KR20180064956A - System for improving manufacturing process test bed - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a manufacturing process test bed improvement system, which comprises: a sensor module for measuring a state of a worker and at least one manufacturing device located in a factory through an internet of things (IoT) sensor, obtaining factory state information by using the measured state of the worker and the manufacturing device, and transmitting the factory state information and factory identification information; an information collecting module for classifying the factory state information transmitted from the sensor module to generate a factory state information list; a database for storing the factory state information list from the information collecting module and the factory state information and the factory identification information transmitted from the sensor module; an analysis module for analyzing the factory state information list stored in the database to generate manufacturing process information, and generating 3D- and virtual reality-based process control information capable of controlling a manufacturing process corresponding to the manufacturing process information; and an operation control module for controlling an operation of the manufacturing device by using the 3D- and virtual reality-based process control information from the analysis module. According to the present invention, monitoring for each factory is possible for a manufacturing process, and process control information for improving the manufacturing efficiency of a factory is selected and applied through a topic map. Thus, it is possible to provide information that can resolve problems occurring in comparison with an existing manufacturing process and to improve a manufacturing process, and it is possible to improve test efficiency of the manufacturing process.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a manufacturing process test bed,

The present invention relates to a manufacturing process test bed improvement system, and more particularly, to a manufacturing process test bed improvement system for testing the performance of a manufacturing process.

Companies operating a large-scale manufacturing industry need to reduce the manufacturing cost, reduce the defect rate for improving the product quality, compile the quantity of the product in real time, and manage the progress of the production process. (ERP), a manufacturing execution management system (MES).

Since ERP does not have a means for automatically inputting data on the manufacturing process in the manufacturing process management, it has been manually inputting data for all the manufacturing processes once a day, and in order to solve the above problems, MES, which receives all the data for automatic processing and manages the necessary manufacturing processes, is developed and linked with the ERP to monitor the quantity of products produced in real time, the current production process and the quantity of defective products have.

However, in the conventional manufacturing process management system, in order to compare the performance and efficiency with the existing manufacturing process, it is necessary to extract, analyze, compare, and apply the information on the comparison of the manufacturing process according to the state of the manufacturing apparatuses It is difficult to obtain comparable information of the manufacturing process and it is difficult to acquire information comparable with the newly applied manufacturing process.

KR 10-2008-0016514 A

It is an object of the present invention to enable monitoring of existing manufacturing processes by measuring and analyzing the characteristics of the manufacturing apparatuses and the conditions of the workers by the factory, and generating and analyzing information that can be compared and analyzed with the newly applied manufacturing process Which is capable of improving the test efficiency of the manufacturing process.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system and method for improving a test bed of a manufacturing process. The system includes a test bed improvement system including at least one manufacturing apparatus and an operator located in a factory through an IoT (Internet of Things) A sensor module for acquiring factory state information using the measured state of the manufacturing apparatus and the operator, and transmitting the factory state information and factory identification information; An information collection module for classifying the factory state information transmitted from the sensor module and generating a factory state information list; A database for storing the factory status information list from the information collection module, the factory status information transmitted from the sensor module, and the factory identification information; An analysis module for generating manufacturing process information by analyzing the factory state information list stored in the database and generating 3D and virtual reality based process control information capable of controlling the manufacturing process in accordance with the manufacturing process information, And an operation control module for controlling the operation of the manufacturing apparatus using the 3D and virtual reality-based process control information.

In addition, the manufacturing process information analyzed by the analysis module is used to form a relationship with the process control information using a predetermined manufacturing process-based relationship model, and the formed relationship is constructed as a topic map, And a visualization module for visualizing the relationship.

Also, the topic map may include a plurality of manufacturing process information lists, which are generated by listing a plurality of the manufacturing process information, as input, and generate a plurality of process control information corresponding to the manufacturing process information, Selecting at least one of the process control information with high relevance according to the association between input and output, and the operation control module uses at least one process control information selected in the topic map And the operation of the manufacturing apparatus is controlled.

The factory state information may include at least one of manufacturing state information, worker state information, and product state information.

In addition, the manufacturing apparatus status information includes a moving speed of the manufacturing apparatus, an operation time, a consumption amount of consumables, an inventory amount of consumables, and a device inspection period. Time and proficiency, and the product state information includes a defective rate of the product, a production quantity, an estimated production quantity, and a manufacturing difficulty level.

