An artificial intelligence (AI) technology which will completely change the way industries function by predicting a problem even before it occurs was introduced by Hankook Tyre and Technology Co. Ltd.
The AI is named CMS+ and is being installed in all the important equipment of the company's Geumsan plant located in South Korea. Hankook is eager to use this set up in all of its facilities eventually.
Hankook believes that the CMS+ technology can predict problems beforehand by its ability to record a select amount of data. It then uses the data collected to determine whether it is working in normal or abnormal conditions.
Sungmin Kim, Digital technology specialist at Hankook said that there are wireless sensors which will be placed on important parts of the equipment along the production line to let the system analyze and record the changes in output, vibration, temperature, noise in real time.
The CMS+ system will study the data which it finds faulty and uses separate data from malfunctions so when similar cases are found, the system will consider that the machine has some problem.
Kim says that CMS+ comes with a real-time alarm system based on wireless communication, “In the case of malfunction, the system immediately alerts the manager, which allows for fast and appropriate action.”
A test run proved the utility of the equipment since it detected an error of an equipment which was confirmed by experts at Hankook. It was revealed that the system was developed also with the system intelligence lab at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
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An agreement was signed with KAIST for a joint industry and academic research on future development of technologies. This led to Hankook's virtual compound design system- the AI and digital sensors which processes data to find faults.
Prof. Jinkyoo Park of KAIST has assisted in the creation of CMS+. He said that the data analyzed is more precise than the old system. The new system uses a three- step AI algorithm that has a sensor module, a server and a gateway which are used instead of sensors with wires. The new system collects data from all areas of production such as from IT equipment, mechanics etc.
Hankook stated that it will continue to work with KAIST on further development of “smart factory” features.
