Many civil-military R&D projects involve multiple organizations and therefore need an integrated approach to project management. In Korea, the SE-based technical review process has been used in weapons systems R&D, following the Defense Acquisition Program Management Regulations and its guidebook. Its use in general national R&D projects has been less common. This paper reports on a three-year civil-military R&D project where the lead organization chose to apply the SE-based technical review process and modified it to suit the project's year-by-year development cycle. Beyond the standard SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, and TRR stages, additional year-specific reviews such as CDR2, TRR2, CDR3, and TRR3 were introduced. Monthly meetings ran alongside these reviews as a continuous management mechanism. By the analysis date, 41 Action Items had been recorded — 37 closed and 4 still open. This combined approach helped support stage-based verification, kept issue management going throughout the project, and gave decision-making a consistent basis.
This study examines the determinants of collaborative robot adoption intention in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). It investigates how relative advantage, safety, top management support, government support, and labor shortage influence perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived risk, and adoption intention. Survey data from 273 employees and managers in Korean manufacturing SMEs were analyzed using PLS-SEM. The results show that perceived usefulness has the strongest effect on adoption intention, while safety reduces perceived risk and enhances both perceived ease of use and usefulness. Perceived ease of use and perceived risk do not significantly affect adoption intention directly. These findings indicate that collaborative robot adoption is driven primarily by practical usefulness, supported by safety assurance, managerial support, and favorable environmental conditions.