SeAH Besteel Corporation expands AI safety management at steel plants; system rollout to be completed in the first half of next year

[Financial News] SeAH Besteel Corporation is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) safety solution tailored to steel manufacturing processes and expanding its rollout at its Gunsan and Changnyeong plants. It plans to divide key processes into 250 zones and complete system installation and stabilization by the first half of next year.
SeAH Besteel Corporation said on the 9th that it had analyzed more than 6 million records of situations arising at steel production sites and conducted field validation over the past four years in partnership with U.S. AI safety solutions company Everguard.
The solution is designed to connect with the plant’s programmable logic controller (PLC) system to analyze the movements of workers and equipment and detect hazardous situations. It triggers an alert if a worker approaches a hazardous area while equipment is operating, and predicts a crane’s path of travel to warn of collision risks in advance.
Unlike conventional access-detection systems, it analyzes factors such as whether equipment is operating and workers’ locations in combination before triggering an alert. SeAH Besteel Corporation plans to expand the system to key processes, including steelmaking and large-scale forging, and then add a feature that automatically stops equipment when a serious hazard is detected.
SeAH Besteel Corporation said it had invested about 250 billion won in expanding safety infrastructure since 2023. Its investments included establishing an integrated safety, health and environmental management system; operating a dedicated safety management organization around the clock; expanding safety facilities at its worksites; and building a safety experience center for employees and partner companies.
A SeAH Besteel Corporation representative said, "We developed an AI safety solution tailored to steelmaking processes based on field validation data accumulated over the past four years," adding, "We will complete the expanded rollout at our major plants in the first half of next year."

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