The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) has launched a nationwide tour to explain the government‘s initiative of supplying and spreading smart factories.
Starting with a session at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry on April 24, the tour will take delegates to 15 cities across the nation through June.
The government’s policy to supply and spread smart factories is a major task related to the so-called Manufacturing Innovation 3.0 Strategies, one of the Park Geun-hye’s government’s 24 core innovation tasks.
The government and conglomerates will shoulder more than 20 billion won to provide support for establishing smart factories for 700 SMEs and mid-size superstars. The Korea Development Bank also plans to launch a program to extend 50 billion won in loans to build automotive facilities and operation funds.
MOTIE said companies outfitted with smart factories will see their productivity and added values rise an average of more than 10 percent.
Furthermore, the MOTIE will launch programs to tour the factory lab of the Gyeongsangbuk-do Creative Innovation Center and other smart factories to publicize them.
SMEs and mid-size superstars in the top six “root” businesses — casting, molding, plastic working, welding, surface treatment and heat treatment — will be provided with a maximum of 100 million won or 50 percent of total costs for building model smart factories with ICT convergence.
Secondary and tertiary cooperative firms of conglomerates and others will be offered a financial support ranging from 2 million won to 40 million for assistance for the building of IT solutions and consulting.
Smart Factories, Proven Boon for SME plants
A Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do-based plant producing and supplying electric systems to LSIS has seen its defect rate dramatically drop to 0.01 percent. The company has a spacious site covering 98,917 sq. meters but not many real people. Robots perform packing and conveyance and manless cars carry raw materials and finished products. The plant, which produced 7.500 electric products daily in 2010, has now changed into one churning out up to 20,000 finished products. The transformation is owed to the plant’s shift to a smart factory system five years ago.
The smart factory paradigm has transformed the manufacturing industry. Smart factories are outfitted with IoT technologies, including Big Data and sensors, to automate all processes ranging from procurement of raw materials and equipment to production and shipping. The transformation contributes to a dramatical reduction in defect rates.
The smart factory system is a core part of the so-called Manufacutring Innovation 3.0 Initiative the government is aggressively pushing as one of its national agencies. The government plans to transform 10,000 plants belonging to SMEs and mid-size superstars into smart factories. The government plans to spend 1 trillion won to supply and spread smart factory technologies by 2020.
Saehan, a mold and heat treatment company in Hwaseong, Geonggi-do, is remodeling its factory into a smart factory with 150 million won, including 100 million won in financial support from the government. The move is designed to introduce the manufacturing execution system (MES).
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