• Information Systems Review
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.95-113
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• 2017

The advent of information communication technology or the Fourth Industrial Revolution facilitated the fusion of equipment and management systems, such as Manufacturing Execution System, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Product Lifecycle Management, in the successful implementation of smart factories. The government supports the early adoption of these systems in small and medium companies to enhance their global competitiveness in producing products that can be recognized in a dramatically changing manufacturing environment. This study introduces smart factories to improve company competitiveness and address influences from the government assistance, CEO leadership, external consultancy, and organizational participation. We analyzed 101 results received from the questionnaires circulated to small- and medium-sized manufacturing companies. Given a successful smart factory implementation, company competitiveness is the factor that mostly influences organizational participation, government assistance, external consultancy, and CEO leadership. This study suggests several perspectives to implement a smart factory, which is the most important aspect of company competitiveness.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.39-58
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• 2019

Purpose A digital twin is a digital replication of a physical system. Gartner identified the digital twin as one of the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trend for three years from 2017. The rapid development of the digital twin market is expected to bring about innovation and change throughout society, and much research has been done recently in academia. In this research, we tried to explore the main research trends for digital twin research. Design/methodology/approach We collected the digital twin research from Web of Science, and analyzed 804 articles that was published during time span of 2010-2018. A total of 41 key authors were selected based on the frequency of citation. We created a co-citation matrix for the core authors, and performed multivariate analysis such as cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling. We also conducted social network analysis to find the influential researchers in digital twin research. Findings We identified four major sub- areas of digital twin research: "Infrastructure", "Prospects and Challenges", "Security", and "Smart Manufacturing". We also identified the most influential researchers in digital twin research: Lee EA, Rajkumar R, Wan J, Karnouskos S, Kim K, and Cardenas AA. Limitation and further research suggestion were also discussed as a concluding remarks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.816-818
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• 2016

The Industry 4.0 should decide work operation of manufacture facilities by itself. But small and medium sized enterprises(SMEs) still not prepared these work operations. In this paper, we had research that work operation manufacture facilities of a management system of mold life-cycle based on CPS. The management system of mold manages life-cycle using by shot, this information offers users by cloud system. This system will help SMEs products quality improve and business operation more efficiency.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.147-155
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• 2016

Industry 4.0's goal is the 'Smart Factory' that integrates and controls production process, procurement, distribution and service based on the fundamental technology such as internet of the things, cyber physical system, sensor, etc. Basic requirement for successful promotion of this Industry 4.0 is the large supply of semiconductor. However, company I who produces dicing blades has difficulty to meet the increasing demand and has hard time to increase revenue because its raw material includes high price diamond, and requires very complex and sensitive process for production. Therefore, this study is focused on understanding the problems and presenting optimal plan to increase productivity of dicing blade manufacturing processes. We carried out a study as follows to accomplish the above purposes. First, previous researches were investigated. Second, the bottlenecks in manufacturing processes were identified using simulation tool (Arena 14.3). Third, we calculate investment amount according to added equipments purchase and perform economic analysis according to cost and sales increase. Finally, we derive optimum plan for productivity improvement and analyze its expected effect. To summarize these results as follows : First, daily average blade production volume can be increased two times from 60 ea. to 120 ea. by performing mixing job in the day before. Second, work flow can be smoother due to reduced waiting time if more machines are added to improve setting process. It was found that average waiting time of 23 minutes can be reduced to around 9 minutes from current process. Third, it was found through simulation that the whole processing line can compose smoother production line by performing mixing process in advance, and add setting and sintering machines. In the course of this study, it was found that adding more machines to reduce waiting time is not the best alternative.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.11-25
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• 2024

This study aims to analyze research trends in digital twin focusing on Germany, the US, and Korea. In Elsevier's Scopus, we collected 4,657 papers about digital twin published in from 2019 to 2023. Keyword frequency and centrality analysis were conducted on the abstracts of the collected papers. Through the obtained keyword frequencies, we tried to identify keywords with high frequency of occurrence and through centrality analysis, we tried to identify central research keywords for each country. In each country, 'digital_twin', 'machine_learning', and 'iot' appeared as research keywords with the highest interest. As a result of the centrality analysis, research on digital twin, simulation, cyber physical system, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and smart manufacturing was conducted as research with high centrality in each country. The implication for Korea is that research on virtual reality, digital transformation, reinforcement learning, industrial Internet of Things, robotics, and data analysis appears to have been conducted with low centrality, and intensive research in related areas appears to be necessary.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.208-213
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• 2016

In the fourth industrial revolution, customization is becoming a conversation topic in various domains. Industry 4.0 applies cyber-physical systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud computing to manufacturing businesses. One of the main phrases in Industry 4.0 is mass customization. Optimized products or services are developed and provided through customization. Therefore, the competitiveness of a product can be enhanced, and satisfaction is improved. In particular, as IoT technology spreads, customization is an essential aspect of smooth service connections between various devices or things. Customized services in mobile applications are assembled and operate in various mobile devices in the mobile environment. Therefore, this paper proposes a method for improving customized cloud server-based mobile architectures, processes, and metrics, and for measuring the performance improvement of the customized architectures operating in various mobile devices based on the Android or IOS platforms. We reduce the total time required for customization in half as a result of applying the proposed customized architectures, processes, and metrics in various devices.