South Korea’s Ministry of SMEs and Startups has launched a demonstration project for multi-AI agents aimed at small manufacturers, beginning with a meeting at a food production site in North Chungcheong Province to discuss how the technology could be applied on the factory floor.
According to the ministry, the session brought together officials from the ministry and the Korea Institute of Startup & Entrepreneurship Development, as well as the 12 project teams selected for...
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the research and development programme and demand-side companies that will help test the systems in real production settings.
The ministry said the gathering was the first step for the 12 winning projects under the “small and medium manufacturing specialised multi-AI agent” R&D initiative. The aim over the next six months is to test whether AI agents can function in live manufacturing environments and whether they can meaningfully support workers and managers making operational decisions.
At the food plant where the meeting was held, participants discussed common difficulties faced by smaller manufacturers, including uneven product quality, the need to continually adjust process conditions and a heavy dependence on the judgement of experienced staff. The ministry said the talks focused on how AI agents might use production data to help with those decisions.
Two example use cases were presented. In food manufacturing, the company Ijera outlined a scenario involving Pulmuone Food in which AI agents would analyse process and product conditions and predict quality risks when raw materials or operating settings change. In beauty manufacturing, Kairos Lab described a system that would apply AI agents across the full production cycle, from formulation design and quality control to process review, regulatory checks and prediction of clinical effectiveness.
The ministry said it will work with the Korea Institute of Startup & Entrepreneurship Development to verify data quality, connect projects to national GPU infrastructure and provide dedicated support so that the trials can move beyond experimentation and produce practical results.
Kwon Soon-jae, who oversees regional enterprise policy at the ministry, said AI is expected to play a significant role not only in raising productivity and product quality, but also in improving worker safety and environmental conditions. He said the government would back efforts to verify AI models for use in small manufacturing sites and help spread the results into sectors including food, beauty, automotive parts and metal processing.
Source: Noah Wire Services
