CJ CheilJedang Steps Up AI Factory Transition... “Tailored to the Food and Beverage Sector”

[Financial News] CJ CheilJedang is stepping up its transition to AI factories by developing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies tailored to the food and beverage (F&B) industry.
According to industry sources on the 11th, CJ CheilJedang is participating in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s AI Factory Support Project.
The company plans to develop physical AI-based autonomous manufacturing technologies and apply them at production sites, while accelerating efforts to strengthen the competitiveness of K-food manufacturing.
Through this project, it will lay the foundation for AI-ready data that can be used for AI training by connecting and analyzing in real time data from different types of equipment at manufacturing sites.
Building on this, it will apply AI-based autonomous manufacturing technology powered by a PINN (Physics-Informed Neural Network), which analyzes process characteristics and sensor data together, to predict optimal operating conditions and autonomously control production processes.
It will also develop physical AI-based quality control technology combining machine vision, robotics and edge AI to detect quality issues such as foreign objects, damage and packaging defects in real time, and link the system to equipment controls.
In addition, it will apply AI CCTV technology at manufacturing sites to detect safety incidents such as workers collapsing or entering hazardous areas in real time, and develop safety control technology that automatically slows or stops production equipment when a risk arises.
Kang Min-su, executive vice president and head of production at CJ CheilJedang, said, “We will secure physical AI technologies optimized for F&B manufacturing sites to improve our competitiveness in productivity, quality and safety, and will also work to strengthen K-food’s global competitiveness.”


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