• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.1627-1635
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• 2001

Virtual manufacturing is a technology facilitating effective development and agile manufacturing of products via sophisticated computer models representing physical and logical schema and behavior of real manufacturing systems including manufacturing resources, environments, and products. For the successful application of this technology, a virtual plant as a well-designed and integrated environment is essential fur sharing information and engineering collaboration among diverse engineering activities. The systematic approaches and effective methods for construction and application of a virtual plant are proposed in this paper, such as a 3-D CAD modeling, cell and line simulations, databases and some information technologies. Measuring and 3-D CAD modeling technologies of many equipments, facilities and structures of the building are developed, and effective information management system managing CAD models, related files and data is implemented in WWW environments. Finally, precise simulations of unit cell lines and the whole plant are performed. For the beginning of implementing a Virtual Automotive Plant, the Virtual Plant fur the Body Shop of a Korean automotive company is constructed and implemented. We could obtain the benefit of savings in time and cost in many manufacturing preparation activities in the new car development processes.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.740-745
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• 2001

The plastic deformation behavior of formed CICC fur the superconducting Tokamac fusion device was examined and appropriate manufacturing information was provided. A relation between travel of the bending roller and spring back displacement was obtained via virtual manufacturing. The radius of CICC after forming was expressed as a function of the bend-roll travel. The maximum von Mises stress after spring back was also monitored fur the SAGBO prediction. Next, the variation of the CICC cross-sectional area was examined during the first turn and during conduit bending with the largest curvature. Finally, the coil radius was measured and compared with the data generated from the virtual manufacturing. The measured data showed similar pattern as predicted one. Using the mapping function found to match with the real data, the data from the virtual manufacturing may facilitate accurate manufacturing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.575-578
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• 2002

With the paradigm shifting from the principal of manufacturing efficiency to business globalization and rapid adaptation to its environments, more and more enterprises are being virtually organized as manufacturing network of different units in web. The formation of these enterprise called as Virtual Enterprise(VE) is becoming a growing trend as enterprises concentrating on core competence and economic benefit. This paper proposes the cooperation methodology for VEs which can be organized by the selection of manufacturing partners, and managed by the information flow infrastructure.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.17-22
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• 2016

In smart factories, the entire manufacturing process from design to the final product is simulated in a virtual manufacturing environment and optimized before starting production. Suppliers and customers make decisions based on the simulation results. Therefore, effective rendering of the information of the virtual products to suppliers and customers is essential for this manufacturing paradigm. In this study, a method of rendering the surface roughness of the virtual products using a tactile display is presented. A tactile display device comprising a $3{\times}3$ array of individually controlled piezoelectric stack actuators is constructed. The surface topology of the virtual products is rendered directly by controlling the piezoelectric stack actuators. A series of experiments is performed to evaluate the performance of the tactile display device. An electrical discharge machined surface is rendered using the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.151-151
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• 1996

컴퓨터 기술의 급격한 발전은 현실세계의 각종 현장을 컴퓨터 가상공간 내에서 시험할 수 있도록 하고 있다. 최근들어급격한 발전이 이루어지고 있는 가상현실(Virtual Reality) 기술과 인간의 감성을 중시한 감성공학적 접근방법 론의 활용은 그 적용범위가 점차 확대되어 가고 있는 상황으로, 제조기업에서 사용되고 있는 통합생산 정보시스템 (Computer Integrated Manufacturing)과의 접목으로 가상공장(Virtual Factory) 시스템을 구현할 수가 있다. 가상공장시스 템은 제조기업의 Businiss를 Design & Engineering, Production Planning & Control, Manufacturing의 3가지 프로세스로 분류한다. 그리고 각 프로세스별로 현재의 CIM시스템에 대한 하부시스템을 검토하고, 인간 중심의 가상기업시스템을 구현 하는데 보완이 되어야 할 사항과 이에 대한 해결 대안으로 Design & Engineering Process에서는 Virtual Engineering(VE) Sub-system, Manufacturing Process에서는 Virtual Manufacturing(VM) Sub-system으로 분류하여 각 Sub-system별 구성모듈을 설계하고 상호간의 Interface 사항을 설계하므로서 가상공장시스템 구현을 위한 기본 요구사항과 조건을 제시하고자 한다.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.39-44
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• 2002

