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An Effect Analysis for Improvement of Information Lead Time on Supply Chains : A Case Study of Manufacturing Industry (제조업 공급체인에서 정보리드타임 개선의 효과 사례분석)

  • Kim, Chul-Soo;Kim, Garp-Choong
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.10D no.1
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    • pp.161-166
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    • 2003
  • Information lead time is defined as the time spent by processing orders from some buyers, whereas order lead time is defined as producing and supplying the products. The information lead time significantly serve to magnify the increase in variability due to demand forecasting. This paper models a decentralized supply chain composed of cascade type which has four type phases (or divisions) such as retailer, wholesaler, distributor, and factory. Each phases is managed by different centers individually with their own local inventory information. We investigate whether each phase's Information lead time affects companies networked a value chain. In particular, on several experiments performed with a programmed simulation (like a MIT beer game), we study the following question ; Can information lead times do better than material lead times in cost-benefit perspective\ulcorner Can more much Information lead times in downstream reasonably do worser than in upstream when playing the simulation\ulcorner In the conclusion, we show the importance of information lead time on a SC and, besides, guarantee that improvement of information lead time in upstream do more effective than one in downstream in cost-benefit perspective.

A Study on the Safety Improvement of Structural Weakness Using Accident Analysis for Vehicle-Mounted MEWP (차량탑재형 고소작업대의 재해분석을 통한 취약 구조부의 안전성 향상 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Yoo, Yong-tae;Seo, Su-eun;You, Hee-Jae;Kang, Kyung-sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.15-25
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    • 2017
  • The findings were summarized as follows. The safety check by manufacturer showed that 6 of 13 companies are over the average occurrence of defects. It was expected that there would be a difference between manufacturing technology capability and production system of each manufacturer. Consequently, manufacturers should institutionally improve and strengthen certification items for the upward standardization of safety certification before factory. Second, the safety check by year showed that the results of this study accord with those of previous studies on defect time. Consequently, manufacturers should classify the 3-year-old equipment for vehicle-mounted MEWP into a special check subject to do a nondestructive test according to proven results, and also reflect the test in a safety test system to do regular preventive activities of equipment defects. Third, the safety check by part showed that the boom and outrigger parts of vehicle-mounted MEWP have the most defects. Stress concentration resulted in defects as the boom part was most frequently operated in the structural parts for a real work. To prevent this, it is suitable to improve the hardness of boom materials. The outrigger part needs improvement in safety devices with materials. As an outrigger supports the overturning moment of equipment, it is most affected by its load based on the operating radius, resulting in fatigue crack.

A Study on Improvement of Process Safety Management System in Threshold Quantity Site (규정수량사업장의 공정안전관리제도 개선)

  • Jung, Jong-Soo;Kim, Yeon-Hee;Kim, Dong-Jin;Yi, Yun-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.1289-1299
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    • 2007
  • As higher on the industrialization of chemical factories in Korea, it shows a tendency that safety accident happens more times and is bigger on its size. For preventing from and decreasing such accident, PSM(Process Safety Management) system has used in chemical factories. Though it is recognized that PSM is sutable and effective for only a intensive system technically, it could be difficult to apply to all of factories, actually. This study was proceeded for investigating the effect and problems on the application and performanance of PSM into the threshold quantity site and suggesting how fur improvement. The results are as followed; PSM system was not used effectively in the threshold quantity site of medium and small-sized enterprises because of the shortage of experts and the decrease of interest as a deregulation. As the effective performanace of PSM for preventing from industrial accident in threshold quantity site and for sattling as self-system easily, it was concluded to get an active support from the concerned government. First of all, new progrems to improve PSM should be developed continually and the progrems should be educated extensively.

