Seog-Chan Oh

General Motors Company | GM · Research & Development

The automotive industry has used in-line conveyor systems to move vehicles through the general assembly process since the early days of vehicle manufacturing in the 20th century. With products shifting to EVs (Electric Vehicle) and the emergence of AMRs (Autonomous Mobile Robot), there is an opportunity to transform the assembly process into a more...

The increasing demand for electric vehicles and the emergence of autonomous transport technologies within production like autonomous mobile robot or self-driving rolling chassis have raised the possibility of developing conveyor-less matrix assembly system. The conveyor-less matrix assembly system is characterized by high adaptability to demand cha...

In a high‐mix and low‐volume manufacturing facility, heterogeneous jobs introduce frequent reconfiguration of machines which increases the chance of unplanned machine breakdowns. As machines are often nonidentical and their performance degrades over time, it is critical to consider the heterogeneity and non‐stationarity of the machines during sched...

The need of energy decision making happens in realizing sustainable manufacturing. Many companies in the manufacturing industry have realized the importance of sustainability and have made a strategic move toward sustainable manufacturing to face the uncertainty of future energy availability and stringent environment regulations enacted around the...

Energy use is a large, but mandatory, expense incurred by manufacturers or facility operators and contributes to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Depending on the type of business, energy cost can range from less than 1 % of operating expense to more than 30 %. Additionally, energy use in facilities and operations accounts for 66 % of the total gree...

The need of energy decision making happens in smart grids. Smart grids enable a two-way energy demand response capability through which a utility company offers its industrial customers various call options for energy load curtailment. If a customer has the capability to accurately determine whether to accept an offer or not, then in the case of ac...

Energy performance analysis in the car manufacturing industry is intriguing. The car manufacturing industry, one of the largest energy consuming industries, has been making a considerable effort to improve its energy intensity by implementing energy efficiency programs, in many cases supported by government research or financial programs. While man...

Recently, the importance of balancing building and process energy in manufacturing is growing because both comfortable working environment and energy efficiency have emerged as important element for advancing the manufacturing system. One way of achieving the balance is to optimize the operation of HVAC system (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditio...

It is critical for global manufacturing enterprises to know and understand regional and local environmental regulations and incentive programs/polices. However, there has been little research aimed at acquiring and disseminating the knowledge of environmental regulations and incentive policies within the business decision making context, especially...

It is often required to carry out sensor-based condition monitoring for machines or operations (e.g., machining centre, foundry) during production to ensure the effectiveness. Due to the requirements of a non-invasive installation or no interruption during production, however, it may be difficult to fully instrument the machine or production equipm...

An important method to reduce Greenhouse gas and energy is through energy efficiency projects. To gain top-level support and funding, a systematic approach is best using data and benchmarking other companies. Explaining why support and funding is required is the first step toward selling the need. To compete with other internal funding needs—produc...

This book introduces the issues and problems that arise when implementing smart energy management for sustainable manufacturing in the automotive manufacturing industry and the analytical tools and applications to deal with them. It uses a number of illustrative examples to explain energy management in automotive manufacturing, which involves most...

Performance-based budgeting has received increasing attention from public and for-profit organizations in an effort to achieve a fair and balanced allocation of funds among their individual producers or operating units for overall system optimization. Although existing frontier estimation models can be used to measure and rank the performance of ea...

Energy use is a large essential expense incurred by manufacturers or facility operators that contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At General Motors (GM), although our expenditure for energy is not a large percentage of our total cost, we do spend in excess of $1 billion annually. GHG emissions from energy use represent over 7 million metr...

The car manufacturing industry, one of the largest energy consuming industries, has been making a considerable effort to improve its energy intensity by implementing energy efficiency programs, in many cases supported by government research or financial programs. While many car manufacturers claim that they have made substantial progress in energy...

Methods of forecasting and modulating energy consumption at a production facility are provided. The amounts of energy consumed during production and non-production times are used to obtain highly accurate hourly energy use rates for different energy use activities which are used to estimate the amount of energy that will be consumed during a subseq...

Smart grids enable a two-way energy demand response capability through which a utility company offers its industrial customers various call options for energy load curtailment. If a customer has the capability to accurately determine whether to accept an offer or not, then in the case of accepting an offer, the customer can earn both an option prem...

Technology integration project involves so many players that it requires an effective project management to achieve a successful integration of a technology to business. As a program/project manager, you are aware of the significant impact of your project on the entire corporation even in a proof-of-concept or a pilot project. You want to ensure th...

