• IE interfaces
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.18-32
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• 2008

In recent, a general trend is observed towards more customized products and shorter product life cycles in manufacturing companies. In these companies, customers often wish to influence the product they order and to get a variant of product that meets their requirements. This environment is called as a customer-oriented manufacturing companies. This paper presents a procedure of product specification management for customer-oriented manufacturing companies by using product specification framework. This framework is founded on the product specification based product structure which is made of model, specification, function, and part. Also, a product specification management system(PSMS) is implemented by using the proposed product specification framework and is a core system in product data integration system. To illustrate an utilization of the proposed framework and procedure, a case of a ship engine product is applied. As a result, PSMS reduces delivery time and improves customer relationships. Moreover, the case shows that PSMS can be used as a tool for improving inter-department coordination within a company during product life cycle.

• International Journal of Quality Innovation
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-47
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• 2006

Client-supplier collaboration has been an imperative approach to new product development (NPD), in which a good product specification management system and practice is crucial to the assurance of product quality. This study investigates product specification management in client-supplier collaborative NPD. Based on the interviews and survey study, 12 problems and 13 good practices of product specification management are identified. It also compares the importance and degree of the implementation of the product specification practices in Hong Kong electronics industry. The results suggest that more intensive practices should be implemented for better product specification management.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.385-387
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• 2012

해양 분야에서는 최근 e-Navigation의 실현을 위해 국제수로기구의 S-100을 기반으로 다양한 해양 데이터 및 관련 데이터의 통합, 활용에 관한 표준 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 그리고 S-100을 기반으로 전자해도, 심해지형 등 해양 데이터를 제작, 배포하는 S-100 기반 product specification이 개발되고 있다. e-Navigation 환경에서 다양한 데이터를 통합, 활용하려면 해당 데이터들이 S-100 기반의 product specification에 따라 제작, 배포해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 안전 항해의 중요한 요소인 항로표지 정보를 S-100 기반의 시스템에서 통합, 활용할 수 있도록, 항로표지 데이터를 제작, 배포하는 가이드라인에 해당하는 항로표지 product specification을 개발하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.90-101
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• 2008

Korean defense specifications are the technical criteria of military products and major factor of acquisition system. Weapon systems and acquisition technique have been advanced dramatically after 1990's, but Korean defense specification practice standard has stayed after early 1980's except embedded software. The current status of current Korean defense specification practice standard and trend of related design and acquisition techniques like M&S, SBA, and digital manufacturing have been reviewed. This paper suggests that transfer to product, IT oriented specification structure, adaptation of digital product model and reinforcement of engineering management systems to establish a development initiative of Korean defense specification practice standard.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.141-154
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• 2007

Nowadays, customer-oriented manufacturing enterprises such as airplane, ship, ship engine, etc are knowledge-intensive and higher added value industries. In these companies, to quickly respond customer's order, a quotation management is a very important task. But, this task is very complex, time-consuming, resource- consuming, and difficult process because it is related with many departments within a company. In this paper, for the effective and efficient quotation management, the concept of product specification framework is introduced because a quotation BOM (bills of material) can be created from product specification. Also, this paper presents the product specification framework based quotation management process and implements the quotation management system for the ship engine division of 'H' company, one of customer-oriented manufacturing enterprises. As a result, the proposed quotation management concept reduced a lead time of drawing out quotations from $3{\sim}10$ days to 1 hour. And, the constructed quotation management system achieved a rapidity, accuracy, quality, and workload reduction of the quotation management process.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.16 no.28
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• pp.173-180
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• 1993

This paper is to propose the procedure for improving the level of product specification in statistical process control using loss function. The procedure proposed in this paper is extended to the Taguchi's Quality engineering concept This procedure will be useful in establishing product specification. This paper is aimed to provide customer satisfaction for consumer and quality management for producer.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.121-133
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• 2008

In manufacturing companies, engineering information is a central data which defines a product to be produced. This is changed by various factors such as changes of product configuration, changes of drawings information of a technology's licensor, etc, and these changes essentially accompany the changes of a product BOM (Bill of Materials) structure. Thus, engineering changes gives a heavy burden to information management within enterprise because the changes of product BOM have an influence on each departmental BOM such as a procurement BOM, a manufacturing BOM, a quotation BOM, etc. Especially, these changes of product BOM due to the engineering changes is inevitably and frequently happened by a customer's requirements in a customer-oriented make-to-order manufacturing environments. In these manufacturing environments, information gap among each department from the first contact point of customer to engineering, materials, production, quality, and management is very close, and thus it is very important that the change information of product BOM due to changes of product specification and engineering information are efficiently communicated among each department. This paper describes a procedure of determining product specification and of generating product BOM, and proposes an efficient management scheme for the change process of product BOM information due to changes of product specification and engineering. Also, to show the effectiveness of the proposed product BOM management scheme, a product BOM management system is implemented for the ship engine division of 'H' company, one of customer-oriented make-to-order manufacturing enterprises.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.53-54
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• 1996

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.224-231
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• 2000

In order to satisfy customers'various needs in the market, manufacturing companies tend to add similar variants to an existing product model. This variety causes immense growth of product configuration and makes data management uncontrollable. In order to resolve this problem, we propose a method to efficiently represent the variants in a single schema of product structure and configuration and manage the product configuration. First of all, the product structure which adopts the concept of features and options is suggested. Second, the method to represent option specifications which restricts option configurations is proposed. Finally, the prototype module, which inspects if a product configuration violates the option specifications, is introduced.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.914-915
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• 2017

Importance and usage of the recommender system increases with the increase of information. The accuracy of the system recommendation primarily depends on the data. There is a problem in recommender systems, known as cold start problem. The lack of data about new products and users causes the cold start problem, and the system will not be able to give correct recommendation. This paper deals with cold start problem by comparing product specification and the review of the resembled products. The user, who likes the resembled product of the new one has more probability of taking interest in the new product as well. However, if a user disagreed with resembled product due to some reasons which the user mentioned in the reviews. The new product overcomes that issue, so the user will greatly accept the new product. Therefore, the system needs to recommend new product to those users as well, in this way the cold start problem will get resolved.