Interoperability Demonstration at SF+AW 2021
Samsung SDS, Thezone BizOn, MI Cube Solutions,
Proving interoperability of standards with participation from Bitcon and others


The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's National Agency for Technology and Standards established a national standard (KS X 9101) on the 9th that regulates data exchange methods between smart manufacturing systems. At the "Smart Manufacturing National Standard Conference," a side event of the "Smart Factory Expo + Automation World 2021," a demonstration verifying interoperability between manufacturing systems from different companies using the new standard was also presented.

Smart manufacturing systems include enterprise business systems for executing, managing, and monitoring the entire manufacturing process, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Product Life-cycle Management (PLM), and Data Acquisition System (DAQ). This standard unifies the data formats expressed differently for each smart manufacturing system, enabling data linkage between different systems.

Each system expresses "item name" differently, such as "NAME" or "NM_ITEM." When exchanging data, the standard will be defined as "ItemName," allowing both systems to recognize the data as "item name." This new standard is expected to reduce the time and cost companies have previously invested in data linking to integrate different business systems.

On this day, under the supervision of the Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL), Samsung SDS's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Douzone Biz On's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), MI Cube Solutions' Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and Bitcon's Data Acquisition System (DAQ) participated in the verification.

Interoperability involves converting data items that differ across manufacturing systems using this standard, allowing them to be recognized as identical when exchanging data. The demonstration demonstrated this approach across the entire manufacturing process, from product development and production to performance management. This demonstrated the feasibility of standards-based interoperability between systems.

From this year to 2024, KATS plans to invest 5.5 billion won in the "Development of Data Standards in the Smart Manufacturing Field and Establishment and Operation of a Verification System" project. This will apply the standards to actual manufacturing sites and verify their tangible effects. Lee Sang-hoon, President of KATS, stated, "Through smart manufacturing standardization policies, we will support the digital transformation of domestic industries."