International Journal of
Innovation, Management and Technology

Abstract— In recent years, there has been an increased demand from luxury shops for clean windows in Korea. To satisfy this demand, efforts have been made to develop a window cleaning device. However, as these efforts are at an early stage, the economic feasibility of such a device is not yet clearly understood. This study aims to estimate the economic feasibility of a window cleaning device through an LCC analysis. The LCC analysis was done for the conventional cleaning method and a newly-developed window cleaning device. Based on the study findings, it is expected that such a window cleaning device could reach break-even point in seven years after its introduction.

Index Terms— Construction automation, window cleaning, cleaning robot, maintenance, life cycle cost (LCC).

Kyoon-Tai Kim and Young-Hun Jun are with the Construction Industry Innovation Center, Korea Institute of Civil engineering and building Technology, 10223 Kyunggi-do Korea (e-mail: ktkim@kict.re.kr, dudcns86@kict.re.kr).

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Cite: Kyoon-Tai Kim and Young-Hun Jun, " Analysis of Economic Feasibility for a Window Cleaning Device," International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 125-129, 2019.