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Automatic Pipeline Welding System with Self-Diagnostic Function and Laser Vision Sensor

  • Kim, Yong-Baek;Moon, Hyeong-Soon;Kim, Jong-Cheol;Kim, Jong-Jun;Choo, Jeong-Bog
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1137-1140
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    • 2005
  • Automatic welding has been used frequently on pipeline projects. The productivity and reliability are most essential features of the automatic welding system. The mechanized GMAW process is the most widely used welding process and the carriage and band system is most effective welding system for pipeline laying. This application-oriented paper introduces new automatic welding equipment for pipeline construction. It is based on cutting-edge design and practical welding physics to minimize downtime. This paper also describes the control system which was designed and implemented for new automatic welding equipment. The system has the self diagnostic function which facilitates maintenance and repairs, and also has the network function via which the welding task data can be transmitted and the welding process data can be monitored. The laser vision sensor was designed for narrow welding groove in order to implement higher accuracy of seam tracking and fully automatic operation.

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Necessity of Reliability Theory and Establishment of Effective Education System (신뢰성이론의 필요성과 효과적인 교육시스템 구축)

  • Park, Dong Ho
    • Journal of Applied Reliability
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.257-262
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    • 2016
  • Recently, the subject of reliability attracts a great deal of domestic and international attentions and the extensive research activities are being conducted as well. Such trend exists mainly due to the fact that the research on the subject of reliability not only contributes to the theoretical developments, but also may find a wide range of applications in practice over several fields. In particular, the research regarding the maintenance policy incorporating certain types of warranty for repairable system and its application is being performed extensively by many researchers, and their efforts seem more concentrated on developing new maintenance policies which minimize the expected operating cost incurred for replacement and repair of the system, while keeping the system at high reliability. Effective maintenance policy may reduce the operating cost and decrease the downtime of the system during its mission period and consequently, increase the productivity of the system. In this article, the major areas of interest in the field of reliability and its historic perspectives are given briefly and the theoretical aspects in several fields of reliability including the maintenance and warranty policies is also discussed. Furthermore, the current domestic situation regarding the education and research on reliability is presented, along with the importance of reliability theory and the difficulty of training reliability personnel. Finally, the author's opinion for effective education system is proposed.

File System Snapshot (파일 시스템 스냅샷)

  • Suk, Jin-Sun;No, Jae-Chun
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.47 no.4
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    • pp.88-95
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    • 2010
  • As the development of IT technologies, storages stored very sensitive data which should not be damaged, too. It increased the importance of data backup and makes the time need to backup data important issues. Snapshot is one of the backup technologies which needs short downtime to maintain consistency of data during backup data. In this paper, we studied two kinds of snapshots, local file system based snapshot and network file system based snapshot. In the local file system based snapshot part, we propose the PSnap which is a snapshot library for non-snapshot file system as like Ext2, Ext3 and XFS. In another part, network file system based snapshot, we propose the GlorySnap which snapshot utilities for GloryFS is a distributed file system was made by ETRI.

Experimental Investigation of the Bow Configuration Influence on the Green Water on FPSO (FPSO 갑판 침입수 현상에 대한 선수부 형상 영향의 실험적 고찰)

  • Lee, Hyun-Ho;Lim, Ho-Jeong;Rhee, Shin-Hyung
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2009
  • The green water on deck has many harmful effects on the vessel in rough seas such as damages to hull structures, damages to cargos, increase of the downtime, decrease of the stability, and so on. Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSOs) are operated in a specific location and are normally positioned to meet mostly head or bow waves in order to reduce the roll motions. But this makes FPSOs more vulnerable to green water around the bow region therefore the bow shape should be properly designed to mitigate the green water damage. In this paper, experimental results in regular head waves for three kinds of bow shapes are compared and some design considerations are proposed, with the building a database for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) validation in mind.

Availability Analysis of (n,k) Cluster Web Server System using Software Rejuvenation Method over Switchover ((n,k) 클러스터 웹서버 시스템의 작업전이를 고려한 소프트웨어 재활기법의 가용도 분석)

  • 강창훈
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.227-234
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    • 2002
  • An cluster web server system, one has the problem that does the low availability occured by the high chance of the server failures and it is not easy to provide high performance and availability occuring software aging. In this paper, running cluster web sewers consists of n primary servers and k backup servers, propose software rejuvenation model on performance and switchover time. Based on the various system operational parameters, we calculate to evaluate the rejuvenation policy such steady-state probabilities, availability, and downtime cost. And we validate the solutions of mathematical model by experiments based on various operation parameters and fud that the software rejuvenation method can be adopted as prventive fault tolerant technique for stability of system.

