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Supervisor System Development for Improving Quality of RFID Cold Storage Management Systems

RFID 냉동창고 관리시스템의 품질향상을 위한 슈퍼바이저 시스템 개발

  • Moon, Mi-Kyeong (Division of Computer & Information Engineering, Dongseo University)
  • 문미경 (동서대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부)
  • Received : 2014.05.09
  • Accepted : 2014.06.17
  • Published : 2014.06.30

Abstract

A cold storage is a warehouse of a insulated building with cooling installations. It has many different types of cold rooms with temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius, and the sequential workflow such as receiving, picking and packing runs in that rooms. Recently, the cold storages have adopted RFID technology, and consequently, warehouse product management in them are becoming intelligent and network. However, information inconsistency in warehouses caused by physical and logical errors reduces reliability in the RFID cold storage management system and worsens their work efficiency. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an early detection system to identify errors. In this paper, we suggest a supervisory system detecting logical errors on business processes of the RFID cold storage. It is composed of a master supervisor and mobile supervisor. In the master supervisor, the manager can set the constraints conditions and get alerts, and in the mobile supervisor, the workers confirm and deal with these faults directly. The supervisory system improve reliability of the RFID cold storage management system by recognizing a failure to identify physically and logically using these constraint conditions. This paper shows that the supervisory system can reduce the average recovery time to improve reliability by decreasing the time for detecting and analyzing errors in the RFID cold storage management system.

냉동창고는 일반 창고와 달리 냉각설비를 갖춘 단열된 건물의 창고로서, $0^{\circ}C$이하의 다양한 유형의 냉장/냉동고에 물품들을 입고, 적재, 출고하는 일련의 업무가 운영된다. 최근 냉동창고에 RFID 기술이 도입됨으로써 창고 내 물품관리를 네트워크화, 지능화할 수 있게 되었다. 그러나 RFID 시스템으로 인한 물리적 인식 실패뿐만 아니라 논리적 인식 실패로 인한 물류정보 불일치가 발생하게 되면 RFID 냉동창고 관리시스템의 신뢰도가 떨어지고 업무의 효율이 감소하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 RFID 냉동창고 관리 시 발생하는 다양한 종류의 오류들을 즉각적으로 탐지할 수 있는 슈퍼바이저 시스템의 개발내용에 대해 기술한다. 이는 RFID 냉동창고 관리업무상 발생할 수 있는 오류들의 제약조건들을 미리 설정하고 오류의 알림을 받을 수 있는 마스터 슈퍼바이저와 냉동창고 내 업무를 처리하는 작업자가 오류에 대한 알림을 받고 그 자리에서 오류를 직접 확인하고 처리할 수 있는 모바일 슈퍼바이저로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 슈퍼바이저 시스템이 RFID 냉동창고 관리시스템 상의 오류들을 탐지/분석하는 시간을 줄임으로써 신뢰성을 높이기 위한 평균복구시간을 줄일 수 있음을 보인다.

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