This paper presents a structure and architecture of an integrated simulation method (ISM) to meet the requirements of virtual factory engineering (VFE). Combining CAD, VR and discrete event simulation techniques, the ISM provides static and dynamic simulation functions for implementation of VFE throughout the lifecycle. The static simulation can be used to evaluate the factory layout. The dynamic simulation enables us to evaluate ergonomics of factory, process performance of production system, feasibility of production plan and operation of factory, and to train operators safely, which cover the whole VFE lifecycle. The principles of the key techniques of VFE, including virtual factory data management system (VFDMS), static and dynamic simulation, are also discussed. To demonstrate and validate the ISM, a case study has been carried out in an assembly factory.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.430-434
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• 2001

Virtual manufacturing system is integrated computer model that represents the precise and whole structure of manufacturing system and simulates its physical and logical behavior in operation.[1] A virtual machine is computer model that represents a CNC machine tool and one of core elements of virtual manufacturing system. In this paper, it is emphasized that a virtual machine must be web-based system for serving information to all attendants in a real machine tool without the restriction of time or location, and then in the fault diagnosis, one of important modules of a virtual machine, the methods of both using the controller signal and web-based expert system are proposed.

• CDE review
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.28-37
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• 2003

가상제조(VM)기술은 21세기 변화된 기업환경에서 제조경쟁력 강화를 위한 핵심기술 중에 하나로써, 형상 모델링과 시스템 이론으로 포함하여 다양한 분야로 이루어진 복합기술이다. VM 기술은 e-manufacturing의 한 분야로써 CAD/CAM 기술 발전과 궤를 같이하는데 그 적용 대상이나 방법에 따라서 digital manufacturing, virtual manufacturing, e-factory 등 다양한 이름으로 불리고 있다. 본 논문에서는 VM 기술의 개념을 정리하고, 가상제조의 국내 적용현황 및 향후 발전전망에 대하여 고찰하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.42 no.1 s.139
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• pp.64-72
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• 2005

Digital manufacturing is a technology to simulate the real manufacturing process using the virtual model representing the physical schema and the behavior of the real manufacturing system including resources, processes and product information. Therefore, it can optimize the manufacturing system or prevent the bottleneck processes through the simulation before the manufacturing plan is executed. This study presents a method to apply the digital manufacturing technology for the steel cutting process in shipyard. The system modeling of cutting shop is carried out using the IDEF and UML which is a visual modeling language to document the artifacts of a complex system. Also, virtual NC simulators of the cutting machines are constructed to emulate the real operation of cutting machines and NC codes. The simulators are able to verify the cutting shape and estimate the precise cycle time of the planned NC codes. The validity of the virtual model is checked by comparing the real cutting time and shape with the simulated results. It is expected that the virtual NC simulators can be used for accurate estimation of the cutting time and shape in advance of real cutting work.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.382-394
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• 2007

Nowadays, manufacturing industries undergo constantly growing pressures for global competitions, and they must shorten time and cost in product development and production to response varied customers' requirements. Digital virtual manufacturing is a technology that can facilitate effective product development and agile production by using digital models representing the physical and logical schema and the behavior of real manufacturing systems including products, processes, manufacturing resources and plants. For successful applications of this technology, a digital virtual factory as a well-designed and integrated environment is essential. In this paper, we developed a new classification and coding system for effective managements of digital virtual factory objects, and implement a supporting application to verify and apply it. Furthermore, a digital virtual factory layout management system based on the classification and coding system has developed using XML, Visual Basic.NET and FactoryCAD. By some case studies for automotive general assembly shops of a Korean automotive company, efficient management of factory objects and reduction of time and cost in digital virtual factory constructions are possible.