Also, the process control information includes at least one control information among additional inputs of the operator, additional training of the operator, inspection of the apparatus, reduction of the worker personnel, expansion of the product production amount, adjustment of the position of the consumables, .

In addition, the database divides the manufacturing process into a plurality of areas for each factory using the factory state information and the factory identification information transmitted from the sensor module,

The analysis module analyzes the plant status for each manufacturing process area by using the factory status information and the factory identification information databaseized for each of the divided manufacturing process areas, Information is generated.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to perform factory-specific monitoring of a manufacturing process and select and apply process control information for improving manufacturing efficiency of a factory through a topic map, There is an effect of improving the test efficiency of the manufacturing process by providing information that can improve the process.

The present invention also provides a method and apparatus for measuring a state of a manufacturing apparatus and an operator and generating 3D and virtual reality-based process control information through processing and analysis, .

1 is a block diagram of a manufacturing process test bed improvement system of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a view showing a factory status information list according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is an example showing a manufacturing process information and a process control information according to the present invention as a list of topic information and a topic map.
4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the manufacturing process test bed improvement system of the present invention.

The present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter, a repeated description, a known function that may obscure the gist of the present invention, and a detailed description of the configuration will be omitted. Embodiments of the present invention are provided to more fully describe the present invention to those skilled in the art. Thus, the shape and size of the elements in the figures may be exaggerated for clarity.

1 is a block diagram of a manufacturing process test bed enhancement system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

1, a manufacturing process test bed improvement system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a sensor module 110, an information collection module 120, a database 130, an analysis module 140, 150, and an operation control module 160. The manufacturing process test bed improvement system 100 can be interlocked with the manufacturing apparatus 200 installed in the factory.

The sensor module 110 may be installed in a factory or a part of the manufacturing apparatus 200 and may be connected to at least one manufacturing apparatus 200 located in the factory through the IoT sensor included in the sensor module 110, Acquires factory status information using the measured status of the manufacturing apparatus 200 and the operator, transmits factory identification information together with the acquired factory status information, or transmits a signal of an operation control module 160 to be described later And serves to control the manufacturing apparatus.

IoT is an abbreviation of 'Internet of Things', which connects all objects to the Internet to intelligence the characteristics of objects. IoT sensors refer to the sensors used. IoT sensors used in manufacturing process test bed enhancement systems include sensors that use infrared, machine vision, cameras, weights, accelerations, timers, etc. applied to conveyor belts, compressors, molding machines, raw materials, workers, . In addition, the IoT sensor used in the manufacturing process test bed improvement system is used to measure the manufacturing apparatus state information such as the operation speed of the manufacturing apparatus, the operation time, the consumption amount of consumables, the amount of consumables, Worker status information on work time, training time (proficiency level), and product status information such as product defect rate, production quantity, estimated quantity of manufacture, and manufacturing difficulty.

The sensor module 110 can transfer and exchange data between a plurality of sensor modules 110 installed in the factory using the IoT sensor. By using this information, it is possible to measure environmental information such as the temperature or humidity in the factory or to monitor the operation status of the manufacturing apparatus mounted on the manufacturing apparatus 200, or to grasp the status of the operator such as the position and behavior of the operator, The state information may be acquired as factory state information in the form of information.

Further, the factory state information may include at least one of the manufacturing apparatus state information, the worker state information, and the product state information.

The manufacturing apparatus status information in the factory status information includes manufacturing apparatus-related information such as operation speed of the manufacturing apparatus, operation time, consumption amount of consumables, inventory amount of consumables, and device inspection period. And information related to the operator such as behavior, working time, training time and proficiency, and the product status information can be configured to include information related to the product such as the product defect rate, the production quantity, the estimated quantity of manufacture, and the manufacturing difficulty.

Factory state information obtained by the sensor module 110 can be digitized according to the type of information, and can be set to be expressed in words or sentences as necessary.

In addition, the sensor module 110 may transmit factory identification information, and the transmitted factory identification information may be transmitted to a factory such as a factory location, a state of each factory, a factory environment of each factory, And may include relevant detailed information.

The information collecting module 120 receives the status of the manufacturing apparatus 200 and the operator transmitted from the sensor module 110 and processes the status of the manufacturing process in the factory by using the received factory status information, And generates a factory status information list.

