A Korean company waiting to be born
aPlanner - AI-POWERED PRODUCTION PLANNING is created by one founder who watched the world’s most advanced fabs being planned in spreadsheets. It is pre-commercial, self-funded, and heading for incorporation in Korea in 2027.
Korean fabs make the world’s memory, but they still plan it in Excel
I have spent my career writing software for manufacturing. Working with Siemens Industry Software and on Samsung Electronics projects in Korea, I sat next to production planners and saw how the most advanced factories on earth are still planned: 3–5-day master-planning cycles, forecasts at 55–65% accuracy, about 70% of a planner’s week spent reconciling MES, ERP and spreadsheets.
When a machine goes down or a hyperscaler doubles its order, a planner needs a new plan in hours. Today it takes days, with numbers nobody fully trusts, and the cost — US$100M+ a year per large fab — hides in inventory, expedite fees and missed demand.
The tools were not built for this. SAP APO is end-of-life and its successors were not designed for yield curves and node transitions; the AI-first vendors were built for consumer supply chains. Nobody has built an AI-native planner for the fab — and nobody has built one here, for Korean fabs, in Korean.
aPlanner is that planner: yield-aware, constraint-based, scenario-driven, explainable. It began as personal research in 2026, self-funded, on synthetic fab data and public methods — no employer code or data. Two Siemens Industry Software architects advise; five partners build with me. The company comes next: Amoza Korea Co., Ltd., incorporated in 2027, piloting with a Korean fab the same year.
"aPlanner is a Korean company waiting to be born. I will incorporate in Korea, protect the technology with Korean patents, and put AI planning into a Korean fab in 2027."
— Danniel Nguyen, Founder
Put an explainable AI planning engine next to every fab planner — starting in Korea
AI recommends, people decide. Here is what that is designed to mean in practice (targets, not results):
For planners
Less time gathering data. Fewer manual calculations. More time for strategic analysis. And finally, plans you can trust.
For operations leaders
Visibility into what's really happening. Confidence in your forecasts. The ability to evaluate scenarios in minutes, not days.
For your business
Lower inventory costs. Better on-time delivery. Reduced expediting. And measurable competitive advantage.
Founder, two Siemens Industry Software advisors, five partners
No legal entity yet — aPlanner is personal research by the founder, self-funded, supported by two Siemens Industry Software advisors and five partners. Partner contributions are assigned in writing. Amoza Korea Co., Ltd. will be incorporated in 2027 (Incheon Songdo or Suwon, to be confirmed).
Founder & Representative
Nguyen Van Duong (Danniel Ng)
Senior Software & AI Engineer; Industry Software and AI projects for Siemens Industry Software and Samsung Electronics in Korea; originator of aPlanner. Based in Suwon.
Advisors — Siemens Industry Software
Ms. Kim HaeRan · Mr. Park JunSang
Architect & Develop Service, and Senior Presales Solution Architect, at Siemens Industry Software. They advise on Industry Software architecture, MES / PLM integration and Korean manufacturing customers.
Partners
Lio Alio · Mike Mai · Louis Vu · Logan Nguyen · Tann Vu
AI/ML research, full-stack platform engineering, applied AI (Samsung SDS), product / UX and finance — working under the founder’s direction with written IP assignment.
The principles that guide everything we do
Innovation
Drive AI-powered solutions for smarter planning
We embrace continuous learning, experimentation, and challenging the status quo.
Integrity
Build trust through transparency
Honest communication, keeping commitments, and admitting when we're wrong.
Collaboration
Partner for shared success
Cross-functional cooperation, customer co-development, and building ecosystems.
Customer-centricity
Deliver measurable value
User research, outcome-based success metrics, and responsive support.
Excellence
Commit to quality and improvement
High standards, attention to detail, and relentless pursuit of better.
Beyond aPlanner — the Amoza AI platform, from shop floor to customer door
aPlanner is the starting point, not the destination. Planning leads to monitoring; planning plus monitoring on one AI platform becomes a complete Smart Factory; the same production data then powers customer experience, logistics and commerce — a chain that runs from the fab to the customer’s door.
aPlanner
Manufacturing Planning — the starting point (Korea, 2026–27)
aMonitor
Manufacturing Monitoring — OEE, equipment health, predictive alerts
Amoza AI Platform
AI foundation serving every pillar: aCore · aFlow · aConnect · aExecutor · aData
Smart Factory (MAKE)
Complete MAKE suite: aOps · aQuality · aYield · aMake — planning + monitoring + execution
Smart CX (DELIGHT)
aCare · aInsight · aLoyalty · aVoice — customer intelligence fed by production data
Complete chain
MOVE and SELL close the loop: MAKE > MOVE > SELL > DELIGHT — from shop floor to customer door
Amoza AI Platform — one foundation serving MAKE, MOVE, SELL and DELIGHT
One data model — production → inventory → orders → customer signals — so every product added to the chain starts with the data and AI of the previous one.
