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26 日本情報経営学会誌 2018 Vol. 38, No.

■特別寄稿論文

Koreaʼs Manufacturing Innovation 3.0


Initiative

Chungnam National University Hee-Cheol MOON
**
Chungnam National University Jae-Eun CHUNG
***
Cheju Halla University Seok-Beom CHOI

Abstract : This study explains the current state of “Manufacture Innovation 3.0”, Korean strategy for the 4th
Industrial Revolution which focuses on Smart Factory. Since 2014, it has achieved some amazing results, but, still
needs to be improved to reflect the real SMEsʼ business environment. Hence, this study suggests the “Globalization
4.0 Initiative” as the new policy imperative of Korean government which induces Korean SMEs to participate in the
4th Industrial Revolution trends in global context.

Keywords : 4th Industrial Revolution, Manufacture Innovation 3.0, Korean SMEs, Smart Factory, Globalization 4.0

government launched an initiative for the 4th In-


1. Introduction
dustrial Revolution, termed “Manufacturing In-
Korea has remarkable development history novation 3.0”. This strategy has been projected
which used to be considered as one of the world by motif of German strategy “Industrie 4.0”. It
competitive manufacturing powerhouse. Recent- has been implemented for the last 2 years and
ly, however, Korea has experienced internal and had shown some positive results. Though, the
th
external economic crisis. Moreover, the 4 In- main participators are the major enterprises
dustrial Revolution, a new technological trend in and most of the Korean SMEs are still in crisis
the manufacturing industry is regarded as an- of falling behind in world competition because of
other threat that might cause decrease of global insufficient policy consideration on SMEs.
competitiveness of Korean SMEs (Small & Me- Therefore, in this study, we would like to
dium Enterprises). discuss the state of Korean strategy, “Manufac-
In 2014, to keep up with world trend, Korean turing Innovation 3.0” and suggest the necessity

*Professor at International Trade, Chungnam National University, South Korea


**Doctoral student at Graduate School of International Trade, Chungnam National University, South
Korea
***Professor of International Trade, Cheju Halla University, South Korea
Koreaʼs Manufacturing Innovation 3.0 Initiative 27

of upgrade of the initiative to promote Korean new technologies have influenced lots of changes
SMEʼs innovation efforts considering the global not only in industries but also in our lives.
trends of the 4th Industrial Revolution. According to prior research, the 4th Industri-
al Revolution has been coming naturally by fol-
2. Background of Manufacture Innovation
lowing several previous industrial developments.
3.0 Initiative
As seen in history, those industrial and tech-
2.1 Advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution Era nological revolutions have functioned as another
On January 20th, 2016, in Davos, Swiss, Klaus opportunity for development. It means that the
Schwab, the chairperson of World Economy Fo- 4th Industrial Revolution, eventually, will be real-
th
rum declared that we are in the era of 4 Indus- ity and exert strong influence on world econo-
th
trial Revolution. The 4 Industrial Revolution is my in the near future. It is considered that the
regarded as a new paradigm in manufacturing first player who establishes the standard for the
industry. Thatʼs because the general concept of manufacturing system can achieve the best
the 4th Industrial Revolution is about embedded competitiveness in world market. At this point,
technologies of ICT and Manufacturing indus- most countries should be prepared for this kind
tries which is the main concept of Germanyʼs of paradigm shift in the near future, and those
new strategy, “Industrie 4.0”, suggested in 2011 countermeasures should be appropriate for each
for the first time. domestic industrial status and circumstances.
However, ICT technologies including Big
Data, AI (Artificial Intelligence), and IoT (Inter- 2.2 Major Countries’ Strategies
net of Things) have been already applied in most Germany, which is the pioneer of the 4th In-
of industries and other fields beyond manufac- dustrial Revolution, has prepared long before for
ture industries where the CPS (Cyber-Physical this huge change. The German government sug-
System) is applied mainly. It means that these gested their own strategy in the name of “High
Tech Strategy 2020 Action Plan”, that is known
as “Industrie 4.0” more widely, in 2011.
German strategy is focusing on their manu-
facturing ecosystem where major corporations
and SMEs are cooperating by applying IoT and
CPS. They planned to establish the fundamental
revolution that connects factories, customers
and R&D organically. This strategy is called as
“Smart Factory” in other word.
In 2015, German government adopted the
upgraded version of “Industrie 4.0”, called “Plat-
Figure 1 Industry 1.0 to INDUSTRIE 4.0 form Industrie 4.0”. In that upgraded strategy,
Source : Eurasia Online News (2016), “Industrial Rev- they recognized and mentioned the necessity of
olution : Advancement in AI Herald Big Changes
collaboration of industry, institutes and universi-
in Production”, https://eurasia-news-online.com/
2016/09/21/4th-industrial-revolution/, (access date : ties under governmental supports.
2016.12.31) The final goal of Germanyʼs strategy is to
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Table 1 German Upgraded Industry 4.0 Strategy Cloud and AI, named “Predix Platform”.
The Automatic Industrial Data system col-
Platform Industry 4.0
lects the data from production process, and
• Ministry of Economy, Cloud Algorithm connects the data. Then, after
Subject
• Ministry of Education analysis using AI system, the production system
• Collaboration of Industry, Institutes and can be optimized by sharing the data. Thus,
Governance Universities with Governmental USʼs Big Data system functions as core point to
Support
make the “Industrial Internet” be realized.
• Based on Existing Applying Strategies,
Core Tasks
• Subdivide into each practical field

