• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.55-61
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• 2014

The autoignition temperature (AIT) of a material is the lowest temperature at which the substance will spontaneously ignite in the absence of an external ignition source such as a spark or flame. The AIT may be used as combustion property to specify operating, storage, and materials handling procedures for processs safety. This study measured the AITs of n-Propanol+n-Decane system from ignition delay time(time lag) by using ASTM E659 apparatus. The AITs of n-Propanol and n-Decane which constituted binary system were $435^{\circ}C$ and $212^{\circ}C$, respectively. The experimental AITs of n-Propanol+n-Decane system were a good agreement with the calculated AITs by the proposed equations with a few A.A.D(average absolute deviation).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.121-129
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• 2000

In this paper, we discuss how to operate a buffer yard in an automated container terminal, which will be used for resolving the difficulties to which the interaction between external manned trucks and internal unmanned equipment led. The determination of fleet size of material handling equipment is an important issue in designing of buffer yard in automated container terminals. This research also addresses the issue of determining buffer capacities through simulation. By using response surface methodology (RSM) for efficient experimentation, the optimal combination of design parameters under applicable operational strategies is obtained.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.116-122
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• 2004

This paper presents a process plan selection model with multiple objectives. The process plans for all parts should be selected under multiple objective environment as follows: (1) minimizing the sum of machine processing and material handling time of all the parts considering realistic shop factors such as production volume, processing time, machine capacity, and capacity of transfer device. (2) balancing the load between machines. A multiple objective mathematical model is proposed and an evolutionary algorithm with the adaptive recombination strategy is developed to solve the model. To illustrate the efficiency of proposed approach, numerical examples are presented. The proposed approach is found to be effective in offering a set of satisfactory Pareto solutions within a satisfactory CPU time in a multiple objective environment.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.137-151
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• 1995

A difficult problem in operating Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) is to control the system in real-time by coordinating heterogeneous machines and integrating distributed information. The objective of the paper is to present the models and methodologies useful to resolve the difficult problem. The detailed objectives can be described in three folds. First, a hierarchical Colored and Timed Petri-Net (CTPN) is designed to control an FMS in real-time. The concerned FMS consists of a loading station, several machining cells, a material handling system, and an unloading station. Timed-transitions are used to represent the timed-events such as AGV movements between stations and cells, part machining activities in the cells. Signal places are also used to represent communication status between the host and the cell controllers. To resolve the event conflicts and scheduling problems, dispatching rules are introduced and applied. Second, an implementation methodology used to monitor and diagnose the errors occurring on the machines during system operation is proposed. Third, a Petri-Net simulator is developed to experiment with the designed control logic.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.126-129
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• 2009

In this study, it was aimed to develop the re-use technology of ultra-fine silicon powders, by-products during the current production process of high purity poly-Si feedstock. For this goal, the compacts of the silicon powders were tried to fabricate by CIP (Cold Isostatic Pressing) method using silicon rubber mold without chemical binder materials. The density ratio of the silicon powder compacts reached 74%. In order to simulate the actual handling and charging conditions of feedstock material in casting process, a shaking test was carried out and mass loss measured. Finally, the silicon powder compacts were melted using a cold crucible induction melting method and the purity assessment was conducted by Hall effect measurement.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.41-54
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• 2000

in the real world situations that some jobs need be processed only on certain limited machines frequently occur due to the capacity restrictions of machines such as tools fixtures or material handling equipment. In this paper we consider n-job non-preemptive and m parallel machines scheduling problem having two machines group. The objective function is to minimize the sum of earliness and tardiness with different release times and due dates. The problem is formulated as a mixed integer programming problem. The problem is proved to be Np-complete. Thus a heuristic is developed to solve this problem. To illustrate its suitability and efficiency a proposed heuristic is compared with a genetic algorithm and tabu search for a large number of randomly generated test problems in ship engine assembly shop. Through the experimental results it is showed that the proposed algorithm yields good solutions efficiently.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.111-114
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• 1996

