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How to Efficiently Implement Modernization Projects of process Control Systems (플랜트 계측제어 시스템의 개선과 프로젝트의 효율적인 수행)

  • 최기원
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.44-47
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    • 2000
  • Recently number of reinstrumentation projects in the process plants has grown to meet the needs to modernize or upgrade the exsisting control systems in a bid to boost productivity and quality. Design, installation and start-up of these process automation systems can be successful and trouble-free only if decision points are addressed properly. The critical decision points are encountered from tile design through the start-up phases of implementing a modernization project and discussed extensively here on a practical basis. Key points are ;to assign a project manager out of the plant instrument engineers for him to organize and lead a project team. ;to follow three critical steps in designing and implementing. :to think ahead of the critical steps and to induce a positive cooperation from all level of participants in the effort to prevent possible schedule delays.

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A Study on the Software Safety Assessment of Healthcare Systems

  • Olenski, Rafal;Park, Man-Gon
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.241-248
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    • 2015
  • The safety-critical software in healthcare systems needs more and more perceptive excess among human observation and computer support. It is a challenging conversion that we are fronting in confirming security in healthcare systems. Held in the center are the patients-the most important receivers of care. Patient injuries and fatalities connected to health information technologies commonly show up in the news, contrasted with tales of how health experts are being provided financial motivation to approve the products that may be generating damage. Those events are unbelievable and terrifying, however they emphasize on a crucial issue and understanding that we have to be more careful for the safety and protection of our patients.

A Study on Critical Success Factor Analysis and its Usage : An Aplication Study to the Steel Industry in Korea (주요성과요인분석과 그 활용방안에 관한 연구 :한국 철강산업에의 적용사례)

  • 문태수;신영종
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.13-25
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    • 1991
  • Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in using information technology for competitive advantage. A sustainable advantage is the key to the survival and growth of a firm. The successful implementation of information technology is dependent on efficient information systems planning. But the correct and complete information, requirements for effective information systems planning are frequently very difficult to obtain. In this paper the Critical Success Factors(CSF) method was employed as a means of managerial information requirements analysis for information systems planning in Korea's steel industry. CSFs are one of the few areas of activity that must go well to ensure the success of an organization. This paper addresses the concept and hierarchy of CSF analysis as a methodology in identifying corporate information needs and concludes with the use and benefit of results of CSF analysis.

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Design and evaluation of a GQS-based time-critical event dissemination for distributed clouds

  • Bae, Ihn-Han
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.989-998
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    • 2011
  • Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. Cloud computing providers have setup several data centers at different geographical locations over the Internet in order to optimally serve needs of their customers around the world. One of the fundamental challenges in geographically distributed clouds is to provide efficient algorithms for supporting inter-cloud data management and dissemination. In this paper, we propose a group quorum system (GQS)-based dissemination for improving the interoperability of inter-cloud in time-critical event dissemination service, such as computing policy updating, message sharing, event notification and so forth. The proposed GQS-based method organizes these distributed clouds into a group quorum ring overlay to support a constant event dissemination latency. Our numerical results show that the GQS-based method improves the efficiency as compared with Chord-based and Plume methods.

A Quantitative Study on Important Factors of the PSA of Safety-Critical Digital Systems

  • Kang, Hyun-Gook;Taeyong Sung
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.596-604
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    • 2001
  • This paper quantitatively presents the effects of important factors of the probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of safety-critical digital systems. The result which is quantified using fault tree analysis methodology shows that these factors remarkably affect the system safety. In this paper we list the factors which should be represented by the model for PSA. Based on the PSA experience, we select three important factors which are expected to dominate the system unavailability. They are the avoidance of common cause failure, the coverage of fault tolerant mechanisms and software failure probability. We Quantitatively demonstrate the effect of these three factors. The broader usage of digital equipment in nuclear power plants gives rise to the safety problems. Even though conventional PSA methods are immature for applying to microprocessor-based digital systems, practical needs force us to apply it because the result of PSA plays an important role in proving the safety of a designed system. We expect the analysis result to provide valuable feedback to the designers of digital safety- critical systems.

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A study on the Critical Design Review in case of Urban MAGLEV Train (도시형 자기부상열차 실용화사업의 상세설계검토(CDR) 수행 사례)

  • Chung, Kyung-Ryul;Park, Chulho;Song, Seonho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents template for Critical Design Review(CDR) in case of Urban MAGLEV Program. CDR was executed to confirm for design result based on requirements at last design stage. The integrated template for effective CDR includes requirements, specification and verification items. CDR needs to confirm satisfaction of requirements for design result and define verification method for technical validity. This template will help a consistent and integrated design review. And it is specially useful in huge and complex project.

