This paper describes a study which was undertaken in Ulsan City. The modified SLP procedures consider the quantitative flow aspect of the facilities layout problem as well as the qualitative closeness rating aspect. Conclusions are drawn as to the effectiveness of the proposed model in providing Ulsan City with better means of making the facilities location allocation decision for Industrial Technology Research Park.

This paper concerns the problem of determining the spare inventory level for multi-echelon repairable-item inventory system with finite number of operating items. We consider the system which has several bases and a central depot. When an item fails, it is dispatched to a repair facility and, a spare, if available, is plugged in immediately. When the failed item is repaired, it is sent to the base and either is used to fill a backorder or is stored at a spare inventory point. Using queueing network, we develop an algorithm to find the spare inventory level which minimizes the total expected cost and, simultaneously, satisfies a specified minimum fill rate. The results of the algorithm clearly indicate that the algorithm successfully generate output with optimal solution.

본 논문은 일반 인간사회에서의 ’적절 대응’ 개념을 살펴보고 이를 경영도구에서 설정하는 것에 관한 연구이다. 많은 경영도구들은 목적과 수단을 혼동함으로써 실패해 왔다. ‘적절 대응’ 개념은 경영도구의 성공을 위해 필수적인 개념으로서 인간사회에서는 오래 전부터 성공의 기본 요건이 되어 온 것이다. 본 논문에서는 ‘적절 대응’ 개념을 변수를 도입하여 정의하고, 관찰, 이해, 해석, 이행의 4단계로 구성되는 ‘적절 대응’ 과정을 설정한다. ‘적절 대응’ 개념을 실현하기 위해서 경영도구는 이러한 4단계의 과정을 이행할 수 있도록 일반 기능 측면에서의 능력, 사용자 인터페이스 측면에서의 능력, 적응성 측면에서의 능력을 보유해야 한다. 이러한 ‘적절 대응’ 개념은 생산정보시스템에도 이용될 수 있을 것이다.

In many distribution systems important cost reductions and/or service improvements may be achieved by adopting an efficient inventory policy and proper selection of facilities. These efficiency improvements and service enhancements clearly require an integrated approach towards various logistical planning functions. The areas of inventory control and transportation planning need to be closely coordinated. The purpose of this paper is to construct an integrated model that can minimize the total cost of the transportation and inventory systems between multiple origin and destination points, where in origin point i has the supply of commodities and in destination point j requires the commodities. In this case, demands of the destination points are assumed random variables which have a known probability distribution. Using the lot-size reorder-point policy and the safety stock level that minimize total cost we find optimal distribution centers which transport the commodities to the destination points and suggest an optimal inventory policy to the selected distribution center. We also show if a demand greater than one unit will occur at a particular time, we describe the approximate optional replenishment policy from computational results of this lot-size reorder-point policy. This model is formulated as a 0-1 nonlinear integer programming problem. To solve the problem, this paper proposes heuristic computational procedures and a computer program with UNIX C language. In the usefulness review, we show the meaning and validity of the proposed model and exhibit the results of a comparison between our approach and the traditional approach, respectively.

Mining for association rules between items in a large database of sales transaction has been described as an important data mining problem. The mining of association rules can be mapped into the problem of discovering large itemsets. In this paper we present an efficient algorithm for mining association rules by minimizing the total numbers of candidate 2-itemset, │C$_2$│. More the total numbers of candidate 2-itemset, less the time of executing the algorithm for mining association rules. The total performance of algorithm depends on the time of finding large 2-itemsets. Hence, minimizing the total numbers of candidate 2-itemset is very important. We have performed extensive experiments and compared the performance of our algorithm with the DHP algorithm, the best existing algorithm.

Control chart is a very extensively used tool in testing whether a process is in a state of statistical control or not. In this paper, a robust control chart for variables is proposed, which is based on the Huber's M-estimator. The Huber's M-estimator is a well-known robust estimator in sense of distributional robustness. In the proposed chart, the estimation of the process deviation is modified to have a stable level and high power. To compare the performances of the proposed control chart with the classical (equation omitted), some Monte Carlo simulations are performed. The simulation results show that the robust control chart has good performance.

