• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.13 no.21
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• pp.19-24
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• 1990

This paper deals with a problem of choosing an optimum inspection period for an equipment with two stages of failures. Stage I failure which can be detected only through inspection detenorates the equipment and causes critical stage II failure after a random period of time. The expected average cost function is obtained and an optimum inspection policy is discussed. A numerical example is also worked out.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.33-43
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• 1983

This paper develops a general methodology for evaluating inspection (mainly, safety inspection) policies, standard and regulations in a complex system with lots of components. Based on practically available data, this methodology enable planners and regulators to estimate the costs and effectiveness of different inspection policies when applied under different system working conditions. As main tools, the concepts of detection probability and earliness of detection are developed in this paper.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2008

Having previously presented an article entitled "Further approximate optimum inspection intervals" in this Journal, here the author derives an alternative set of general explicit formulae using Cardan's solution to a cubic equation and presents a modified heuristic algorithm for solving Baker's model. The examples show that this new alternative approximate solution procedure for determining near optimum inspection intervals is as accurate and computationally efficient as the one suggested in the previous article. Through the examples, the author also indicates the relative merits and demerits of the two algorithms.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.20-29
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• 2016

This paper considers one-shot systems such as missiles, air bags of automobiles that are stored for a long time and are used at most once. One shot systems are inspected periodically to detect system failures and repair the system because we do not know whether the system will work or not on demand. Thus, we can keep high availability of the system by periodic inspection. Martinez (1984) obtained the system reliability approximately. In this paper, we obtain the exact system reliability under periodic inspection. Finally, we compare the system reliability from our formula with one of Martinez (1984) by numerical examples.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.77-86
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• 2008

Due to the rapid growth in automated testing and manufacturing systems, screening inspection becomes very attractive. In this paper, we investigate the effects of limited capacity on screening inspection using a surrogate variable. The model is developed under the assumption that the reprocessed and nonreprocessed items are produced by the same manufacturing process and therefore their quality characteristics are independently and identically distributed. Profit models are constructed which involve four price/cost components; selling price, cost incurred by imperfect quality, reprocessing and quality inspection costs. Methods of finding the optimal screening limits are presented, and a numerical example is given. Sensitivity analyses are also performed to study the effect of a process standard deviation on this model.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.41-48
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• 2016

In this manuscript, a modified single sampling plan is proposed for the inspection of products in which the nonconforming items can be classified in to two categories namely critical and non-critical; and explained with the help of industrial example. The operating procedure of this plan is also proposed and the performance measures such as the probability of acceptance, average sample number, average total inspection and average out going quality are also derived. The optimal parameters are determined which will have minimum sample size. The efficiency of the proposed plan is also discussed over the conventional single sampling plan. The extensive tables for selecting a modified single sampling plan based on AQL and LQL are provided for both Binomial and Poisson distributions and explained with the help of industrial data.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.18-24
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• 1990

The location of inspection stations is a significant component of production systems. In this paper, a prototype expert system is designed for deciding the optimal location of inspection stations. The production system is defined as a single channel of n serial operation stations. The potential inspection station can be located after any of the operation stations. Nonconforming units are generated from a compound binomial distribution with known parameters at any given operation station. Traditionally Dynamic programming, Zero-one integer programming, or Non-linear programming techniques are used to solve this problem. However a problem with these techniques is that the computation time becomes prohibitively large when t be number of potential inspection stations are fifteen or more. An expert system has the potential to solve this problem using a rule-based system to determine the near optimal location of inspection stations. This prototype expert system is divided into a static database, a dynamic database and a knowledge base. Based on defined production systems, the sophisticated rules are generated by the simulator as a part of the knowledge base. A generate-and-test inference mechanism is utilized to search the solution space by applying appropriate symbolic and quantitative rules based on input data. The goal of the system is to determine the location of inspection stations while minimizing total cost.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.930-937
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• 2007

In this paper, we address a design problem and a case study of a K-stage inspection system, which is composed of K stages, each of which includes an inspection process and a rework process. Assuming the type I and II errors of inspectors and the re-inspection policy for items classified as good, we determine the smallest integer of K which can achieve a given target defective rate. If K does not exist, holding the current values of the type I, II errors, we search reversely a new vector, (the defective rate of an assembly line, the defective rate of a rework process), which can give the target defective rate. Our formulas and methodology based on our K-stage inspection system could be applied and extended to similar situations with slight modifications.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.17-27
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• 1991

Whenever environment allows for a more efficient application of the advanced methods published in books or articles, such methods must necessarily be applied in practice. One of the major reasons why the numerous methods are ignored is the lack of experts who could make selections of proper inspection method. An expert system which would perform as if each factory had a resident expert is developed. The expert system is mainly comprised of three parts. The first part presents the performance measures of the inspection methods currently used or inquired. The system includes almost all the inspection methods presented in Schilling's book. The second part presents an appropriate inspection method by inputting various environments through the user interface. The third part prints the inspection methods in accordance with the format which will be used in the field, stores the inspection results that follow, and then administers the acceptance inspection as a system by considering the past results.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1506-1510
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• 2004

A mobile robot system is developed to inspect the condition of industrial facilities under hot environment. The mobile robot is equipped with internal and external heat insulating material, an internal cooling mechanism, two CCD cameras, wireless communication devices for both the control and image signals, and an embedded controller. The portable controller is equipped with two joysticks for both the mobile robot and the inspection CCD camera, an LCD monitor, and several buttons. The developed mobile robot travels on the internal floor in hot furnaces by operators' joystick operation, captures the images of facilities in the furnaces using a zoom CCD camera, and sends the images to the portable controller through wireless communication. The mobile robot can be operated without any problem under hot environment less than 400$^{\circ}C$ in 30 minutes. This kind of automatic inspection mobile robot can be helpful to prevent significant troubles of industrial facilities without danger of human beings under harmful environment.