Showcase smart factory inaugurated in Chungbuk

Chungbuk Technopark Foundation (CBTP), South Korea, recently announced the completion of a showcase smart factory at ATS Inc., assisted by the national and local government business promotion programme operated by CBTP. 

Smart factories innovate manufacturing processes of small and medium enterprises by introducing 5G communications, collaborative robots, and artificial intelligence technologies. 

The smart factory programme plans to convert 155 traditional factories into state-of-the-art futuristic plants during 2020. Throughout 2019, Chungbuk Technopark successfully accomplished the smart factory promotion programme’s projected goals with three new showcase factories including Saehan, ATS, Genicos co. Ltd., making a total of 164 smart factories including 104 new plants and 42 upgraded facilities in the Chungbuk province. Furthermore, the programmes have brought 98 manufacturing execution systems, 32 enterprise resource planning systems, 7 product lifecycle management systems and more sophisticated production enhancing tools to many regional business entities.

Mr. Jaebin Song, president of Chungbuk Technopark, commented “We are committed to optimize the smart factory programmes by collaborating with R&D projects among academies, research institutions, and industries and training engineers in advanced technologies for empowering local business competitiveness in Chungbuk”.