Samsung to convert factories into AI autonomous sites by 2030

Samsung Electronics said it will convert its domestic and international production plants into AI autonomous factories by 2030 using digital twin-based simulations and AI agents to boost quality, productivity, and safety.

The plan will apply digital twin-based simulations across all processes from material receipt to production and shipment, and strengthen data-driven analysis and pre-verification through quality, production, and logistics AI agents.

It will apply the “agentic AI” introduced with the Galaxy S26 and leverage AI experience from its mobile business to manufacturing, so systems can plan and execute tasks autonomously, and it will gradually introduce humanoid manufacturing robots across all manufacturing processes.

The company also plans digital twin-based environmental safety bots to detect risks in high temperatures, high noise, and other challenging conditions to reduce on-site risks.

🔗 Source: Chosun Daily

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Samsung’s 2030 factory plan builds on years of preparation

Samsung Electronics plans to scale AI-based manufacturing across its operations by 2030.
For years, Samsung has developed its “Nexplant” smart factory platform, which offers manufacturing intelligence tools such as manufacturing execution system (MES) software plus supply-chain-related services 1.
Samsung has also set up supporting infrastructure, rolling out its own end-to-end 5G networks in factories in Korea and Austin, Texas, to run video analytics and automated guided vehicle (AGV) control 2.
The 2030 plan also ties to Samsung Electronics’ recently announced work with NVIDIA on a new AI factory, also called an “AI Megafactory,” using more than 50,000 NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) plus the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for digital twins (virtual replicas of physical factories used to simulate and optimize operations) 3.

Samsung is positioning its factories as a reference for its industrial technology offerings

By upgrading its own plants, Samsung is creating a real-world example for industrial and smart-factory products sold across the wider Samsung group, including Samsung SDS’s manufacturing solutions 1.
In-house rollouts also give Samsung proof points as it competes in industrial software and services alongside its platform lineup.
Samsung says it will introduce humanoid manufacturing robots over time across production, while also using NVIDIA robotics technologies in the Samsung–NVIDIA AI factory work; the companies have described the project as setting a global benchmark for AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing at scale 4.
The project may push rivals in manufacturing to speed up AI and robotics spending, which could ripple through supply chains and labor markets.