Recently the international transfer pricing became the most popular topic in accounting of the research as well as of the practice. Modern corporations have been experiencing a lot of changes in managerial control technique as their scale and scope of activities grows and the environment in which they operate changes rapidly. If there are internal transactions in a decentralized firm, the necessity of coordination among the divisions is inevitable. Transfer pricing in a decentalized company provides an excellent example of the coordinating role of information. One of the most important reason for a form to have a decentalized structure is the improved decision making at the lower level due to better access to information. International transfer pricing is not merely a problem of pricing but coordination of transfers and other collective or individual actions to derive rents from intergration. Such coordination can be achived through the performance evaluation scheme which is partly based upon transfer price.

The purpose of the study was to identify the relationship of the logistics activities with the overall performance among the Korean industries, in order to suggest ways of enhancing the level of effectiveness in logistics management. On the basis of current logistics literature and research data, an analysis had been attempted to provide the study with a theoretical framework, followed by an empirical research that analyzed, among the randomly selected companies, the relations between logistics activities and management policy; logistics activities and logistics environment; logistics environment and the usage of computer software; management policy and the usage of computer software; management policy and performance; logistics environment and performance. Analyses of the data suggested that the companies that lay heavy emphasis on logistics effectiveness showed higher performance; management policies of the companies are influenced by their logistics characteristics; the more strongly is a company oriented logistically, the higher effectiveness in logistics activities it maintains; there is a significant relationship between the logistics environment a company is operated in and the company's reliance on logistically oriented information technologies; there is a close relationship between a company's logistics activities and its business outcome.

CNS (Car Navigation System) is the most compatible candidate among various in-vehicle information systems as a provider of ITS (Intelligence Transport Systems) information. It generally consists of remote controller, display, CD-changer, GPS receiver and so on. Among them, display is the most important and critical element of the HMI (Human-Machine Interface) suggesting the digital map to the driver. Therefore, it is certain that the display gives cognitive, physical, mental and visual workloads to the driver which are directly related with the driver's and road safety with the success of ITS. Until now, various human factors techniques have been developed and applied to estimate the driver's workload and to collect the driver's requirements of the CNS digital map, for example, mental workload assessment, visual activity analysis, cognitive analysis and so on. In addition to these kinds of techniques, this research performed the human sensibility ergonomics approach to directly investigate and evaluate the driver's requirements and sensibilities of the real products.

In this paper we consider the CSP requirements determination problem of new equipment(machine) system. For the newly procured equipment systems, mathematical analyses are made for the system which is constructed with the consumable parts to derive the associated CSP requirement determination model in mathematical expression. Based on these analyses, a mathematical model is derived for making an optimal CSP requirement determination subject to tile constraint of satisfying any given operational availability limitation. We assume that the failure of a part follows a Poisson process. Firstly, the operational availability concept in CSP is defined and the relation between the general system availability and the operational availability is established. Secondly, the problem is formulated as the cost minimization problem that should satisfy the operational availability limitation, and then, using the generalized Lagrange multipliers method, the optimal solution procedure is derived.

The group formation problem of the machine and part is a very important issue in the planning stage of cellular manufacturing systems. This paper investigates Self-Organizing Map(SOM) neural networks approach to machine-part grouping problem. We present a two-phase algorithm based on SOM for grouping parts and machines. SOM can learn from complex, multi-dimensional data and transform them into visually decipherable clusters. Output layer in SOM network is one-dimensional structure and the number of output node has been increased sufficiently to spread out the input vectors in the order of similarity. The proposed algorithm performs remarkably well in comparison with many other algorithms for the well-known problems shown in previous papers.

International capital movement has made progress at global liberalization of finance and foreign exchange, international monetary norm changing into floating exchange rate system, easiness of collection of information and trade at improvement of information communication technology from early of 1970's. Results of empirical test for relation between foreign exchange rate or various determination factors of foreign exchange rate and interest rate are followed by next sentences. First, according to relation between foreign exchange rate and interest rate, correlation for each of variables after OECD entrance is increased. But, long-term & short-term interest rate is affected by Hanbo & Kia's bankruptcy, continuous large scale corporates bankruptcy and crisis of foreign exchange. Therefore, financial instability is occured. If portfolio investment fund has been inflow as it is mollified by continuous shortage of foreign exchange and fall of country's credit rating, it is expected to have positive effect for long-term & short-term interest rate from appreciation of won against dollar. Second, results from relation between determination factor of foreign exchange rate and interest rate are followed by next sentences. If surplus of current account and goods account is continued, yield of corporate bond is to be stable. But, margin of surplus is expected to diminish after second quarter 98, and difference between external and domestic interest (after adjusting foreign exchange rate) is to be diminished. And if net inflows of foreign investor's fund (stock and bond) is diminished, it is to have negative effect for yield of corporate bond. According to foreign investor's investment movement of previous years, hedge fund were stayed at least during two years in Mexico. It means that sudden capital outflow is not to be happened at Korea. But if external factors from depreciation of yen and China's renminbi are instable, interest rate is expected to increase from capital's outflows. Third, if it is to decrease instability of foreign exchange rate from increase in surplus of future current account, credit rating's upwardness, stability of yen and renminbi, foreign exchange rate is expected to be stable. It is expected to have continuous stability from short-term interest rate to long-term interest rate in this empirical test.

