corporate technology operations

"To Make Samsung a premier player, The CTO is leading the way!"
The Corporate Technology Operations is responsible for the technological future of Samsung Electronics. The Operations thus leads R&D activities at the corporate level by:
(1) Defining the mid-/long-term R&D direction and strategies for overall operations with the aim of finding future growth engines,
(2) Optimizing process and systems to enhance R&D efficiency company-wide, and
(3) Developing shared technologies related to software and production.

We are on a mission at the CTO to secure future technology leadership by being prepared at all times and by exercising greater foresight than our competition. Our ongoing efforts are building a proactive technology management system that allows Samsung to respond to any changes in the business environment. To this end, we have promulgated a company-wide R&D action plan to foster technological readiness (This plan covers strategic investments, technology initiatives and high-efficiency R&D approaches).

We cooperate with the R&D centers for each of our five main business units, the development teams at divisions under each business, and the group-level Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology.

In order to implement this plan seamlessly, we work to secure the core technologies needed for future growth engines. We also develop technologies commonly used throughout Samsung Electronics and initiate research projects on new potential technologies for the future. Our efforts are making Samsung Electronics rank among the world’s very best in terms of both products and technological expertise.

At the same time, we are intent on establishing highly efficient R&D processes and optimizing the R&D data system. Overseeing intellectual property management is another role of the CTO for the entire company, we help to generate greater royalty revenues by creating a system to secure the long term intellectual properties.

Finally, the CTO is responsible for constantly elevating the company’s technological sophistication and competitiveness in value-added business areas.

• Software laboratories
  
  
• Mechatronics & Manufacturing Technology Center
• Digital Solution Center
• IP Strategy Office
• Corporate Technology Office

The software laboratories

The software laboratories were established to enable the company to secure new software technologies that can be shared company-wide.

To this end, the laboratories focus on

(1) Discovering promising software for the future in the area of computer science,
(2) Acquiring next-generation platform (home/mobile) technologies to accommodate multiprocessor
      systems-on-a-chip (MPSoC), and
(3) Pursuing the company-wide software standardization to enhance development productivity

• The laboratories’s main research and technology areas are:
  
• Primary computer science research
• Home and mobile platforms
• System software
• Software engineering

• Primary Computer Science Research Areas
  
• User interaction
• System virtualization
• Pervasive computing
• Component composition

• Home & Mobile Platform Areas
  
• Next-generation platforms for accommodating MPSoC
• Multimedia contents management
• Smart home networks

• System Software Areas
  
• Embedded operating systems
• Embedded storage systems
• Trusted computing and digital rights management

• Software Engineering Areas
  
• Software quality assurance (SQA)
• Software process improvement

Mechatronics & Manufacturing Technology Center

The Center’s main research and technology areas are:

• Manufacturing Innovation
  (1) Automation systems:
  • Material handling systems
  • Industrial robot design and control
  (2) Manufacturing software:
  • Process equipment control software
  • Network technology applications
  (3) Industrial engineering
  • Factory design and scheduling
  • Line simulation and analysis

• Fundamental Technologies
  (1) Molding
  • Optics and precision mold design
  • Machining, Measurement for precision molds
  • Optic/Nonferrous/Injection molding
  (2) Electronic assembly and interconnection
  • 3D assembly of circuit boards
  • Flexible or thin circuit board assembly
  • Low-temperature/lead-free joining
  (3) Control
  • Sensor-less control
  • Precision temperature control
  • Robot control
  (4) Computer-aided engineering
  • Process simulation(heat/fluid)
  • precision design(noise/vibration)

• Processing Equipment Technologies
  (1) Fabrication
  • Plasma applications
  • Chemical reaction for process optimization
  • Next-generation FAB process (inkjet printing, nano-imprinting) research
  (2) Test and measurement
  • Optical surface inspection
  • Inspection with ion beams
  • SEM applications
  • Test pattern design
  • Logic design and simulation
  (3) Precision assembly
  • Force & thermal control
  • Precision mechanism technologies
  • vision-based automated bonding/sorting/screwing equipment
  (4) Ultra-precision stage
  • Precision assembly
  • Error compensating position control
  • Laser interferometer applications
  
