• 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.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.382-394
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• 2007

Nowadays, manufacturing industries undergo constantly growing pressures for global competitions, and they must shorten time and cost in product development and production to response varied customers' requirements. Digital virtual manufacturing is a technology that can facilitate effective product development and agile production by using digital models representing the physical and logical schema and the behavior of real manufacturing systems including products, processes, manufacturing resources and plants. For successful applications of this technology, a digital virtual factory as a well-designed and integrated environment is essential. In this paper, we developed a new classification and coding system for effective managements of digital virtual factory objects, and implement a supporting application to verify and apply it. Furthermore, a digital virtual factory layout management system based on the classification and coding system has developed using XML, Visual Basic.NET and FactoryCAD. By some case studies for automotive general assembly shops of a Korean automotive company, efficient management of factory objects and reduction of time and cost in digital virtual factory constructions are possible.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.575-578
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• 2002

With the paradigm shifting from the principal of manufacturing efficiency to business globalization and rapid adaptation to its environments, more and more enterprises are being virtually organized as manufacturing network of different units in web. The formation of these enterprise called as Virtual Enterprise(VE) is becoming a growing trend as enterprises concentrating on core competence and economic benefit. This paper proposes the cooperation methodology for VEs which can be organized by the selection of manufacturing partners, and managed by the information flow infrastructure.

• IE interfaces
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.219-225
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• 1998

Presented in this paper is a state-of-the-art review of VM(Virtual Manufacturing). To survive on a global competition, manufacturers must shorten the time to market for their products. To achieve this goal, many manufacturers have implmented CIM systems. VM is a new direction in the CIM system development having emphasis on enhancing the decision-making capability. VM can be defined an integrated, synthetic manufacturing environment exercised to enhance all levels of decision and control. Also, VM is the use of computer models and simulations of manufacturing processes to aid in the design and production of manufactured products. Currently, VP(Virtual Prototyping) and VF(Virtual Factory) are main theme to develop a VM. In this paper, the concept and current status of VP and VF are explained.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.42 no.1 s.139
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• pp.64-72
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• 2005

Digital manufacturing is a technology to simulate the real manufacturing process using the virtual model representing the physical schema and the behavior of the real manufacturing system including resources, processes and product information. Therefore, it can optimize the manufacturing system or prevent the bottleneck processes through the simulation before the manufacturing plan is executed. This study presents a method to apply the digital manufacturing technology for the steel cutting process in shipyard. The system modeling of cutting shop is carried out using the IDEF and UML which is a visual modeling language to document the artifacts of a complex system. Also, virtual NC simulators of the cutting machines are constructed to emulate the real operation of cutting machines and NC codes. The simulators are able to verify the cutting shape and estimate the precise cycle time of the planned NC codes. The validity of the virtual model is checked by comparing the real cutting time and shape with the simulated results. It is expected that the virtual NC simulators can be used for accurate estimation of the cutting time and shape in advance of real cutting work.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.39-44
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• 2002

This paper presents a structure and architecture of an integrated simulation method (ISM) to meet the requirements of virtual factory engineering (VFE). Combining CAD, VR and discrete event simulation techniques, the ISM provides static and dynamic simulation functions for implementation of VFE throughout the lifecycle. The static simulation can be used to evaluate the factory layout. The dynamic simulation enables us to evaluate ergonomics of factory, process performance of production system, feasibility of production plan and operation of factory, and to train operators safely, which cover the whole VFE lifecycle. The principles of the key techniques of VFE, including virtual factory data management system (VFDMS), static and dynamic simulation, are also discussed. To demonstrate and validate the ISM, a case study has been carried out in an assembly factory.

• 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.21 no.1
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• pp.131-140
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• 2008

To shorten product development time and cost, integrated information managements of product, manufacturing process and resource are essential. In the area of material addressing, process engineers should make their decisions in the manner of collaborative engineering in order to reduce the manufacturing preparation time and cost in the product development and production. A digital virtual factory which is an united digital model of entire factory could be very useful for these areas. In this paper, the digital virtual factory is constructed and used for material addressing and analysis of an automotive general assembly shop. We developed the material addressing system for automotive general assembly shops using digital virtual factory models and nesting algorithms, and applied it to realistic problems of a Korean automotive company as an convenient and effective way of material addressing.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.42-49
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• 2009

Virtual manufacturing technology has been applied in actual production sites with the development of virtual reality technology. However, the current virtual manufacturing technology requires experts for application of the system. Furthermore, the sense of reality is diminished as the entire simulation is driven by virtual objects. In contrast, mixed reality can visualize virtual objects and an actual work place simultaneously, and thus the sense of reality of the virtual manufacturing simulation can be improved. This paper introduces a method that applies mixed reality in the manufacturing process, and proposes a method to adapt general safety sign post in the factory instead of a black square marker for visual fiducial recognition.