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Operational Performance Evaluation of Korean Major Container Terminals

  • Lu, Bo;Park, Nam-Kyu
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.34 no.9
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    • pp.719-726
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    • 2010
  • As the competition among the container terminals in Korea has become increasingly fierce, every terminal is striving to increase its investments constantly and lower its operational costs in order to maintain the competitive edge and provide satisfactory services to terminal users. The unreasoning behavior, however, has induced that substantial waste and inefficiency exists in container terminal production. Therefore, it is of great importance for the terminal to know whether it has fully used its existing infrastructures and that output has been maximized given the input. From this perspective, data envelopment analysis (DEA) provides a more appropriate benchmark. This study applies three models of DEA to acquire a variety of analytical results about the operational efficiency to the Korean container terminals. According to efficiency value analysis, this study first finds the reason of inefficiency. It is followed by identification of the potential areas of improvement for inefficient terminals by applying slack variable method and giving the projection results. Finally, return to scale approach is used to assess whether each terminal is in a state of increasing, decreasing, or constant return to scale. The results of this study can provide terminal managers with insight into resource allocation and optimization of the operating performance.

A Study on the Reformation of Certified Fire Fighting Specialists - Focused on Fire Protection System Managers - (소방전문자격사제도의 개선에 관한 연구 - 소방시설관리사를 중심으로 -)

  • Oh, Hyeong-Geun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.6 no.4 s.23
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2006
  • This research analyzed the operational status of fire protection system managers who execute self inspection of the fire equipment in the specific fire protection facilities and presented the improvement scheme. Being made up inquiry for job environment, institutional environment, and operational environment for the subject of fire protection system managers who execute self inspection to complement the fire equipment inspection by city public fire protection service, the issues of the operational status of the institution of fire protection system managers were positively understood. The research result showed the conflict among building owner, fire equipment inspector, and fire protection system manager was existed due to the legal and institutional inertia to the self inspection, so it is judged that mutual complementary and cooperative relation should be established.

Analysis of Expectation Factors for the Activation of Smart Farms for ICT Technology Convergence in Response to COVID-19 (COVID-19 대응 ICT 기술융합 스마트팜 활성화에 따른 기대요인 분석)

  • Park, Byung Kwon;Choi, Hyung Rim;Kang, Da Yeon
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.45-62
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    • 2022
  • Purpose Smart farms play a leading role in changing the safety food culture for the citizens. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that are important to covid 19-response in the case of ICT smart farm. To do so, we classified the factors as operating effect aspect and industrial wave effect aspect of the smart farm. Design/methodology/approach This study was conducted by visiting Geumsan County, which is attempting to perform a smart farm. Through interviewing farmers representatives based on their operational effect expectations on the smart farm, we derived the industrial crash effect factors and thereafter designed the research model. This study applied AHP, which is an expert decision-making method cans be used to measure relative importance for determining priorities. After interviewing the experts with smart farm, we obtained the factors which are important to smart farm development. Findings According to analysis, the productivity improvement factor was ranked as the most important among the operational effect items. This is consistent with the ultimate goal of smart farms with ICT convergence technology, which is increase the profitability of agriculture. The second place is the factor in the development of infrastructure and infrastructure, and the third and fifth positions were export expansion, environmentally friendly management, and job creation in terms of operational effectiveness.

A Study on the Strengthening of Smart Factory Security in OT (Operational Technology) Environment (OT(Operational Technology) 환경에서 스마트팩토리 보안 강화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Young Ho Kim;Kwang-Kyu Seo
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2024
  • Major countries are trying to expand the construction of smart factories by introducing ICT such as the Internet of Things, cloud, and big data into the manufacturing sector to secure national-level manufacturing competitiveness in the era of the 4th industrial revolution. In addition, Germany is pushing for Industry 4.0 to build a fully automatic production system through the Internet of Things, and China is pushing for the expansion of smart factories to enhance the country's industrial competitiveness through Made in China 2025, Japan's intelligent manufacturing system, and the Korean government's manufacturing innovation 3.0. In this study, considering the increasing security connectivity of smart factories, we would like to identify security threats in the external connection part of smart factories and suggest security enhancement measures based on domestic and international standard security models to respond to the identified security threats. Eventually the proposed method can be applied by accurately identifying the smart factory security status, diagnosing vulnerabilities, establishing appropriate improvement plans, and expanding security strategies to respond to security threats.

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Operational Situation lf Dental Saboratories in Korea (한국의 치과기공소 운영실태)

  • Lee, Byoung-Ki
    • Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.25-41
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    • 1988
  • In order to provide the National Dental Health Program with dasic data, and to implove the laborartory managent style, the author studied the operational situations of dental lads through questionaire. The results are as follows, 1. Unlicensured personnel should be replaced by the licensured(from present rate lf 49.2% licensured to more than80%) 2. Minimum wage guarantee system as well as well as oage raise should be established. 3. Monthly balancing accounts system and bepreciation reserve accounts system should be established for the reasonable management. 4. Manufacturing period should be elongated from presnt 2.8 days to 5-7 days for quality betterment of the processes. 5. Medical insurance system should be applied to the dental processes. 6. Manufacturing cost should be increased by 35%. 7. Retirement grants lr retirement annuity system, improvement of occupational environ-ment, and holidays incentives, and participation in medical insurance system should be adopted for the wellfare of the dental technicians. 8. Laboratory managers should operate the lads with pride and valuation. 9. Business Management course should be included in the curriculum of the dental labo-ratory school. 10. Good relationship between Korean Association of Dental Laboratory Technicians and local laboratories shorld be improved.

