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Development of the Two-piece Aluminum Wheels Using the Friction Stir Welding (마찰교반용접법을 이용한 2피스 알루미늄 휠의 개발)

  • Choi, In-Young;Kang, Young-June;Kim, Andrey;Ahn, Kyu-Saeng
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.700-707
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    • 2013
  • Owing to high oil prices and environmental issues, the automobile industry has conducted considerable research and made large investments to manufacture a high-efficiency automobiles. In the case of automobile wheels in which a lightweight material is used to increase the fuel efficiency a mold is used to increase the production efficiency; however, the use of the molding method for this purpose is very expensive. Therefore an automobile wheel consists of two parts. In this study a two-piece automobile wheel is manufactured by the friction stir welding(FSW) of Al6061-T6 to reduce the manufacturing cost and process complexity. The FSW welding tool geometry and rotational speed, and the feed rate are key factors that significantly affect the weld strength. Therefore tensile tests were conducted on specimens produced using various welding conditions, and the optimal FSW welding conditions were applied to manufacture aluminum wheels. To ensure reliability, prototype aluminum wheels were manufactured and their mechanical reliability and safety were evaluated using a durability test, fatigue durability test, and impact test. Through this study, aluminum wheel production was made possible using the FSW method.

A Study on Structural Design of Natural Fiber Composites Automobile Body Panel Considering Impact Load (충돌 하중을 고려한 친환경 자연섬유 복합재 적용 자동차 차체 패널의 구조 설계 연구)

  • Park, Kilsu;Kong, Changduk;Park, Hyunbum
    • Composites Research
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.291-296
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    • 2015
  • In this study, structural design and analysis of the automobile bonnet is performed. The flax/vinly ester composite material is applied for structural design. The Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding-Light (VARTML) manufacturing method is adopted for manufacturing the flax fiber composite bonnet. The VARTML is a manufacturing process that the resin is injected into the fly layered-up fibers enclosed by a rigid mold tool under vacuum. A series of flax/vinyl ester composite panels are manufactured, and several kinds of specimens cut out from the panels are tested to obtain mechanical performance data. Based on this, structural design of the automobile bonnet is performed.

Structural Design of Light Weight Natural Fiber Composites for Next Generation Automobile Bonnet (차세대 자동차 본넷용 친환경 경량화 자연섬유 복합재 구조 설계)

  • Park, Kilsu;Kong, Changduk;Park, Hyunbum
    • Composites Research
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.46-51
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    • 2015
  • In this study, structural design and analysis of the automobile bonnet is performed. The flax/vinly ester composite material is applied for structural design. The Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding-Light (VARTML) manufacturing method is adopted for manufacturing the flax fiber composite bonnet. The VARTML is a manufacturing process that the resin is injected into the fly layered-up fibers enclosed by a rigid mold tool under vacuum. A series of flax/vinyl ester composite panels are manufactured, and several kinds of specimens cut out from the panels are tested to obtain mechanical performance data. Based on this, structural design of the automobile bonnet is performed.

A Study on the Preference for Choosing an Automobiles according to the Demographic Characteristics (인구통계적 특성에 따른 자동차 선택의 선호도에 관한 연구)

  • Baek, Sung-Hyun;Chang, Kyung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.25-32
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    • 2007
  • Automobile manufacturing companies should provide the products and service that can satisfy consumers who usually want various kinds of automobiles. This paper studied the relations among several demographic characteristics(gender, age, occupation, income) of consumers and automobile's attributes(engine performance, engine displacement, price, maintenance expenses, color, etc.) and preferred automobile(kind, size, company, price). For the relation research we established a model and related hypotheses and used a questionnaire survey, where 350 subjects were questioned. After the analysis, many statistically significant results are obtained : consumer's gender has relations with the preference for engine performance, engine displacement, price, color, and design; age has relations with the preference for engine displacement, maintenance expenses, free checking during A/S period, etc., occupation has relations with the preference for engine performance, engine displacement, price, maintenance expenses, fuel efficiency, etc. : income has relations with the preference for engine performance, engine displacement, price, maintenance expenses, mileage, reputation of car manufacturing companies, etc.; price and fuel efficiency has relations with the preference for car manufacturing companies. These results suggest the consumer-oriented sales of automobiles and are expected to be helpful for the effective strategy development of automobile marketing.

Development of eco-environmental Aluminium Fuel Filler Neck using Laser welding (레이저용접을 이용한 친환경 알루미늄 Fuel Filler Neck 개발)

  • Lee, Byung-Jin;Jeong, Sang-Yeong;Hwang, Hyun-Tae;Jeong, Hak-Soon;Choi, Hung-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.484-489
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    • 2011
  • Nowadays, the automobile manufactures make a great efforts to reduce manufacturing cost, body weight and to develop eco-environmental parts in order to be more competitive and solve global warming. For these reasons, materials of automobile's parts are changed over from general carbon steel and stainless steel to plastic and Aluminum. And, laser welding technology is introduced to apply welding between aluminum parts. In this paper, the data of laser welding parameters is collected through lots of the experiment according to the material, welding speed and laser power to apply laser welding in Aluminum fuel filler neck assembly. After manufacturing prototype of aluminum fuel filler neck, vibration durability test, tensile strength test and salt water test are applied to verify product's satisfied function.