FMS(Flexible Manufacturing System)는 NC와 같이 다양한 종류의 공정을 수행할 수 있는 가공장비들이 자동화된 물류 운반 시스템(Material Handling System)으로 연결되어 있어 집중화된 제어 및 운용 시스템에 의해 여러 종류의 다양한 부품들을 동시에 가공할 수 있는 생산시스템으로 정의할 수 있다. FMS의 도입을 고려 중인 기업이 초기단계에서 가장 먼저 직면하게 의사결정 문제는 부품선정 문제이다. 즉, 현재 생산하고 있는 부품들 중에서 혹은 새로이 생산할 부품들 중에서 어떤 부품을 가공할 것인가를 결정하여야 한다. 이 문제의 중요성은 부품선정문제가 FMS의 운영에 필요한 가공장비, 치구 및 공구의 소요량 결정과 관련을 갖게되고 결과적으로는 FMS의 경제적 타당성 평가에 근본적인 영향을 미치게 된다. 본 연구에서는 FMS의 초기설계단계에서의 부품선택문제의 해결을 통한 FMS 경제적 타당성을 평가할 방법론 및 해결 방법을 제시할 것 이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.294-296
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• 1996

JIT(just-in-time) 생산시스템은 제조라인의 재공품 재고량을 최소화하고, 필요한 품목을 적시에 필요한 양만큼만 생산하여 공급하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이러한 시스템은 사용하는 칸반의 수에 따라 single-card kanban system과 two-card kanban system으로 구별할 수 있다. 또한 각 공정이 입력버퍼(input buffer)와 출력버퍼(output buffer)를 갖는 경우와 공정간에 하나의 버퍼를 갖는 경우로 나누어 볼 수 있다. 본 연구는 기계간의 물류(material handling)가 필요한 시점에 즉시 이루어진다는 가정하에 기계간 버퍼가 하나이고, 그 버퍼의 용량이 1인 경우의 single-card kanban의 효율적인 운용방안을 개발하였다. 본 연구의 목적은 생산지시칸반의 회수시기를 적절히 조절하여 생산라인의 이용효율(utilization)을 극대화하고자 하는 것이다. 칸반회수시기 결정을 위한 상황분석의 범위를 10대의 기계로 제한하여 시뮬레이션에 의해 분석하였다. 기존의 칸반운영방식과 생산라인에서의 재고를 최소화하는 운영 알고리듬, 그리고 생산기계의 효율을 최대화할 수 있는 운영 알고리듬을 개발하여 비교.분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.234-241
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• 1996

Trip-based material handling systems such as AGV systems, lift trucks, etc. are often designed with a given flow matrix (or FROM-TO chart) which is usually treated as the number of loaded trips that the devices must perform per unit time between the stations. In reality, the number of trips that would result from parts flow in a facility is dictated by the transfer batch size, i.e., the number of parts that are transferred from one station to the next in one trip. In this paper, we present analytical and simulation results aimed at determining optimal or near-optimal transfer batch sizes in manufacturing systems.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.125-135
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• 2007

An automated guided vehicle (AGV) system is a group of collaborating unmanned vehicles which is commonly used for transporting materials within manufacturing, warehousing, or distribution systems. The performance of an AGV system depends on the dispatching rules used to assign vehicles to pickup requests, the vehicle routing protocols, and the home location of idle vehicles, which are called dwell points. In manufacturing and distribution environments which emphasize just-in-time principles, performance measures for material handling are based on response times for pickup requests and equipment utilization. In an AGV system, the response time for a pickup request is the time that it takes for the vehicle to travel from its dwell point to the pickup station. In this article, an exact dynamic programming algorithm for selecting dwell points in a tandem-loop multiple-vehicle AGV system is presented. The objective of the model is to minimize the maximum response time for all pickup requests in a given shift. The recursive algorithm considers time restrictions on the availability of vehicles during the shift.