Driving performance is characterized by many things such as driver's experience period, age, ability of information processing and reaction time of control devices and so forth. However, each factor of driving performance is needed to help and screen a poor driver for safe driving. In this paper, driving performance was estimated by reaction of manipulating brake, accelerator, steering wheel and speed. Subjects were grouped by experience of accident and age. Combinations of every group were analysed. For all the dependent variables, only steering wheel and speed were shown to have significant difference, which could be regarded as visual information of speed and direction were the important factors to drive safely. Especially for tile elderly, it is needed to enhance their ability of visual information processing that is to be decreased with aging. Therefore driving simulator to train and screen the poor driver should be studied.

본 논문은 2-상태 시스템의 신뢰도 계산을 위하여 Heidtmann[3]이 제시한 가역 알고리즘을 부울 대수를 사용하여 경로집합으로부터 절단집합을 유도하거나, 역으로 절단집합으로부터 경로집합을 유도함으로서 효율성을 입증하였으며, 포함-불포함 공식(inclusion-exclusion formula)과 추축 분해법칙(pivotal decomposition rule)을 이용하여 직·병렬구조 및 복합구조의 신뢰도를 계산할 수 있는 알고리즘을 개발, 분석하였다.

The purpose of this study is to propose and to apply new Revised Simulator Sickness Questionnaire(RSSQ) that is effective quantification tool by revising and complementing SSQ because Simulator Sickness Questionnaire(SSQ), which is being used generally to quantify Simulator Sickness has several problems. For this study, we reduced 31 symptoms that are related to Simulator Sickness to 22 symptoms and derived weighting for each other from 15 experts. We developed new RSSQ with 22 symptoms and implemented factor analysis by using 142 RSSQ which is questioned before and after getting on simulator. It was classified to four major symptom groups as the result of the factor analysis. They are Disorientation, Oculomotor, Nausea, and Confuse. The scoring system of RSSQ provides subscales score of Disorientation, Oculomotor, Nausea, and Confuse as well as total severity. The scoring system of RSSQ which is proposed by this study is expected to improve accuracy of measure compared with an existing scoring system of SSQ, and to contribute with understanding the effect of Simulator Sickness more adequately and clearly.

최근까지 개발된 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어를 검토 정리한 후, 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어와 그 모델과의 연관성을 파악하기 위하여 총체적인 시뮬레이션 모델을 관찰하였으며, 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어의 유연성에 대한 근원을 시스템 모듈식 접근 방법을 통하여 추적하였다. 실존 시스템, 모델, 그리고 소프트웨어 시스템과의 관계를 조사한 결과 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어의 주요한 성능 척도는 flexibility와 accuracy라는 것이 밝혀졌다. 객체지향 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어의 metrics와 formalism의 모델을 개발하였으며, 이것은 유연한 객체지향적 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어 구조를 디자인하는데 근본 방침을 제시한다. 끝으로 앞에서 개발한 모델을 기초로, 유연한 객체지향적 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어 시스템을 분석하였다.

A new algorithm is proposed in this paper which efficiently performs join in the temporal database. The main idea is to sort the smaller relation and to partition the larger relation, and the proposed algorithm reduces the cost of sorting the larger relation. To show the usefulness of the algorithm, the cost is analyzed with respect to the number of accesses to secondary storage and compared with that of Sort-Merge algorithm. Through the comparisons, we present and verify the conditions under which the proposed algorithm always outperforms the Sort-Merge algorithm. The comparisons show that the proposed algorithm achieves 10∼30% gain under those conditions.