A study on developing MES(Manufacturing Execution System) in the piston rod manufacturing process for automobile shock absorber (자동차 쇽옵소버 피스톤로스 제조공정에서 MES 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Sin, Dong-Ju;Kim, Tae-Cheol;Lee, Hyeong-Ho;Kim, Gyeong-Rok;Jeong, Ho-Yeon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.286-289
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    • 2008
  • Production Information System make it possible to check and control the information of manufacturing processes. Based on this information companies are able to act to the price strategy and marketing strategy timely. In this study we will examine developing the MES(Manufacturing Execution System) as Production Information System in the Automobile Shock Absorber Piston rod Manufacturing Process of which processes are composed of heat treatment, lathing, grooving, milling, rolling, inspection and packing processes in order to control its production information efficiently.

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Digitalization of Root Technology using Knowledge Management System (지식관리시스템을 활용한 뿌리기술의 디지털화)

  • Bae, SungMin;HEO, Young-Moo;Yoon, Gil-Sang
    • Design & Manufacturing
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.6-9
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    • 2015
  • The objective of manufacturing knowledge sharing platform is to convert the production experience like a worker's know-how into quantitative values, to construct database of the process technologies and to share the technologies systematically via web portal service. In addition, the knowledge sharing platform contains the total production processes of automobile and mobile products such as information of experts, facilities, and cutting-edge R&D outputs. Automobile, telecommunication mobile, and semiconductors account for a large amount of Korea's export industry rate. These industries need production technology which is a result of converting worker's know-how and R&D. Manufacturing knowledge portal aims to enable transforming production experience such as worker's know-how into standardized form for constructing database and sharing technologies systematically. Manufacturing knowledge portal can contribute to small and mid-sized manufacturing companies with further improvements.

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Characteristics of Occupational Injuries in the Automobile Parts Manufacturing Industry

  • Yang, Seung Tae;Jeong, Byung Yong;Park, Myoung Hwan
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.231-244
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    • 2017
  • Objective: This study aims to understand the occupational injury characteristics of the workers in the motor vehicle parts (automobile parts) manufacturing industry and to present basic guidelines on accident prevention through accident analysis. Background: There occur many occupational injuries in the motor vehicle parts manufacturing industry. But there were few researches for the occupational injuries of the workers in the motor vehicle parts manufacturing industry. Method: This study analyzed the data of occupational injuries of 1,609 workers in the motor vehicle parts manufacturing industry in 2015. The accident characteristics were analyzed by dividing them into worker related factors and accident related factors. Results: Among the occupational injuries of the workers in the motor vehicle parts manufacturing industry, 80.6% of the victims were males, 64.0% were older than 40. 57.8% of the victims were employed by the companies with less than 50 workers. In addition, there was a difference in accident characteristics according to age, work experience, employment type, events or exposures, accident time of the day, agents, natures of injuries and illnesses, injured organs and injured body part. Conclusion: It is important to prevent equipment/machinery accidents. For this purpose, more efforts should be made to establish safety measures faithful to the basics of safety devices and safety work procedures. It is also suggested that prevention of disasters should be intensively carried out for workplaces with less than 50 employees and middle-aged and elderly people. Application: The result can be used to present guidelines for preventative measures for the workers in the motor vehicle parts manufacturing industry including safety education/training.

Finite Element Analysis of the Extrusion Process for an Automobile Bumper (자동차용 범퍼 압출 공정의 유한요소해석)

  • Kim, Kwang-Heui;Yoon, Moon-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.24-29
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    • 2005
  • The development of an aluminum bumper is required in order to reduce the weight of the automobile. An porthole die extrusion process is simulated by the finite element method in order to develop the aluminum bumper which is manufactured by hollow section extrusion. The general-purpose finite element analysis software is used. The developed analysis method can be applied to the optimization of the porthole die extrusion process for the aluminum bumper.

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A Study on Remanufacturing Industry for automobile parts (자동차 부품의 재제조산업 활성화방안에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Byeong-Suk;Cho, Jai-Rip
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.230-233
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    • 2009
  • Remanufacturing is an industrial manufacturing process. The merits of manufacturing are to reuse old products to perform like a new product and to save energy, natural resources, landfill space and to reduce air pollution by less re-smelting. This paper proposes a systemic approach for activating the domestic remanufacturing industry. The approach is based on inside and outside regulations to apply remanufacturing companies. And, we analyzed the state and problems of remanufacturing industry for automobile parts.

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