• Deduction of Core Result from each


Objective practical field
• Presentation of result in IT Gipfel

Source : Soo-Hyun Baek (2016), “Smart Manufactur-


ing, Preparing for the 4th Industrial Revolution”,
Electronical World , Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 44-48

construct “New global standard of manufactur-


ing industry” and realize the “Ubiquitous Mass
Customization” by the end of 2025.
Figure 2 GEʼs Industrial Internet : Predix Platform
United State is the second player which ad- Source : https://www.predix.io/ (access date : 2016.
opted the strategy for the 4th Industrial Revolu- 12.31)
tion. The U.S. government announced the need
of reformation in manufacturing industry ad- In this wise, the private enterprises are lead-
vised by PCAST (Presidentʼs Council of Advi- ing the USʼs strategy, of course under the sup-
sors on Science and Technology) in the late 2011. port of government. In 2014, the 5 major corpo-
U.S. governmental strategy is named as “Ad- rations including GE established “Industry
vanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP)” Internet Consortium” to share the strategy and
which has been complemented later to AMP build specific platform standard for international
Version 2.0. This strategy is also related to man- manufacturing industry.
ufacturing industry as German case, but they China and Japan, the major countries in
approached differently with some different tech- Asia, also started to be concerned about new
nology, including AI and Cloud service. strategy for the 4th Industrial Revolution, appro-
U.S.ʼs strategy has been specified by the suc- priate for their own domestic status.
cessful application case of “General Electric.” China, actually, has domestic and social prob-
Their strategic innovative model is described as lems need to be solved in advance. Thus, the
“Industrial Internet”. GE got success to be “Con- president of China, Xi Jinping, suggested 4 core
nected Industrial Company”, They could control policies to achieve the goals for each section in-
the production system of factory facility and cluding domestic problems and the 4th Industrial
manage manufacturing process by applying Revolution, as seen in <Table 2>.
Koreaʼs Manufacturing Innovation 3.0 Initiative 29

Those two policies, “Made in China 2025” carry ahead the 4th Industrial Revolution strate-
and “Internet Plus”, especially, are the main gy with the technologies of IoT, Big Data, AI
strategy of China to prepare for the 4th Industri- and Robot. The AI and Robot are connected by
al Revolution. Chinaʼs advantages, their powerful developed sensors and that advanced technolo-
and strong government, are expected to func- gy can be applied in the manufacturing system.
tion as pressure as well as huge supports for Every year, there has been held “Robot In-
development. novation Initiative Conference,” which is held by
collaboration of Industry, University, Institutes
Table 2 Chinaʼs Policy Issues and more than 1,000 corporations. Robot tech-
Policy Core Strategy nology, another name “the Learning Robot”, as
core strategy of Japanʼs 4th Industrial Revolu-
10 Strategic Industry
Made in China 2025
Promotion including IT tion, is expected to improve the global competi-
Combination of Traditional tiveness of the manufacturing industry and en-
Internet Plus
Industry and Internet & IT hance efficiency of Japanʼs production system.
Startup and
Support Startup Ecosystem Singapore also launched their own strategy
Innovation
for the 4th Industrial Revolution by “Infocomm
21c New Silk Road
One Belt, One Road
with 60 countries Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)”. It
is not only focusing on Manufacturing Industry
Source : Hae-Ok Choi (2016), “The Connecting Facto-
but aiming to construct “Smart Nation”. By in-
ry : Made in 2025”, Science & Technology Policy ,
Vol. 26, No. 8, pp. 20-25 stalling sensors across the country and sharing
the real time data, Singapore plans to build fu-
On the other hand, Japan established their ture city nation.
own strategy in the name of “Japan Rehabilita- These strategies of the major countries are
tion Strategy”. Japanese government also needs summarized in <Table 3>.
solutions for Japanʼs internal economic reforma-
tion. Thus, Japanʼs strategy includes measures 2.3 Status of Manufacturing Industry in Korea
for the 4th Industrial Revolution, and new poten- As mentioned above, the major countries
tial market creation, economic development, and have suggested their own countermeasures for
to promote consumption. the 4th Industrial Revolution, which are appro-
Especially, Japanese government decided to priate for each countryʼs internal and environ-

