Solving Manufacturing Site Issues with AI and Manufacturing Data... Ministry of SMEs and Startups Holds Competition Awards Ceremony

Final Selection of 8 Teams Through Written and Presentation Evaluations

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on the 28th that it held the awards ceremony for the '3rd K-Artificial Intelligence (AI) Manufacturing Data Analysis Competition' at the aT Center in Seocho-gu, Seoul.

Lee Young, Minister of SMEs and Startups. Photo by Jo Yongjun jun21@

In this competition, ideas were solicited for defect prevention, quality improvement, and equipment anomaly diagnosis using the 'Heat Treatment Quality Assurance Dataset' registered on the manufacturing data utilization platform for small and medium manufacturing enterprises, the 'KAMP' portal.

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups selected eight teams as finalists through document and presentation evaluations. A total of 184 teams from companies and universities nationwide applied for the competition announced last September.

The Minister of SMEs and Startups Award (Grand Prize) was awarded to the Hanyang University team 'Wangsimni Analysis Revolutionaries.' They proposed a real-time equipment anomaly detection method in the heat treatment process based on explainable AI, receiving high evaluations for problem-solving originality and applicability to manufacturing sites.

In addition, 'Croissant' (Sungkyunkwan University), 'TAVANNA' (Tachyon Tech + Korea University), and 'IoT' (SK Planet) were among the awardees.

Lee Dae-hee, Director of the SME Policy Office at the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, stated, "Digital transformation is a key means for the sustainable growth of manufacturing, and we will implement policies to expand the use of manufacturing data and artificial intelligence, which are core elements for this."

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