• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.383-389
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• 2003

As in other areas of materials technology, the tendency towards light weight constructions becomes more and more important also for powder metallurgy. The development is mainly driven by the automotive industry looking for mass reduction of vehicles as a major factor for fuel economy. Powder metallurgy has to offer a number of interesting areas including the development of sintered materials of light metals. PM aluminium alloys with improved properties are on the way to replace ferrous pars. For high temperature applications in the engine, titanium aluminide based materials offer a great potential, e.g. for exhaust valves. The PM route using elemental powders and reactions sintering is considered to be a cost effective way for net shape parts production. Furthermore it is expected that lower costs for titanium raw materials coming from metallurgical activities will offer new chances for sintered parts with titanium alloys. The field of cellular metals expands with the hollow sphere technique, that can provide materials of many metals and alloys with a great flexibility in structure modifications. These structures are expected to be used in improving the safety (crash absoption) and noise reduction in cars in the near future and offer great potential for many other applications.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 1996년도 춘계공동학술대회논문집; 공군사관학교, 청주; 26-27 Apr. 1996
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• pp.639-643
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• 1996

The manufacturing system has been changed from labored manual process system, which is managed and operated by managers and operators, to CIMS(Computer Integrated Manufacturing System) for integration of manufacturing, research, development and consumption in the age of diverse customer's needs[6]. However, because it involves the hierarchical system composed of many sub-systems interface and its installation & setup cost is very expensive, CIMS has many difficulties in constructing the durable optimal system that is able to adapt to rapid in-outer circumstance change. So, HMS(Holonic Manufacturing System), the new conceptual manufacturing system having the self-problem-solving and self-organization[11], is instructed to solve these difficulties that it has in these days. The system flexibility in the HMS is able to be ensured, with the integration of human's strong points into mechatronics manufacturing system to reduce interference among sub-systems. In this paper, the manufacturing process rationalization and integration of the assembly line in an automobile industry, has lots of problems in efficiency and productivity, has been studied in an early stage of converting the present state of process system to HMS, which is human-oriented processing system, to improve the line efficiency, system productivity and reliability by using human capability effectively. This paper is derived into the human-oriented & object-oriented holons settlement of the shop floor system composed of processing, assembly and material handling system for the future holonic manufacturing system, which is going to be computer supported control system.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회/대한산업공학회 2005년도 춘계공동학술대회 발표논문
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• pp.1124-1128
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• 2005

In this paper, a plan-coordination architecture is proposed for multi-agent control in the fractal manufacturing system (FrMS). A fractal in FrMS is a set of distributed agents whose goal can be achieved through cooperation, coordination, and negotiation with other agents. Since each agent in the FrMS generates, achieves, and modifies its own plan fragments autonomously during the coordination process with other agents, it is necessary to develop a systematic methodology for the achievement of global plan in the manufacturing system. The heterarchical structure of the FrMS provides a compromised plan-coordination approach, it compromise a centralized plan-generation/execution (which mainly focuses on the maximization of throughput) with a distributed one (which focuses on the autonomy of each module and flexibility of the whole system). Plan-coordinators in lower level fractal independently generate plan fragments according to the global plan of higher level fractal, and plan-coordinators in higher level fractal mediate/coordinate the plan fragments to enhance the global performance of the system. This paper assumes that generation method of the plan fragments and the negotiation policy of the fractal is achieved by a simple process, and we mainly focuses on the information exchanging and distributed decision making process to coordinate the combinations of plan fragments within a limited exchange of information.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.21-37
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• 1997

As the complexity in design and manufacturing activities of distributed virtual enterprises rapidly increases, the issue of process management becomes more critical to shorten the time-to-market, reduce the manufacturing cost and improve the product quality. This paper proposes a unified framework to manage design and manufacturing processes in a distributed environment. We present a methodology which utilizes process flow graphs to depict the hierarchical structure of workflows and process grammars to represent various design processes and design tools. To implement the proposed concept, we develop a process management system which mainly consists of a cockpit and manager programs, and we finally address a preliminary implementation procedure based on the Object Modeling Technique. Since the proposed framework can be a formal approach to the process management by providing formalism, parallelism, reusability, and flexibility, it can be effectively applied to further application domains of distributed virtual enterprises.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.201-205
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• 1997

