"The artificial intelligence transformation (AX) can never be achieved alone, and fast results can only come through prepared partners and an ecosystem. Kolon Benit will serve as an AX enabler through customer-tailored services and one-stop solutions."
Kang I-gu, CEO of Kolon Benit, said this on the 30th as he unveiled the company's blueprint centered on AX at the "Kolon Benit AX Boost Summit" held at the Seoul Dragon City hotel in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. With about 800 corporate customers and partners in attendance, Kolon Benit revealed the AX ecosystem it built with Korea's largest AI alliance and introduced a new AI platform, Fromton.
Kang said, "The conventional method of developing AI services and products for more than a year before delivering them to customers no longer works," noting, "Reality is stark, with 95% of corporations failing in AI pilot projects," and assessed that few corporations are seeing AI adoption translate into results. He added, "The core of AX performance is the harmony among domain knowledge that understands customers' complex businesses, solutions that reflect fast-changing trends, and technological accessibility."
Kang explained that Kolon Benit can achieve this harmony with a prepared AX ecosystem. He said the company can speed up AX outcomes through a powerful ecosystem built on three elements: global IT vendors with whom Kolon Benit runs distribution businesses, such as IBM, Dell Technologies and Red Hat; domestic business partners; and the AI alliance.
Kang particularly emphasized the role of the AI alliance in commercializing AI services. He said, "The AI alliance is composed of about 80 companies, including AI software (SW) companies and IT system suppliers, and through collaboration it is delivering practical outcomes such as discovering new businesses and commercializing products."
At the event, Kolon Benit also unveiled for the first time Fromton, a new AI platform it developed in-house. Fromton is an integrated AI platform that consolidation corporate internal data with global and domestic AI models and enables rapid application of AI services and solutions. Kolon Benit said it will build an open ecosystem that provides timely services to customers and new business opportunities to partners through this.
Kang said, "Fromton is an integrated AI platform that can solve the three major challenges corporations face when adopting AI—consolidation between systems and AI services, data security and access control, and securing model scalability," adding, "Fromton connects various AI models already in use, such as large language models (LLMs) and product lifecycle management (PLM) platforms, into one to support multimodels."
In addition, Kolon Benit said it will fully scale up its digital transformation (DX) business for manufacturing corporations. To that end, Kolon Benit plans to make full use of its in-house developed connected data platform. The in-house developed connected data platform has AI that has learned workers' skilled experience, real-time production conditions and control data to predict signs of abnormalities in processes, facilities and quality, and to propose appropriate responses.
Jeong Sang-seop, executive director at Kolon Benit, said, "Kolon Benit plans to fully expand its DX business for external manufacturing corporations based on the know-how accumulated while building the Kolon Group's DX infrastructure," adding, "We will realize customers' DX goals through prediction-based processes, real-time operations, and collaboration among AI, humans and machines."