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Implementation of a KPI Focused e-QMS: A Case Study in the Aerospace & Defense Industry (KPI 중심의 e-QMS 구현: 우주항공 및 방위 산업 사례 연구)

  • Jae Young Shin;Wan Seon Shin
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.51 no.1
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    • pp.131-154
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to design an integrated informatization system that can manage quality & KPI by integrating management systems in the aerospace and defense industry, and study the effect on KPI when applied to related companies. Methods: The 7 management systems required for integration in the AS&D industry were studied, and an empirical analysis was conducted for H company in South Korea for the application of e-QMS integrated informatization & KPI system based on security environment and open quality. Results: The results of this study were analyzed to have an effect on the improvement of customer satisfaction and the positive improvement of quality failure cost in the aerospace and defense industry. And it was analyzed that it works to continuously comply with ethical management and environmental laws and prevent safety accidents. Conclusion: The greatest significance of this study is that it attempted to build an e-QMS integrated system in the aerospace and defense industry. Considering that the case of integrated management system and integrated operation of KPI in related industries has not been introduced in the existing literature, the results of this study will be shared as a meaningful preceding study in the era of digital quality information. In addition, the fact that the open-quality quality innovation methodology emphasizing measurement(M), tracking(T), and connection(C) was actually applied in an AS&D company and its effectiveness was objectively proven. It is expected that it will be a good paper for follow-up research.

Development of Automated Non-contact Thickness Measurement Machine using a Laser Sensor (레이저센서를 이용한 비접촉식 두께자동측정기 개발)

  • Cho, Kyung-Chul;Kim, Soo-Youn;Shin, Ki-Yeol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.51-58
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    • 2015
  • In this study, we developed an automated non-contact thickness measurement machine that continuously and precisely measures the thickness and warp of a PCB product using a laser sensor. The system contains a measurement part to measure the thickness in real time automatically according to the set conditions with an alignment supply unit and unloading unit to separate OK and NG products. The measurement machine was utilized to evaluate the performance at each step to minimize measurement error. At the zero setting for the initial setup, the standard deviation of the 216 samples was determined to be $5.52{\mu}m$. A measurement error of 0.5mm and 1.0mm as a standard sample in the measurement accuracy assessment was found to be 2.48% and 2.28%, respectively. In the factory acceptance test, the standard deviation of 1.461mm PCB was measured as $28.99{\mu}m$, with a $C_{pk}$ of 1.2. The automatic thickness measurement machine developed in this study can contribute to productivity and quality improvement in the mass production process.

Comparison of Customer Satisfaction by Type of Foodservices in a Contract Foodservice Company (위탁급식업체의 급식유형별 고객만족도 비교)

  • An, Jeong-Ha;Moon, Hye-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.114-126
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to gauge customers' satisfaction with the hospital, university, factory, and office foodservices from a contracted provider. Importance-performance analysis (IPA) evaluations were conducted. Questionnaires were returned from 1,808 customers in 46 foodservice locations. The average total scores of the importance and performance of seventeen quality characteristics were 4.14 and 3.23, respectively, on 5-point scales. The average total score of gap (gap = performance - importance) was -0.92. Analysis of significant difference according to the type of foodservices revealed that, hospital foodservices had more items with significant high scores than those of other groups in the average total scores concerning importance (p<0.01) and performance (p<0.01). The average total scores of gap showed no significant difference. Significant differences were evident in the food and personal service dimensions, and the scores of hospital foodservices trended significantly higher than those of other groups. Importance-performance analysis (IPA) analyses for hospital foodservice implicate 'variety of menu', 'cleanness of dishes', and 'taste of food' as items requiring prompt attention and improvement.

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Cost Improvement for a Bus Painting Shop by Introducing a Color Selection Field (CSF(Color Selection Field)를 통한 버스 도장공장의 생산비용 개선)

  • Park, Se-Won;Yim, Hyun-June
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.61-72
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    • 2011
  • As the customer's needs for diverse colors, the process of bus painting shop is becoming more and more complex. In particular, frequent changes of paint colors in each spray process require the cleaning of the painting nozzles and setting them up for the new paints, which results in increased time and cost and reduced production. This also increases environmental influences. This paper proposes, as a solution to this issue, the use of color selection field (CSF). CSF is physically a system of conveyors that are used to rearrange objects in a flow line. CSF is proposed, in this paper, to be introduced right before the spray process so that buses are better grouped according to their desired colors. Various parameters of the CSF, such as the number of conveyors and algorithms to determine the rearranged sequence of buses, have been determined by running simulations using the digital manufacturing technology, and investigating the simulation results. As an outcome of the proposed solution, the CSF system is expected to reduce approximately 30% of the nozzle cleaning cost for a Korean motor company case, which will not only benefit the company economically, but will also benefit the environment.