As manufacturing system have become complex and globalized, rapid development and production of products are essentially requisites for competitiveness. The importance of agility in manufacturing is being emphasized and a new paradigm is necessary for reduction of the time and expenses related to planning, product development and production. To meet such requirements, virtual manufacturing (VM) environment was suggested. In this paper, Multi-agent system is adopted into VM operating system. Because our system is flexible due to agent technology, agents can be added or deleted with ease. VM unit modules which were defined as DEVS models execute independent simulation of other modules in unit level and compose one VM system with other modules. They also execute simulation in system level. This research can contribute to usefulness of VM environment due to flexibility and extensibility of this system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1999년도 제14차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.177-180
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• 1999

Nowadays, one of the major technical issues in manufacturing is to create an environment to promote collaboration among diverse engineering activities. Collaborative engineering is an innovative approach integrating widely distributed engineering activities through promoting information sharing and actual collaboration. It requires close interactions among developers, suppliers and customers, and consideration of entire product life cycle from concept to disposal. A carefully-designed operating system is crucial for successful collaboration of many different activities in a Networked Virtual Manufacturing System(NVMS). High extensibility, flexibility and efficiency ale the key characteristics requested of an operating system to handle the complexity of the NVMSs. In this paper, we propose a model of the operating system for collaborative engineering using concurrent quasi-procedural method(QPM). QPM is a goal-driven data management technique for distributed and parallel computing environments. It is to be applied to the evaluation of activities to be executed, validities of input data, execution path of activities for a needed output, and expected to greatly improve the productivity of operations by preventing redundant evaluations. Collaboration among many different engineering activities in NVMSs is to be performed by the network of agents that encapsulate the capabilities of both users and their tools.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.34-42
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• 2015

Modeling and control of human-involved manufacturing systems poses a huge challenge on how to model all possible interactions among system components within the time and space dimensions. As the manufacturing environment are getting complicated, the importance of human in the manufacturing system is getting more and more spotlighted to incorporate the manufacturing flexibility. This paper presents a formal modeling methodology of affordance-based MPSG (Message-based Part State Graph) for a human-machine collaboration system incorporating supervisory control scheme for flexible manufacturing systems in automotive industry. Basically, we intend to extend the existing model of affordance-based MPSG to the real industrial application of humanmachine cooperative environments. The suggested extension with the real industrial example is illustrated in three steps; first, the manufacturing process and relevant data are analyzed in perspectives of MABA-MABA and the supervisory control; second, the manufacturing processes and task allocation between human and machine are mapped onto the concept of MABA-MABA; and the last, the affordance-based MPSG of humanmachine collaboration for the manufacturing process is presented with UMLs for verification.

• 중소기업연구
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.1-36
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• 2019

