Gyeonggi Province: "Just Put on AR Glasses and Component Explanations and Work Processes Appear Before Your Eyes"

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hun] Gyeonggi Province, together with the Gyeonggi Economic Science Promotion Agency, is recruiting participating companies for the 'AR-based Small and Medium Enterprise Manufacturing Process Remote Support System Implementation Support Project,' which provides augmented reality (AR) services and platforms to small manufacturing businesses, with applications due by the 16th.

By applying AR technology to manufacturing processes, unskilled workers can receive instructions from skilled workers remotely, or managers can remotely control manufacturing sites, enabling real-time non-face-to-face collaboration among multiple people in different locations. Additionally, when AR screens are used in work process training such as component assembly, workers have both hands free compared to reading paper manuals, and can acquire knowledge more intuitively.

For example, when a worker wears augmented reality glasses (AR GLASS), information about necessary tools, component usage methods, and assembly positions appears on the glasses, and managers can provide assistance or check work details through a monitor. Some domestic AR technology development companies are already utilizing this in practice.

The province plans to select both supply and demand companies respectively. Suppliers must be companies with AR-based manufacturing process technology, while demanders must be small and medium-sized enterprises located in Gyeonggi Province that wish to build AR-based manufacturing process systems free of charge.

Suppliers are companies that have disseminated or wish to disseminate AR-based manufacturing process technology, and their performance and ripple effects will be evaluated after technology dissemination. Demanders will be evaluated with emphasis on how much they need AR-based manufacturing processes and whether system construction is feasible.

The province will select one supplier company and provide 300 million won in construction support funding. Six demand companies will be selected to adopt the AR-based remote support system built by the supplier company.

Application methods and detailed information are available on the EZBiz website (http://egbiz.or.kr).

Lim Moon-young, Gyeonggi Province's Future Growth Policy Director, said "The purpose of this project is for companies that adopt AR to experience improved productivity and for convergence cases to be widely disseminated," adding "We hope this will expand the relatively underdeveloped industrial AR market and build a new ecosystem for the non-face-to-face era."