The factory status information list is a list of the factory status information transmitted from the sensor module 110 so that the user can easily grasp information on the factory status and can easily process the manufacturing process information to be described later .

2, the factory state information processed by the information collecting module 120 can be divided into respective categories. For example, each piece of information such as the manufacturing apparatuses a, b, and c .

Such a classification may be changed according to a manufacturing process or a situation, and the classification is not limited to the one shown in the embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the manufacturing apparatus a, for example, the operating speed a1, the operating time a2, the consumption amount a3 of the consumables, the inventory amount a4 of the consumables, It is possible to generate a factory status information list that provides information for each detailed classification in the form of a numerical value, a word or a sentence for each of the subcategories related to the same manufacturing apparatus a.

The database 130 receives factory status information and factory identification information from the sensor module 110, receives the factory status information list from the information collection module 120, and stores the database in a database.

In addition, the database 130 classifies plant status information for each plant using the factory identification information transmitted from the sensor module 110, classifies the classified plant status information again according to the manufacturing process, And to process the status information to be compared with each factory.

This is because, when testing the manufacturing process, it is possible to evaluate and modify the manufacturing process according to the comparison of the normal values of the manufacturing process, in order to provide information that can be compared with each factory.

The analysis module 140 generates manufacturing process information by analyzing the factory status information list from the database 130 and generates process control information that can control the operation of the manufacturing device to correspond to the generated manufacturing process information.

The analysis module 140 may analyze the factory status information list stored in the database 130 and generate manufacturing process information indicating the information on the manufacturing process through a combination of each code of the factory status information.

The manufacturing process information is generated by combining one or more codes selected from the factory status information list, and is configured to be able to grasp the manufacturing process status according to a meaning or a definition expressed by a combination of codes.

The generated manufacturing process information is compared with the resultant value or expected value of the existing manufacturing process and the preset manufacturing process, and information about the manufacturing process such as the progress speed of the manufacturing process, progress efficiency, product reliability, .

In order to control the manufacturing process in accordance with the manufacturing process information, it is necessary to increase or decrease the speed of the manufacturing process, to increase or decrease the input amount of the worker (additional worker input) And control information that can be transferred to and controlled by the manufacturing apparatus 200, such as whether or not additional order is required through the checking of the inventory quantity, inspection of the apparatus, enlargement of the product production amount, adjustment of the position of the consumable item, Process control information can be generated and displayed as an associated indicator or result value.

The generated process control information is implemented on the basis of 3D and virtual reality such as 3D (3-Dimension), Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR) Or can be used for comparison or analysis with an actual manufacturing process using a dedicated terminal.

In addition, the analysis module 140 analyzes the factory status information for each of the divided areas by factory using the factory status information and the factory identification information, which are databaseized by the divided areas, from the database 130, Area manufacturing process information in which information on the manufacturing process is analyzed can be generated.

The relationship building module 150 forms the relationship between the manufacturing apparatus and the worker using the relation model based on the manufacturing process that has been previously determined by the analysis module 140, It builds and visualizes relationships with Topic Maps.

Topic Map is a knowledge representation methodology of Semantic Web, which is recognized as a solution for next generation web environment (Web 3.0).

Topic map is an excellent technology that can be used to classify information and search for semantic relations by associating and organizing information according to correlations and expressing the knowledge structure as a kind of map. GPS can be called.

Topic maps are a kind of solution for efficiently integrating, searching and navigating unstructured and distributed information by classifying and structuring large amounts of information and establishing semantic relations.

The topic map consists of a dual structure of knowledge and information layers. Knowledge layer consists of Topic that represents a specific topic and Association that shows the relationship between Topic and Topic.

The information layer represents the information resource, and the knowledge layer and the information layer are interconnected through the Occurrence to represent the location information of the knowledge and the resource corresponding to the location information. Therefore, it is possible to quickly and accurately guide the route to the desired information by using the association information between the topics without changing the existing homepage or data.

In the relationship building module 150, the manufacturing process-based relational model used includes an ideal manufacturing process 200 for manufacturing operation and state information of the worker, and includes manufacturing process information input as a variable and a process It can be set and used beforehand so that the control information is selected in descending order of relevancy.

