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Development and Implementation of Chain Metrics for Obtaining Lean Overall Equipment Effectiveness Using Availability Measures (시간가동률 척도에 의한 Lean OEE의 연계지표 개발 및 적용)

  • Choi, Sung-Woon
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.147-158
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    • 2012
  • This paper aims to develop a new chain metrics for obtaining lean Overall Equipment Effectiveness(OEE) and present implementation strategy which considers the properties for Total Productive Maintenance(TPM) to reduce machine losses, Performance Analysis and Control(PAC) to reduce labor losses, Lean Production System(LPS) to reduce floor wastes, and Theory of Constraints(TOC) to minimize the problem of Capacity Constrained Resource(CCR). The study reviews the related literatures and reformulates the structure of machine losses, labor losses and field wastes. The research also develops the integrated productivity metrics according to time, units, reliability and maintainability. It is found that the study develops the actual productivity measure in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and standard productivity. In addition to that, it outlines and develops by using the integrated LPS and TPM, lean OEE measures such as Time Based Productivity(TBP), Unit Based Productivity(UBP), and Reliability & Maintainability Based Availability(RMBA). Implication examples are proposed to make it easier and available for practioners to understand the implementation strategies about TPM OEE, lean OEE and TOC OEE. Futhermore related to other studies, the research contributes to create a new chain productivity measures to clear the interrelationship concepts of productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. Moreover the paper develops the enhanced OEE measures by integration of TPM, PAC, LPS and TOC with the perspective of schedule, throughput, reliability, maintainability and availability.

A Server Configuration Method for the Availability and Scalability (가용성과 확장성을 위한 서버 구축 방안)

  • 김영수;조익성;임재홍
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.251-259
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    • 2000
  • As a server dependency for the availability and scalability becomes very important, the need for solid server providing non-stop workload have been increased. So, this paper describes a server configuration method for the availability and scalability. For the validity check of this paper, socket application and cluster resource DLL and administration DLL for the application are implemented and tested. 8y relocating the individual failed services from one sewer to another with the microsoft cluster sewer, it was confirmed the feasibility. The result showed that allowed applications on the original server to continue running, unaffected by the failed service.

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Strategies for Improving Potassium Use Efficiency in Plants

  • Shin, Ryoung
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.37 no.8
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    • pp.575-584
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    • 2014
  • Potassium is a macronutrient that is crucial for healthy plant growth. Potassium availability, however, is often limited in agricultural fields and thus crop yields and quality are reduced. Therefore, improving the efficiency of potassium uptake and transport, as well as its utilization, in plants is important for agricultural sustainability. This review summarizes the current knowledge on the molecular mechanisms involved in potassium uptake and transport in plants, and the molecular response of plants to different levels of potassium availability. Based on this information, four strategies for improving potassium use efficiency in plants are proposed; 1) increased root volume, 2) increasing efficiency of potassium uptake from the soil and translocation in planta, 3) increasing mobility of potassium in soil, and 4) molecular breeding new varieties with greater potassium efficiency through marker assisted selection which will require identification and utilization of potassium associated quantitative trait loci.

Putting Climate Change into Water Resource Management: Adaptation Efforts in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands

  • Chang, Hee-Jun;Franczyk, Jon;Bae, Deg-Hyo
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.19-49
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    • 2006
  • As global climate change is expected to influence regional water resources, water resource managers need to establish adaptive management to cope with climate change. We examined adaptive management efforts in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands. Each country is implementing different levels of adaptation efforts based on current water management practices, institutional arrangements, as well as the varying degree of water availability, current climate effects and expected climate change effects. Based on the comparison of these countries, we suggest policy implications for the sustainable water resource management of Korea under climate changes.

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Efficient Handoff Time Decision Algorithm using Differential RSSI (차등 RSSI를 이용한 효율적인 핸드오프 시점 결정 알고리즘)

  • Kwon Young-Hwan;Choi Seong-Gon;Choi Jun-Kyun
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.13C no.3 s.106
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    • pp.323-330
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    • 2006
  • This paper proposes a handoff time decision mechanism to utilize resource efficiently by using Differential Received Signal Strength Indicator (DRSSI). DRSSI can be used to predict the movement direction of Mobile Station (MS). In other words, DRSSI changes its sign (+ or -) when a MS changes movement direction. This mechanism maximizes resource availability of Base Station (BS) by predicting resource reservation of MS and by giving priority of resource to MS. It is possible when a BS predicts the behavior of MSs by monitoring the DRSSI of MSs in overlapped region among cells. Additionally, we show that our proposed mechanism has better handoff blocking probability than existing mechanism with numerical modeling and analysis.

