AI NewsWaveIndustry Ministry Announces Four-Stage Strategy to Spread Manufacturing AI
Key points
- Industry ministry announces four-stage strategy to spread manufacturing AI
- Expanding factory-level AI results to supply chains and industrial complexes
- Reusing developed AI models to reduce duplicate investment
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources held an "AI Factory Strategy Meeting" on the 3rd at the Seoul Press Center and announced the "AI Factory Expansion Strategy." AI Newspaper (인공지능신문), Hellot, Industry News, EBN, Digital Daily and Newsis reported the same news. According to Hellot, about 200 business leaders and experts attended, including Lee Gyu-seok, CEO of Hyundai Mobis; Kim Hyeong-gwan, president of HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering; Shin Jae-ho, CEO of LS Mtron; and Kim Young-oh, dean of the College of Engineering at Seoul National University.
The core is to spread manufacturing AI innovation results that had stayed within individual factories and production processes. Industry News wrote that it is a blueprint to extend them to supply chains and regional industrial complexes, and eventually to the national industry as a whole. Newsis reported that AI models whose effect has been verified at one factory will be spread to other factories with similar processes, partner companies and industrial complexes to reduce duplicate investment. Digital Daily reported that the ministry will support joint AI development by large companies and their partners and build a usage system for each regional industrial complex.
AI Newspaper (인공지능신문) said in its headline that it is a four-stage strategy based on the results of 245 AI factories. EBN explained that the ministry will build a technology diffusion system so that already developed AI models can be used at other manufacturing sites, and ultimately move to an autonomous manufacturing system in which AI controls the entire factory.
Recent developments Criticism over the manufacturing AI budget also emerged. In a separate article, Newsis reported that in drawing up the budget for a large manufacturing AI project exempted from the preliminary feasibility study, the government did not reflect the results of the statutory review of the project plan's adequacy. The project's scale is said to approach 2 trillion won.
Terms explained: A preliminary feasibility study is a government procedure that assesses economic viability and policy effect in advance for projects requiring large public spending. Autonomous manufacturing means a manufacturing method in which AI decides and runs the production process on its own.