Comparative Performance of the Size Determination Method Using Quality Loss Function

Lim, Sung-Uk; Kang, Hyoun-Jung; Park, Young-Taek

Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management > Volume 38(4); 2010 > Article

Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management 2010;38(4): 587-.

품질손실함수를 이용한 규격치 결정방법의 성능평가

임성욱¹, 강현정², 박영택³

¹대진대학교 산업경영공학과
²삼성 SDS
³성균관대학교 시스템경영영공학과

Comparative Performance of the Size Determination Method Using Quality Loss Function

Sung-Uk Lim¹, Hyoun-Jung Kang², Young-Taek Park³

¹Daejin University
²Samsung SDS
³Sungkyunkwan University

ABSTRACT

This paper deals with the performance evaluation of determining production size specifications. A customer who does not find the size specification he or she wants may purchase rather a larger or smaller one, but the purchasing desire decreases as the difference between the required and the prepared sizes increases. Introducing a generalized quality loss function which reflects how much the purchasing desire changes according to the difference, Park and Kim(1992) formulated a mathematical model for determining the size specifications so as to minimize the expected loss. Afterward the model has been applied to the determination of sizing system for mail order clothing and brassiere (Lee and Choi, 1996; Chun, et.al., 1996). The performance of the size determination method proposed by Park and Kim is evaluated in this paper. Usually the intervals between two successive size specifications are determined to be equal, but the size determination method compares favorably with the equidistance case, and more favorably if the population distribution is more skewed.

Key Words: Size Determination Method;Taguchi;Quality Loss Function;