The successful and sustainable growth of SMEs depends on their ability of strengthen their competitiveness in quality and cost and service more than anything else as a fundamental of operation. Among these key competitive factors of SMEs, quality is the most critical factor in manufacturing business fields. There are many different ways to improve the quality performance but it needs proper management decision to choose the best way what can maximize outputs with minimum inputs. And it needs effective measurement methods and some indicators to analysis the quality performance properly. The quality cost is one of the simplest key indicators to measure the quality performance and the effectiveness of quality related management decisions. In this study, through survey on local SMEs, we found that their average annual quality cost ratio versus turnover - total amount of annual quality cost divided by annual turnover - is around 3.69% excluded some SME's performances what have different quality control measures with others. And we found some results what corresponded with the early studies on the correlations between those categorized quality costs factors and some discrepancies between some of the literature model and the early case study results as follows. There were negative correlations between the Prevention costs and the External failure costs, and the Appraisal costs and the External failure costs, and there was positive correlation between the Appraisal costs and Internal failure costs same as early studies. But, we couldn't found any strong negative correlations between the Cost of control - Prevention costs & Appraisal costs - and the Cost of Failure of control - Internal & External failure costs -.

This study contain below two contents. First, this study analyse an effect of consciousness of the quality cost for quality cost activity. Second, this study analyse an effect of quality cost activity for productivity improvement. The empirical result of this study is meaning that quality cost consciousness effects productivity improvement by quality cost activity. Therefore, this paper emphasize consciousness of quality cost for productivity improvement.

농산물 수출과 관련된 분석은 자료의 부족 때문에 피상적인 분석 이상 나아가기가 쉽지 않았다. 분석을 하더라도 간접적인 자료만을 활용한 분석이어서 해석상의 한계가 많았다. 이 연구는 수출업체의 실제 수 출실적 자료를 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 농가의 평균수취율은 72.3%로 나타났지만 거리에 따른 운송비 때 문에 지역에 따라 차이가 났다. 수출농가의 소득률은 전반적으로 국내에 출하하는 농가에 비해 높게 나타 났으며 수출비중이 높을수록 소득률은 상승하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 수출단가와 비용을 분석한 결과, 정부와 지자체의 보조금이 없을 경우 수출업체의 채산성은 크게 악화되는 것으로 나타났다.

This paper examines the applicability of formal safety assessment to the passenger ships. This is followed by an analysis of passenger ship characteristics and a proposed formal safety assessment methodology. Five interlocking steps are described to construct a safety model including novel risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis and decision-making approaches. A case study is carried out in order to demonstrate the proposed methodology. Further development in formal safety assessment in the context of passenger ship safety is finally discussed in detail.

The current standard cost for recycling applied under the Extended Producer Responsibility(EPR) institution, is not coping with continuously increased number of obligatory subject items as well as a variety of variable cost changing factors regarding the recycling treatment cost caused by price fluctuation such as increased material and labor cost entirely across the society; changes in recycling treatment process following the developing technologies; and changes in the required work forces and equipments followed by the trends of automated facilities. Despite such various cost fluctuation factors, the current EPR is not coping with the trends, making the re-calculation process difficult, which causes differences between the real treatment cost for recycling. In this study, the analysis was made on main factors affecting on the related cost and the related price changing index was calculated, by conducting the influence evaluation on the standard cost factors of the current standard cost for recycling. Through theses results, more objective standard will be set for the re-calculation of standard cost for recycling to greatly contribute to setting up the midterm and long-term strategies in the future towards efficient institution.

The provisions regarding the standard cost for recycling stated under the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) since 2002, include different and complicated obligatory steps to be taken on a variety of subject items regarding the collection, the transportation and the treatment, making the corporations face in their calculating and executing the standard cost. This study presents more objective calculation scope and standard for the purpose of efficient operation of the standard cost for recycling, in consideration of the general industry perception toward cost issue as well as domestic/overseas case studies regarding the standard cost for recycling. Besides, the study presents the checking items and the calculation contents per step to calculate the standard cost for recycling. Therefore, it is expected not only to be used as the objective standard to calculate the standard cost for recycling, but also to contribute to increasing the work efficiency in the following ongoing re-calculation process and to maintaining the consistent operation of the institution.