As a program/project manager, you have understood where your company stands at a global market environment in terms of competitive business strategy, operational business capability, and technology integration needs. After visiting several manufacturing plants and interviewing related people, you found urgent needs of technology integration for imp...

As stated in previous chapters, globalization has become a major trend in today’s business environment and has led to the explosion in the amount of information shared among business partners. As a program/project manager, you need to understand an increasing need of data sharing in heterogeneous business environment that may cause serious interope...

You are a program/project manager of a company. For an illustration purpose, let us assume that your company is an automotive company named Drive Horse Motors that produces cars, sports utility vehicles (SUVs), and trucks. Recently, Drive Horse Motors recognizes that competitions become more intense, and senior management thinks that to remain comp...

Chapter 5 presented preparatory steps for technology integration and Chap. 6 described the tasks for project planning and execution. We have used the RFID application project as an illustrative example to help the reader understand technology integration concepts, procedures, and processes. This chapter explains the complete RFID case study that us...

Today’s global business environments drive companies to be more dependent on technology, and to remain competitive, firms will face situations in which they will need to introduce or adopt a new technology to their business. In order to achieve a successful integration with maximum return on investment, companies need a systematic approach that acc...

Today a number of new technologies are increasingly emerging, which promise companies to innovate, improve their efficiencies, or realize new business opportunities. As a program/project manager, however, you need to know that actual benefits from new emerging technologies would be rarely gained without a good understanding of their impact on busin...

Semantic web service technologies are gaining widespread industry interests because of their great potential for saving time and effort to coordinate supply chain members by automatically composing different services. As a program/project manager, you need to consider the automatic business service composition as an important capability in the curr...

As the complexity of business increases, numerous technologies are being used in business. The previous chapters provided stepping stone information regarding the general aspects of technology needs and applicability. Now you may want to know more specifically how and where you can use the technology. For the purpose of a vivid presentation, this c...

This paper discusses a novel model, based on Activity-Based Costing, developed to analyze and predict energy usage in the manufacturing industry. In this approach, we have modified a cost management tool called Activity-Based Costing (ABC) to include environmental aspects along with costs metrics. A case study was performed on a General Motors (GM)...

Energy use is a large, but mandatory, expense incurred by manufacturers or facility operators and contributes to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. At General Motors (GM), although our expenditure for energy is not a large percentage of our total cost, we do spend in excess of $1 Billion USD annually. GHG emissions from energy use represent over 7 mil...

It is critical to facilitate business partners to be seamlessly interoperable with each other as the network-centric manufacturing (NCM) paradigm becomes a major trend in today's manufacturing environment. In this work, we propose a semantic e-Kanban inventory system where a semantic gateway is acting as a mapping hub to enable heterogeneous messag...

Due to its scale, complexity, and uncertainty of the processes, the management and control of automotive manufacturing systems have been very challenging. With the recent application of new technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) to manufacturing process, real-time information has become available in manufacturing systems through...

The amount of Meta-data to be managed increases with development of information technology. However, when trying to integrate and share product information of heterogeneous systems within or between companies, sharing of information is impossible if product information classification systems are different. Due to the situation mentioned above, engi...

The smart grid enables two-way energy demand response capability through which utility service providers can offer customers special call options for energy load curtailment. If a utility customer has a capability to perform a rapid cost and benefit analysis of the offer in an optimal manner and accept the offer, the customer can earn both an optio...

In recent years, while many research proposals have been made toward novel algorithmic solutions of a myriad of web services composition problems, their validation has been less than satisfactory. One of the reasons for this problem is the lack of real benchmark web services data with which researchers can test and verify their proposals. In this c...

It is critical for global manufacturing enterprises to know and understand regional and local environmental regulations and incentive programs/polices. However, there has been little research aimed at acquiring and disseminating the knowledge of environmental regulations and incentive policies within the business decision making context, especially...

Using graph theory, we analyze the topological landscape of web service networks formed by real-world data set, either downloaded from web service repositories or crawled by a search engine. We first propose a flexible framework to study syntactic web service matchmaking in a unified manner. Under the framework, then, the data set is analyzed from...

When there are a large number of web services in use, it is non-trivial to quickly find web services satisfying the given request. Furthermore, when no single web service satisfies the given request fully, one needs to ldquocomposerdquo multiple web services to fulfill the goal. It is important to have a wise decision on underlying web-service comp...

As the emergence of service-oriented architecture provides a major boost for e-commerce agility, the number of available Web services is rapidly increasing. However, when there are a large number of Web services available and no single Web service satisfies the given request, one has to “compose” multiple Web services to fulfill the goal. In this a...