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Multi-modal treatment strategy for achieving an aesthetic lower face

  • Jeong, Tae Kwang;Chung, Chang Ho;Min, Kyung Hee
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.256-262
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    • 2020
  • Background Most women consider an oval-shaped face to be youthful and beautiful. In recent years, demand has grown for surgical procedures with a shorter downtime and fewer complications. These minimally invasive procedures include botulinum toxin type A (BoNTA) injection, filler injection, suction-assisted liposuction (SAL), laser-assisted lipolysis (LAL), thread lifting, and fat grafting. This study aims to introduce an effective method for creating an aesthetically pleasing lower face using a combination of minimally invasive procedures. Methods From March 2017 to March 2019, 94 patients simultaneously underwent LAL, SAL, and thread lifting. Ancillary procedures such as BoNTA injections, hyaluronic acid filler injections, and removal of the buccal fat pad (BFP) were selectively performed according to the patient's condition. Results Patients rated their postoperative satisfaction as very satisfied, satisfied, dissatisfied, or very dissatisfied. Approximately 83% of all respondents were satisfied with the results, whereas the remaining respondents had complaints regarding the outcomes. The most common reasons for dissatisfaction were a longer-than-expected recovery time and undercorrection, and the most severe complaint was skin depression as a result of overcorrection. Conclusions Our method of simultaneously performing LAL, SAL, and thread lifting, while adding BoNTA, filler injections, and BFP removal as needed, was capable of producing consistent and reliable aesthetic outcomes for the lower face.

Study on the Time Improvement of Interrupt Program by SFC (SFC언어에서 인터럽트 프로그램 시간개선에 관한 연구)

  • You, Jeong-Bong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.5134-5139
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    • 2013
  • Ladder Diagram(LD) or Sequential Function Chart(SFC) is used for the design of complex modern control system with Programmable logic controller(PLC). LD is the most widely utilized among PLC standard language. But recently, SFC is used frequently. SFC is very easy to grasp the sequential flow of control logic but is difficult for describing combinational logic. When the interrupt factor is occurred, the main program is stopped. And after the interrupt program is completed, the main program is restart. Therefore the more complex the interrupt program, the main program is interrupted downtime will be that much longer. In this paper, we propose the method for interrupt implementation without the dwell time of the main program by SFC language and confirm his feasibility through the simulation.

A Divece for Reducing the Zero phaze Harmonics of Neutral Line of Power Facility (전기수용설비의 중성선 영상분고조파전류저감장치)

  • Kang, Chang-Won;Choi, Gil-Soo;Han, Sung-Bae;Kim, Bum-Soo;Chung, Yeon-Hae;Lee, Ki-Cheol
    • Electric Engineers Magazine
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    • v.228 no.8
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2001
  • Wide use of non-linear loads such as personal computers, monitors, laser printers, variable speed drives, UPS systems and other electronic equipment have led to harmonics becoming #1 issue in the electrical industry today. Commercial and Industrial building power distribution systems, designed for the old, linear-style loads especially when found in high densities. Some common power system problems include overloaded neutral conductors, overheated distribution transfOlmers, high neutral-to-ground voltage, poor power factor and distortion of the voltage waveform supplying these loads. The power quality problems, particularly high voltage distortion, have been known to cause equipment downtime due to malfunctions and component failure.

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Diagnosing the Cause of Operational Faults in Machine Tools with an Open Architecture CNC

  • Kim Dong Hoon;Kim Sun Ho;Song Jun-Yeob
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.8
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    • pp.1597-1610
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    • 2005
  • The conventional computerized numerical controller (CNC) of machine tools has been increasingly replaced by a PC-based open architecture CNC (OAC) that is independent of a CNC vendor. The OAC and machine tools with an OAC have led to a convenient environment in which user-defined applications can be efficiently implemented within a CNC. This paper proposes a method of diagnosing the cause of operational faults. The method is based on the status of a programmable logic controller in machine tools with an OAC. An operational fault is defined as a disability that occurs during the normal operation of machine tools. Operational faults constitute more than 70 percent of all faults and are also unpredictable because most of them occur without any warning. To quickly and correctly diagnose the cause of an operational fault, two diagnostic models are proposed: the switching function and the step switching function. The cause of the fault is logically diagnosed through a fault diagnosis system using diagnostic models. A suitable interface environment between a CNC and developed application modules is constructed to implement the diagnostic functions in the CNC domain. The results of the diagnosis were displayed on a CNC monitor for machine operators and transmitted to a remote site through a Web browser. The proposed diagnostic method and its results were useful to unskilled machine operators and reduced the machine downtime.

Intelligent Motor Control System Based on CIP (CIP 기반의 지능형 전동기 제어 시스템)

  • Kim, On;Choi, Seong-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.307-312
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    • 2020
  • This paper proposed intelligent motor control system that replaced smart motor devices, such as motor protection relays, smart circuit breakers and variable speed drives, with one integrated module to perform efficient motor control at industrial sites. The proposed intelligent motor control system provides easy monitoring of critical data for each motor or load connected to an intelligent motor control system over a CIP(Common Industrial Protocol)-based network, which enables accurate process control at all times, real-time access to fault information and records to simplify diagnosis and minimize equipment downtime.