The Ministry of SMEs and Startups (Minister Lee Young, hereinafter referred to as “MSS”) announced that a Korean SME-College Alliance, with the cooperation of MSS, has joined the Hannover Messe 2022 in Germany for four days from May 30 to June 2 as a manufacturing-specialized virtual factory (hereinafter referred to as “the Metaverse Factory”).
The Hannover Messe is the world’s largest industrial fair and was first hosted in 1947. Around 6,500 businesses from 75 nations participated in this year’s event, which is hosted under the theme of “the Industrial Transformation.”
The Hannover Messe 2022, which was hosted offline in three years due to the pandemic, was held with great success, with a lot of people joining to get ideas about the latest digital technologies and trends.
The alliance was composed of Korean SMEs, such as digiforet, ABH, KEMP, and Hanyang University, centered on the KAIST Manufacturing AI Big Data Center.
The SMEs of the Alliance were the ones who participated in the MSS’s AI Consulting and Demonstration Project to develop an AI solution as providers and adopters of technologies. In this project, they have provided support for demonstration funds, datasets, and computing resources, which are the foundation for applying metaverse technology.
Based on this, the corporates and universities of the alliance could successfully build an intelligent metaverse system.
In the virtual environment of “the Manufacturing AI Metaverse Factory,” you can operate various functions connected to a real factory.
A large group of people joined “the Metaverse Factory” at the exhibition hall of the Hannover Messe, and they were able to tour a virtual plating factory by wearing augmented reality equipment.
They could personally run the plating process in the metaverse environment, which is connected with the real factory in South Korea, and try to optimize the operation of the plating bath based on the analysis of the manufacturing AI.
The AR, VR, and XR equipment and the metaverse solution could provide access to “the Metaverse Factory,” crossing any physical limitation.
The demonstration confirms the possibility of optimizing the operability of a factory and improving the quality of products by applying the virtual (metaverse) simulation tool in the manufacturing sector.
