Kolon Benit announced that it held the 'Kolon Benit AX Boost Summit 2026' on October 13 at Seoul Dragon City in Yongsan, Seoul.
The event, themed 'Customer's AX (AI Transformation) Journey,' attracted around 500 attendees, including customers and partners. Kolon Benit shared execution strategies to connect artificial intelligence (AI) adoption with actual business outcomes, along with industry case studies.
Kang I-gu, CEO of Kolon Benit, stated in his opening remarks, "Simply adopting AI does not automatically increase productivity." He explained that during the initial phase of adopting new technology, there may be temporary stagnation in results, and it is crucial to resolve this quickly.
Kang emphasized that since AI does not yield the same results across all tasks, it is essential to clearly define which tasks to assign to AI and where human judgment is necessary, thus redesigning the way to work alongside AI.
He identified Kolon Benit's accumulated understanding of industries and customers, solutions from global vendors, and an ecosystem comprising over 100 AI alliance partners as key assets. He noted that a combination of business domain knowledge to identify tasks suitable for AI and validated technology to determine how to solve them is necessary.
Jang Jae-yong, head of Kolon Benit's DX Division, presented findings indicating that while the AI utilization rate among domestic companies has reached 58%, only 27% have a defined AI strategy, and 47% lack a method to measure investment effectiveness. Jang remarked, "It is now time to integrate AI into daily operations and quantify its results."
During a subsequent customer case session, Hong Seong-hwa, head of the AX Innovation Center at Kolon Industries, discussed 'The AX Journey in Manufacturing: Our Challenges and Implementation Cases.' He highlighted that the competitive landscape in the petrochemical and materials industry is changing due to cost competition, oversupply, and supply chain risks, stressing the need to focus on the value generated through AI rather than just the adoption itself.
He introduced an AX implementation strategy from six perspectives: value & KPI, data, processes, architecture, talent, and organization. He provided real-world examples, including reducing processing time for shipping documents from four hours to five seconds through automation and achieving a 99.8% accuracy rate with vision AI.
Additionally, Shin Hyun-woo, an SK AX committee member, Jo Sung-woon, president of Seou Industry, and Sim Han-soo, director of Seou Advanced Materials, shared their respective AX implementation experiences. Professor Kim Dae-sik from KAIST delivered a special lecture on 'Literacy and Leadership in the Age of AGI.'
* This article has been translated by AI.
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