• 산업공학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.191-202
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• 1996

A variety of approaches on performance evaluation modeling have appeared in the technical literature for flexible manufacturing systems(FMS) which can be evaluated only through computer simulation. This study represents a comparative approach for FMS performance evaluation modeling based on reliability, availability and maintainability, and life cycle cost. The methodology proposed in this research includes the following three-step generative approaches. First, a static model to find the initial system configuration is considered under the assumption that the system availability is given as one (failure and maintenance are not considered), and in second step, a stochastic simulation is proposed to serve as a performance evaluation model for FMS with stochastic failure and repair time. In the last step, we developed a simulation modeling using a simulator, FACTOR/AIM to consider a variety of performance factors and dynamic behavior of FMS. Also the applicability and validity of the proposed approaches has been tested and compared through the results of a sample problem using computer programs and procedures developed in each step.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1991년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 22-24 Oct. 1991
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• pp.821-825
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• 1991

This paper presents an architecture and control logic of a Flexible Manufacturing Cell (FMC) which is one of the important elements under Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) environment. To implement FMC, it is very important to develop a software which can control and monitor the overall system in an integrated environment. Our primary concern in this research is not to develop individual systems, but to integrate them in the hierarchical control level. Progress on the research of integrating CAD/CAM, Process Planning, Off-line Robot Programming and Simulation module into FMC control system is reported. FMC hardware system used here has an Automated Storage & Retrieval System (AS/RS), a conveyor system, a transfer robot, a CNC milling machine, a bar-code system, and an IBM PC/AT as Cell Control System (CCS). In order to demonstrate the operational result, the name plates, text-carved aluminium plates, are manufactured by this system.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제23권54호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2000

One form of job shop scheduling problem in contemporary automated manufacturing such as flexible manufacturing systems (FMS's) is presented which we call the FMS dispatching priority problem. The FMS dispatching priority problem seeks the best dispatching priority of parts and operations, and is essentially a combinatorial optimization problem. Because of the complicated mechanism of the system, the performance of a given dispatching priority must be evaluated via simulation. Simulated annealing have been applied to the problem, and it is found that appropriate parameter setting will be desirable to get good, if not the optimal, solutions within a limited amount of time under the presence of heavy computational burden due to simulation. More specifically, experiments reveal that initial temperature is the single most important factor among other parameters and factors, and that the appropriate initial temperature depends on the allowable computer time in such a way that the less time one can afford to spend, the lower the appropriate initial temperature should be.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1175-1182
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• 2017

