• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.875-882
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• 2010

Nowadays, the global market requires a variety of products and shorter life cycle to fulfill the diverse demands of customers. To survive in the turbulent and competitive markets, automobile assembly companies must design and implement manufacturing systems that respond rapidly to market demands. In this paper, methods for reconfiguring system based on modular concept is proposed using AR(Augmented reality) technologies. First, the relationship matrixes between change drivers and system components are generated to divide existing manufacturing system to each module. And, new change drivers are selected based on required function in new system. Through the modification of relationship matrix, the concept design of new system is proposed and implemented in AR environment. Finally, according to proposed methods and procedure in this paper, the existing cockpit assembly system is reconfigured to spare tire assembly system as a case study. As the use of the modular-based reconfiguration method in AR environment, the time and cost for reconfiguring manufacturing system will be reduced dramatically.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.129-140
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• 2017

This paper presents a systematic approach for design of timely and proper layouts of a manufacturing system facilitating reconfigurability, referred to as a reconfigurable manufacturing system. A proper methodology for design of a system layout is required for reconfiguration planning - adding or removing machines for supplying the exact capacity needed to fulfill market demands, as well as minimizing the cost of adding new machines. In this paper, theory of constraints is used to make reconfiguration manufacturing systems more cost-effective and efficiency. The proposed approach is validated by using a real industrial case. This paper suggests that the proposed study should be performed concurrently with the design of a new manufacturing system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.19-20
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.469-470
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• 2011

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.620-623
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• 2002

To cope with the challenge of competitive market, manufacturing system needs to be agile in terms of its reconfigurability and scalability. For a system to be adapted to changed requirements, decision support tools such as configurator have to be provided. This paper introduces the basic framework of a configurator for assembly system Based on the factory data model(FDM) depicting the overall structure of a manufacturing system, functions of the configurator are described, i.e., requirements analysis, module selection and configuration optimization.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.15-32
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• 2000

이 글은 1999년 제49차 CIRP General Assembly에서 Key Note Paper로 발표되었던 논문을 전재한 것이다. CIRP는 생산공학분야의 가장 중요한 국제학술대회 중 하나로, Key Note Session에서는, 각 분야의 대표적 연구자들이 해당 분야의 현황과 추세를 매년 조사한 내용들이 발표된다. 지난해 생산시스템 분야에서 주목해야 할 주제로서 재구성형 생산 시스템(Reconfigurable manufacturing system ; RMS)이 선정되어, 미국, 일본, 유럽의 일곱명의 전문가에 의해 정리된 내용을, Michigan 대학의 Koren 교수가 취합, 편집 및 발표하였다. 원문 요약은 아래와 같다. 21세기 제조업체들은, 글로벌한 경쟁과 예측 불가능하게 급변하는 시장에 효과적으로 대응하여야 할 것이다. 경쟁력을 유지하기 위해서는, 효율적이면서도 시장변화에 조속히 대처 할 수 있는 새로운 생산시스템을 보유하여야 한다. 시장변화에 대한 효율적이며 신속한 대응을 위한 엔지니어링 기술로서 재구성 기술(reconfigurability)이 필요하다. 새로운 생산 방식으로서 재구성형 생산 시스템은, 재구성이 가능한 기계들과 제어 장치, 그리고 그것들을 체계적으로 설계하고 신속하게 초기 가동 관리(ramp-up)하기 위한 방법론으로 이루어진다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.357-366
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• 2012

To schedule a Reconfigurable Manufacturing Cell (RMC), reconfiguration and setting decisions should be made first. Those decisions, together with characteristics of production orders, affect attainable performance of a system. So an integrative approach is required considering all decisions and characteristics rather than dealing with each of them separately. Pallet-fixture allocation, as a decision problem in setting, which determines the number of pallets to be equipped with each fixture type to produce different types of products, has rarely been investigated. In this study, several pallet-fixture allocation rules are proposed including both simple and novel ones. Then system performance is investigated through various combinations of setting and scheduling decisions (rules) for given system configurations and production orders, via simulation. The result shows that one of proposed pallet-fixture allocation rules which considers both configuration and order characteristic outperforms the others, justifying the necessity of an integrative approach in the RMC operation.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.8940-8947
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• 2015

Mixed-model assembly line has been widely used in automotive assembly industry to quickly respond the diverse product demands. But, this model can lead to part confusion, which is a source for assembly errors when parts are physically interchangeable in a mixed-model assembly line. With the recent application of new technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) to the assembly process, real-time information has become available in this manufacturing systems through IT infrastructures. At first, this paper presents an RFID application for assembly processes, specifically, for a mixed-model assembly line. Thus, to ensure that parts be picked accurately, each cockpit module on the assembly line is attached with a RFID tag and the tag is scanned using a RFID reader and recognizes the vehicle, and each part of the cockpit module is attached with a barcode and the barcode is scanned by a barcode reader and each part is identified correctly for the vehicle. Second, this paper presents a ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) protocol-based application for a reconfigurable mixed-model assembly line of cockpit module to reduce the assembly errors and the cost of the change/reconfiguration on the assembly lines due to the various orders and new models from the motor company, avoiding the wiring efforts and inconvenience by wiring between the several RFID devices and the IT server system. Finally, we presents the operation results for several years using this RFID/ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) protocol-based cockpit module assembly line.