본 연구의 목적은 스마트 팩토리의 전략적 활용을 위한 스마트 팩토리 구축 목적 - 스마트 팩토리 구축내용 - 스마트 팩토리 지속적 활용 간의 관계를 파악하는 것이다. 구체적으로 본 연구는 스마트 팩토리 구축 목적을 두 가지 요인 - (1) 생산성 향상, (2) 유연성 향상 - 으로 구분하고, 이들 각각이 다음의 3가지 측면의 스마트 팩토리 구축내용 - (1) 자동화 영역(설비 자동화, 업무 자동화), (2) 제조 빅데이터 기술 활용영역(생산 프로세스의 재구축을 위한 제조 빅데이터 활용, 생산 프로세스의 점진적 개선을 위한 제조 빅데이터 활용), 그리고 (3) 가치사슬 통합 범위(내부통합, 외부통합) - 에 미치는 영향을 파악하고, 이어서 본 연구는 스마트 팩토리 구축 내용이 스마트 팩토리 지속적 활용에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 또한, 기업규모에 따라 스마트 팩토리 구축 목적 - 스마트 팩토리 구축 내용 - 스마트 팩토리의 지속적 활용 간의 관계가 어떻게 달라지는 지를 살펴보았다. 본 연구의 실증분석은 총 151개의 표본기업들을 대상으로 하였다. 표본기업들의 구성은 중소기업 100개사와 대기업 51개사로 구성되었다. 이의 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 생산성 및 유연성 향상이라는 스마트 팩토리 구축 목적은 스마트 팩토리의 모든 구축 내용 변수들에 긍정적 영향을 주었다. 둘째, 스마트 팩토리 구축 내용들로서 설비 자동화, 업무 자동화, 생산 프로세스의 재구축을 위한 제조 빅데이터 활용, 내부 가치사슬 통합, 외부 가치사슬 통합은 스마트 팩토리의 지속적 활용에 긍정적 영향을 주었다. 셋째, 스마트 팩토리 구축 목적이 스마트 팩토리 구축 내용에 미치는 영향은 구축 목적이 생산성 향상이냐 혹은 유연성 향상이냐에 따라 차이가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 넷째, 기업규모에 따른 조절효과 분석 결과 기업규모에 따라서 스마트 팩토리의 구축 목적과 구축 내용 간에 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• 정보화정책
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.44-60
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• 2010

고용 없는 성장이 지속되는 가운데, IT가 고용에 미치는 영향에 대한 논란이 지속되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 2003년부터 2008년까지 총 6년간 국내의 매출액 1,000억 원 이상 498개 기업을 대상으로 IT투자가 노동수요에 미치는 영향을 실증분석 하였다. 본 연구결과, 일부 서비스업을 제외한 대부분의 산업에서 IT투자가 노동수요를 증대시키는 것으로 나타났다. 제조업의 경우 IT투자가 증가할수록 노동수요는 증가하나, IT투자에 따른 노동수요탄력성은 작아 IT투자는 저(低)숙련 노동과는 대체관계에 있고 고(高)숙련 노동과는 보완관계에 있는 것으로 나타났다. 전력 가스 및 건설업 역시 IT투자가 증가할수록 노동수요가 증가하며, IT투자에 따른 노동수요탄력성이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났다. 서비스산업의 경우, 생산자 서비스업에서만 IT투자가 증가할수록 노동수요가 증가하였으며, IT투자에 따른 노동수요탄력성도 큰 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 유통 서비스업과 사회 서비스업에서는 IT투자와 노동수요 간에 유의한 관계가 발견되지 않았다.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.285-310
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• 2016

본 연구는 복잡한 공급사슬에서 1차 협력사의 공급사슬통합에 초점을 두고 있다. 즉, 1차 협력사와 공급기업(2차 협력사)과의 전략적 운영적 통합 그리고 1차 협력사와 구매기업(완제품업체)의 전략적 운영적 통합이 1차 협력사의 운영성과(유연성)에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 규명하고 있다. 이를 위해, 1차 협력사에 해당하는 284개 기업을 대상으로 구조방정식(PLS)을 이용하여 신뢰성, 타당성 및 경로를 검정하였다. 분석결과 1차 협력사와 이해당사자들(완제품업체와 2차 협력사)의 운영적 통합은 생산 프로세스 유연성에 긍정적 영향을 미쳤다. 한편, 1차 협력사와 완제품업체와의 전략적 통합은 생산 유연성에 정의 영향을 미쳤지만, 1차 협력사와 2차 협력사와의 전략적 통합은 생산 유연성에 부정적 영향을 미쳤다. 마지막으로 1차 협력사의 생산 프로세스 유연성은 자사의 생산 유연성에 긍정적 영향을 미쳤다. 본 연구의 시사점은 공급사슬통합의 수준과 범위 그리고 기업 성과에 직 간접적인 영향을 세분화하여 규명하였다는 점에서 의의가 있다.