President Yoon Suk Yeol (second from left) and Hyundai Motor Govt Chair Chung Euisun (third from left) examine the manufacturing facility at Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Middle Singapore in Singapore’s Jurong Innovation District on Tuesday. (Yonhap)
SINGAPORE — President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday visited the extremely automated Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Middle Singapore, a automobile manufacturing facility powered by synthetic intelligence and robots, on the sidelines of his state go to to the city-state.
Yoon inspected the automated automobile manufacturing line that makes use of the “cell manufacturing” system through which a small staff of human workers and robots is accountable for a selected meeting course of. The manufacturing unit operates 27 such cells.
Based on Yoon’s workplace, the system has enabled “multitype small-quantity manufacturing,” catering to diversifying demand for futuristic mobility options.
Furthermore, the automation charge at Hyundai Motor’s Singapore facility has reached 46 %, about thrice increased than the extent achieved by standard conveyor belt meeting traces.
Yoon mentioned Hyundai Motor is trailblazing the evolution of automobile manufacturing innovation with AI and robots, because the US firm Ford did a century in the past by initiating the conveyor belt growth and revolutionizing mass manufacturing, and as Japan’s Toyota did with the “just-in-time” precept 50 years in the past, Park Chun-sup, senior presidential secretary for financial affairs, mentioned in a briefing.
Positioned in Singapore’s Jurong Innovation District, the state-of-the-art facility, whose building was accomplished in November, is able to producing some 30,000 automobiles, primarily electrical sedans such because the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6.
The ability created some 270 native jobs in Singapore, as South Korean workers account for less than 10 % of the 300-strong workers.
