Hyosung TNC, the textile and trading arm of South Korean fibre giant Hyosung, plans to increase its production efficiency by improving the production process with an optimal quality algorithm, which will be prepared by analysing the data of each machine vision. The company recently transformed its five Spandex factories into smart factories in China and Vietnam as it looks forward to boost the product quality as well as capacity while preparing its business for the Industry 4.0 era.

The company completed the installation of the smart factory in September at the company’s spandex factories in Quzhou City, Jiaxing City, Guangdong Province and Zhuhai City in China, and in Dong Nai in Vietnam.

With the beginning of the next generation production system environment, it will now be easier to manufacture products of identical quality at each of its global factories and monitoring their status in real time for better quality control. The new system comprises of a process monitoring system, quality control system, and smart IoT among the other elements.

The company’s IT division, Hyosung ITX has launched smart factory solutions brand-XTRM Factory so that it can also enter the smart factory systems market in Korea and overseas by using its experience of establishing smart factories for Hyosung TNC.