For investors
A US$100K self-funded bootstrap has already produced working prototypes. Korean public programs de-risk the first year; a US$800K Pre-Seed (targeted Q2–Q3 2027, after Korean incorporation) buys the first fab pilot and the first Korean hires.
View investment opportunityThree things that make aPlanner different
Industry-specific AI — not generic algorithms
Legacy APS is generic and its AI is bolted on; the AI-first vendors were built for consumer supply chains. aPlanner models what makes a fab a fab, inside the solver:
Yield-aware constraint scheduling and node-migration planning — KIPO patent applications planned Dec 2026 and Q1 2027.
Designed for first value in 8–12 weeks — not 12–18 months
Incumbents need a year or more of system-integrator customization before a fab sees a plan. aPlanner is designed to deliver first value in 8–12 weeks (target). How?
A target, not a track record — until the first Korean pilot in 2027.
Data stays in the fab. Support speaks Korean.
Korean fabs ask three questions first: where is my data, does it talk to my MES, and who answers the phone in Korean at 7 a.m.?
A position no overseas vendor has.
2026–2027: OASIS-6 → KIPO patent → Amoza Korea → D-8-4 → first fab pilot → Pre-Seed
The sequence matters: award, IP, company, visa, pilot. OASIS-6 is the first domino.
OASIS-6 · IP · MVP validation
- OASIS-6 competition; OASIS-4/5
- KIPO patent application #1; trademarks Amoza / aPlanner
- aPlanner MVP validation on synthetic fab data; Korean UI
Amoza Korea Co., Ltd. · D-8-4
- Incorporate Amoza Korea (Incheon Songdo or Suwon — TBC) with OASIS-8
- TIPS / Pre-startup Package applications
- D-8-4 change of status; pilot contract negotiation
First Korean fab pilot · Pre-Seed
- First Korean fab pilot (one line, 8–12 weeks) after a paid readiness assessment
- Hire 2 Korean engineers (planning domain + MES integration)
- Pre-Seed US$800K (≈ KRW 1.1B)
Pilot → Starter subscription
- Convert pilot to Starter subscription (first KRW revenue)
- Second Korean customer (supplier / OSAT)
- SOC 2 Type II — planned 2027–28; Seed preparation
5–10 Korean customers · aMonitor
- 5–10 Korean customers
- aMonitor (factory monitoring) add-on
- Seed US$2M; Singapore / Vietnam from the Korea HQ
Not commercialized; no revenue; no customers yet. Demo data is synthetic and clearly labelled.
Amoza
AI for Real Life. Real Impact.
Amoza is the platform vision behind aPlanner, and Amoza Korea Co., Ltd. will be the company that builds it — incorporated in Mar–May 2027 under the D-8-4 Technology Startup Visa, with the founder as representative. Until then aPlanner is personal research, self-funded, supported by two Siemens Industry Software advisors and five partners.
aPlanner is the first product of the Amoza AI platform. Next: aMonitor (factory monitoring). The full chain — MAKE > MOVE > SELL > DELIGHT, from shop floor to customer door — is long-term direction only.
| Legal entity | None yet — Amoza Korea Co., Ltd. to be incorporated Mar–May 2027 |
| Location | Incheon Songdo startup area or Suwon (to be confirmed); founder based in Suwon |
| Team | Founder + 2 Siemens Industry Software advisors + 5 partners |
| Funding | US$100K self-funded bootstrap; Pre-Seed US$800K targeted Q2–Q3 2027 |
| Stage | Pre-commercial MVP — validation Oct–Dec 2026; no customers, no revenue |
| First market | Korean NAND-flash and DRAM fabs, then OSATs and suppliers in the cluster |
The name "Amoza" carries the aspiration: "A" for AI-powered, "Moza" for new / fresh — a fresh approach to manufacturing intelligence. Contact: danniel@amoza.ai · +82 10-7785-2831.
Want to be part of step one?
Fab planning teams, Korean accelerators, TIPS operators and potential design partners — the founder would like to talk.