Electronic document management system is tool, based on the document life cycle concept, for structured management of various documents within an organization. In this paper, we address a development process of electronic document management system based on pure JAVA and CORBA. We have developed a electronic document management system which can support a variety of platform in heterogeneous distributed environment. EDMS can serve as an integration platform for industries that require handling of massive document and data such as construction and engineering, automobile, shipbuilding industries. Using the developed system, users can access documents in the system through an internet brower, and also add or modify existing document.

The fundamental object of work measurement is to precisely establish the time standards, which are the indices of labor productivity. This study discussed the development of robot work measurement method that could establish the time standard effectively. In manufacturing industries the various robot tasks are generally classified and standardized by the unit motions. The Robot Modularization of the Unit Motion (ROMUM) was realized by the module of two steps GET and PUT unit motions. This method reduced time and effort of analysis, and could be done with ease. Therefore, ROMUM will increase the convenience of use for the unskilled worker and decrease the time required, cost and errors. And, it will contribute to reduce the unnecessary motion by robot motion analysis.

The objective of this study is to develop a knowledge-based scheduler applying simulation and knowledge base. This study utilizes a machine induction to build knowledge base which enables knowledge acquisition without domain expert. In this study, the best job dispatching rule for each order is selected according to the specifications of the order information. And these results are built to the fact base and knowledge base using the attribute-oriented induction method and simulation. When a new order enters in the developed system, the scheduler retrieves the knowledge base in order to find a matching record. If there is a matching record, the scheduling will be carried out by using the job dispatching rule saved in the knowledge base. Otherwise the best rule will be added to the knowledge base as a new record after scheduling to all the rules. When all these above steps finished the system will furnish a learning function.

In order to improve the hospital service quality, some hospitals try to reduce the outpatients' waiting time in the hospital. One of the dissatisfied service items at the hospital is the long waiting time to take the prescribed medicine. In most cases, the smaller the number of pharmacists, the longer could be the waiting time. The suggestion of criteria for optimal allocation of appropriate number of pharmacists must be very important to manage the hospital pharmacy. In this paper, we suggest the method to figure out appropriate number of pharmacists through the real situation study at the Sampling Medical Center Pharmacy. We present the simulation study results using the simulation package ARENA and the analysis of statistical distribution of the arriving prescriptions. The result of this research could be applied to the other service business to figure out the optimal allocation of available human resources and to do the job analysis for better service quality.

Recently, Hong-Jun Kim et al. introduced an improved process incapability index $C^*_{psk}$ by the transformation of the $C_{psk}{\;}C^*_{psk}$. A simple transformation of $C_{psk}$, can be regard as a process incapability index, provides an uncontaminated separation between information concerning the process accuracy and precision while this kind of information separation is not available with the $C_{psk}$. By an identical conception, in this article a new process incapability index $C^*_{psk}$ for Non-Normal process can be proposed by the transformation of the process capability index $C^*_{psk}$. The motivation behind introduction of $C^*_{psk}$ is that process capability index $C^*_{psk}$ cannot give information of the process accuracy and precision. A significant result of this research that $C^*_{psk}$ for the case where the target value T is equal to the midpoint of the specification limits or not Is evaluated without respect to T. Accordingly, $C^*_({psk})$ will be propose a reasonable process incapability measure for Non-Normal process

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relative importance of seven JIT operational techniques in Domestic industries. These techniques are used to improve manufacturing effectiveness and efficiency such as : Setup time reduction, Kanban, Multi-functional worker, U type layout, Andon(line stop), Atonomation, and Smoothing production. The new analytic hierarchy process(AHP) model is used in order to evaluate the relative importance of the seven JIT operational techniques which are used to increase the manufacturing effectiveness and efficiency. To aggregate the multi-divisions priorities, in this paper, we suggest a way which decision maker can exclude outlier matrix from group by using the concept of the compatibility in AHP.

The purpose of this study is to suggest prevention methods for the health of VDT workers by an ergonomic survey and analysis of body discomfort. Totally 150 VDT workers(male; 78, female; 72) were investigated with questionnaire. From the results of survey, average of the subjects age was 28.5 years(male; 29.7, female; 27.2), average working period was 5.4 years(male; 5.2, female; 5.6), average VDT working hours was 6.3 hours(male; 6.2, female; 6.4) and workers who answered that they use VDT for more than 5 hours a day were over 79%. Among the questionnaires 10.7% and 7.3% of VDT workers complained the discomfort of their neck and lower back, respectively. VDT workers responded that the height of chair, keyboard and computer monitor were the main reasons for feeling discomfort. The results suggest that the VDT syndrome prevention program should be developed for safety and health of the VDT workers.