제4차 산업혁명은 IoT(Internet of Things) 빅데이터(BigData) 인공지능 등 다양한 기술들의 융합을 통하여 스마트 공장(Smart factory) 구현을 목표로 새로운 산업화를 시도하고 있다. 스마트 공장 실현을 위해서 다양한 이종기계들 간의 유연한 데이터 교환 방법이 가능한 통신 기술이 필요하고 표준 기술을 기반 생산 장비의 확장성이 고려될 수 있어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 이종기기를 포함하는 다수의 생산 설비로부터 데이터를 수집 및 통합하고, 모든 생산 장비를 감시할 수 있는 MTConnect기반 이종 공작기계 상태 정보 및 가공 정보 관리시스템을 제안한다. 개발된 시스템 기술은 유연 자동화 생산 라인의 핵심 기술로서 오류 검출, 가공 상태 관리 등 무인 자동화 라인의 중요한 정보를 제공 및 관리하는 기술을 제공할 수 있다.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제3권6호
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• pp.1397-1406
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 자동화된 생산 시스템과 조립 시스템에서 반제품을 생산기기들 사 이로 운반하기 위해 가장 많이 이용되고 있는 컨베이어 (conveyor) 시스템의 이산구 조 모델을 제안한다. 조립라인과 같이 조립 기기들 사이에 반제품을 운반하는 데 걸 리는 시간이 단위공정을 수행하는 데 걸리는 시간보다 클 경우, 조립기기들의 배치와 컨베이어로 연결되는 조립기기들 사이의 거리는 전체 조립시스템의 성능에 중요한 영 향을 미치게 되므로 컨베이어 시스템의 특성을 정량적으로 분석하기 위한 모델이 필 요하다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 모델은 팔레트(pallet)를 이용하는 컨베이어 시스템에 서 각각의 컨베이어의 길이가 팔레트 길이의 정수 배이며 컨베이어의 속도가 일정하 다는 가정을 전제로 한다. 이런 가정 하에서 컨베이어 운동의 관측 시간과 컨베이어 의 길이는 양자화 될 수 있으므로 각 샘플링 시각에서의 컨베이어 시스템의 상태는 양자화된 컨베이어상의 팔레트 유무와 이 팔레트의 이동도(mobility)를 나타내는 두 가지의 Boolean 변수로 간단히 표시될 수 있다. 이 두 변수를 바탕으로 전체 컨베이 어 시스템은 생산기기들 사이의 통로인 branch와 branch의 끝점인 knot의 조합으로 구성된 network으로 모델링된다. 이 모델링 방법으로 여러 가지 모양의 컨베이어 시 스템을 모델링해 본 결과 복잡한 토폴로지의 컨베이어 시스템도 간단히 모델링 및 시 뮬레이션될 수 있었으며 공장설계, 공정제어 등의 시뮬레이션에 유용하게 이용될 수 있음을 보여 주었다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.1-28
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• 2007

The success of new product development is a key factor for getting competitive advantages. Marketing research has been investigating marketing capability, manufacturing technical capability, cross-functional integration, market knowledge competence, market orientation, and competitive environment as the key success factors of new product development. Recently, the role of IT infrastructure in enhancing new product advantage is assumed in the literature. However, the empirical studies on the role of IT infrastructure are lacking. The purpose of this study is to empirically exam the impacts of IT infrastructure on new product competitive advantage. In this study, IT infrastructure is conceptualized as the flexibility of IT infrastructure. Based on previous research, a conceptual model is established by incorporating the direct impact of IT infrastructure flexibility and its indirect impact through the key success factors on new product development. To empirically test the research model, data are surveyed from a pair of IS department and Marketing department of 92 consumer goods manufacturers. By employing PLS technique, the measurement reliability and reliability of research variables are tested and the path analysis is conducted to do the hypothesis testing. The path analysis shows that IT infrastructure flexibility has no direct effect on new product advantage, However, the indirect effect of IT infrastructure is found, which is mediated by marketing capability, manufacturing technical capability, cross-functional integration, and market orientation respectively. Hence, The flexible IT infrastructure increases cross-functional integration (H1), market orientation (H3), marketing capability (H5), and manufacturing technical capability (H6). All success factors of new product development excepts for competitive environment have a positive association with new product competitive advantages (from H10 to H14). Finally, the path from IT infrastructure flexibility to cross-functional integration, to market orientation, to market knowledge capability, and to new product advantage is found as the strongest path. These results indicate that the flexible IT infrastructure enhances information sharing with multiple departments and collaboration within a distributed innovation environment. The collaboration among departments positively affects the level of customer and competitor intelligence. The ability to obtain knowledge about customers and competitors makes firms to adapt to a changing environment quickly and to respond to customers' demands adequately. The flexible IT infrastructure also enhances the capability of organization to more rapidly respond to the changes in product design resulting in faster product development and reduced costs. In addition to, it enhances marketing capability by the two-way communications with customers and the analyses of various kinds of customer data. In brief, the finding of this study suggests that the flexible IT infrastructure allows many firms to pursue sustained new product competitive advantages. This study advances research on IT infrastructure in two important aspects. First, by Integrating marketing research and IS research, this study develops a conceptual model on the role of IT infrastructure in enhancing new product advantage. Second, it empirically finds the indirect impacts of IT infrastructure on new product advantage, which confirms the potential for the IS field to contribute to new product development research. The limitations of this study are also discussed to provide research directions for future research.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.313-319
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• 2000