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Development of an Intellectual Property Core for Floating Point Calculation for Safety Critical MMIS

  • Mwilongo, Nelson Josephat;Jung, Jae Cheon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.37-48
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    • 2021
  • Improving the plant protection system against unforeseen changes/transients during operation is essential to maintain plant safety. Under this condition, it requires rapid and accurate signal processing. The use of an Intellectual Property (IP) core for floating point calculations for Safety Critical MMIS can make numerical computations easier and more precise, improving system accuracy. It can represent and manipulate rational numbers as well as a much broader range of values with dynamic range in nuclear power plant. Systems engineering approach (SE) is used through the development process, it helps to reduce complexity and avoid omissions and invalid assumptions as delivers a better understanding of the stakeholders needs. For the implementation on the FPGA target board, the 32-bit floating-point arithmetic with IEEE-754 standards has designed using Simulink model in Matlab for all operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and VHDL code generated.

BEST PRACTICES FOR JOINT VENTURES: ISSUES AND CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS

  • Rizwan U. Farooqui;Syed M. Ahmed;Dilshad Umer
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.369-374
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    • 2009
  • Project-based joint ventures are often used in the construction industry to assemble an organization that meets a client's project needs and matches or exceeds the capacities of competitors. The joint venture / partnerships provides the means for a firm to quickly add resource, political, technical, or other required strengths that will increase project acquisition. This paper sets out to study the types of joint ventures, different issues or problems while having joint ventures and the critical factors that contribute to successful joint ventures. A questionnaire was designed and administered to survey the issues and present practices of joint ventures in the South Florida construction industry. Along with the questionnaire, personnel interviews were also conducted to get first hand knowledge about the subject matter. The results are presented in the paper. These results specifically identify the overall practice of joint ventures in South Florida as well as indicate the most significant factors leading to failure or success of these ventures.

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A Study on the Issues and Alternatives of Rural Youth Education (농촌 청소년 교육의 과제와 발전방향)

  • Oh, Hae-Sub
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.225-240
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    • 2004
  • This study sought to search for the new alternatives and direction to develop and strengthening rural youth education in Korea. The study was conducted through literature review on articles, proceedings and other sources relevant to the pending issues and difficulties of rural youth education in Korea. Some of the critical needs for improving rural youth education in Korea included the following aspects or alternatives; 1) Strengthening the partnership between rural adult and youth would be necessary to gain broader support and to establish the increased awareness of adults for rural youth education. 2) Better coordination and cooperative efforts should be emphasized among various programs and institutions in implementing rural youth education policies and programs. 3) Developing a strong link between the agribusiness sector and the rural youth education system should be strengthened to produce the effective results. Further activities to develop and implement diverse programs and projects to cope with new trends In farming and agriculture as well as changing trends in marketing sector of agribusiness and rural communities in Korea. The rural leadership and community networks should be established for improving the effectiveness of rural youth educational activities.

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A Study on the Remodeling of Living Research about living environment renovation for disabled - Based on 27 cases of residence renovation in Incheon city - (신체장애인의 주거환경 개조에 관한 연구 - 인천시 주거개조 사례 27개를 중심으로 -)

  • Cho, Cheol-Ho;Soh, Jun-Young
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.234-242
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    • 2010
  • The twenty seven houses at Incheon city, were remodeled in 2009 for the physically handicapped people. This research had been done the analysis of the itemized questionnaire by the needs of the physically handicapped for their better living environment and suggested the following remodeling devices. First of all, there was the priority for the remodeling of their living facilities. According to their priority, they wanted to remodel their bathroom, kitchen & dining room, veranda, living room, and hall way. These were based on their needs of movement, personal hygiene, convenient closet, and cabinet usage. In particular, their demands were shown as followings. The wheelchair using handicapped people required safe doorknobs, unslippery floor materials, removal of step levels, and heights adjustable washing stand for their bathroom. They also requested washboard, non-threshold, and automatic door locks. Otherwise, the disabled in critical condition who could not move anything preferred the remodeling of inner structure of living spaces and automatic door system. The slight disabled and the families those who have the disabled demanded the remodeling of kitchen & dining room, and preferred the reorganization of closet, cabinets, floor tiles, and turncock. The remodeling of bedroom was mostly requested by the disabled women, people with the brain disorder, and disabled people in critical condition who could not move anything. They wanted the remote controlled lightings.