• Information Systems Review
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.95-113
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• 2017

The advent of information communication technology or the Fourth Industrial Revolution facilitated the fusion of equipment and management systems, such as Manufacturing Execution System, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Product Lifecycle Management, in the successful implementation of smart factories. The government supports the early adoption of these systems in small and medium companies to enhance their global competitiveness in producing products that can be recognized in a dramatically changing manufacturing environment. This study introduces smart factories to improve company competitiveness and address influences from the government assistance, CEO leadership, external consultancy, and organizational participation. We analyzed 101 results received from the questionnaires circulated to small- and medium-sized manufacturing companies. Given a successful smart factory implementation, company competitiveness is the factor that mostly influences organizational participation, government assistance, external consultancy, and CEO leadership. This study suggests several perspectives to implement a smart factory, which is the most important aspect of company competitiveness.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.115-126
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• 2009

It is an important matter to manage data gathered from equipment in the manufacturing environment. However, systematic management about these data is sparsely deployed in the practical fields. This paper proposes a middleware monitoring system that efficiently supports acquisition of data from the equipment, efficiently compensates the lost data and flexibly maintains extensibility of the system. Through the result system of this paper, the data gathered from the equipment are easily stored into the database and the system status is able to be monitored in real-time. Furthermore, because the data are stored in the XML format, they are utilized in other systems in straightforward manner, which enhances the interoperability of the system. Especially, it enables ease interface to SAP, implements light-weight system by a simplified business logic and strengthen the extensibility and maintenance ability.