• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.229-235
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• 2014

Improving the time and cost efficiency of production systems is one of the important means of building competitive advantage and staying profitable in the ever increasing competitive business environment. Among others, CONWIP (constant work-in-process) and DBR (drum-buffer-rope) methods are widely used in improving production process efficiency. In this study, we have developed simulation models for a real button factory production system. We have tried to improve the efficiency of the production process by implementing these two approaches to our model. According to our results, both CONWIP and DBR production approaches were found to have equivalently better results in reducing the waiting time of the bottleneck process. By applying either of the two production systems, efficiency of the real production process can be significantly improved as the simulated model results demonstrate.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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• 2005.12a
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• pp.130-139
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• 2005

본 논문은 BPM 시스템에 의해서 관리되는 비즈니스 프로세스의 효율성을 증대시키는 새로운 방법으로 TOC(Theory Of Constraint)이론에서 사용되는 DBR(Drum, Buffer, Rope) 개념을 적용한다. TOC이론은 주로 생산공정의 효율증대를 위한 방법론으로 인식되어 왔지만 비즈니스 프로세스에서도 적용이 되도록 BP-DBR (Business Process - DBR) 방법론을 개발한다. 또한 이를 통해 실제 금융권에서 사용되는 프로세스 효율성이 증대되는 것을 시뮬레이션 실험을 통해 보인다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.2935-2944
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• 2009

This paper proposes Dual DBR(Drum-Buffer-Rope) system for a small-to-medium-sized PCB(Printed Circuit Board) manufacturing line. DBR method of TOC(Theory of Constraints) is an effective system for a small-to-medium-sized company to build production scheduling system. But to apply it to PCB line, it needs more technical consideration because of multiple constraints, looping process line and complex buffer management. This paper proposes an answer of these problems using Dual DBR to build production scheduling system more successfully. And it was confirmed that lead time was reduced more than 20% applying Dual DBR system to a domestic PCB manufacturing line actually.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.11-24
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• 2012

We compared a DBR(drum-buffer-rope) system with a CONWIP(constant work-in-process) system in a production line with constant processing times. Based on the observation that a WIP-controlled line production system such as DBR and CONWIP is equivalent to a m-node tandem queue with finite buffer, we applied a max-plus algebra based solution method for the tandem queue to evaluate the performance of two systems. Numerical examples with 6 workstations were also used to demonstrate the proposed analysis. The mathematical analyses support that CONWIP outperforms DBR in terms of expected waiting time and WIP. Unlike the CONWIP case, sequencing workstations in a DBR affects the performance of the system. Delaying a bottleneck station in a DBR reduces expected waiting time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.754-757
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• 2000

인터넷을 이용한 사이버 거래가 빠른 속도로 증가함으로써 기업에게 있어 인터넷 쇼핑몰 구축은 더 이상 선택사항이 아닌 필수 사항이 되었다. 하지만 현재 사이버 거래 수준은 전통적 상거래 수준에 못 미칠뿐더러 거래 항목에 있어서도 매우 제한적인 것이 사실이다. 앞으로 사이버 거래는 계속적으로 증가하리라 전망되지만 제품의 특성 혹은 고객의 기호에 따라 전통적 상거래도 그 영역을 차지하며 함께 양립하여 발전할 것이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 기존의 상거래 시스템에 사이버 거래기능을 추가하는 모델을 제시한다. 먼저 지리적으로 멀리 떨어져 있는 유통망의 정보화를 위하여 인터넷 기술을 이용하고 공급체인(Supply Chain) 전체에 걸친 동기화를 위해 TOC(Theory of Constraint)의 DBR(Drum-Buffer-Rope) 스케줄링을 응용한다. 모든 생산 및 유통의 흐름 속도가 최종 분배 센타에 접수되는 고객의 요구에 따라 이루어지게 함으로써 공급체인 전체에 걸친 동기화를 이룰 수 있고 지속적인 버퍼 관리를 통하여서 재고의 절감은 물론 미출고의 발생도 최소화할 수 있다. 만약 분배 센타에 재고부족 현상이 일어날 경우에는 공급체인 상의 능력제약자원(Capacity Constraint Resource . CCR)을 찾아 개선 활동을 수행하며 공급체인의 흐름 속도를 능력제약자원에 맞추어 조절한다. 분배 센타에서 대리점 혹은 사이버 고객으로의 배송은 부분적 분할납품 Partial Transshipment : PT) 전략을 적용한다. 즉 각 분배 센타가 관리하는 수요지 중 인접한 지역을 부분적 분할납품 전략 적용 수요지로 선택하고 사이버 거래를 통해 생성된 물류가 부분적 분할납품 전략 적용 수요지에 분배되게 함으로써 각 분배 센타의 재고 완충역할을 수행하게 한다. 이에 따라 안전 재고 및 역 배송을 최소화 할 수 있을 뿐 아니라 미 출고로 인한 손실을 최소화하며 고객의 서비스를 일정하게 유지시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.169-189
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• 2006

