KT Accelerates 5G Factory Construction for SMEs... Productivity Up

[Asia Economy Reporter Koo Chae-eun] KT has established a 5G smart factory cobot for an automobile parts manufacturer. A cobot is a 5G process solution where collaborative robots installed in factories perform difficult tasks and help reduce errors and defects. When the smart factory system operates, work time is reduced by about 28%, and it alleviates simple and repetitive high-intensity labor, thereby improving the quality of work.

On the 30th, KT announced that it had built a dedicated 5G network and smart factory cobot for 'Parkwon,' a manufacturer of ultra-precision steel balls for automobile parts, and enabled real-time monitoring of data generated during the work process on the KT cloud-based Factory Makers platform.

To allow the factory’s collaborative robots to move sensitively alongside workers and monitor large volumes of production data, an ultra-high-speed, ultra-low-latency 5G network is required. Given the importance of quality control and confidentiality for the company, a dedicated 5G network with excellent security that is unaffected by commercial network traffic is essential.

Accordingly, Parkwon introduced KT 5G smart factory to improve the process structure by reducing the intensity of simple labor for workers and enhancing expertise and productivity. In particular, after introducing KT 5G smart factory cobot in Parkwon’s packaging process, the production increased from 225 boxes per hour under the previous method to 313 boxes per hour. Additionally, the time required per box decreased from 16 seconds to 11.5 seconds, improving productivity.

Moon Sung-wook, Head of KT’s Corporate New Business Division, said, “Starting with Parkwon, we expect KT smart factory cobots to solve the manpower shortage issues faced by domestic small and medium-sized manufacturers,” and added, “KT will continue to expand its smart factory product lineup to provide differentiated manufacturing solutions to Korean companies.”

Since May last year, KT has declared its entry into the 5G smart factory market together with Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings, Cognex, Telstar Hommel, and Yudo Group, and has been continuously developing related products. So far, KT has launched products for enterprises that guarantee high security and quality, including ▲ ‘KT Dedicated 5G for Enterprises,’ a 5G private network, ▲ ‘KT 5G Smart Factory Cobot,’ a collaborative robot that automates processes in cooperation with workers, and ▲ ‘KT 5G Smart Factory Vision,’ an AI-based image analysis machine vision solution.

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