Hyosung TNC , the textile and trading arm of South Korean fibre giant Hyosung has transformed its five Spandex factories into smart factories in China and Vietnam as the company looks forward to boost the product quality as well as capacity while preparing its business for the Industry 4.0 era.
The move was initiated by the company’s Chairman, Hyun-Joon Choo in order to improve the company’s competitiveness through the collection and analysis of data along with control management in every domain of manufacturing process, from the import of raw material to actual production and shipping of the final product.
The company completed the installation of the smart factory in September at the company’s spandex factories in Quzhou City, Jiaxing City, Guangdong Province and Zhuhai City in China, and in Dong Nai in Vietnam.
With the beginning of the next generation production system environment, Hyosung TNC says that it will now be easier to manufacture products of identical quality at each of its global factories and monitoring their status in real time for better quality control. The new system comprises of a process monitoring system, quality control system, and smart IoT among the other elements.
Hyun-Joon Choo, said, “It is essential for manufacturers to install smart factory systems in the face of the powerful, irreversible trend of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Hyosung will solidify its status as the world’s number one Spandex manufacturer by improving its world-class quality and developing new technologies based on the smart factory system.”
The company’s IT division, Hyosung ITX has launched a smart factory solutions brand-XTRM Factory so that it can also enter the smart factory systems market in Korea and overseas by using its experience of establishing smart factories for Hyosung TNC. It developed a BOT+ solution for Hyosung TNC’s Spandex factories, making it possible to quickly detect and deal with the quality problems in the production process via the application of various ICT technologies, such as analysis of big data with machine vision, IOT and smart sensors.
It is worth noting that, Hyosung TNC plans to raise its production efficiency further by improving the production process with an optimal quality algorithm, which it says will be prepared by analysing the data of each machine vision.
