This paper discusses the results of research on the application of Six Sigma at the junior national exam in Jakarta. This research was conducted on the implementation of the national exam in academic ...year 2007/2008 Jakarta using survey questionnaire methods in five areas of Jakarta. Questionnaires distributed to students, teachers and supervisors of national examinations. Data were analyzed based on Six Sigma, which has four areas which include quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement. result that all schools have generally been preparing themselves before the national exams. Each school has a special program for students to national exam. The program, among others, provide additional educational materials outside lesson time, an extra studying on Saturday and Sunday. To control the quality of each school formed a special committee chaired by the principal. Because the national exam and the estuary is an important activity of all school activities that have been fostering student for six semesters. National exam to measure the success of the school so that the quality coaching to the students to become primary. If you need to be improved in order to be better. From the students, all students are required to follow all the final semester of the program established by school. Therefore, all students are ready for facing a national exam. Graduation rate of students on national exams students did not disappoint, generally in accordance with the expectations of students, parents, teachers and schools. ABSTRAKTujuan penulisan artikel ini dimaksudkan untuk membahas hasil penelitian tentang penerapan Six Sigma pada ujian nasional SMU di Jakarta. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada ujian nasional tahun ajaran 2007/2008 di Jakarta dengan menggunakan metode kuesioner survei di lima wilayah Jakarta. Kuesioner disebarkan kepada peserta didik, guru dan pengawas ujian nasional. Sekolah yang menjadi sampel masing-masing wilayah lima sekolah negeri dan swasta. Data dianalisis dengan berpedoman pada Six Sigma yang memiliki empat kegiatan,yaitu perencanaan kualitas (quality planning), pengendalian kualitas (quality control), jaminan kualitas (quality assurance) dan peningkatan kualitas (quality improvement). Hasil penelitian menunjukkkan bahwa semua sekolah pada umumnya telah mempersiapkan diri sebelum menghadapi ujian nasional. Setiap sekolah telah membuat program khusus untuk peserta didik yang akan mengikuti ujian nasional. Program tersebut antara lain: memberikan tambahan materi pelajaran di luar jam pelajaran dan tambahan belajar pada hari Sabtu dan Minggu. Untuk pengendalian kualitas setiap sekolah membentuk panitia khusus yang diketuai kepala sekolah. Ujian nasional menjadi tolok ukur keberhasilan sekolah, sehingga kualitas pembinaan kepada peserta didik menjadi prioritas.
The minimization of negative externalities is a key aspect in the development of a circular and sustainable economic model. At the local scale, especially in urban areas, externalities are generated ...by the adverse impacts of air pollution on human health. Local air quality policies and plans often lack of considerations and instruments for the quantification and evaluation of external health costs. Support for decision-makers is needed, in particular during the implementation stage of air quality plans. Modelling tools based on the impact pathway approach can provide such support. In this paper, the implementation of health impacts and externalities analysis in air quality planning is evaluated. The state of the art in European member states is reported, considering whether and how health effects have been included in the planning schemes. The air quality plan of the Piemonte region in Italy is then considered. A case study is analyzed to evaluate a plan action, i.e., the development of the district heating system in the city of Turin. The DIATI (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Ambiente, del Territorio e delle Infrastrutture) Dispersion and Externalities Model (DIDEM model) is applied to detect the scenario with the highest external cost reduction. This methodology results are extensible and adaptable to other actions and measures, as well as other local policies in Europe. The use of health externalities should be encouraged and integrated into the present methodology supporting air quality planning. Efforts should be addressed to quantify and minimize the overall uncertainty of the process.
The project is defined as an ensemble coordinated by some activities accomplished in order to reach a well determined purpose, namely the project defines a process. Quality management in projects ...includes the processes necessary for providing the fact that the project satisfies the necessities it had been accomplished for. The settlement of the main (strategic) objective of the project and of the lower objectives together with the establishment of the methods by means of which these objectives are reached represent the quality planning in projects.
