1. Joint Research Item & Student Exchange Program Proposal
2006/11/16
Suk-Hwan Suh
Director of Center for ubiquitous Manufacturing
Professor of School of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
POSTECH, Korea (

2. Contents Summary of previous workshop Joint Research Item : UPLIFE
Introduction of POSTECH
Introduction of u-Mfg research center
Joint Research Item : UPLIFE
Student Exchange Program
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3. Summary of previous workshop

4. Introduction of POSTECH
“ Small but Great Research Oriented University “
POSTECH established since December 1986 by the POSCO, one of the largest iron & steel making companies in the world, located in Pohang, KOREA
281 faculty, 1200 undergraduates, 1300 graduate students in 10 departments
Until 2004, 1072 Ph.D, 4886 M.S, 3398 B.S are graduated
Annual Research fund (2005) : Over 111,000,000 USD
Over 670 projects are under development
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5. Introduction of u-Manufacturing research center
Established since July, 2005 in the School of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, POSTECH
Aim of u-Manufacturing research center
Realization of innovative manufacturing environment by combining MT (Manufacturing Technology) & UT (Ubiquitous Technology)
Research organization
Director : Prof. Suh (IME, POSTECH)
Steering committee with 5 faculties including director
4 research teams with 12 Faculties from POSTECH and researchers including Ph.D & master course students
4 Industry companies for industrialization of u-Manufacturing
Director
Committee
Secretary
UPLC data modeling team
H-interface team
V-interface team
Industrialization
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6. U-Mfg Research Theme: from BOL to EOL
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7. Research theme of u-Center
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8. Details for Research theme
Research theme #1: UPLI - Information modeling for UPL - Interoperability methods for UPLI
Research theme #2: Horizontal interface among supporting systems - System engineering & developing u-System for BOL/MOL/EOL - Developing interface for existing application systems
Research theme #3: Vertical interface between UPLI and real world - Data acquisition mechanism for existing devices: RFID, sensor - Network infra for UPLI: USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Network) - Information security for UPLI - M2M (Machine to Machine) interface - Embedded system for manufacturing devices
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9. UPLIFE: Ubiquitous Product Lifecycle Information highway For Enhancement of Machine Tool Products

