• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.96-100
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• 2001

본 연구는 자동차 회사를 대상으로 주요 생산공정중 하나인 차체 공장을 대상으로 한 가상플랜트를 설계하고, 이를 구축, 운영함으로써 생산준비의 각 부문에서 사전 검증을 통한 오류 방지, 의사격정의 최적화, 각종 데이터의 관리 및 실제 생산 설비와의 연계를 위한 자동차 Virtual Plant의 모니터링 및 운영 기술에 필요한 기능을 보유한 middle ware s/w 인SysLink Integrator를 활용해 Virtual Plant를 분산 환경에서 구현해 봄으로, 향후 자동차의 가상플랜트 구축에 따른 다양한 응용프로그램과의 통합을 위한, 유용한 하나의 middle wave로 그 활용성을 검토하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.718-723
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• 2000

Nowadays, one of the major technical issues in manufacturing is how to implement an virtual plant as an well-designed, integrated environment for sharing information and engineering collaboration among diverse engineering activities. The systematic approaches to make a virtual plant based on a 3-dimensional CAD, cell and line simulation, database and internet technologies are proposed in this paper. To do that, measuring and 3D CAD modeling technologies of many equipments, facilities and structures of the building are developed, effective management of information including models and related files in WWW environment is implemented, and precise simulations of unit cell and whole structured plant are performed. For the beginning of implementing a Virtual Automotive Plant, the Virtual Plant for the Body Shop of a Korean automotive company is constructed and implemented. Using this Virtual Plant, shorten car development time and cost saving are possible.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.1627-1635
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• 2001

Virtual manufacturing is a technology facilitating effective development and agile manufacturing of products via sophisticated computer models representing physical and logical schema and behavior of real manufacturing systems including manufacturing resources, environments, and products. For the successful application of this technology, a virtual plant as a well-designed and integrated environment is essential fur sharing information and engineering collaboration among diverse engineering activities. The systematic approaches and effective methods for construction and application of a virtual plant are proposed in this paper, such as a 3-D CAD modeling, cell and line simulations, databases and some information technologies. Measuring and 3-D CAD modeling technologies of many equipments, facilities and structures of the building are developed, and effective information management system managing CAD models, related files and data is implemented in WWW environments. Finally, precise simulations of unit cell lines and the whole plant are performed. For the beginning of implementing a Virtual Automotive Plant, the Virtual Plant fur the Body Shop of a Korean automotive company is constructed and implemented. We could obtain the benefit of savings in time and cost in many manufacturing preparation activities in the new car development processes.

• IE interfaces
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.127-133
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• 2001

Virtual Manufacturing is a technology facilitating effective development and agile production of products via computer models representing physical and logical schema and the behavior of the real manufacturing systems. For the successful application of this technology, a virtual plant as a well-designed and integrated environment is essential. We propose a series of systematic approaches and effective methods for construction and operation of a virtual plant in this paper, such as a 3-D CAD modeling, cell and line simulations and databases. We developed key technologies for measuring and 3-D CAD modeling of many equipments, facilities and structures of the buildings. In order to study the benefit of virtual manufacturing, we constructed a sophisticated virtual plant model of a Korean automotive company's body shop, and conducted precise simulations of unit cell, lines and the whole plant. We could obtain the benefit of savings in time and cost in many manufacturing preparation activities in the new car development processes.