As the interest of flexible manufacturing systems and computer integrated manufacturing systems increase, the distribution of centralized control systems using industrial control networks is getting more attention. In this paper, we investigate the rate-based traffic control of industrial control networks to improve the performance regarding the throughput, fairness, and error rates. Especially, we consider the protocol of Lon-$Works^{(TM)}$ which consists of all OSI 7-layers and supports various communication media at a low cost. Basically, the proposed rate-based traffic control system is closed loop by utilizing the feedback channel errors, which shows improved performance when compared with other industrial control networks commonly operated in open loop. To this end, an additional network node called monitoring node is introduced to check the channel status without increasing the channel load. The Proposed control loop is in effect whenever the feedback channel error becomes greater than an admittable value. We demonstrate the improved performance of the controlled network system in view of throughput and fairness measures by implementing the lab-scale network system based on LonWorks and through the experimentation upon it.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.65-80
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• 2019

ICT 기반의 제4차 산업혁명의 도래는 제조업과 ICT 융합이 새로운 경쟁력이 되고, 생산 방식의 혁명을 일으키며 제조업 위기의 돌파구로 주목을 받으면서 제조업 부활에 날개를 달아주는 요소로 부상하고 있다. 스마트 팩토리가 구현되면 각 공장에서 수집된 수많은 데이터를 기반으로 분석 및 의사결정을 하는 공장 운영체계(Data Driven Operation)를 갖춤으로써 생산현장에서 발생하는 현상과 문제들의 상관관계를 찾아낼 수 있다. 고객의 니즈가 다양해짐에 따라 다품종 대량생산에서 맞춤형 유연생산 체제로의 전환이 요구되며, 기업은 이를 위해 스마트 팩토리의 도입이 필수적이다. 본 연구는 국내 스마트 팩토리 도입 기업들을 대상으로 스마트 팩토리 지속사용의도와 전환의도에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 기술수용모형( Technology acceptance model: TAM)을 토대로 실증 분석한다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 스마트 팩토리를 운영 중인 기업들을 대상으로 온라인과 오프라인을 통해 설문조사를 실시하였으며, 최종적으로 122개의 표본을 분석에 사용하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 스마트 팩토리에 관심 있는 연구자들과 실무자들에게 많은 시사점을 제공할 것이다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.186-218
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• 1995

The necessity of installing well adaptable Information Systems are required day by day in all the fields of business management. This paper provides an Information System development for enhancing competitive power of the small and medium-sized firms in Korea. Recent growing Information Technology leads to constructing invisibly some new adaptable Information Systems in accordance with the business size, level, capacity and requirements. Even though some advanced companies and big enterprises are already operating their own appropriate Information Systems so as to get their remarkable productivity at a moment. The rest of those small firms are still trying to find out some proper systems fitting their own business in very poor situations. The basic requirements of the points of views by mail questionaired and interviewed from 1292 small and medium-sized manufacturing firms reflected on this Information System development. As a result, the study introduces some economically efficient, convinient, flexible and useful applied Information Systems with simple methods.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.68-74
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• 2003

Modem automated manufacturing processes employ automated guided vehicles(AGVs) for material handling, which serve several machining centers(MCs) in a factory. Optimal scheduling of AGVs can significantly help to increase the efficiency of the manufacturing process by minimizing the idle time of MCs waiting for the raw materials. In this paper, we will analyse the requirements for an optimal schedule and then provide a mathematical framework for an efficient schedule of material delivery by an AGV. With this model, the optimal number of MCs to be utilized will also be determined. Finally, the material delivery schedule employing multiple journeys to the MCs by the AGV will be carried out. Through rigorous analysis and simulation experiments, we shall show that such a delivery strategy will optimize the overall performance.