【브레이크뉴스 포항】박영재 기자=포스코가 회사 내 다양한 수작업 업무 자동화를 위한 프로그램 상시 개발에 나서며, 직원들의 생산성과 업무 효율성을 모두 향상시키고 있는 것으로 나타났다.
슬라브정정공장에서 진행하는 수리 작업은 공장 지붕과 크레인 등 다양한 위치에서 일일 평균 20건이 진행되고, 투입 인원이 매일 100명 이상에 달한다. 슬라브정정공장에서는 일일 수리 현황을 파악하기 위해 맵핑 시스템으로 지도처럼 작업 위치를 관리했으나, 이는 현장 직원이 수작업으로 매일 체크해야 한다는 어려움이 있었다.
포스코는 이번 슬라브정정공장 수리 현황 모니터링 자동화 모델이 수작업 업무의 효율성을 증대시켜 실질적 안전관리를 강화하고 향후 타 공장까지 해당 자동화 모델을 적용해 제철소 내 작업 능률 향상에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대하고 있다.
포항제철소는 약 40단계의 프로세스를 거쳐 생산속보를 생성하는 데, 데이터의 양이 방대하고, 사람이 직접 입력해야 하는 단계도 있어 수작업으로 업무를 진행하기엔 많은 애로사항이 있었다. 이에 생산기술부는 RPA 상시 개발 지원을 통해 생산 속보를 자동화하는 모델을 개발했고, 이를 실제 업무에 적용해 작업 수행의 효율을 높였다.
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POSCO, Continuous Development of Simple Repetitive Task Automation Program… Both Work Productivity and Efficiency ‘UP’
It has been revealed that POSCO is continuously developing programs to automate various manual tasks within the company, and is improving both the productivity and work efficiency of its employees.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA), also known as Robotic Process Automation, is a technology that combines various functions such as artificial intelligence to automate simple and repetitive tasks in office work that were previously performed by people. POSCO’s Digital Innovation Lab continuously received simple and repetitive manual tasks within the company that required RPA development support from employees, and developed a program that could automate them in an average of one month, helping employees perform their work more smoothly.
In particular, it is known that some of the tasks of this year’s RPA continuous development support were carried out by field employees of the Digital Innovation Lab as citizen developers during their free time, and quickly created an automation model without any additional costs or procedures.
With this ongoing RPA development support, Gwangyang Steelworks’ Slab Repair Plant developed an automated model for monitoring the status of factory repairs, and strengthened safety management within the plant while reducing work hours.
The repair work being performed at the Slab Repair Plant is performed on average 20 times a day at various locations, including the factory roof and crane, and more than 100 people are involved every day. In order to grasp the daily repair status, the Slab Repair Plant used a mapping system to manage the work locations like a map, but this had the difficulty of requiring on-site staff to manually check every day.
Accordingly, the Slab Repair Plant developed an automated monitoring model with RPA development support, and applied the system to the actual site in April to automatically monitor the repair status of the plant. As a result, the Slab Repair Plant saw the effect of reducing work hours due to work automation, and was able to smoothly identify high-risk work locations before starting work, which also strengthened safety inspection activities.
POSCO expects that this automated model for monitoring the status of the slab repair plant will increase the efficiency of manual work, thereby strengthening practical safety management, and that the automation model will be applied to other plants in the future to contribute to improving work efficiency within the steelworks.
The Pohang Iron and Steel Company’s production technology department also automated the steelworks’ production report writing work through ongoing RPA development support, thereby increasing work efficiency. Pohang Iron and Steel Company’s production report is a report sent by email every morning to immediately check and respond to the production volume and issues of all processes the previous day. Since the production report manages all the steelworks’ production volume the previous day, the accuracy of the data and the consistency between each piece of data are very important.
Pohang Iron and Steel Company generates production reports through approximately 40 processes, but there were many difficulties in carrying out the work manually, as the amount of data was huge and there were steps that required direct input by people. Accordingly, the production technology department developed a model to automate production reports through ongoing RPA development support, and applied it to actual work to increase work efficiency.
Kim Sang-jin, an employee of the production technology department at Pohang Iron and Steel Company, said, “The work of writing production reports, which was previously done manually, has been automated, so the hassle of visually comparing various systems and screens and then manually entering data has disappeared.” He added, “In particular, since RPA handles the complicated follow-up work of processing and handling data, work can now be completed quickly with just the click of a button, which has significantly reduced work time.”
In addition, POSCO is helping employees achieve smarter work innovations through various RPA development support, such as an automated model for collecting and updating product warehouse status data and automating cargo entry and exit fee payment work.
An official from POSCO's Digital Innovation Lab, which supports RPA continuous development, said, "By discovering RPA tasks at the department level and supporting continuous task development, we have developed about 180 tasks since 2021, and as a result, we were able to see the effect of reducing work hours by up to 27,000 hours per year." He added, "In addition to task support, we will further activate RPA training courses in which employees can directly participate in the entire process, from suggesting ideas to development, so that field managers can increase their work efficiency on their own." <저작권자 ⓒ 브레이크뉴스 대구경북 무단전재 및 재배포 금지>
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