Smart Manufacturing” is a major trend in the automotive industry.
It is a series of efforts to achieve thorough streamlining and productivity improvement by digitizing all manufacturing processes in factories, thereby eliminating as much as possible the traditional visual and manual elements.
However, not many manufacturers have been able to put Smart Manufacturing into practice.

The traditional automotive manufacturing process is an iterative one, in which physical prototypes are built and tested repeatedly, and if an error is found, the process is repeated back to engineering and redone.
This is infinitely more expensive and increases the lead time to market.

Especially in the automotive industry, which is facing major changes such as the electrification of vehicles and intensifying competition in the development of automated driving technologies such as ADAS, such stagnation in the manufacturing process can be fatal.
Smart Manufacturing is an effort to break out of this situation.

In addition to raising the need for smart manufacturing in automotive manufacturers, solutions are needed to “virtualize” all manufacturing layers.
If this virtualization technology can be used to proactively optimize the design and manufacturing processes in the automotive plant, then truly smart manufacturing will be realized.