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Tacit knowledge is an asset that kept within individual while explicit knowledge that can be documented directly an organization. Tacit and explicit knowledge is an important factor in the development of knowledge sharing within an organization. The object of observation in this study is Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), in which knowledge sharing is important to help cooperate with other SMEs...
The aim of the paper is to present the authors' novel approach to methodology for assessing the level of raters agreement (process operators, quality controllers and/or experts) and its interpretation, that is the methodology for study of reliability for qualitative characteristics. Both mathematical tools and study organizational guidelines are discussed. The method is based on the novel fuzzy similarity...
The emergence of the mobile phone has created great opportunities for businesses, especially those providing services to customers. Hotels are very important to a country as they provide accommodation to travelers. Better services attract more hotel customers. With the advent of NFC, a wireless mobile technology, hotel customers can use NFC to get hotel services efficiently. Previous studies found...
Research on anthropometry deals with human physical measurement, capability and limitation. Due to various body measures of user of different cultures, gender, and geographical factors, then an understanding of anthropometry characteristics is a must. This study adopts Drillis and Contini ratio scaling method and complements the previous research by incorporating Indonesian adults [150 subjects],...
Safety behavior of construction workers is crucial to safety outcomes, and such behavior can be affected by different ways of risk perception. This research first identifies four main ways of risk perception: risk consequence, risk probability, risk utility, and direct risk perception, and then examines whether they are distinct. Further, the effects of these distinct risk perception ways on workers'...
A modified hybrid imperfect maintenance model (MHIM) for machine working in piecewise constant operational condition (PCOC) is proposed considering the limitation of traditional age-based hybrid imperfect maintenance model, with the assumption that failure time in different operational condition (OC) satisfies accelerated failure time model (AFTM). Method for estimating the parameters also has been...
Economic affordability is a crucial factor for repairable systems. Previous work about economic life prediction of systems mainly concerned about cost models, regardless of system structure or components' relationship. In this paper, a new economic life prediction method has been proposed with combination of a maintenance model and an accumulative damage model. The maintenance model is to depict the...
Mission success probability means the ability of a system to fulfill its mission in a prescribe task profile. In this paper, a hierarchical modeling method is proposed for the mission success evaluation of multi-stage system with repairable spare parts. The binary decision diagram (BDD) was used to represent the system structure function. The component and its corresponding repairable spare parts...
This paper highlights the performance of electrical equipment and discovers any unspecified breakdowns at the electrical equipment. It focuses on the damages that are caused by electrical equipment failures. Moreover, it gives practical solutions and recommendations of how to improve electrical equipment reliability in arm loading system to prevent delay of oil shipment. The report also relied on...
The increase of high-cost and high-precision manufacturing process underlines the importance of the reliability estimation of Bogey test data. To estimate the failure probability of Bogey test, Bayesian approaches often focus on the choice of the prior distribution. However, this paper develops a new method, which making use of the concavity of lifetime's distribution function to construct a non-informative...
The increasing importance of services in high-wage countries calls for a detailed examination of service productivity and complexity in current research projects. This paper describes the development of a measurement model with regard to service productivity and complexity of emergency medical services. While the measurement model of service productivity is partly literature-based, a novel construct...
The purpose of this study is to understand how positive and negative factors influence people on performing electricity-saving behaviors in households based on the MOA theory and “Green Consumption Behavior Model”. Research data were collected through a professional market survey, in which the 1,067 sampling respondents represent the characteristics of Taiwanese population. This study found that,...
The relationship between manufacturer and supplier in the automotive industry involves process of knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing is an important process that may improve manufacturer and supplier performances. In a co-opetition business environment, companies tend to limit knowledge sharing, if they regard their partners as potential competitors. Trust is used to reflect the level of co-opetition...
Solar cell is the basic component of satellite photovoltaic panels with complicated redundant system structure. Its reliability plays an important role in the system, and its performance shows a degradation trend over time. In this paper, study is conducted for the solar cell degradation modeling and reliability analysis based on practical testing results. Specifically, we illustrate an accelerated...
In practice, the maintenance schedule depends on the system states such as whether we have sufficient machines available for our workload or not. Therefore, in this Markov chain machine reliability model, we relaxed the fundamental assumption of classical reliability model that the up and down rates are fixed (machines are independent). The major contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) we...
In a collaboration, trust is of great importance for the substantial governance of the inter-organizational activities. In this paper, considering changes of collaboration situations, an on-going trust model is established for a better understanding of the dynamics of relationship. Determinants of the on-going trust condition are also gathered and structured in two clusters. Those are ‘initial trust...
Overall reliability index is an indicator to manifest the health level of an infrastructure. The introduction of this index can facilitate the maintenance optimization. Railway infrastructure is complex containing a plenty of constituent units and various measurement data. This paper discusses a general approach to combine these various data. A real railway case is presented to demonstrate the development...
The Delphi technique as consensus-building tool can be used as a stand-alone tool for data collection if the participants in the exercise are also the ones to use the results, or the purpose of the data collection is to address a generic question. Otherwise, the tool should be used along with others; a focus group session has been found to be a suitable complementary tool. This research reports the...
Recently, the dynamic Reliability Block Diagram (DRBD) with the characteristics of intuitiveness and visibility has been extensively employed in industrial fields, such as aerospace, military facilities, nuclear energy and chemical industry, etc. However, there exists a limitation in the past research that the complexity of the reliability calculation considering the additional modelling constructs,...
Products sold with lifetime warranties are well liked by the customer as this type of warranties secure a prolonged reliable operational or useful life, and act as a shield for the customer against inferior quality as well as the potential high repair costs during indefinite life of consumable product. Under such policies, the customer are exposed to risks of costs and product reliability as products...
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