control" based on aforesaid model. We confirmed efficacy of our model according to apply this system to actual cases. In the future, we expect that this model enables to allocate inpatients efficiently by building in ideas of skill in nursing or hope of patients.View full abstractDownload PDF (3098K) -
Takahisa IIDA, Nobuo SHINOZAKIArticle type: Contributed Paper
2011 Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 121-130
Published: January 15, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2017
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESSDetection of abnormal items is discussed as a hypothesis testing problem when both continuous and categorical variables are observed and parameters are unknown. Assuming the location model where continuous variables are multivariate normally distributed with common covariance matrix when categorical variables are observed, a detection method is derived based on the likelihood ratio test (testing method). Based on the detection methods when parameters are known, other detection methods (estimative methods) are obtained by replacing the unknown parameters by their estimators based on the initial data. To set the critical values for testing and estimative methods, χ^2 method and F method are considered which use respectively χ^2 approximation and F distribution for the test statistics. For comparing these methods, their expected error rates for normal items are numerically evaluated when one dichotomous variable is included. It is observed that F method is wholly superior to χ^2 method in the sense that F method gives expected error rates closer to the nominal value than χ^2 method. Testing method performed better compared to estimative methods in the same sense. Further, when the condition is imposed that both values of the dichotomous variable are observed, expected error rates of the testing method are quite close to the nominal value.View full abstractDownload PDF (1138K)
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