To spur proliferating data driven manufacturing, Chungbuk Technopark commemorates the completion of the showcase smart factory in Chungbuk.

Chungbuk Technopark Foundation announced that the showcase smart factory has been completed at ATS Inc. which was assisted by the national and local government business promotion program that CBTP is operating it mainly. As an injection molding automobile part manufacturer, ATS Inc. will enjoy the flexibility that enables the company to suit its products easily with the constantly changing vehicle designs and will take advantages of the benefits of real time digital engineering environment from the completion of the factory.

In order to riding the wave of big data and AI technologies, ATS Inc. initiated long term roadmap for gathering and analyzing data through production line and quality control performances that aimed to bring the company to the global leader in the high precision injection molding industry.

Chungbuk Technopark has successively accomplished the smart factory promotion programs’ projected goals ranging from three new showcase factories including Saehan, ATS, Genicos co. Ltd., to total of 164 smart factories including 104 new plants and 42 upgraded facilities in Chungbuk province. Furthermore, the programs make 98 manufacturing execution systems, 32 enterprise resource planning systems, 7 product lifecycle management systems and more sophisticated production enhancing tools possible to many of regional business entities.

Mr. Jaebin Song, president of Chungbuk Technopark, describes the smart factory programs that set goals to convert 155 ordinary factories into the state of the art futuristic plants in the year of 2020, will innovate manufacturing processes of small and medium enterprises by introducing 5G communications, collaborative robots, and artificial intelligence technologies in our region. “We are committed to optimize the smart factory programs by collaborating R&D projects among academies, research institutions, and industries and training engineers in advanced technologies for empowering local business competitiveness in Chungbuk” Mr. Song said.