The up-to-date small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Korea have tried to respond flexibly and rapidly to dynamic business environment and to establish efficient production management system based on information technologies. However, most of SMEs have faced with low applicability of the production management system resulting from high costs of introduction and maintenance. In this paper, a production planning and control system, that is S-PMS (production management system for SMEs), is proposed to solve the problem of low applicability and limited human resources. S-PMS enables production managers to efficiently collect and manage master data with the actual target production systems and explores the bottleneck process by means of simulation techniques to improve productivity. Furthermore, it implements rescheduling mechanism in terms of a variety of process routes. In essence, intuitive dispatching rules and integrated data management of S-PMS improve field applicability of production management system. Consequently, S-PMS is expected to be used as an efficient production management system of SMEs in Korea.

Up-to-date business environment for manufacturers is very complex and rapidly changing. In other words, companies are facing a variety of changes, such as diversifying customer requirements, shortening product life cycles, and switching to small quantity batch production. In this situation, the companies are introducing the concept of JIT (just-in-time) to solve the problem of on-time production and on-time delivery for survival. Though many companies have introduced ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems and MRP (material requirement planning) systems, the performance of these systems seems to fall short of expectations. In this paper, the case study on introducing an APS (advanced planning and scheduling) system based on dispatching rules to a machining company and on finding a method to establish an efficient production schedule is presented. The case company has trouble creating an effective production plan and schedule, even though it is equipped with an MRP-based ERP system. The APS system is applied to CNC (computer numerical control) machines, which are key machines of the case company. The overall progress of this research is as follows. First, we collect and analyze the master data on individual products and processes of the case company in order to build a production scheduling model. Second, we perform a pre-allocation simulation based on dispatching rules in order to calculate the priority of each order. Third, we perform a set of production simulations applying the priority value in order to evaluate production lead time and tardiness of pre-defined dispatching rules. Finally, we select the optimal dispatching rule suitable for work situation of the case company. As a result, an improved production schedule leads to an increase in production and reduced production lead time.

본 논문에서는 건물 기초 설계의 자동화를 위한 규칙 기반 시스템을 개발하였다. 상부구조의 설계 결과와 지반 조사 보고서로부터의 지반에 관한 자료를 읽어 들여 허용지내력을 추정하고 주어진 상황에 적절한 기초형식을 추론하는 방법을 제안하였다. 허용지내력은 표준관입시험치로부터 추정하였고, 이를 바탕으로 각 기중과 벽체의 기초형식은 우선 독립기초와 벽체기초라고 가정하여 그 크기를 계산하고 각 기초의 중첩여부를 조사하여 중첩되는 기초들은 본 논문에서 개발한 기초 합병의 방법을 이용하여 새로운 기초형식으로 변경되도록 하였다. 개발된 시스템은 주어진 상부구조 설계결과와 지반조건에 대하여 적절한 기초형식을 선정하여 그에 따른 배근 설계를 쉽게 할 수 있도록 해준다.