In this article, a novel benchmark toolkit, WSBen, for testing web services discovery and composition algorithms is presented. The WSBen includes: (1) a collection of synthetically generated web services files in WSDL format with diverse data and model characteristics; (2) queries for testing discovery and composition algorithms; (3) auxiliary file...

Globalization has become a major trend in today’s business environment, which has led to the explosion in the amount of information shared amongst business partners. It is critical to share information correctly, inexpensively, and effectively for accomplishing business goals using global information sharing architectures under increasing pressure...

In this paper, we propose a Web service composition framework that uses Integer Linear Programming with non-functional objectives and constraints, in addition to the syntactic matching of Web services features. We envision that when Web services are fully deployed and commercialized in the near future, the criteria of Web service composition to ach...

The main research focus of Web services is to achieve the interoperability between distributed and heterogeneous applications. Therefore, flexible composition of Web services to fulfill the given challenging requirements is one of the most important objectives in this research field. However, until now, service composition has been largely an error...

When there are a large number of web services available and no single service satisfies the given request, one has to compose multiple web services to fulfill the goal, considering syntactic and semantic aspects. To address the web service composition issue, in this paper, we present a new composition algorithm by extending our previous work, WSRP...

As the emergence of service-oriented architecture provides a major boost for e-commerce agility, the number of available Web services is rapidly increasing. However, when there are a large number of Web services available and no single Web service satisfies the given request, one has to "compose" multiple Web services to fulfill the goal. In this a...

As the number of available Web services is rapidly increasing, the effective and efficient service discovery and composition becomes a pressing problem for value-added distributed applications. To address this problem, in this paper, we present efficient service discovery and composition algorithms that exploit both syntactic and semantic service d...

As the number of available web services proliferates, finding right web services to fulfill a given goal becomes an important task. In particular, a problem of combining multiple web services to satisfy a single task, known as web services composition problem, has received much attention recently, and various solutions have been proposed. Among man...

Abstract A novel benchmark, WSBen, for testing web services discovery and ,composition is presented. WSBen includes: (1) A collection of ,synthetic web ,services (WSDL) files with diverse characteristics and sizes; (2) Test discovery and ,composition ,queries and solutions; and (3) External files for statistical analysis and AI planners. Users can...

Despite the rapid development in web services technologies, there has been little study on the public web services from network anal- ysis perspective. To address this, in this paper, we have performed a topological study on various web service networks using real-world data sets. We first propose a flexible framework by which we can study seman- t...

Load building is an important step to make the delivery supply chain efficient. We present a family of load makeup algorithms using market based control strategy, named LoadMarket, in order to build efficient loads where each load consists of a certain number of finished products having destinations. LoadMarket adopts Clark-Wright algorithm for gen...

A novel UML-based analytical modeling methodology, named MISQ, is presented for optimizing web service composition in Business Service Networks. MISQ enables functional and temporal analyses at a high-level design stage so that web service composition can be systematically optimized. Furthermore, MISQ provides an automatic generation of web service...

Load building is an important step to make the delivery supply chain efficient. We present a family of load makeup algorithms using market control-based strategy, named LoadMarket, in order to build efficient loads where each load consists of a certain number of finished products having destinations. LoadMarket adopts minimum spanning tree graph al...

A novel UML-based analytical modeling methodology, named MISQ, is presented for optimizing web service composition in Business Service Networks. MISQ enables functional and temporal analyses at a high-level design stage so that web service composition can be systematically optimized. Furthermore, MISQ provides an automatic generation of web service...

When there are a large number of Web services available (e.g., in the range of 1,000-10,000), it is non-trivial to quickly find Web services satisfying the given request. Furthermore, when no single Web service satisfies the given request fully, one needs to "compose" multiple Web services to fulfill the goal. Since the search space for such a comp...

Agents with web services based interfaces have service description encoded in machine-understandable formats so that they can easily interact with other agents. Therefore, locating right agents and combining them to form more complex services becomes increasingly an important task on the Web. However, when there are a large number of web services b...

As the emergence of service-oriented architecture provides a major boost for e-commerce agility, the number of available web services is rapidly increasing. However, when there are a large number of web services available and no single web service satisfies the given request, one has to "compose" multiple web services to fulfill the goal. In this p...

As web services become more popular, the number of available web services proliferates. As such, when there are a large number of web services available (e.g., in the range of 1,000 -10,000), it is non-trivial to quickly find web services satisfying the given request. Furthermore, when no single web service satisfies the given request fully, one ne...

The full text of the dissertation is available as a Adobe Acrobat .pdf file (232 p.) ; Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view the file. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2006. Microfilm (positive).