Yoo Suk Hong

Ever since the plus/minus limits on dimensions first started to appear on engineering drawings in the early 1900s, tolerances have been one of the most important issues for every engineer involved in the product realization processes. In particular, with the advancement of computers and CAD/CAM techniques in the 1970s, the tolerance-related issues have continuously drawn the attention of many researchers since then. As a result, a tremendous number of research articles have been published over t

Since parts and systems are closely linked to each other in complex engineering products, a change in a single part or system causes changes in other parts or systems, which in turn propagate through a product. This paper proposes an analytic network process (ANP) approach to measuring the relative importance of parts and modules in a modular product in terms of design change impacts and propagation. Although the primary purpose of the ANP is selection and prioritisation of alternatives, this st

In order to improve ease of disassembly and recycling of a product at its retirement stage, it is essential to design a product architecture that allows for easy disassembly and recycling. In this paper, a novel concept of eco-architecture is introduced, and the eco-architecture analysis, a design approach supporting the end-of-life decision making process, is proposed. The eco-architecture is the product architecture described from the end-of-life (EOL) viewpoint, in which a product is represen

With the increased need for remanufacturing of end-of-life products, achieving economic efficiency in remanufacturing is urgently needed. The purpose of this study was to devise a cost-minimisation plan for disassembly and remanufacturing of end-of-life products returned by consumers. A returned end-of-life product is disassembled into remanufacturable parts, which are supposed to be used for new products after being remanufactured. Each end-of-life product is disassembled into parts at variable

A cluster Web-server system can be deployed to support high request rates to Web application server (WAS) in Internet-banking. The domain name system (DNS) servers dispatch the client requests among the Web-servers through the URL-name to IP-address mapping mechanism. In this paper, we propose a cluster Web-server system arranged in the multiple logical ring connections, in which the DNS is integrated with an adaptive load balancing algorithm and evaluate the performance of the proposed distribu

Recently strengthened environmental regulations have obligated manufacturing companies to treat end-of-life (EOL) products both environmentally consciously and economically. EOL treatment begins with disassembling a product into recyclable or disposable sub-assemblies. Therefore, the economic value of an EOL product is largely a function of the plan for its disassembly: the means by which it is to be disassembled into smaller sub-assemblies, and the choice of sub-assemblies to be disassembled fi

Part 1 of two companion papers was concerned with the elementary concepts for tolerancing algebra, such as deviation space, deviation volume and tolerance primitives. Part 2 deals with the interactions between those primitives. The tolerance transfer problem is discussed first to figure out the relationship between the the process planning decisions and the tolerances. Then the manufacturing process dispersions are modelled in a deviation space so that they can be handled with the tolerance prim

Mass customisation is a common trend in many industries, and the platform-based product family strategy is a widely used method for this purpose. While the platform strategy can reduce the cost of variety by sharing common assets such as components and production processes, it has the risk of losing market share owing to its limitation on diversity. A balance between commonality and variety needs to be achieved when designing platforms that are both efficient and effective. In this paper, we foc

As a fundamental building block for 3D tolerance transfer analysis, tolerancing algebra on a deviation space has been proposed and elaborated. Based on the investigation of the spatial characteristic and the propagation mechanism of geometric tolerances and manufacturing process dispersions, a set of primitives and operations has been defined, which forms the algebraic structure of tolerancing algebra. Some important algebraic properties have been derived that will be extensively used to establi

Many companies adopt concurrent engineering in their product-development projects in order to reduce time to market. Concurrent engineering requires careful management, since the uncertainty of transferred information leads to rework and renders a development process complex. Most of the existing studies on concurrent engineering have analyzed overlapping between two activities. The present study expanded the research scope by modeling the developmental process of the concurrent execution of mul