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Stability Improvement of the Ultra-High Speed Micro Turbocharger Supported by Air Foil Bearings (공기 포일 베어링으로 지지되는 초고속 마이크로 터보차져의 구동 안정성 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Kwak, Yong-Suk;Kim, Chang-Ho;Chung, Jin-Taek;Lee, Yong-Bok
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.32 no.7
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    • pp.541-548
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    • 2008
  • To improve the operational stability of the 100 Watts class Micro Gas Turbine, the air foil bearing with additional damping material has been investigated. The key of structure is that a viscoelastic material is coated under the top foil. The compliant foil journal bearing and thrust bearing are designed to withstand high load of vibrations at the operational speed 870,000 rpm. Test is executed in room temperature. Rotor has stably operated above 480,000 rpm. It is over 55% of the designed speed 870,000 rpm. Synchronous and subsynchronous vibrations are both well controlled. Vibration amplitude diminished over 50%. With the help of increased damping resulting from the viscoelasticity, the rotor stability of Micro turbocharger has been improved.

Development of Three Phase Optimal Power Flow for Distributed Generation Systems (분산전원계통을 위한 3상 최적조류계산 프로그램 개발)

  • Song, Hwa-Chang;Cho, Sung-Koo
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.59 no.5
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    • pp.882-889
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents a method of finding the optimal operating point minimizing a given objective function with 3 phase power flow equations and operational constraints, called 3 phase optimal power flow (3POPF). 3 phase optimal power flow can provide operation and control strategies for the distribution systems with distributed generation assets, which might be frequently in unbalanced conditions assuming that high penetration rate of renewable energy sources in the systems. As the solution technique for 3POPF, this paper adopts a simulation-based method of particle swarm optimization (PSO). In the PSO based 3POPF, a utility function needs to be defined for evaluation of the degree in operational improvement of each particle's current position. To evaluate the utility function, in this paper, NR-based 3 phase power flow algorithm was developed which can deal with looped distributed generation systems. In this paper, illustrative examples with a 5-bus and a modified IEEE 37-bus test systems are given.

Design of the floating point multiplier performing IEEE rounding and addition in parallel (IEEE 반올림과 덧셈을 동시에 수행하는 부동 소수점 곱셈 연산기 설계)

  • 박우찬;정철호
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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    • v.34C no.11
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    • pp.47-55
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    • 1997
  • In general, processing flow of the conventional floating-point multiplication consists of either multiplication, addition, normalization, and rounding stage of the conventional floating-point multiplier requries a high speed adder for increment, increasing the overall execution time and occuping a large amount of chip area. A floating-point multiplier performing addition and IEEE rounding in parallel is designed by using the carry select addder used in the addition stage and optimizing the operational flow based on the charcteristics of floating point multiplication operation. A hardware model for the floating point multiplier is proposed and its operational model is algebraically analyzed in this paper. The proposed floating point multiplier does not require and additional execution time nor any high spped adder for rounding operation. Thus, performance improvement and cost-effective design can be achieved by this suggested approach.

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An Empirical Study on Performance of Six Sigma Tools in Korean Service Industry (한국 서비스산업의 6시그마 기법 시행과 그 성과에 관한 실증적 연구)

  • 장대성;양종곤;황인천
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2004
  • Six sigma has been the most influential management innovation program since 1996 in Korea. As a result of successful implementation of 6 sigma, there have been a number of dramatic quality improvement cases. However, no empirical study of 6 sigma implementation study has done especially in the service industry of Korea. This article reviews status of finance companies which implemented 6 sigma programs in Korea and then demonstrates the relationship between 6 sigma problem solving tools such as analysis of variance and graph techniques, etc and project success and operational performance. Customer survey tools, process analysis, and documentation tool are identified as influential tools on project success. Tools of measure steps, customer survey tools, and documentation tool are found as influential tools on operational performance.

Advanced Block Matching Algorithm for Motion Estimation and Motion Compensation

  • Cho, Hyo-Moon;Cho, Sang-Bock
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.23-25
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    • 2007
  • The partial distortion elimination (PDE) scheme is used to decrease the sum of absolute difference (SAD) computational complexity, since the SAD calculation has been taken much potion of the video compression. In motion estimation (ME) based on PDE, it is ideal that the initial value of SAD in summing performance has large value. The traditional scan order methods have many operation time and high operational complexity because these adopted the division or multiplication. In this paper, we introduce the new scan order and search order by using only adder. We define the average value which is called to rough average value (RAVR). Which is to reduce the computational complexity and increase the operational speed and then we can obtain the improvement of SAD performance. And also this RAVR is used to decide the search order sequence, since the difference RAVR between the current block and candidate block is small then this candidate block has high probability to suitable candidate. Thus, our proposed algorithm combines above two main concepts and suffers the improving SAD performance and the easy hardware implementation methods.

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