• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.213-220
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• 1999

최근 인터넷의 급속한 확산에 따른 전자상거래의 활성화는 조직과 규모 면에서 열세인 중소기업들의 판로 확장 및 홍보를 위한 새로운 대안으로 인식되고 있다. 그러나, 전자상거래 환경은 비약적으로 성장하고 있지만, 여전히 국내 중소기업들은 인력 및 자금의 상대적인 열세로 이러한 환경변화에 효과적으로 대응치못하고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 문제를 해결하기위한 노력의 일환으로, 인터넷 상의 판매 에이전트를 지원할 수 있는 가상생산 에이전트(Virtual Manufacturing Agent)의 개발에 관한 내용을 담고 있다. 지금까지의 가상생산 시스템(Virtual Manufacturing Systme)에 관한 연구는 주로 설계, 공정, 제어 최적화에 그 초점을 두고 있으며, 가상생산 에이전트에 관한 연구는 이러한 문제를 지능형 에이전트 구조로 해결하고자 하였다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 기존의 연구와 달리 전자상거래 환경하에서 중소제조업체의 판매활동을 돕기 위한 판매에이전트를 실제 생산시스템과 연계하는 관점에서 가상생산 에이전트를 설계, 구현하였다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2001

Recently, Internet based Electronic Commerce is recognized as one of the alternatives for strengthening sales power of small and medium companies. However, small and medium manufacturers can't adjust properly to the new environment because they are in short of money, personnel, and technology. To cope with this problem, this paper deals with the development of virtual manufacturing agent to support sales agent. The sales activity of most of parts manufacturing companies is based on orders of buyers. The process of promotion, receipt and selection of orders of the parts manufacturing is closely coupled with the load status of the production lines. On deciding whether to accept an order or not, as well as negotiating with buyers, sales person needs information such as load and schedule of production lines, manufacturability of the order. Therefore, the functions of virtual manufacturing agents manufacturability analysis, process planning, and scheduling are key features in developing an agent of sales activity for the parts manufacturing business. While most of research on virtual manufacturing system so far is focused on the simulation of each product, this paper deals with the development of agent assisting internet-based product sales by supporting production information promptly. The pilot system of virtual manufacturing agent is implemented using KQML-based agent template and Java-based expert system shell for a small molding company.

• 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.

• IE interfaces
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.120-126
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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. Based on these models, virtual manufacturing supports decision making and error checking in the entire manufacturing processes from design to mass production. At first, we analyzed manufacturing preparation activities of the four major production shops such as press, body assembly, painting and final assembly, of a Korean automotive company. We then developed the workflow models out of the analysis by the IDEF methodology, and generated a strategic plan for the systematic application of the virtual manufacturing technologies. We identified many manufacturing preparation activities that can be improved by the application of virtual manufacturing technologies. Finally, we estimated the effect of improvement including time savings in car development processes and corresponding cost savings.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.88-95
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• 2001

VR(Virtual Reality)의 개념이 제조공학 분야로 확대 적용되면서 설계분야에서의 가상조형 (Virtual Prototyping), 제조분야에서의 가상제조시스템(Virtual Manufacturing System)이라는 새로운 형태의 제조 시스템 및 설계기술이 차세대 제조기술로서 발전해 오고있으며 이런 가상제조방법(Virtual Manufacturing)은 컴퓨터를 이용하며 생산과정에서 제품뿐만이 아니라 유한요소해석을 유용하여, 공정까지도 모의실험을 하며 생산성(manufacturability), 최종 형태(final shape), 잔류 응력(residual stress), 제품 수명 주기(life-cycle)등과 같은 요소들의 최적화 정보를 제공하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 가상제조방법을 구현하기 위한 기초적 단계로서 가상단조기계를 가상현실기법을 이용하여 모델링하고 Java를 이용하여 모델링된 단조기계를 제어하고 제조되는 단조물에 대한 내부 응력 및 형태변환을 유한 요소법을 이용하여 분석하고 분석된 단조물의 자료를 WEB상을 통하여 닥 수 있게 유한 요소 해석결과를 VRML언어로 변환하는 작업을 수행하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.1 s.94
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• pp.161-166
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• 1999

Virtual Manufacturing System(VMS) is a computer model that represents the precise and whole structure of manufacturing systems and simulates their physical and logical behavior in operation. In this paper, a real time simulation for the virtual factory is proposed to integrate a process planning with scheduling under distributed environments. In order to communicate the information under distributed environments, we use a server/client concept using socket program and internet.

• IE interfaces
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.63-69
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• 2003

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 including manufacturing resources, environments and products. For the successful application of this technology, a virtual factory as a well-designed and integrated environment is essential. To construct a virtual factory in effective and concurrent manners, a supporting information infrastructure for managing diverse models of virtual factory is very important. In this paper, we constructed the web-based information management system for many engineering activities related with a virtual factory. Using this system, users can handle all information and diverse digital files including attributes, parameters, 3-D CAD files, simulation models, and etc. of a cell, line and whole factory. We expect that this information management system for a virtual factory helps us achieve great time savings and advances in accuracy for construction and maintenance activities of virtual factories.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.151-151
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• 1996

컴퓨터 기술의 급격한 발전은 현실세계의 각종 현장을 컴퓨터 가상공간 내에서 시험할 수 있도록 하고 있다. 최근들어급격한 발전이 이루어지고 있는 가상현실(Virtual Reality) 기술과 인간의 감성을 중시한 감성공학적 접근방법 론의 활용은 그 적용범위가 점차 확대되어 가고 있는 상황으로, 제조기업에서 사용되고 있는 통합생산 정보시스템 (Computer Integrated Manufacturing)과의 접목으로 가상공장(Virtual Factory) 시스템을 구현할 수가 있다. 가상공장시스 템은 제조기업의 Businiss를 Design & Engineering, Production Planning & Control, Manufacturing의 3가지 프로세스로 분류한다. 그리고 각 프로세스별로 현재의 CIM시스템에 대한 하부시스템을 검토하고, 인간 중심의 가상기업시스템을 구현 하는데 보완이 되어야 할 사항과 이에 대한 해결 대안으로 Design & Engineering Process에서는 Virtual Engineering(VE) Sub-system, Manufacturing Process에서는 Virtual Manufacturing(VM) Sub-system으로 분류하여 각 Sub-system별 구성모듈을 설계하고 상호간의 Interface 사항을 설계하므로서 가상공장시스템 구현을 위한 기본 요구사항과 조건을 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.960-964
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• 2005

Digital Virtual Manufacturing is a technology to facilitate effective product developments and agile productions by digital models representing the physical and logical schema and the behavior of real manufacturing systems including products, process, manufacturing resources and plants. A digital virtual factory as a well-designed and integrated environment is essential for successful applications of this technology. In this research, we constructed a sophisticated digital virtual factory of the shipbuilding company's section steel shop by 3-D CAD and virtual manufacturing simulation. This digital virtual factory can be applied for diverse engineering activities in design, manufacturing and control of the real factory.

• IE interfaces
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.356-363
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• 2002

Virtual Manufacturing is a technology to facilitate effective product development and agile production by computer models representing the physical and logical schema and the behavior of real manufacturing systems including manufacturing resources, environments and products. For the successful application of this technology, a virtual factory as a well-designed and integrated environment is essential. In this research, we constructed a sophisticated virtual factory model of an automotive company's paint shop, and performed precise simulations of unit cells, lines and whole plant operations for collision check and off-line programming. It is expected that this virtual paint shop is useful for achieving time and cost savings in many manufacturing preparation and planning activities of new car development processes.