10. Abstract
UPLIFE
Ubiquitous Product Lifecycle Information highway For Enhancement of machine tool systems
Goal
To develop information infrastructure (UPLI) for supporting manufacturing enterprises and societal activities to upgrade lifecycle value of machine tool product using ubiquitous technologies
Deliverables
Unified data model for ubiquitously-interfaced comprehensive product lifecycle information for machine tool systems
New services (scenario, methodology/algorithm, data interface architecture) upgrading value of machine tool systems throughout the entire lifecycle
Interoperability methods for ontology/view integration and mapping between unified data model and service application systems.
Proactive business process & knowledge management
Prototype systems based on the data model and new services
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11. UPLIFE framework © POSTECH Center for Ubiquitous Manufacturing UPLI
Embedded
System
Sensor
System On
Chip
RFID U -
Machine
Interface
Device
Smart
Card
Interoperability layer
Ubiquitous D2U interface layer
UPLI
Product data
Unified data model, data & usage manager
Proactive business process & knowledge manager
UPLIFE service 1
UPLIFE service 2
UPLIFE service 3
New services MOL/EOL
ERP/SCM/MES
CAD/CAPP/CAM/CNC
Test/Maintenance/Monitoring
Process 2
Process 3-1
Process 3-2
Process 4
Process 1
Task 1
Business data
Context data
Operation data
Task 2-1
Task 2-2
Task 4
Task 3-1
Task 3-2
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12. Work packages © POSTECH Center for Ubiquitous Manufacturing
Title 1
Current status analysis
1.1 As-is model analysis
1.2 To-be model analysis 2
Unified data model 3
Ontology integration and interoperability method for UPLI 4
Proactive business process & knowledge manager
4.1 Dynamic/proactive business process management system (BPMS)
4.2 Process-oriented knowledge management system (PKMS)
4.3 Interoperation of BPMS and PKMS 5
Prototype Development
5.1 Customized product service
5.2 Knowledge-driven diagnosis & feedback to BOL
5.3 User-defined flexible proactive exception handling
5.4 Product recovery management system 6
Ubiquitous D2U (Device to UPLI) interface 7
Exploitation, demonstration and information dissemination 8
Project management
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13. Possible joint research items
WP5 : Prototype development
The goal of this work package is to define detailed scenarios from To-Be model of work package 1 and to develop prototype systems for the defined scenario. The prototype will provide some examples of UPLIFE services demonstrating the usefulness and effectiveness of UPLI.
Sub-tasks
5.1 Customized product service
5.2 Knowledge-driven diagnosis & feedback to BOL
5.3 User-defined flexible proactive exception handling
5.4 Product recovery management system
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14. Work package 5: Prototype development
Description
The goal of this work package is to define detailed scenarios from To-Be model of work package 1 and to develop prototype systems for the defined scenario. The prototype will provide some examples of UPLIFE services demonstrating the usefulness and effectiveness of UPLI.
Sub-tasks
Sub-tasks are detailed scenarios from To-be model of work package 1 and prototype systems supporting defined scenarios.
5.1 Customized product service
5.2 Knowledge-driven diagnosis & feedback to BOL
5.3 User-defined flexible proactive exception handling
5.4 Product recovery management system
Deliverables
Prototype systems to demonstrate scenarios detailed scenarios from To-Be model of work package 1
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15. 5.1 Customized product service
Customized product development
Customized service
Dynamic Product Data
Customized Service
Predictive maintenance
Predictive part replacement
recommend usage condition
Knowledge for CRM
Individual repository
D2U
Application
CRM
Production Level
Context-awareness
Customers’ Function Pattern
CAM
Process Plan
Knowledge for PLM
User Preference
Product Status
Environment
CAPP
Part Program
Customized Product Service Support
Application
PLM
CAD
Part characteristic at special context
Customized Part List
Part library
Product Development Level
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16. 5.2 Knowledge-driven diagnosis & feedback to BOL
As-Is Model
To-Be Model
Detail evaluation info. each part
Factory (Customer)
Activity history info. of operator
USN
Factory status info.
Fault context info.
Fault context info. gathered through word of mouth or office file
Frequent fault context info.
Difficult gathering of distributed info.
Context DB
Diagnosis system
Factory (Customer)
Case-based fault context info.
ISO DB
Integration Agent
Frequent fault context info.
Standard info.
Case-based integrated context info.
Maintainer
Manufacturer
Manufacturer
Maintainer
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17. 5.3 User-defined proactive exception handling
Define, monitor, and predict various exceptions dynamically
Define and execute exceptions flexibly and proactively
BOL
MOL
Dynamic business process generated for exception handling
Stop and revise existing purchase or production orders of suppliers for failed parts
Determine earliest time of re-work
Exception signal
Proactive Exception Handling system
Business process & knowledge Manager
Ubiquitous interface layer
Interoperability layer
Product data
Business data
Context data
Operation data
Unified data model, data & usage management
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18. 5.4 Product recovery management system
Generate the information for product recovery & recycling
Make a decision on identified product at the EOL from related database in BOL and MOL
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19. Student Exchange Program

20. Student Exchange Program
Motivation
The proposed joint research item is wide research, including ubiquitous computing as well as manufacturing. Therefore, for the study, various domain knowledge might be needed.
To carry out the joint research item, studying during short term and exchanging is not enough.
For the joint research like joint workshops and seminars, long cooperation between laboratories is required.
Goal
Carrying out a long term or short term joint research by PhD candidates
Publishing the result in an international journal
Implementing the result as a prototype system
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21. Student Exchange Program & Thesis
Types of programs
Short term exchange program : During the vacation (2 month), sending PhD candidate to the other laboratory for a joint research
Long tern exchange program : During the semester (6 month), sending PhD candidate to the other laboratory for a joint research
Methods
Short term program : Each of PhD candidates introduces research areas of the each laboratory. After that, they draw a common subject and carry out preliminary research on the topic.
Long term program : Joint research team choose one subject among joint research items and carry out the studies of the topic. Based on the result, the team publish a paper in an international journal or implement a prototype system.
Deliverables
Short term program : Preliminary report of joint research
Long term program : Paper (International Journal) or prototype system
Thesis evaluation Committee
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22. Discussion results (10-12 AM, Nov 17, 2006)
Explained and discussed with Prof. Asplund:
Prof. Asplund will talk with Prof. Jackson of MDH
Asked Prof. Christinen about the scope of Korea-STINT Research topic and Swedish Partner; confirmed that
- The topic on Manuafcturing with other partners will be okay
Sent asking (with POSTECH Proposal) to:
- Prof. Asplund
- Prof. Jackson
- Prof. Kjellberg
Based on the reply, we may write and submit to Prof. Christnen:
- 3 pages of Proposal by end of November
- 6 Pages of Proposal by Middle of Decomber
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