PRIORITIZING TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION WORK AREAS USING THE DELPHI ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS-BASED ON A SPREADSHEET MODEL

The primary goal of this research is to test the technical feasibility of the computer system that POSCO's engineering department plans to d evelop, by building its prototype. The prototype consists of a CAD sys tem, document editor, scanner, character recognition program, graphic/ image editors, document management system on an object-oriented databa se system, and mass storage. It is implemented on a client-server envi ronment which includes Unix workstations for the CAD system, document management, and mass storage, and personal computers with MS Windows f or editing document and graph/image files. Through the prototype, we h ave shown how the computer system can be effectively built. We have al so demonstrated that the current manual process of document preparatio n can be vastly expedited by automating search, retrieval, and editing of data and documents. Another goal of the research is to propose a w ay to exchange CAD data among heterogeneous CAD systems in the Pohang and Kwang-yang steelworks. We have investigated several file exchange formats available such as IGES, DXF, DWG, and STEP. Presently, ICES ap pears to be the best candidate. In the future, however, STEP set by IS O will have to be adopted. We have also considered several aspects, su ch as document management and file compression, in exchanging engineer ing data over communication networks.