• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2002

Leading companies have embraced the new economy with new and innovative BTO models. Instead of conventional company-oriented manufacturing scheduling, customer-oriented scheduling method attracts more and more attention. To evaluate the delivery of customer order in advance, the real production capacity as well as procurement lead time should be taken into account. This paper describes a quasi-real-time order delivery estimation system using TOC(Theory of Constraints) based scheduling method.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.287-291
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• 2000

고객의 요구는 더욱더 개성화, 다양화되고 있고, 글로벌 시장은 다양한 가치관, 문화, 전통을 바탕으로 지역적인 개성을 추구한다. 전 세계에 그물처럼 엮어진 인터넷망은 시간과 거리의 제약을 완전히 없앴다. 기업은 국가와 대륙을 초월한 세계 무대에서 치열한 경쟁을 전개하고 있다. 이러한 상황에서 고객의 요구를 파악하여 이에 부합되는 제품의 생산 및 판매가 기업 경영에 있어서 주요 이슈로 등장하고 있으며, 이러한 추세는 제품 개발 기술의 보편화로 고객에 대한 서비스의 차별화로 집중되고 있다. 이런 수요를 충족시키기 해서는 CRM(Customer Relationship Management) 개념이 도입되어야 하고, 제조공정을 개선하며 경쟁력을 강화하기 위해서는 모든 기업이 고객의 가치를 최대화 할 수 있는 동기화 생산이 필수적이라고 하겠다. 본 연구에서는 CRM의 고객정보분류 방법 중 하나인 FART(F;Frequency, R;Recency, A;Amount, T;Type of merchandise/service)를 이용하여 주요고객을 분류하고, 이 정보를 Drum-Buffer-Rope 스케줄링 방법에 반영하여 기업의 생산능력과 우수고객 주문을 고려한 일정계획 방법을 제시한다. 이 결과로 우수고객에 대한 서비스 수준을 향상시키고 궁극적으로는 기업의 이윤을 최대화하는데 기여하고자 한다.

• 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 Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.40-44
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• 2004

A fact that limits a company's ability to achieve more of its goal is referred to as a 'constraint' shipbuilding industries need to identify and manage constraints. The theory of constraints is evolved out of the problems of bottleneck formation. This happens and is conserved for the formulation if various real time problems for arriving standard uniquely addressed problems If, for example, the goal of a shipbuilding industry is to make money now and in the future, it is suggested that TOC will enable th mangers of the company to do so. TOC, focuses the organization scare resources on improving the performance of the true constraints, and therefore the bottom line of the organization. An attempt is made for the implantation of the theory into real world shipyard decision support mechanism.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.105-114
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• 2002

Nowadays, most companies seek after the greatest profit by means of offering the goods which consumers want timely and efficiently and minimizing the cost of inventory and distribution channel which amounts to the great portion of total cost. And according as EC(Electronic Commerce) market has increased rapidly, SCM(Supply Chain Management) for EC become one of the most important facts for companies, therefore this paper suggest SCM scheme which EC, especially B to C, is added to the existing commerce system. This paper uses internet for information integration of distribution channel which is away from one another and applies TOC(Theory of Constraint)'s DBR(Drum-Buffer-Rope) Scheduling for synchronization through the whole supply chain. It is possible to synchronize the whole supply chain by means of making the speed of manufacturing and distribution to be controlled by consumer's order which is received in distribution center, and inventory and loss of sales opportunities are minimized by constant. Buffer Management. If inventories in distribution center is short, then it needs to search CCR(Capacity Constraint Resource) in supply chain and to control the speed of manufacturing and distribution according to the ability of CCR. This paper applies PT(Partial Transshipment) strategy for Delivery from distribution center to store or cyber consumer. the strategy this paper suggests chooses neighbour area from area which each distribution center takes charge, and then makes product ordered by cyber consumer which lives in the chosen area to be delivered according to inventory of distribution center.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.130-139
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• 2016

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the problems and the sources of defective products and draw improvement plans in a small plastic boat manufacturing process using TOC (Theory Of Constraints) and statistical analysis. TOC is a methodology to present a scheme for optimization of production process by finding the CCR (Capacity Constraints Resource) in the organization or the all production process through the concentration improvement activity. In this paper, we found and reformed constraints and bottlenecks in plastic boat manufacturing process in the target company for less defect ratio and production cost by applying DBR (Drum, Buffer, Rope) scheduling. And we set the threshold values for the critical process variables using statistical analysis. The result can be summarized as follows. First, CCRs in inventory control, material mix, and oven setting were found and solutions were suggested by applying DBR method. Second, the logical thinking process was utilized to find core conflict factors and draw solutions. Third, to specify the solution plan, experiment data were statistically analyzed. Data were collected from the daily journal addressing the details of 96 products such as temperature, humidity, duration and temperature of heating process, rotation speed, duration time of cooling, and the temperature of removal process. Basic statistics and logistic regression analysis were conducted with the defection as the dependent variable. Finally, critical values for major processes were proposed based on the analysis. This paper has a practical importance in contribution to the quality level of the target company through theoretical approach, TOC, and statistical analysis. However, limited number of data might depreciate the significance of the analysis and therefore it will be interesting further research direction to specify the significant manufacturing conditions across different products and processes.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.22-33
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• 2018

Recently domestic manufacturing companies have been experiencing worsening profitability and stunted growth due to the long-term economic recession and the rapid rise of developing countries such as China and Southeast Asia. These difficulties force many companies to concentrate their core competencies on new value creation and innovation in order to gain momentum for new growth. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been considered as one of viable solutions. Among the various modules in ERP, shop floor control function in the production management module is rather limited. In order to overcome this problem, Manufacturing Execution System (MES) has been used as a subsystem which has a strong information gathering power and flexibility. Both systems interact closely with each other. In particular, ERP requires fast, accurate shop floor information at MES. This paper describes how to synchronize relevant information between ERP and MES with theory of constraints (TOC). The processing time information transmitted from the MES workplace is received at the ERP workplace. In the process, the received processing time is causing information distortion in ERP, when the information gathering standard of MES is different from the ERP information interpretation standard. The Drum-Buffer-Rope theory of TOC was applied to resolve this problem, therefore, information synchronization between both systems was made. As a precondition, the standard time of the upper ERP system was rearranged according to the capacity constraints resource. As a result, standard time restructuring has affected changes in labor costs. Standard labor costs have come close to actual ones, and information synchronization of MES transmission data has improved the reliability of standard product costs, such that it enabled various company-wide restructuring actions to be much more effective.