• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1101-1107
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• 2005

Mold industry has the difficulty to employ young people as the successors of the skilled workers, because it has been regarded as a 3D-jobs(dirty, difficult, and dangerous). To overcome this situation, thus, manufacturing technologies maintained in the factory should be systemized, and engineering systems should support unskilled workers to do their jobs without any difficulty. As a research of developing the supporting system, this study proposes a decision support system that facilitates unskilled workers to easily select high quality NC-data, as well as to increase productivity. The proposed system is assumed to follow a CAM operation scenario that consists of next three steps: 1) identifying several process plans and enumerating feasible unit machining operations (UMOs) from material and part surface information, 2) creating all feasible NC-data based on UMOs using a commercial CAM system, 3) selecting the best NC data among the feasible NC data using four screening criteria, such as machining accuracy, machining allowance, cutting load, and processing time. A case study on the machining of a camera core mold is provided to demonstrate the proposed system.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.179-185
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• 2000

Square dies are widely used for hot extrusion processes with high production rate, however, the design and manufacture of square dies mainly relies on experience of industrial engineers. To overcome such difficulty, this study presents a method of automatic generation of NC-codes for the manufacture of extrusion square dies. The result shows that the method can reduce the lead-time for the design and manufacture of square dies.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.291-296
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• 2009

This paper presents a post-processing algorithm for 5-axis machines with three rotary axes (3R-2L type). 5-axis machining needs the postprocessor for converting cutter location (CL) data to machine control (NC) data. The existing methods for post-processing use inverse kinematics equations from for-ward kinematics. However in case of 5-axis machines with three rotary axes, the inverse kinematics equations are not induced directly since the forward kinematics equations are non-linear. In order to get the joint values from the forward kinematics equations, previous algorithms use numerical method for the post-processing, which needs searching algorithms with computation time and may result in fail. This paper proposes a geometric method for the post-processing of 3 rotary type 5-axis machines. Our algorithm has three advantages: first, it does not need establishing forward kinematics equations. Second, it is reliable method that eliminates any numerical methods for the inverse kinematics, resulting in the exact solution. Finally, the proposed algorithm can also be applied to 2R-3L type of 5-axis machines.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.69-78
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• 2001

This paper presents a process and operation planning system and an NC code post-processor for effective machining of press dies for production of cars. Based on the machining feature, major parts of press dies are categorized into 15 groups and a standard process plan is defined for each group. The standard process plan consists of a series of processes where a process is defined as a group of operations that can be done with one setup. Details such as cutting tools, cutting conditions, and tool paths are decided at the operation planning stage. At the final stage of process and operation planning, the NC code post-processor adjusts feedrates along the tool path to reduce machining time while maintaining the quality. The adjustment rule is selected based on the machining load estimated by virtual machining.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.7
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• pp.2188-2195
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• 2000

This paper deals with the problem of determining small-bands enclosing a given set of points on the sphere. The small-band is a spherical region, whose boundary is composed of two circles, and which does not contain any great circle. It is a kind of domains that is derived from formalizing the local accessibility problems for 3-axis NC machining into sperical containment problems so as to avoid the grouping. It also can be generated in 4- and 5-axis machine. When a set of points U and the size of a great-band are given, the methods for computing a feasible band and all feasible bands enclosing U in O(n) and O(n log n) time have been suggested, respectively. The methods can be applied into the cases of small bands since the solution region may contain holes. In this paper, we concentrate on the method for determining the smallest small-band enclosing U and suggest an O(n long n) time algorithm, where n is the number of points on the sphere.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.793-796
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• 2005

금형공장의 생산 일정관리에 있어서 실제 가공작업에 대한 실적데이터의 집계는 매우 중요하지만, 이러한 작업상황을 기록하는 것에 대해서 현장 작업자는 비협조적이고 반감을 갖고 있는 실정이다. 현장에서는 작업자의 개입없이 CNC 장비의 컨트롤러와의 직접적인 인터페이스를 통해서 신호를 추출하고 자동으로 작업상황을 파악할 수 있는 시스템을 구축하려고 시도하고 있지만, 컨트롤러 메이커마다 다르게 적용해야 하고 많은 비용을 요구한다. 이러한 이유로 본 연구에서는 저가의 PC 카메라를 장비에 설치하여 가공상황에 대한 동영상을 수집하고 영상처리 알고리즘을 적용하여 가공시간을 집계하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 CNC 컨트롤러에 독립적으로 운용되며 저렴하게 시스템을 구축할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 무인가공과 유인가공 상황에 시범적으로 적용 및 운영함으로써 시스템의 활용가능성을 살펴보았다.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.153-161
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• 2008

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for deriving inverse kinematics equation of 5-axis machine. Because the joint order and direction of 5-axis machine are different for each type of machine, each type of machine needs its own inverse kinematics equation for post-processing of NC data. Also derived inverse kinematics equation may cause problems of indeterminate and inconsistent solution. In order to resolve these problems, we have developed a generic method to derive direct kinematics equation by considering orthogonal joints of 5-axis machines. Using this method, we also have proposed a general algorithm for deriving inverse kinematics equation for various types of 5-axis machines.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.137-140
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• 2000

DNC(Direct Numerical Control) Network을 위한 프로그램을 효율적으로 하기 위해 현재 많은 시스템들이 개발되어 사용되고 있다. 그러나 이 시스템들은 원거리 상의 컴퓨터와 머시닝 센터의 제어기 간의 상호 연결이 원만하지 않아 작업에 비효율적인 면이 있고, 또 머시닝 센터에서의 데이터 송ㆍ수신에서 일어나는 오류 문제에 대한 시스템으로의 적절한 대처를 할 수가 없다는 문제점이 있다. 그래서, 본 논문에서는 DNC Network을 통해 머시닝 센터 제어기에서 컴퓨터의 데이터를 오류 없이 수신 가능한 데이터 원격 제어 시스템을 새로이 구성하였다. 이 데이터 원격 제어 시스템의 주요 장점으로는 기존에 일방향으로 구동되어지던 머시닝센터와 컴퓨터간의 Communication을 머시닝 센터에서 운영자가 자유로이 접근하여 컴퓨터에 저장된 NC 가공 데이터 호출과 송출이 자유롭고, 컴퓨터와 공작기계간의 상호 대화가 없이도 NC 공작기계 상에서 원격 제어(Remote Control)가 가능하다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.62-69
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• 1996

Interpolator is a very important element in NC machines in that it controls tool path and speed. In this paper, studied were extensive interpolation characteristics of reference pulse method among various interpolation and pulse generation methods. Specifically, processing speed and path error of DDA, SPD and SFG methods were compared and analyzed against line, circle and elipse. As a result, in the point of processing speed, SPD method was found to be the best for line interpolation, SFG method for circle and ellipse, and DDA method was found to be the slowest for all paths. In the point of path error, DDA method was found to have the biggest error for all kinds of paths.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.63-73
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• 2001

This paper presents a process and operation planning system with an NC code post-processor for effective machining of press dies for production of cars. Based on the machining features, major parts of press dies are categorized into 15 groups and a standard process plan is defined for each group. The standard process plan consists of a series of processes where a process is defined as a group of operations that can be done with one setup. Details such as cutting tools, cutting conditions, and tool paths are decided at the operation planning stage. At the final stage of process and operation planning, the NC code post-processor we developed adjusts feedrates along the tool path to reduce machining time. The adjustment rule is selected based on the metal removal rate estimated by virtually machining with virtual cutting tool.