Table 3 Major Countries Strategies for 4th Industrial Revolution


First
Released Country Policy & Strategy

In 2011 Germany Platform Industry 4.0 (Upgraded in 2015) : Manufacture Industry Standard
In 2011 United States AMP 2.0 & GE’s Industry Internet (Upgraded in 2014) : using Data and Cloud
In 2013 Japan Japan Rehabilitation Strategy (Upgraded in 2016) : Learning Robot Strategy
In 2015 China Made in China 2025 & Internet Plus : Strong Government and Development
In 2015 Singapore Smart Nation Master Platform : Nation-wide Smart City using Sensors

Source : Arranged by authors.


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mental status, in the way of emphasizing their following the trend of industrial development in
technical merits and advantages. They have Korea, as shown in <Table 4>.
recognized that the 4th Industrial Revolution has
already come and started to influence on our Table 4 Change of Innovation Paradigm in Korea
real lives.
Manufacturing Light Industry
Korean government has also suggested a
Innovation 1.0 = Import Substitution Strategy
strategy in 2014, termed “Manufacturing Inno-
vation 3.0”. Korea has been regarded as a leader Manufacturing Assembling Industry
of IT, which heads Korean government up to Innovation 2.0 = Catchup Strategy
follow the world trend hurriedly.
Manufacturing Converged New Industry
In fact, Korea has somehow remarkable his- Innovation 3.0 = Pacesetting Strategy
tory about economic and industrial development.
Somewhere along the line of industrial develop- Source : MOTIE(http://www.motie.go.kr)
ment, Korea achieved one of the most competi-
tive manufacturing technologies. Among the The appearance of embedded technologies
OECD countries, Korea has recorded that manu- with IT & SW (Information Technology and
facturing takes 30% share in GDP, higher than Software) and the newly developed technologies
that of Germany (23%), Japan (19%), and the such as 3D printing or Smart Factory using
USA (12%). CPS (Cyber Physical System) and AI (Artificial
However, with the advent of the “New Nor- Intelligence) is considered as shift into new
mal” era, Korea has experienced some changes manufacture industry paradigm. “Manufacture
and crisis such as lower competitiveness in Innovation 3.0” which is focusing on Smart Fac-
manufacturing industry and G2 (USA and Chi- tory strategy has been suggested for the pur-
na) countriesʼ new protectionism. pose of resolving the crisis in Korean manufac-
At this point, it is necessary for Korea to turing industry such as high cost production
th
recognize that the 4 Industrial Revolution can structure, increasing offshoring and decreasing
be another opportunity to take off again and competitiveness in high value-added products.
that Korea needs innovation especially in manu- This strategy comprised the governmental
facturing industry not to be get left behind in plan for disseminating Smart Factory system to
world competition. 10,000 SMEs by converging IT, SW, IoT and
CPS until 2020. For that purpose, 3 major manu-
3. Analysis of “MI 3.0 Initiative”
facturing SWs of Engineering, Design and the
3.1 Manufacturing Innovation Efforts in Korea embedded SW are planned to be developed. In
In June, 2014, the Korean government re- addition, “Manufacturing Innovation Commis-
leased the “Manufacture Innovation 3.0” strate- sion”, in the form of public and private partner-
gy which is designed by Korean Ministry of ship, would be established to prepare the follow-
Trade, Industry and Energy. They announced up measures. The commission was launched in
that this strategy is the upgraded version of July, 2014. Since then, has convened the annual
past innovation strategies, “Innovation 1.0” and meetings to refine the strategies and the follow-
“Innovation 2.0,” which had been suggested by up measures.
Koreaʼs Manufacturing Innovation 3.0 Initiative 31

These strategies are summarized shortly in to be function as a key measure by establishing


