철강 산업 기업의 스마트팩토리 도입 운영 형태가 품질 안정화에 미치는 관계

The deceleration in competitiveness of the manufacturing industry that used to drive the Korean economy in the past has not only led to an overall crisis of the manufacturing industry but has also increased to the point where it is a threat on a national level. Therefore, the small and large manufacturing corporations within the in- dustry have been grappling to find measures to secure manufacturing competitiveness. Meanwhile, corporations have been displaying trends of trying to strengthen corporate manufacturing compet- itiveness through introducing the smart factory operations as an effort to secure manufacturing competitiveness in the recent times. Such strategitc ventures of the corporate manufacturing industry is also a positive result for the excellence of smart factory operations. Hence, there are many researches related to smart factory, including in the fields of engineering and humanities and social science, which are being actively conducted. Based on this background, this study was performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the superiority of smart factory opera- tions of manufacturing corporations. As for the scope of study, the study was conducted on subjects of manufacturing corporations in the steel industry and it was was attempted to analyze the influencing relationship between the initial operation forms of corporate smart factories on the quality stabilization of corporations. For the purpose of this study, programs SPSS18 and AMOS21 were utilized and the structural equation model was applied for the analysis. As a result of the study, the influencing relationship between the initial operation factor of smart factories and corporate quality stabilization was partially adopted.