• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.119-130
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• 1989

This paper presents average travel time models automated warehousing system where the stacker crane transports only one pallet at a time with the tchebychev travel, I/O point is located at the cornor of the rack, and items are stored by the class-based storage assignment rule. In this study, the racks are treated as the continuous rectangle in time and a statistical approach was used to develop the models. In order to test the proposed models, average travel times determined by the models are compared with the true values for various rack shapes.

• 연구논문집
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• s.27
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• pp.119-126
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• 1997

In this paper, an information management system is developed to systematically maintain facilities which include AS/RS(Automatic Storage & Retrieval System). Stacker Crane, Tool Transport system and Machining Center in FMS pilot plant. It supports various activities such as periodical inspection, maintenance, management of daily operation time, analysis of existing condition and management of information related to facilities.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.91-101
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• 2012

Automobile manufacturing consists of body-line, painting-line, and assembly-line. These production lines are disposed in series and go through a flow process, so according to the status of pre & post processing, a suspension happens in a line by a starvation(impossibility of production by insufficient supply) or blocking(impossibility of production by exceed capacity). Therefore, to prevent a loss of production coming from a starvation or blocking, a storage such as WBS or PBS is independently owned and operated. The paper suggests the simulation model of integrated storage which can operate it by integrating each storage performing a role as a buffer of line. Specifically, the paper found the answers about reasonable number of Stacker Crane and AGV(Automatic Guided Vehicle) and suggested a methodology of operation which is available to operate them. Also, it compared an efficiency between a model of current storage and integrated storage through simulation. As a result, it turned out that the model suggested in the paper was more efficient on suspension of painting-line stop than a current storage.

• IE interfaces
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.39-51
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• 1990

One of the most important and powerful tools available for design and/or study of the operation of complex systems and processes is simulation. Since automated material handling systems like AS/RS are often quite complex, a network-based simulation model is developed to analyze an automobile part supplier's automated storage and retrieval system(AS/RS). The network simulation model is implemented in the SLAM Ⅱ on a VAX 8800 computer. Performance of the AS/RS was tested for 3 dispatching rules, 3 work load levels, 2 storage policies, 3 levels of stacker crane break-down, and 2 conveyor system layouts. Results indicate that the AS/RS performance is primarily affected by the dispatching rule and work load level.

• IE interfaces
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.171-183
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• 1995

A special purpose automated storage and retrieval system is developed in which information media such as compact disc or video tapes can be stored. Hardware system includes rack, stacker crane with robot arm, conveyor, and bar code reader. Software system includes database for address management, user interface for quick scanning of information media by displaying moving image, and algorithms for selecting the closest open location. Such system is widely applicable to CD library or broadcasting station in the forthcoming information age. In this paper we present detailed procedure and tools that are used in designing and implementing such a special AS/R system.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.30-38
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• 2016

Shuttle-Based Storage/Retrieval System (SBS/RS) is relatively new to industry. The system is in the category of Automated Storage/Retrieval System (AS/RS), but it is different in that the SBS/RS uses shuttles as Storage/Retrieval (SR) machine instead using a stacker crane. The shuttles are assigned to each tier on multi-tier system and operated for pick-up or drop-off order. Since the system can handle multiple orders simultaneously, it can provide much higher throughput than that of general AS/RS with single stocker crane. Thus, this new system is well fit to recent tendency of increasing small quantity batch production and orders. One of the drawback of this system is that it needs a lot of investment to set up. The efficient operation of the system would be one of the critical matters to increase economic efficiency of capital investment. In this study, we focused on the dwell point policy for shuttles to find efficient way of operating the system. There are four basic policies for the dwell point and we had simulation-based experiment for two different scenarios based on the speed of the shuttle and inter-arrival time of the loads coming to the system combined with four different policies. As it was mentioned above, this SBS/RS relatively new to the field and there is no such experiment shown on previous research and the study of dwell point policy for this SBS/RS could provide the direct comparison of each policy with different hardware specification; the capability of the system. The policy that achieves most efficient operation among the given environment is proposed and the usability of the system is discussed.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.179-194
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• 2012

In this study, we compared the efficiency of container terminals using DEA. To do this, we designed an AHP/DEA hybrid model using AHP and DEA, and evaluated the efficiency by comparing the container terminal operation company in Gwangyang(KEC, KIT, GICT) and Busan(HBCT, DPCT, KBCT, UPT, Gamman, PNC, PNIT, HJNC, HPNT). The proposed model can control the number of selected promising container terminal by applying DEA-AR model. This model can also improve the credibility of analysis by using objective weights through the AHP application to efficiency evaluation data and normalizing the evaluation data to apply AHP and DEA. The model assumes inputs to be container crane, transfer crane, yard tractor, and reach stacker and output as container traffic. The result shows that DPCT was an efficient DMU.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 1994.10a
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• pp.7-8
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• 1994

