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Posco,
Amazon to build an ‘AI engineer’ for factories
BY
YI WOO-LI, Korea JoongAng Daily - Posco will team up with Amazon Web Services
(AWS) to accelerate the adoption of AI at industrial sites.
The
steelmaker said Sunday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)
with AWS on Friday at its office in Pangyo, Gyeonggi. The signing ceremony was
attended by Posco DX CEO Shim Min-suk and AWS Korea Managing Director Ham
Kee-ho.
Posco plans to use
Amazon’s Bedrock model library and SageMaker algorithm development platform to
deploy an AI engineer optimized for industrial sites. The agent will analyze
data required for on-site system designs as well as generate blueprints and completion
reports.
The group also aims to
enhance the efficiency of operating programmable logic controller systems,
which control individual facilities. Currently, engineers must manually write
code to operate these systems, but AI will soon generate the code, and engineers
will only need to review it.
“These functions, once
implemented on site, are expected to reduce programming and repetitive
documentation work, boosting productivity by more than 30 percent and allowing
engineers to focus on more creative and high value-added tasks,” Posco said.
Through this
partnership, Posco also hopes to take a step closer to realizing its core goal
for this year — establishing an intelligent factory. An intelligent factory is
a next-generation production system that combines industrial AI and robotics.