Accordingly, the task of selecting a relationship having high relevance between the manufacturing process information generated in the analysis module 140 and the process control information according to a predetermined manufacturing process based relationship model is referred to as relationship formation, The operation control module 160 controls the manufacturing process using the control information.

In addition, the relationship building module 150 constructs a relationship map formed between the manufacturing process information and the process control information as a topic map, and visualizes the information so as to be easily utilized by the user.

Referring to FIG. 3, which illustrates one embodiment of the present invention, a process of constructing a relationship between manufacturing process information and process control information into a topic map will be described. A plurality of pieces of information are generated in the relationship building module 150 to list the respective manufacturing process information, and the manufacturing process information list shows the codes used in the process state information list and the definitions generated by combining the codes do. In addition, a process control information list can be generated in the relational expression module 150 in the same manner as the production process information list is created, and can be configured to display a definition together with each code.

The topic map selects and selects the process control information for one piece of information from the manufacturing process information list generated by the relationship configuration module 150 in the process control information list in accordance with the predefined relation, And may be configured to select process control information to provide more efficient information to the user.

For example, a manufacturing process information list is generated (Fig. 3, manufacturing process information list) through a factory status information list (Fig. 2) that summarizes the operating speed of the manufacturing apparatus 200, the consumed amount of consumables, (Process control information list in FIG. 3) listing process control information that can control the process in accordance with the manufacturing process information, and uses the process control information list as an output. So as to construct a topic map.

In this way, the manufacturing process information list and the process control information list are generated by the relationship building module 150 and constructed and displayed as a topic map, the single process control information corresponding to the manufacturing process information generated by the analysis module 140 The problem solving efficiency can be further improved by selecting a plurality of process control information lists by listing the problems in the manufacturing process information.

In addition, the process control information generated by the relationship building module 150 can be implemented on the basis of 3D and virtual reality so that the process control information generated by the analysis module 140 can be easily recognized by the user.

The relationship between the relationship building module 150 and the analysis module 140 will be described. The process control information provided by the analysis module 140 is process control information selected from one manufacturing process information, Is different from the relationship building module 150 that selects one or more of the list of manufacturing process information listed and selects a plurality of process control information having a high relationship with each other through relationship formation.

In addition, the operation control module 160 controls the operation of the manufacturing apparatus 200 using the 3D and virtual reality-based process control information selected by the analysis module 140 or the relationship building module 150 .

The operation control module 160 controls the operation state of the manufacturing apparatus 200 using the process control information generated by the analysis module 140 or the relationship building module 150, It is possible to notify the user to take the same action, or transmit the same to the sensor module 110 to directly control the manufacturing apparatus 200 through the IoT sensor.

Such process control information may be generated on the basis of 3D and virtual reality and may be displayed on a monitor or a smart phone for easy confirmation by a user or may be provided with information capable of comparison or analysis with an actual manufacturing process using a dedicated terminal .

The operation control module 160 may also be configured to control the operation of the manufacturing apparatus 200 by transmitting the process control information to the sensor module 110 installed in a part of the manufacturing apparatus 200. [

Hereinafter, the operation of the manufacturing process test bed improvement system will be described with reference to FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the manufacturing process test bed improvement system according to the present embodiment.

First, the manufacturing process test bed improvement system 100 measures the state of at least one manufacturing apparatus 200 and the worker located in the factory with the IoT sensor through the sensor module 110, and measures the state of the measured manufacturing apparatus and the worker And transmits the factory status information together with the factory identification information to the information collection module 120 (S110).

Next, the manufacturing process test bed improvement system 100 arranges the factory status information in the information collection module 120 for each classification, and lists the factory status information to the database 130 (S120).

In the database 130, factory state information and factory identification information are received from the sensor module 110 and manufacturing process information is received from the information collection module 120, and stored in a database (S130).

In this process, the database 130 classifies the factory state information into each factory, divides each manufacturing process into a plurality of areas, and stores the divided data into a database.

Next, the manufacturing process test bed improvement system 100 receives the factory state information list databaseed in step S130, analyzes the operation of the manufacturing apparatus 200 and the worker in the analysis module 140, and generates manufacturing process information , And generates process control information corresponding thereto (S140).