Recently, many companies are trying to survive in a competitive business environment and they employ various kinds of information systems. Business Process Management (BPM) system is a software system that integrated enterprise information systems based on processes, which is considered an essential element for managing inner and outer processes. Though the BPM system has been applied to major processes only so far, companies begin to extends target processes applied into enterprise wide. In such settings, not only exact but also efficient management of processes is required. The efficiency of BPM has two perspectives: one is the performance of users that handle assigned tasks, and the other is the performance of the Business Process (BP) engine that carries out execution of processes. In this paper, in order to deal with the seconde perspective, we develop Drum, Buffer, and Rope (DBR) method, which have been considered innovative Theory of Constraint (TOC) method in manufacturing domain, for efficient management of processes. A new method, BP-DBR, has been developed, and we show that it is effective for business processes. The effectiveness of the method has been proved in terms of efficiency measures such as average process completion time and average number of completed processes, through a series of simulations on real banking processes.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.154-167
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• 2004

The TOC/DBR and Six Sigma are the most attention-getting concepts for managing manufacturing companies in Korea. Using the ideas and methods of the TOC/DBR, companies can achieve a large reduction of work-in-process and finished-good inventories, significant improvement in scheduling performance, and substantial earnings increase. The Six Sigma approach derives the overall process of selecting the right projects based on their potential to improve performance metrics and selecting/training the right people to get the business results. These two concepts have different backgrounds and different viewpoints for production systems. So, if the two concepts collaborate each other, the synergy effects to innovate production systems can be expected. This paper proposes a new approach to implement the TOC/DBR concepts in production systems. This approach uses some concepts of Six Sigma which stresses educations, project approaches (step by step procedure using a Roadmap), and improvement philosophy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.470-475
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• 2002

An alternative to traditional production planning and control systems such as MRP and JIT is the drum-buffer-rope (DBR). Using the DBR system, companies can achieve a large reduction of work-in-process (WIP) and finished-goods inventories (FGI). significant improvement in scheduling performance, and substantial earnings increase. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of the DBR system in a serial production line. Using Markov process, we modeled a DBR system with three stages. For the model developed we analyze the system characteristics and then present an optimization model for system design. The system performance is also analyzed through sensitivity analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.55-63
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• 2003

Workflow Management System (WFMS) is a software system to support an efficient execution, control and management of complex business processes. Since traditional commercial systems mainly focus on automating processes, they don't have methods for enhancing the task performer's efficiency. In this paper, we propose a new method of executing business processes more efficiently in that a whole process is scheduled considering the degree of the participants' workload. The method allows managing the largest constraints among constituent resources of the process. We utilize DBR scheduling techniques to develop the method. We first consider the differences between workflow process models and DBR application models, and then develop the modified drum, buffer and rope. This leads us to develop WF-DBR (WorkFlow-DBR) that can control the proper size of the task performers' work list and arrival rate of process instances. Use of WF-DBR improves the efficiency of the whole process as well as the participants' working condition. We then carry out a set of simulation experiments and compare the effectiveness of our approach with that of scheduling techniques used in existing systems.

• IE interfaces
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.341-347
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• 2001

This paper describes a real-time manufacturing scheduling system on Internet using DBR(Drum-Buffer-Rope) scheduling method. We intend to change company-oriented manufacturing scheduling, which has been used at most manufacturing companies, to customer-oriented manufacturing scheduling. Customers can not only choose product kinds, quantities and order due dates, but also evaluate optimum order due date by themselves in real-time through internet and then the results will be converted into practical manufacturing scheduling. If the company cannot meet the customer order due date, it will offer reliable and accurate information to the customers by suggesting the earliest order due date. To evaluate the customer order due date in real time, companies should be able to estimate their accurate production capacity. This research uses Goldratt's DBR scheduling method to realize that function. The DBR scheduling does not recognize the production capacity of the whole company, but only of the constraint resources which have a great effect on the company throughput. Thus, it can improve the customer service level as well as the profit by performing more dynamic and reliable scheduling through Internet.