• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.170-180
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• 2000

In this paper, to evaluate ease of exchange of subassembly considering module, it needs to analyze structure and function of subassembly, assembly and disassembly process. Exchange process of module can be divided into pre-process and in-process, and determination factors of exchange process are defined by analyzing characteristics of assembly and disassembly process. Based on the analysis of characteristics for structure and function of subassembly, influential factors of module can be proposed. Considered the interrelationship between determination factors of ease of exchange and influencing factors of module, ease of exchange can be evaluated.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권5호통권98호
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• pp.132-144
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• 1999

In this study, the complexity of the product was evaluated quantitatively considering the product structure, assembly process and disassembly process. To evaluate the complexity of the product, subassemblies of automobile were analyzed and then characteristics of part and subassembly were determined according to product structure, assembly process and disassembly process. Evaluation criteria of complexity were determined considering each characteristics of part and subassembly. Experiential evaluation was accomplished by classified evaluation criteria and time-motion evaluation was accomplished by the relational motion factor with characteristics of part and subassembly in MTM(Methods Time Measurement) and WF(Work Factor). The total complexity of product was determined by experiential evaluation and time-motion evaluation.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국시뮬레이션학회 2003년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.185-192
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• 2003

Digital Manufacturing-based production could be very effective in shipbuilding in order to save costs and time, to increase safety for workers, and to prevent bottleneck processes in advance. Digital shipbuilding system, a simulation-based production tool, is being developed to achieve such aspects in Korea. To simulate material flow in a subassembly line at a shipyard, the product, process and resources was modeled for the subassembly process which consisted of several sub-processes such as tack welding, piece alignment, tack welding, and robot welding processes. The analysis and modeling were carried out by using the UML(Unified Modeling Language), an object-oriented modeling method as well as IDEF(Integration DEFinition), a functional modeling tool. Initially, the characteristics of the shop resources were analyzed using the shipyard data, and the layout of the subassembly line was designed with the resources. The production process modeling of the subassembly lines was performed using the discrete event simulation method. Using the constructed resource and process model, the productivity and efficiency of the line were investigated. The number of workers and the variations In the resource performance such as that of a new welding robot were examined to simulate the changes in productivity. The bottleneck process floated according to the performance of the new resources. The proposed model was viewed three-dimensionally in a digital environment so that interferences among objects and space allocations for the resources could be easily investigated

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.96-105
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• 1996

Robot systems are widely utilized in the shipbuilding industry to enhance the productivity by automating the welding process. In order to increase productivity, it is necessary to reduce the time used for robot teaching. In this work, the automatic teaching system is developed for the subassembly process in the shipbuilding industry. A alser/vision sensor is designed to detect the weld seam and the image of the fillet joint is processed using the arm method. Positions of weld seams defined in the CAD database are transformed into the robot coordinate, and the dynamic programming technique is applied to find the sub-optimum weld path. Experiments are carried out to verify the system performance. The results show that the proposed automatic teaching system performs successfully and can be applied to the robot system in the subassembly process.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2009

This research was carried out to improve the productivity in the subassembly process of shipbuilding through optimal work planning for the shortest work time. The work time consist of welding time, moving time of gantry, teaching time of robot and robot motion time. The shortest work time is accomplished by even distribution of work and the shortest welding sequence. Even distribution of work was done by appling the simple algorithm. The shortest work sequence was determined by using GA. The optimal work planning decreased the total work time of the subassembly process by 4.1%. The result showed the effectiveness of the suggested simple algorithm for even distribution of work and GA for the shortest welding sequence.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.210-216
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• 2005

Digital manufacturing could be very effective in shipbuilding in order to estimate the process time, to improve the operation efficiency, and to prevent bottleneck processes in advance. The subassembly process having done research consists of piece arrangement, tack welding, robot welding, manual welding and so on. The robot welding of them was the focus of the simulation. The analysis and modeling were carried out by using UML (Unified Modeling Language) as well as $IDEF\phi$ (Integration DEFinition). The characteristics of the process resources were analyzed using the shipyard data, and the layout of the subassembly line was designed with the resources. Using the constructed resource and process model, the productivity and efficiency of changed robot welding stage were investigated. It was simulated how much the variations in the resource performance have influence on improvement of productivity. One of the important outputs in this simulation was the cycle time during a certain period's work. The cycle time prediction was also undertaken for the different torch and the different piece arrangement. The proposed model was established three-dimensionally in a digital environment so that interferences among objects and space allocations for the resources could be easily investigated.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제27권12호
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• pp.277-284
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• 2022

본 논문은 조선소 소조립 공정의 스키드 컨베이어 환경에서 전체 작업 시간을 최소화하기 위해 스키드 처리 순서를 최적화하는 방법을 제안한다. 소조립 공정은 일련의 정해진 작업들로 구성되며 스키드의 종류에 따라 요구되는 작업 시간이 다르다. 전체 작업 시간을 결정짓는 스키드의 컨베이어 투입 순서는 적절하게 최적화되어야 하며 문제 크기는 스키드 개수에 따라 지수적으로 증가한다. 이러한 점에서 UniDev라 불리우는 새로운 방법을 제안하는데 동시간에 진행되는 작업 소요 시간의 차이에 관한 평균절대편차를 정의하고 이를 점진적으로 개선한다. 다양한 스키드 개수와 공정의 개수에 대한 시뮬레이션 결과 제안된 방법이 Multi-Start 방법과 2-OPT 방법보다 전체 작업 소요 시간을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2004년도 춘계 학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.18-20
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• 2004

This study is to find the optimal work plan of robot welding in the subassembly process of shipbuilding and to verify the found solution through 3-D simulation. The optimal work plan was established by evenly distributing the work amount to each stage and finding the shortest work sequence. The shortest work sequence was found by using the genetic algorithm. The result was compared with the practically adopted case and verified through the 3-D simulation.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권5호통권98호
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• pp.29-39
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• 1999

Many industrial products can be assembled in various sequences of assembly operations. To save time and cost in assembly process and to increase the quality of products, it is very important to choose an optimal assembly sequence. In this paper, we propose a methodology that generates an optimal assembly sequence by using the knowledge of experts. First, a product is divided into several sub-assemblies. Next, the disassembly sequences of sub-assembly are generated using disassembly rules and special information can be extracted through the disassembly process. By combining every assembly sequence of sub-assemblies, we can generate all the possible assembly sequences of a product. Finally, the expert system evaluates all the possible assembly sequences and finds an optimal assembly sequence. It can be achieved under consideration of the parameters such as assembly operation, tool change, safety of part. basepart location, setup change, distance, and orientation. The developed system is applied to UBR(Unit Bath Room) example.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.969-971
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• 2000

In this paper, shortening of product life cycle and wide disposal of consumer product have given rise to many environmental problems, it needs to propose module design principle for saving of disassembly cost and reusing of used part and subassembly. To analyze characteristics of module for recycling, materials and function of part and subassembly must be classified. In disassembly process, a unit operation can be grasped for disassembly function, worker, tool and sorting process. As a result of applying module design principle, simpler structure and reduced structural interference can be realized for product structure. For disassembly, simpler disassembly and quicker disassembly can be obtained for recycling.