<Table 5> and comprised of 6 core tasks as fol- “Base Design Centers”.
lows. Fifth, training plan for professional human
First, with the collaboration of government resources in embedded technology will be pro-
agencies and private enterprises, the “Smart grammed. Besides, the aged industrial complex
Factory Bureau” is planning to be organized. will be recreated to the new manufacturing in-
The bureau undertakes to construct the field of novation industrial districts.
Smart Factory enterprises applying IT, SW and Sixth, Korean government plans to construct
IoT which is termed as “Zero Waste Factory”. R&D network for technological cooperation in
The Korean government will procure financial North East Asia. They plan to participate ac-
resource by 1 trillion Korean won to carry out tively in global R&D center projects and to ex-
this plan. pand the channel for technology diffusion to-
Second, to achieve the targeted export vol- ward Korean SMEs.
ume of 500 billion dollars by 2020, Korean gov- In summary, Korean governmentʼs strategy
ernment plans to support to create the new still focuses on Smart Factory system because it
products for future growth. Especially, the mar- has been established after the model of German
ket creation for new energy industry applying governmentʼs “Industrie 4.0” strategy.
IT technology plans to be supported strongly.
Third, Korean government plans to invest in 3.2 Status and Results of “MI 3.0”
development of core materials in Koreaʼs major According to the performance report of Ko-
industries such as automobile, petrochemistry, rean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy in
ship- building or ocean plant, machinery, steel, October 2016, for the past 2 years, the Smart
display and semiconductor. Factory system has been transferred to about
Fourth, SW power in manufacture industry 2,600 enterprises. Through Smart Factory sys-
plans to be intensified. Specifically, the govern- tem, various positive results could be achieved
mental supports for R&D business are expected such as decreased rate of defective products,

Table 5 Major Strategies and Tasks of Manufacturing Innovation 3.0

3 Strategies 6 Core Tasks Follow-up Measures (Planned)

- 13 Industrial Specific Plan


Creation of Converged ① IT&SW Innovation
- New Energy Industry creation Plan
New Mfg Industry ② Creation of Growth Engine - Expanding Smart Factory

③ Securing the Leadership in


Intensification of
major industry’s Material and parts Industry - Comprehensive Measures for SW Power
core capability
④ Reinforcing SW power

Enhancement ⑤ Supplying Customized


- Restructure of Human Resource Training System
of Manufacturing Human Resource
- Strategies for Northeast Asia R&D Hub
Innovation Infrastructure ⑥ Jump as N.E.Asia R&D Hub

Source : MOTIE(http://www.motie.go.kr)
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cost reduction, reduced delivery time, diversifi- Smart Factory, there appeared some cases ap-
cation of products by flexible production pro- plying some other technologies such as Big Data
cess, increased efficiency in stock management, or AI. Besides, those technological changes influ-
energy reduction and creation of new market. ence not only on manufacturing industry but
Especially, the Smart Factory Bureauʼs survey, also on other industries like distribution, servic-
targeting 1,566 Smart Factory enterprises, ex- es and international trade. Here are some cases
plains that 51.4% of enterprises are considering of Korean major enterprises and SMEs.
the decreased rate of defective products as the 1) Major Enterprisesʼ Cases
most remarkable result from the Smart Factory In Korea, most of large corporations are the
system. main player for Manufacturing Innovation 3.0.
Besides, more SMEs start to recognize the Samsung SDS, SK C&C and LG CNS have re-
necessity of application of new technologies leased their own Smart Factory solutions. Sam-
such as Smart Factory system. According to the sung SDSʼs solution “Nexplant” is the data anal-
survey result, only 57% of SMEs answered the ysis platform to confirm the problems in
need of innovation at the first survey in Decem- production process applying AI and Big Data.
ber, 2014. More than 86% of SMEs, however, an- SK C&Cʼs and LG CNSʼs solutions are “Scala”
swered that the application of innovative tech- and “SMS (Sorter Management System)” those
nologies is necessary for the production are also data analysis system to manage the
efficiency, at the recent survey of May, 2016. production line and distribution information.
The more support projects from the private or- The most well-known case is “Coupangʼs In-
ganizations increases, the more SMEs partici- novation”. Coupang is a Korean social commerce
pate in Smart Factory projects. company operating a web marketplace and SNS
After reviewing the results, Korean govern- (Social Network Service), established in 2010.
ment intends to extend the application of new Since 2015, Coupang has been operating spe-
technologies such as Robots, 3D printing and cial delivery system, called “Rocket Delivery”.
ESS (Energy Storage System) and to implement The Rocket Delivery is a specially customized
more practical and financial support projects. delivery system. It means Coupang is not apply-
At the same time, Korean Ministry of Sci- ing the ordinary stock management system.
ence, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) also start The stocks for delivery are classified by each
the technical support projects to help Korean customer segmentsʼ database.
enterprises such as “Expansion of creative econ- After analyzing the customerʼs propensity to
omy with Startup Ecosystem,” “Field centered consume, that database of each market seg-
policy enforcement,” “Creation of new industry ments notify how to store and manage the stock
and new service with embedded and innovative lines. Then, automatic conveyor system classi-
technologies.” The “AI Project” announced in fies the products. Although it does not seem the
January, 2017, is the first support project re- products are stocked in order, it is, astonishing-
leased by MSIP. ly, much easier for delivery manager to find and
pack the products for each customer. Then, the
3.3 Application Cases of “MI 3.0” trained courier, called specially as “Coupang
Although the Korean strategy highlights the man”, delivers the products with customized
Koreaʼs Manufacturing Innovation 3.0 Initiative 33