Here, the manufacturing process test bed improvement system 100 analyzes the operation of the manufacturing apparatus 200 and the worker for each divided area by receiving factory state information databaseed for each of a plurality of divided areas, Based on the operation of the manufacturing apparatus 200 and the operator, area manufacturing process information can be generated and corresponding process control information can be generated.

Next, the relationship building module 150 receives the manufacturing process information generated in step S140, generates a plurality of manufacturing process information, generates a list of the manufacturing process information, lists the corresponding process control information, A process control information list is generated, and the relationship between the two is established to form a relationship. The manufacturing process state list and the process control information list in which relationships are formed can be constructed as a topic map and visualized so that the user can easily utilize the process list in operation S150.

Next, the operation control module 160 may control the manufacturing process using the process control information selected in step S150, and may transmit the information to the sensor module 110 to control the operation of the manufacturing apparatus 200, So that the task can be adjusted (S160).

As described above, the manufacturing process test bed improvement system 100 according to the present embodiment can perform factory-based monitoring on the manufacturing process and selects and applies process control information for improving the manufacturing efficiency of the factory through the topic map, There is an effect of improving the test efficiency of the manufacturing process by providing the information that can improve the manufacturing process in the future and the problems that occur when compared with the process.

In addition, the manufacturing process test bed improvement system 100 according to the present embodiment measures the state of the manufacturing apparatus and the operator, and generates 3D and virtual reality-based process control information through processing and analysis, It is possible to compare with the process and to grasp the problem.

The manufacturing process test bed improvement system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the configuration and the method of the embodiments described above, and all or some of the embodiments may be selectively combined according to the needs of the user .

As described above, the present invention has been described with reference to particular embodiments, such as specific elements, and specific embodiments and drawings. However, it should be understood that the present invention is not limited to the above- And various modifications and changes may be made thereto by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains.

100: Manufacturing process test bed enhancement system
110: Sensor module
120: Information gathering module
130: Database
140: Analysis module
150: Relationship building module
160: Operation control module

Claims (7)

Measuring the state of at least one manufacturing apparatus and a worker located in a factory through an IoT (Internet of Things) sensor, acquiring factory state information using the measured state of the manufacturing apparatus and the worker, A sensor module for transmitting factory identification information;
An information collection module for classifying the factory state information transmitted from the sensor module and generating a factory state information list;
A database for storing the factory state information list of the information collection module, the factory state information and the factory identification information transmitted from the sensor module;
An analysis module for generating manufacturing process information by analyzing the factory state information list stored in the database and generating 3D and virtual reality based process control information capable of controlling the manufacturing process in accordance with the manufacturing process information; And
And an operation control module that controls operation of the manufacturing apparatus using the 3D and virtual reality-based process control information of the analysis module. The method according to claim 1,
Forming a relation with the process control information using the relation model based on the manufacturing process analyzed in advance by the analysis module, and constructing the relationship with the topic map to visualize the relation Further comprising a module. ≪ Desc / Clms Page number 21 > 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the topic map includes a plurality of manufacturing process information items generated by listing a plurality of the manufacturing process information items as inputs and generates a plurality of process control information items corresponding to the manufacturing process information items and lists the process control information items And selects at least one of the process control information having a high relationship according to the relationship between the input and the output,
Wherein the operation control module controls operation of the manufacturing apparatus using the process control information selected in the topic map. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the factory state information includes at least one of manufacturing apparatus state information, worker state information, and product state information. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the manufacturing apparatus status information includes a moving speed of the manufacturing apparatus, a running time, a consumption amount of consumables, an inventory amount of consumables,
The worker state information includes an inputting number of a worker, a location, an action, a work time, an education time, and a proficiency level,
Wherein the product state information includes a defect rate of a product, a production quantity, an expected quantity of manufacture, and a manufacturing difficulty level. The method according to claim 1,
The process control information includes at least one of control information of additional input of the operator, additional training of the operator, inspection of the apparatus, reduction of the worker personnel, expansion of the product production amount, adjustment of the position of the consumables, Features a manufacturing process test bed enhancement system. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the database divides the manufacturing process into a plurality of areas for each factory using the factory state information and the factory identification information transmitted from the sensor module,
The analysis module analyzes the plant status for each manufacturing process area by using the factory status information and the factory identification information databaseized for each of the divided manufacturing process areas, Wherein the information is generated from the test bed.

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