Incorporating Resource Dynamics to Determine Generation Adequacy Levels in Restructured Bulk Power Systems

  • Felder, Frank A.
    • KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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    • v.4A no.2
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    • pp.100-105
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    • 2004
  • Installed capacity markets in the northeast of the United States ensure that adequate generation exists to satisfy regional loss of load probability (LOLP) criterion. LOLP studies are conducted to determine the amount of capacity that is needed, but they do not consider several factors that substantially affect the calculated distribution of available capacity. These studies do not account for the fact that generation availability increases during periods of high demand and therefore prices, common-cause failures that result in multiple generation units being unavailable at the same time, and the negative correlation between load and available capacity due to temperature and humidity. A categorization of incidents in an existing bulk power reliability database is proposed to analyze the existence and frequency of independent failures and those associated with resource dynamics. Findings are augmented with other empirical findings. Monte Carlo methods are proposed to model these resource dynamics. Using the IEEE Reliability Test System as a single-bus case study, the LOLP results change substantially when these factors are considered. Better data collection is necessary to support the more comprehensive modeling of resource adequacy that is proposed. In addition, a parallel processing method is used to offset the increase in computational times required to model these dynamics.

Order Promising Rolling Planning with ATP/CTP Reallocation Mechanism

  • Chen, Juin-Han;Lin, James T.;Wu, Yi-Sheng
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.57-65
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    • 2008
  • Available-to-promise (ATP) exhibiting availability of manufacturing resources can be used to support customer order promising. Recently, one advanced function called Capable-to-promise (CTP) is provided by several modern APS (advanced planning system) that checks available capacity for placing new production orders or increasing already scheduled production orders. At the customer enquiry stage while considering the order delivery date and quantity to quote, both ATP and CTP are allocated to support order promising. In particular, current trends of mass customization and multi-side production chain derive several new constraints that should be considered when ATP/CTP allocation planning for order promising - such as customer's preference plants or material vendors, material compatibility, etc. Moreover, ATP/CTP allocation planning would be executed over a rolling time horizon. To utilize capacity and material manufacturing resource flexibly and fulfill more customer orders, ATP/CTP rolling planning should possess resource reallocation mechanism under the constraints of order quantities and delivery dates for all previous order promising. Therefore, to enhance order promising with reliability and flexibility to reallocate manufacturing resource, the ATP/CTP reallocation planning mechanism is needed in order to reallocate material and capacity resource for fulfilling all previous promised and new customer orders beneficially with considering new derived material and capacity constraints.

Comparative Validation of WindCube LIDAR and Remtech SODAR for Wind Resource Assessment - Remote Sensing Campaign at Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (풍력자원평가용 윈드큐브 라이다와 렘텍 소다의 비교.검증 - 포항가속기 원격탐사 캠페인)

  • Kim, Hyun-Goo;Chyng, Chin-Wha;An, Hae-Joon;Ji, Yeong-Mi
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.63-71
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    • 2011
  • The remote-sensng campaign was performed at the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory where is located in a basin 6km inland from Yeongil Bay. The campaign aimed uncertainty assessment of Remtech PA0 SODAR through a mutual comparison with WindCube LIDAR, the remote-sensing equipment for wind resource assessment. The joint observation was carried out by changing the setup for measurement heights three times over two months. The LIDAR measurement was assumed as the reference and the uncertainty of SODAR measurement was quantitatively assessed. Compared with LIDAR, the data availability of SODAR was about half. The wind speed measurement was fitted to a slope of 0.94 and $R^2$ of 0.79 to the LIDAR measurement. However, the relative standard deviation was about 17% under 150m above ground level. Therefore, the Remtech PA0 SODAR is judged to be unsuitable for the evaluation of wind resource assessment and wind turbine performance test, which require accuracy of measurement.

Software Architecture for Implementing the Grid Computing of the High Availability Solution through Load Balancing (고가용성 솔루션 구축을 위한 그리드 측면에서의 소프트웨어 아키텍처를 통한 로드밸랜싱 구현)

  • Lee, Byoung-Yup;Park, Jun-Ho;Yoo, Jae-Soo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.26-35
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    • 2011
  • In these days, internet environment are very quickly development as well on-line service have been using a online for the mission critical business around the world. As the amount of information to be processed by computers has recently been increased there has been cluster computing systems developed by connecting workstations server using high speed networks for high availability. but cluster computing technology are limited for a lot of IT resources. So, grid computing is an expanded technology of distributed computing technology to use low-cost and high-performance computing power in various fields. Although the purpose of Grid computing focuses on large-scale resource sharing, innovative applications, and in some case, high-performance orientation, it has been used as conventional distributed computing environment like clustered computer until now because grid middleware does not have common sharable information system. In order to use grid computing environment efficiently which consists of various grid middleware, it is necessary to have application-independent information system which can share information description and services, and expand them easily. This paper proposed new database architecture and load balancing for high availability through Grid technology.

A Study on the Improvement of Supporting Policies for R&D personnel of SMEs (중소기업 R&D인력 지원정책 개선방안 연구)

  • Noh, Mean-Sun
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.33-42
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    • 2015
  • The shortage of R&D personnel and the lower productivity of SMEs are critical issues in strengthening SMEs. Government provides various policies to deal with these issues. The aim of this paper is to analyze current status and policy issues of R&D personnel and to suggest policy alternatives to improve the availability of R&D personnel in SMEs.