국내 중소기업의 스마트 팩토리 구축방안 연구

Manufacturing is the key factor for the development and affluence of nations. History of the past years has proved that manufacturing is the foundation for global competitiveness. The change of manufacturing paradigm due to the 4th industrial revolution required low cost, high quality, flexibility, agility and responsibility and brought the necessity of smart manufacturing. Smart factory is an intelligent factory that applies the core technology of 4th industrial revolution such as IoT(Internet of Things), big data, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Cloud and CPS (Cyber-Physical System) to entire production process. This study explains and suggests general concept of smart factory based on document research to successfully implement smart factory of small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises. It also analyzes actual smart factory implementation examples of domestic small and medium sized enterprises, explores critical success factors and suggests adequate implementation strategy. This study overcame the limitation of previous studies that mainly focused on technical aspects. This study is academically significant, as it proves that the factors outside company such as supplier selection and package customizing and the factors inside an organization such as the leadership of CEO and company analysis are important for successful smart factory implementation of small and medium sized enterprises that lack technical abilities. It is practically significant that it suggested necessary strategy that the industry requires by drawing critical success factors when small and medium sized enterprises consider implementing smart factory.