  

• Future Technologies
  (1) Service robots
  • Vacuum cleaner robots
  • Public service robots
  • Network-based home care robots
  (2) Humanoid robots

Digital Solution Center

DSC (Digital Solution Center)’s mission is to find emerging businesses that lead the future growth of the company and to play a leading role to incubate new businesses by converging devices, networks, contents, and services.

• To foster solution business in the age of ubiquitous network, DSC pursues on
• Establishing mid and long-term directions and strategies for solution businesses
• Incubating new solution business
• Planning future products
• Conducting pre-Marketing
• Designing user experience design
• Building Global alliance for solution business
• Providing content service and infrastructure providing
• Publishing and operating on-line game
• Developing corporate documentation infrastructure - JungUm Global

• To turn business plan into concrete success, DSC design and develop
  
  • Core network and device platform
  • Integrated ubiquitous solution system architecture
  • Differentiated end-to-end convergence solution
  • Application service framework based on component architecture
  • Home and mobile application software
  • Network platform architecture
  • Server system and develop application
  • Signal processing security
  • Information system architecture
  • Multimedia distribution system and content management
  • Database and develop database client application
  • Corporate blog system
  • EAI/ BPM/ BAM solution
  • Video conference system
  • Development methodology such as CMMI, SPICE, UML and RUP

IP Strategy Office

IP Strategy Office oversees intellectual property (patent strategies and innovations, major patent disputes) with the aim of making Samsung Electronics one of the world’s best patent managers.

• In order to deploy Intellectual Property Strategies successfully, IP strategy office
  (1) Establishes strategies for patent acquisition and use
  (2) Hires and trains patent specialists
  (3) Builds and operates IP infrastructure including various company-wide patent-related systems
  (4) Acquires patents for core technologies and handles company-wide standardization

• Another role for IP Strategy Office is to
  (1) Handle IP litigation inside and outside Korea
  (2) Negotiate technology licenses on behalf of the company
  (3) Manage trademarks and Samsung Group CI

Corporate Techonology Office

• Corporate Technology Office plays major role in planning the corporate technology strategies by
  (1) Preparing the corporate mid-long term R&D strategies and the technology roadmap
  (2) Fostering strategic technologies within the company
  (3) Sensing future technology trends and proposing the direction for the corporate advanced
        research projects
  (4) Enlarging global R&D networks to secure disruptive technology sources

• Corporate Technology Office optimizes corporate R&D processes to raise the competitiveness of all Samsung Electronics products (in terms of quality, cost and delivery) by:
  (1) Standardizing innovative R&D process
  (2) Building CAD/CAE infrastructure
  
  • Mechanical design infrastructure that incorporates concept development, design and molds
  • Electronic Design Automation infrastructure (block based editing design and constraints driven design environment)
  (3) Developing value enhancement methodologies, including Value Engineering, Value Innovation,
        TRIZ (theory of inventive problem solving), Six Sigma and DFX (Design For all desirable attributes)
  (4) Strengthening the development competencies (CAD/CAE, value innovation and cost reduction)
        at overseas R&D centers and 3^rdsupparty engineering/service providers

• Corporate Technology Office runs information infrastructure projects to systematize development processes and maximize R&D efficiency by:
  (1) Planning and developing total solutions for next-generation product lifecycle management
  (2) Building information system architectures and developing collaborative product commerce systems
  (3) Developing product development management systems
  (4) Developing the Samsung Integrated Management System (SIMS)
  (5) Building the Technology Portfolio Management System (TPMS)
  (6) Establishing a knowledge management system that will form a network of specialists and construct
       a platform for data mining