Check Plus Background of Development

For over 40 years, Woosung Electric Machinery has been supplying various kinds of industrial welding equipment to shipyards, construction sites, and plant facilities across the heavy industry sector.

Through direct experience in the field, we encountered numerous challenges when responding to equipment failure reports. A considerable amount of cost and loss has been incurred while responding to failure reports as well as various difficulties, e.g., difficulties in determining equipment failure, lack of mutual understanding during communication with welders, and unnecessary site visits leading to increased travel-related costs.

This led us to ask, “Wouldn’t it be possible to reduce unnecessary field service costs if we could remotely check the actual operating status of the equipment from the office?” Based on this idea, we began developing a remote monitoring system for our own use.

Over the course of four years of development and three years of field testing, we resolved many unforeseen issues and successfully evolved the system into a practical solution that can be applied directly in real-world environments.

Although initially developed to diagnose equipment failures, Woosung Electric Machinery’s “Check Plus” has expanded its functionality to include “WPS management,” “welding production management,” and “welding quality control.” Today, it is Korea’s only welding production monitoring system that can truly be called a practical welding MES (Manufacturing Execution System).