최근 들어 원자재, 재공품 또는 완제품을 신속하고 정확하게 공급/배분하기 위해 저장과 인출을 담당하는 Material Handling System을 이용하여 작업자의 개입요소를 줄이며, 제고관리 Computer를 이용하여 입고/출고 명령을 유효적절하게 처리하는 ASRS(Atomated Storage and Retreival System : 자동창고 시스템)가 널리 공급되고 있다. 중앙은행의 현금창고, 병원의 약품창고, 식품/화장품 회사의 배송창고, 군수물자의 군납창고에 이르기까지 물품의 저장 또는 공급의 필용성을 갖는 곳에서는 어디든지 찾아볼 수 있는 ASRS는 가깝게는 관공소나 대형빌딩의 주차장에도 이의 개념이 도입되어 사용됨을 볼 수 있다. 최근의 인금인상, 구인난등의 이유로 ASRS설치는 계속 증가할 추세에 있으나 자동 창고 시스템을 설치하기 위해서는 막대한 초기 투자가 필요하며 시스템의 설계 및 설치후 운영에 대한 연구가 반드시 필요하다. ASRS의 운영 Rule 검증, 수행능력 분석등의 목적을 갖는 연구에는 여러 접근방법이 있을 수 있으나 구성 설비와 운영 Rule의 복잡한 관계로 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션의 거의 유일한 문제해결 방법이다. ASRS의 Modeling에 관한 기존의 연구로는 수리모델 수립. 이산사건 시스템의 관점에서 event-graphy, petri-net을 이용한 modeling이 있으며 ASRS에 대한 전용 Simulator 개발등이 진행되었다. 본 연구의 대상 시스템은 2개의 Rack과 하나의 Stacker Crane 으로 구성된 Aisle과 입출고의 물류를 처리하는 순환 RGVS(Rail Guided Vehicle System), 입/출고장을 구성하는 Conveyor Net등으로 이루어진 제조-물류시스템의 일반적인 ASRS이다. 또 이 ASRS의 입/출고 방식은 전수 입/출고만을 포함하며 Blocking 방지를 위한 Capaicty 예약, 다중설비 선택등의 문제등을 고려하고 있다. 본 연구의 접근방법으로는 ASRS의 개념적인 Reference Model을 수립하고 이 Reference Model에 대한 Formal Model로 DEVS(Discrete Event System Specification)을 이용하여 시스템을 Modeling하였다. 이의 Computer Simulation을 위하여 DEVS형식론 환경에서의 Simulation Language인 DEVSim ++ⓒ를 이용하여 시스템을 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.71-80
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• 1996

Handling the manufacured goods is the most cost-consuming task in material handling system in wooden furniture industries. Fully automated warehouse for cartoned goods of a furniture manufacturing company was analized to provide plant engineers and managers with some important informations on the utility and profitability of the automated storage and retrieval system(AS/RS). Process-oriented simulation modeling tech-niques were used to describe the system and to propose some alternatives to promote the efficiency of AS/RS. Simulation report could be inter-preted as follows: 1. Warehouse for the furniture goods must be designed in accordance with reliable material handling program and constructed with suitable equipments depending on the specification of packed products. 2. An excess of palletized products induced the indigestion and the inefficiency of AS/RS of the furniture industry and put this high-costly system into the shade. 3. Overcrowded AS/RS of the furniture factories could regain its material handling function by cutting down the deposit of products into the automated warehouse. For this purpose, reducing the regular output and direct delivering the outside products to the destination should be considered as the definite counterplan. And additional operation of conventional handy warehouse was also expected to improve the efficiency of main AS/RS.

• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.80-85
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• 2012

The importance of warehouse is increasing since the role of warehouse in modern industry is changing from concept of storage to concept of circulation which facilitates purchasing, production, storage and distribution activities by induction of information system. In this study, a program is developed using C# for evaluating efficiency of automated storage and retrieval system(AS/RS). A simulation work is done for eight operating schemes under the combination of three conditions, which are storing method, the shape of automatic warehouse and the sequence of command performs, and the moving distance of stacker crane is calculated using the same gateway data. Using this program, the optimal operating scheme can be proposed based on the analyzed results of simulation. This progrm shows the effectiveness and applicability through the simulation work and can be utilized for courses which are related to factory facilities.