Automatic control systems in industrial manufacturing processes are becoming fundamental systems for maintaining effective productivity and high quality products. In addition to them, assisted utilities like electricity, steam, air or gas supplies and appropriate plc(programmable logic control) systems also must be adequately designed and installed for those manufacturing processes. Above mentioned automatic control systems and utility systems are made up with many kinds of electronic and electric parts like computers, plc’s, valves, switches, relays, sensors, guages, meters, etc., and should be mounted in control panels, so called control boxes or cabinets for easily operated and safely maintained. But these control boxes are usually exposed to unexpected environments like excessive high and low temperature, high humidity, dust, gas, vibration, impact, condensation, rain and snow, etc.. Nevertheless in those poor environments, the control systems should work always accurately, so the control boxes and all the parts inside the boxes should be made from the beginning to have durability against those environments suggested by some protection ratings standards.
In Kimchi manufacturing fields also, there are also many kinds of control boxes for the variety of process lines, especially there are many damp and salty processes, and if the moisture contains salt ingredients and it affects 20% more than that of water-only moisture influences. In this presentation, the environments of general manufacturing fields are suggested and the strong environmental resistance control box design process are proposed. And some international standards examples are presented for the control boxes of the Kimchi manufacturing fields.

• 박희창(한국기계연구원)