Activated carbon fibers (ACFs) were prepared from cost effective commercial textiles through stabilization, carbonization, and subsequently activation by carbon dioxide. ACFs were characterized for surface area and pore size distribution by physical adsorption of nitrogen at 77 K. ACFs were also examined for various surface characteristics by scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and CHNO elemental analyzer. The prepared ACFs exhibited good surface textural properties with well developed micro porous structure. With improvement in physical strength, the commercial textile grade acrylic precursor based ACFs developed in this study may have great utility as cost effective adsorbents in environmental remediation applications.

The commission assessment and cost analysis of a measuring rate system of food waste were performed to account a total budget. The selling price of tax clearance was between about 240 wons and 270 wons, a vinyl bag was sold at from about 260 wons to 290 wons, based on a vessel size of 5L. After one year the measured rate system was enforced, the total cost for buying vessels in the Daejeon metropolitan city area was accounted about 720 million wons. Purchasing cost of bar code tax clearance and vinyl bags were decreased to 215 million wons due to the reduction rate, while the selling cost was increased to 328 million wons, compared with the existing cost. Therefore, the total saving cost was 2,639 million wons per year in the city.

Now days, the marketing environment is rapidly changed. Therefore, a lot of companies try to reduce production cost. Especially, Design is a important activities in new product development. While the concepts of design for manufacturable and concurrent engineering have made significant advances in integrating the design function with other areas in the firm. There are still major gaps in timely and accurate costing information available to designers. Inappropriate design could result in high redesign cost and delay in product relation. The generation of design and improvement is a time-consuming and mentally exhaustion process. It involves combining design features to generate as many potential design as possible. As not all features combinations are feasible, decision-makers have to narrow down the potential solutions and subsequently select appropriate design for further development. This new study is composed of 3 steps aiming at the Low Cost Design of the product. The three steps are consisted that setting up the target Cost, estimating the current functional cost, the design of a unit's reviewing according to the priority of the difference between the target cost and the functional cost.

농작업을 수탁 대행하는 경제주체에 있어서 사업운영상 가장 중요한 문제가 되는 것은 농작업수탁요 금 즉, 농기계임작업요금의 설정이 문제이다. 그리고 농기계 수탁작업의 주체는 농협, 지방자치단체, 농 업경영인 등으로 다양하며, 따라서 임작업료의 요금설정체계도 다양하다. 본 연구에서는 원가회계의 측 면에서 농업기계임작업의 요금설정방식으로서 원가계산모형을 활용하는 경우의 유용성과 문제점을 분명 히 하고, 원가계산 시스템과 원가정보를 이용한 요금설정방식의 이론적 타당성을 제시하고자 한다.

This study presents a single machine scheduling algorithm to minimize total cost(lateness cost, earliness cost and failure cost) by controlling machining speed. Generally, production scheduling uses the information of process planning and machining speed

This paper analyzes the main factors affecting user selection of a small-sum electronic payment system using survey data of 396 users. Several findings emerge. First, users consider three pillars and eight factors in adopting a new system : system feature

The first full-scale u-City operation has started in Dongtan u-City. As local cities take over and operate the u-City, unexpected issues arise such as securing the budget of operating costs and self-providing the costs with business models utilizing the u

To protect information resources, many organizations including private corporate and government employ integrated information security systems which provide the functions of intrusion detection, firewall, and virus vaccine. In order to develop a reliable

전 세계적으로 기후변화에 대응하기 위한 노력이 본격화되는 가운데, 그동안 관심이 적었던 항만으로부터의 탄소배출량이 상당량에 이르고 이의 억제를 위한 노력이 LA/LB(Los Angeles/Long Beach)항만을 중심으로 선진항만에서 전개되고 있다. 우리나라는 최근 Green Port 전략의 일환으로 부산항에서 저탄소 항만운영정책이 강화되고 있다. 저탄소 항만운영은 단기적으로 항만비용을 증가시켜 가격경쟁력을 약화시킨다. 따라서 부산항의 경우 저탄소 항만운영으로 인한 비용을 항만이용자에게 부담시키지 않고 항만당국이 저탄소를 위한 정책을 시행하고 비용을 부담하고 있다. 반면 LA/LB의 경우 저탄소 항만운영의 비용을 선주 및 화주 등 항만이용자에게 부담시키고 있다. 본 연구에서는 부산항과 LA/LB항의 저탄소 항만운영에 관한 비교분석을 통해 부산항의 지속가능한 항만운영의 시사점을 제시하였다.