An efficient agricultural marketing system is very important to producers and consumers to keep the reasonable prices. In these days, the main policy for the efficient agricultural marketing system is to enlarge the direct transaction market. But it is not easy to enlarge the direct transaction market in a few years. This paper proposes a new efficient agricultural marketing system that gives a similar effect with the direct market. The proposed system is mainly composed of three associations; producers', consumers' and retailers'association, and the function of the system is devided into material affairs and commercial affairs. The structure of the system also can be simplified as two to three steps. So the system can reduce the cost of logistics and keep the reasonable prices for both producers and consumers.

In this study, a traditional concept of sampling inspection plan for the quality assurance system is extended to a consideration of economic aspects in total production system by representing and analyzing the effects between proceding/succeeding production process including inspection. This approach recognizes that the decision to be made at one manufacturing process (or assembly process) determine not only the cost and the average outgoing quality level of that process but also the input parameters of the cost and the incoming quality to the succeeding process. By analyzing the effects of the average incoming and outgoing quality, manufacturing/assembly quality level and sampling inspection plan on the production system, mathematical models and solution technique to minimize the total production cost for a single product manufacturing system with specified average outgoing quality limit (AOQL) are suggested.

This study deals with the schemes of design, plan and operate maintenance management support systems and with the engineering approach for the solutions to build the maintenance management for the production efficiency. Maintenance Management Information System(MMIS) is the task that must focus on machinery historical data and planned maintenance action. Also the efficient supporting system in a maintenance management is achieved by database which is based on process of machinery's failure history. Designing method of maintenance management information system, maintenance modules are consisted of six factors ; machinery's historical data, lubrication control, check sheet, repair work, availability report, and performance report(control board and detailed reports), and then operators can rapidly utilize data in work place. In the implementation of designed model, program coding has been developed by Visual Basic 3.0. Data insertion, deletion and updating which perform menu screen is implemented by reading data from database. Implementation model based on LAN environment and related data is stored in Microsoft DBMS.

This paper considers the determination of the priority of investment on R&D planning on nuclear power technology using AHP. Due to the complexity of problem, the hierarchy was divided into two parts; main hierarchy and sub-hierarchies. The result shows that the priority of technology options of evolutionary reactor and safety evaluation was higher than that of others.

Actually mixed assembly line is mixed with open and close type workstation. This workstation is called hybridworkstation. The propose of this paper is to determine the sequencing of model that minimize line length for actual(hybridworkstation) mixed model assembly line. we developed three mathematical formulation of the problem to minimize the overall length of a line with hybrid station. Mathematical formulation classified model by operato schedule. Mixed model assembly line is combination program and NP-hard program. Thus computation time is often a critical factor in choosing a method of determining the sequence. This study suggests a tabu search technique which can provide a near optimal solution in real time and use the hill climbing heuristic method for selecting initial solution. Modified tabu search method is compared with MIP(Mixed Integer Program). Numerical results are reported to demonstrate the efficiency of the method.

Today, as a globalization continues and international trading blocks are formed, world markets are intensely competitive and abound in product variety, volume, complexity and environment. An environmental management system comprises the environmental elements of the overall management system. The basic input to a management system is information from stake holders, the operational system and the environment, the outputs are decisions and informations. Specifically, green comsumer's needs and expectations are changing and diversifying, resulting in a changed global environment for industry. Due to these changes, many companies are striving to achieve the ISO 14000 environmental management system certification. In this paper, I will present the strategy of environmental management, system strategy and continue to build a unique environmental management system by analyzing companies that will be achieved the ISO 14000 certification. After companies establish an ISO 9000 quality system these companies should focus on improve toward their own quality systems and continue to build ISO 14000.

This study aims at the introduction to the recall system and its defence strategies for the automobile industry according to the rights and interests protection for consumers, the trade pressure solution of the United States and government's will for the self-certification. Therefore, I make the following proposal in view of the low technological level of Korea's automobile industry, the imperfect means of recall system, the insufficiency of the social recognition and the worst management condition under the IMF system : First, introduction to three steps for self-certification in case of changing the present pype-approval system into the self-certification and its overall operation after 2003. Second, the defence plan of the automobile industry after analyzing the problems coming from the domestic automobile industry.