Regional and local authorities have the obligation to design air quality plans and assess their impacts when concentration levels exceed the limit values. Because these limit values cover both short- ...(day) and long-term (year) effects, air quality plans also follow these two formats. In this work, we propose a methodology to analyze modeled air quality forecast results, looking at emission reduction for different sectors (residential, transport, agriculture, etc.) with the aim of supporting policy makers in assessing the impact of short-term action plans. Regarding PM
10
, results highlight the diversity of responses across European cities, in terms of magnitude and type that raises the necessity of designing area-specific air quality plans. Action plans extended from 1 to 3 days (i.e., emissions reductions applied for 24 and 72 h, respectively) point to the added value of trans-city coordinated actions. The largest benefits are seen in central Europe (Vienna, Prague) while major cities (e.g., Paris) already solve a large part of the problem on their own. Eastern Europe would particularly benefit from plans based on emission reduction in the residential sectors; while in northern cities, agriculture seems to be the key sector on which to focus attention. Transport is playing a key role in most cities whereas the impact of industry is limited to a few cities in south-eastern Europe. For NO
2
, short-term action plans focusing on traffic emission reductions are efficient in all cities. This is due to the local character of this type of pollution. It is important, however, to stress that these results remain dependent on the selected months available for this study.
Process and quality planning are prerequisites for the production of qualified products at competitive cost. Today´s document-based work methods are not effective as valuable time is spent on ...document creation and document management instead of being spent on innovation and process improvements. Information duplication is an inevitable consequence with current document-based work methods where the same information is described in different ways, at many places, across many different documents. This paper presents a model-driven approach where vital manufacturing information is described once, at one place, and in one way, enabling improved work methods for cross-organizational process and quality planning.
Quality planning in Construction Project Othman, I; Shafiq, Nasir; Nuruddin, M.F
IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering,
12/2017, Volume:
291, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The purpose of this paper is to investigate deeper on the factors that contribute to the effectiveness of quality planning, identifying the common problems encountered in quality planning, practices ...and ways for improvements in quality planning for construction projects. This paper involves data collected from construction company representatives across Malaysia that are obtained through semi-structured interviews as well as questionnaire distributions. Results shows that design of experiments (average index: 4.61), inspection (average index: 4.45) and quality audit as well as other methods (average index: 4.26) rank first, second and third most important factors respectively.
The hyperthermia effect is based on its thermal influence on tumours. Therefore a controlled heating of the tumours must be achieved. In order to guarantee this, two points must be fulfilled at ...least: First, the hyperthermia equipment must have the necessary power and steering capability. Second, the distribution of the 'hyperthermic drug', the heat, has to be measured and controlled over the whole treatment time. To reach this aim both a sophisticated technique and a staff trained in hyperthermia are required. In treating patients such as those with cervical cancer, the volume to be exposed and the dosage must be clarified. This means that very special technical and medical conditions must be fulfilled in hyperthermia. To reach and maintain a certain level of quality, hyperthermia is embedded in a framework of procedures. These procedures are defined in the modules of quality management. Therefore quality management must contain specific guidelines for each application, i.e. coordinated standards have to be defined. When adapting these standards in hyperthermia, comparable and comprehensible results of the treatment are guaranteed. Furthermore, an analysis of the treatments under a scientific point of view will be possible and finally result in improvements of this method.
The project is defined as an ensemble coordinated by some activities accomplished in order to reach a well determined purpose, namely the project defines a process. Quality management in projects ...includes the processes necessary for providing the fact that the project satisfies the necessities it had been accomplished for. The quality planning function must remain present throughout the project life cycle. The settlement of the main (strategic) objective of the project and of the lower objectives together with the establishment of the methods by means of which these objectives are reached represent the quality planning in projects. After fixing quality strategic objective of the project it pass to the first major process of quality management in projects and namely to the quality of the planning projects.
Past research has established the importance of the Web across industries, output types, and customers and the role of quality in this context. In addition, WebQual has emerged as a prominent tool ...for understanding how website quality is defined. While progress has been made in this area, almost all of the research in this stream focuses on the functional aspects of quality, overlooking the critical technical aspects. In addition, the research in this stream provides very little guidance about how to leverage WebQual in the narrower applied research context. Addressing this, the current study introduces a method by which WebQual may apply to the narrower (industry) research and design contexts. Specifically, the authors draw the WebQual instrument together with quality function deployment (QFD) and benchmarking analysis to offer a more precise approach to examining design-side elements of website quality. The approach is informed by primary data from 1,753 responses obtained from a large-scale survey targeting sports organizations' websites, in particular the case of elite soccer leagues. The results establish the validity of the method and the importance of connecting WebQual to the applied context to better understand the drivers of website quality.
PDF
