The October 30 demonstration event also concluded successfully.
Hanwha Group’s Global Business Division said on November 2 that it had developed Korea’s first Machine Guidance (MG) smart drilling machine and held a demonstration event.
On October 30, Hanwha Global Business Division showcased the MG smart drilling machine at Samho Development’s site in Dangjin, South Chungcheong Province. The demonstration was part of a research project on smart construction cost estimation standards led by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology.
The event successfully concluded six months of field testing. The results will be used to assess the smart drilling machine’s work efficiency and applicability at construction sites, and to provide foundational data for establishing new standard construction estimating standards.
Hanwha Global Division Supports the Development and Field Testing of Korea’s First MG Smart Drilling Machine. Hanwha Group
The MG smart drilling machine is a system that converts a conventional crawler drill into a smart drilling machine by adding sensors and digital guidance devices. Hanwha Global Business Division developed the system, the first of its kind in Korea, and supplies it to construction and mining sites in Korea and overseas. The system reduces the investment costs and equipment replacement burden associated with adopting new smart equipment, while providing workers with real-time guidance on drilling locations, directions, and depths entered in digital design data.
This reduces the time workers spend checking survey data against drilling locations during conventional drilling operations, while enabling more precise drilling. In particular, standardized digital work guidance reduces variations in work attributable to operators’ skill levels, helping ensure consistent productivity and construction quality.
The importance of smart drilling technology is growing as large-scale site development projects, including new airports and industrial complexes, expand. However, current standard construction estimating standards do not account for the work characteristics of MG smart drilling machines or their productivity gains. As a result, there have been calls for a system to support appropriate construction cost estimates and the use of the technology in public projects.
The demonstration verified that using the smart drilling machine reduced preparatory work, such as surveying and marking, as well as staffing requirements and time lost during operations, thereby improving overall productivity. Establishing cost estimation standards for smart drilling is expected to expand its use in large-scale government-funded construction projects.
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A Hanwha Global Business Division official said, “We plan to build our technological competitiveness alongside global explosives companies and expand our differentiated digital services, which provide integrated management from smart drilling to the analysis of blasting results.”
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