service. basic version of “MES (Manufacturing Execution


Coupang is using their own customer infor- System).” After applying this automatic factory
mation database based on Big Data technology management system, theyʼve experienced huge
for better service and faster delivery. Besides, improvement in production management. The
Coupang was nominated for one of “100 excel- production order can be transferred in real time
lent corporations in job creation” in 2016. Also, by the data processing system and the data col-
Coupang was included in “50 Smartest Compa- lecting system can gather the information of
nies 2016”, selected by MIT Technology Review, failure rate and machinery error rate automati-
as the only Korean company. cally. Besides, the real time monitoring for man-
2) Small and Medium Enterprisesʼ Cases agement of production line can be possible.
The cases of SMEsʼ participation in Manufac- According to their company reports, since
turing Innovation plan have increased recently. they applied the automatic production manage-
In Korea, more than 100 thousands of SMEs are ment system, one of Smart Factory technolo-
operating in the manufacturing industry. There- gies, Ace&Tech has achieved 15% of cost reduc-
fore, the SMEʼs successful application and par- tion, increased rate of operation by 45% and
ticipation cases can be evaluated as more re- reduction of delivery time by 20%. In near fu-
markable results. ture, Ace&Tech is planning to examine the ap-
Here introduces the case of “Wizcoreʼs Nex- plication of much upgraded version of Smart
pom”. Wizcore (www.wizcore.co.kr) is a SW Factory technologies.
company which has been established for 7 years The last case here introduced is “Dong Yang
and aimed to suggest the manufacture & IT Piston”. Dong Yang Piston (www.dypiston.co.kr),
embedded solution. They have developed the founded in 1967, has manufactured and provided
production line monitoring service, called “Nex- the automobile engine piston. This company has
pom”, provided for other Korean major corpora- invested to construct the Smart Factory system
tions such as LSIS and Hanwha Techwin. Their in their factory for a long time, since 1996. In
monitoring service is based on Big Data analyz- 2015, their Smart Factory system finally started
ing technology. to be operated and they could gain amazing re-
Wizcore has been highly acclaimed as the sults of increased output by 25% and increased
company which contributes to advancement of sales by 50%. Also, the failure rate has de-
manufacturing SW power as one of the leading creased at one-tenth and it caused that much
venture firms of innovation. They are expected cost reduction.
to accomplish sales amount of 12 billion won in Dong Yang Piston was selected as the repre-
2016. sentative success case in 2016 and their case
The next case for successful application of will be benchmarked as the most practical solu-
Smart Factory, is a small enterprise named tion by lots of Korean SMEs.
“Ace&Tech”. Ace&Tech (www.antek.co.kr) was
4. Conclusion
established in 2006 as a manufacturer of ceramic
and quartz products and applied the Smart Fac- This study discussed the current state of
tory system in 2014. Korean strategy for the 4th Industrial Revolu-
The Smart Factory system they adopted is a tion, “Manufacture Innovation 3.0”, which was
34

first introduced in 2014 by Korean Ministry of Revolution is made properly, Korea can take the
Trade, Industry and Energy. opportunity to take off again.
According to the result report, most of par-
Acknowledgments
ticipators are satisfied with improved produc-
tion management and increased efficiency. Be- This research is partially supported by Chuo Univer-
sity Joint Research Grant.
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