The Role of High-throughput Transcriptome Analysis in Metabolic Engineering

  • Jewett, Michael C.;Oliveira, Ana Paula;Patil, Kiran Raosaheb;Nielsen, Jens
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.385-399
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    • 2005
  • The phenotypic response of a cell results from a well orchestrated web of complex interactions which propagate from the genetic architecture through the metabolic flux network. To rationally design cell factories which carry out specific functional objectives by controlling this hierarchical system is a challenge. Transcriptome analysis, the most mature high-throughput measurement technology, has been readily applied In strain improvement programs in an attempt to Identify genes involved in expressing a given phenotype. Unfortunately, while differentially expressed genes may provide targets for metabolic engineering, phenotypic responses are often not directly linked to transcriptional patterns, This limits the application of genome-wide transcriptional analysis for the design of cell factories. However, improved tools for integrating transcriptional data with other high-throughput measurements and known biological interactions are emerging. These tools hold significant promise for providing the framework to comprehensively dissect the regulatory mechanisms that identify the cellular control mechanisms and lead to more effective strategies to rewire the cellular control elements for metabolic engineering.

Automatic Punching System for FPC using Machine Vision (비전 기반의 FPC용 자동 펀칭시스템)

  • Lee Young-Choon;Lee Seong-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.22 no.12 s.177
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    • pp.77-86
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    • 2005
  • This paper is about the development of Automatic FPC(flexible printed circuit) punching instrument for the improvement of working condition and cost saving. FPC is used to detect the contact position of keyboard and button like a cellular phone. Depending on the quality of the printed ink and position of reference punching point to the FPC, the resistance and current are varied to the malfunctioning values. The size of reference punching point is 2mm and the above. Because the punching operation is done manually, The punching accuracy is varied with operator's condition. Recently, The punching accuracy has deteriorated severely to the 2mm punching reference hall so that assembly of the K/B has hardly done. To improve this manual punching operation to the FPC, automatic FPC punching system is introduced. Precise mechanical parts like a 5-step stepping motor and ball screw mechanism are designed and tested and low cost PC camera is used fur the sake of cost down instead of using high quality vision systems for the factory automation. Test algorithms and programs showed good results to the designed automatic punching system and led to the increasement of productivity and huge cost down to law material like FPC by avoiding bad quality.

A Study on the Standard Working Area by Somatometria (인체계측(人體計測)에 의(依)한 표준작업역(標準作業域)의 연구(硏究))

  • Lee, Sang-Do;Jeong, Jung-Hui
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.61-78
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    • 1976
  • The purpose of this study is to establish the horizontal and vertical working area which is dependent on measuring value of workers, body in order to make easy and stable working environments, and then to design the size of machines, tools and instruments in production factory because of making the practical production conditions which is the most suitable to human characteristics. But there is necessity that we have to review numeric value of measurement periodically because the size of workers' body is variable according to periodic and social circumstances. The establishment of standard working area after measurement enable us to make the best working conditions and we can design standard working table, optimum size of all machines and tools in production activity. Therefore, we can also acknowledge the importance of studying on human engineering because human engineering is necessary to reduction of fatigue in working, saving workers from industrial accidents, fail-safe system, improvement of productivity with increase in efficiency and etc. Finally, this study informs us that numeric value of measurement is larger than that of Japan, but not than that of America and Germany. So we can establish standard working area which is the most suitable for Korean inherence after measurement of detailed parts for workers' body.

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