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케토톱 만드는 한독 음성공장 포장라인에 AI 카메라…쓰는 전력의 16%는 태양광

The Korean Plant That Makes Ketotop Puts AI Cameras on the Packing Line, and Draws 16% of Its Power from Solar

’케토톱’을 만드는 한독 음성공장의 포장라인 일부에 설치된 AI 머신 비전 카메라는, 제품을 촬영한 뒤 학습한 데이터를 바탕으로 제품의 불량 여부를 판별합니다. 공장 건물 지붕과 주차장, 운동장 스탠드에는 모두 2MW 규모의 태양광 패널이 설치돼 있습니다. 공장에서 쓰는 전력의 약 16%를 태양광으로 충당합니다. 한독은 2019년부터 생산설비와 여러 시스템에서 나오는 데이터의 형식과 기준을 통일해 왔는데, 데이터 인프라를 구축하고 표준화하는 데만 5~6년이 걸렸습니다. 지난해 한독의 CMO 매출은 약 400억원으로 전년보다 13% 늘었고, 전체 고형제 생산량 가운데 CMO 물량이 차지하는 비중은 약 40%에 이릅니다. 한독은 최근 2년간 스마트 생태공장, 자율형공장, 로봇 활용 제조혁신 등 5개 정부 사업에 선정돼 국비 59억8300만원을 확보했습니다.

Translation

The AI machine vision cameras installed on part of the packing line at the 한독 음성 plant, which makes 케토톱, photograph a product and then judge whether it is defective, working from the data they have learned. Solar panels totalling 2 MW are installed on the plant's roofs, its car park and the stand by its sports ground. About 16% of the electricity the plant uses is covered by that solar generation. 한독 has been standardising the format and the criteria of the data coming out of its production equipment and its various systems since 2019, and building and standardising that data infrastructure alone took five to six years. Last year 한독's contract manufacturing revenue was about 40 billion won, up 13% on the year before, and contract work now accounts for about 40% of everything the plant makes in solid dose form. Over the past two years 한독 has been selected for five government programmes, among them a smart eco-factory scheme, an autonomous factory scheme and one for manufacturing innovation using robots, securing 5.983 billion won in state funding.

Vocabulary

  • 포장명사 (noun)packing, packaging
  • 불량명사 (noun)a defect, a faulty item
  • 판별하다동사 (verb)to tell apart, to judge which it is
  • 충당하다동사 (verb)to cover, to meet (a need) with
  • 통일하다동사 (verb)to unify, to make uniform
  • 표준화명사 (noun)standardisation
  • 매출명사 (noun)revenue, sales
  • 확보하다동사 (verb)to secure, to obtain

Grammar points

-을/를 바탕으로on the basis of, drawing on

바탕 is 'a base' or 'a ground', so N을/를 바탕으로 means the thing that something else is built on or judged from. It is common in writing about research, policy and, as here, machines that decide from data. The noun before it is what you start from, never what you produce.

Example: 학습한 데이터를 바탕으로 제품의 불량 여부를 판별합니다.

It judges whether a product is defective, working from the data it has learned.

-는 데만just to do it (took), for the doing alone

데 here is a bound noun meaning 'the doing of it' rather than a place, and -만 restricts it: '(for) that alone'. It is how Korean says a cost or a duration applies to one part of a job, implying the rest is extra. Note that 데 is written apart from the verb, unlike the -는데 that means 'but'.

Example: 데이터 인프라를 구축하고 표준화하는 데만 5~6년이 걸렸습니다.

Building and standardising the data infrastructure alone took five to six years.

-에 이르다to reach, to come to (a figure)

이르다 means 'to arrive at', and with a number it says a figure reaches that level. News writing prefers it to 이다 when the size of the number is itself the point, which is why you meet it constantly in reports on shares and proportions. Careful: there is a separate 이르다 meaning 'early', and a third meaning 'to tell' — only context separates them.

Example: 전체 고형제 생산량 가운데 CMO 물량이 차지하는 비중은 약 40%에 이릅니다.

Contract work accounts for about 40% of everything made in solid dose form.

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