-Developed IoT equipment for parts and materials

-Low cost, high quality and excellent security

-Minister of Automation Industry Award

-“Real-time raw material management and product analysis

-Create new business models

-Focus on supply… Shared growth is our goal. ”

One of the cores of Smart Factory is ICT (Information and Communication Technology) applied to hardware such as factory machinery. Without proper ICT, smart factory upgrading is difficult. In Busan, there is a company that specializes in building smart factories that specializes in various ICTs such as big data and IoT. This is the story of GST in Buk-gu, Busan. Established in 2005, GST showed its presence by receiving the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award among 480 companies participating in the Smart Factory Automation Industry Exhibition 2018 held in COEX, Seoul in March.

On June 16, I met CEO Oh Jun-chul (52) of GST, which is located in Busan Knowledge Industry Center in Buk-gu, Busan. Oh said, “In the United States, smart factories are called digital transformation. The shift to digital is about creating new business models. ”Using smart factories, raw materials and parts management, real-time cost analysis of products, and new business motels can be created. This is why local SMEs, who are suffering from various bad news, should pay attention to Smart Factory. ”

GST staff is checking smart factory process with large monitor at head office in Buk-gu, Busan on the 16th. 

Established in 2005, GST is engaged in the business of building a cloud-based smart factory specialized in precision processing. By Jeon Min-cheol, journalist jmc@kookje.co.kr

■ Cloud-based Smart Factory

On the day, a large monitor in GST's office was able to check the smart process of a local precision machining company. Various data such as temperature generated at the plant were stored in GST's cloud server. GST Co., Ltd. has built a cloud-based smart factory platform for local SMEs that are unable to build computer servers at high cost. Local SMEs don't have to go to big companies like Amazon Web Services at high cost. In particular, it was less burdensome to store the net technology and data of local SMEs in the enterprise cloud.

Oh said, “Local SMEs are most wary of their technology being exposed to large companies or counterparts. That's why we prefer cloud companies that can meet face-to-face in our region. "The price is much lower than the cloud services of the big companies."

Like this, there are about 100 companies with GST in the region as well as the whole country. About 80-90% of these have experienced one or more failures in the smart process. The remaining 10% had 3 or 4 failures. Oh said, “Building a smart factory is not an easy task. “We have developed our own IoT equipment that can be applied by local manufacturers with a high proportion of root industries such as metal processing and component materials to enable smart factories at low cost.”

Thanks to the well-known skills, GST has 40 companies annually. But GST will build only 15 of these companies and build a smart factory. Currently, GST provides only the service that it can afford.

■ Win-Win with Local Companies

Mr. Oh, who is home to the glory of Jeollanam-do, majored in accounting at Chonnam National University. He has worked in the field of accounting, tax, and trade, and has often experienced good business models abroad for 13 years. Oh left the company for his own business and founded a one-person company specializing in system development in 2005. Since then, it has prepared Smart Factory one step ahead of other companies and recorded annual sales of KRW 3 billion as of last year by applying it to regional characteristics.