- Hyundai Motor Group celebrates a 12 months of innovation at HMGICS, a key hub advancing the Group’s sustainable, human-centric mobility imaginative and prescient
- Group Govt Chair Euisun Chung emphasizes HMGICS’s strategic position in advancing Hyundai’s imaginative and prescient for future mobility options at city corridor assembly
- The Group will proceed to foster innovation in manufacturing know-how, redefine buyer expertise, and interact with local people
Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Middle Singapore (HMGICS) commemorated its first anniversary and strengthened the Hyundai Motor Group’s (the Group) imaginative and prescient with Govt Chair Euisun Chung.
HMGICS held a city corridor on December twelfth to rejoice its one-year milestone, share key achievements, and reinforce the group’s pivotal position in Hyundai’s international innovation technique. Alongside Govt Chair Chung, key executives from Hyundai Motor – together with Jaehoon Chang, the President and CEO of Hyundai Motor Firm, Juncheul Jung, Govt Vice President and Head of Manufacturing for Hyundai Motor Group, Hyun Sung Park, CEO of HMGICS, and Alpesh Patel, Chief Innovation Officer of HMGICS – joined the dialog with staff.
“Our journey has been spectacular to this point, however the perfect is but to come back,” mentioned Govt Chair Chung, applauding the dedication and onerous work of HMGICS staff, who proceed to maneuver ahead by responding proactively to quickly altering circumstances. “We will meet the challenges forward, as a result of we’re Hyundai. We will meet the challenges as a result of we’ve what it takes—the correct folks such as you, and our imaginative and prescient of progress for humanity.”
Govt Chair Chung strengthened the mission of growing sustainable, progressive mobility options and enhancing buyer experiences, stating: “HMGICS is exploring new enterprise concepts and applied sciences that may revolutionize future mobility.”
Hyundai Motor President and CEO Chang, who will grow to be the Group’s Vice Chair as of January 1st, emphasised the position of the innovation hub within the Hyundai Motor Group long-term technique, saying: “We are going to proactively develop important applied sciences for future factories, akin to AI, robotics, and automation, and confirm their effectiveness by means of concrete tasks. The experience amassed throughout this course of will grow to be key property for constructing good factories and will probably be utilized to Hyundai’s international manufacturing websites.”
A 12 months of innovation and progress
HMGICS, Hyundai Motor Group’s first international innovation hub for future mobility innovation, is taking the lead throughout quite a few fields, driving superior mobility options in manufacturing know-how, R&D, gross sales, and buyer expertise. Over the previous 12 months, HMGICS has achieved key milestones and showcased success in a number of areas.
The implementation of a very smart and automatic cell-based manufacturing system has led to vital developments in logistics and meeting automation, powered by robotics, AI, and digital twin know-how. HMGICS plans to determine a system able to producing varied kinds of mobility options, together with electrical autos, Goal-Constructed Automobiles (PBVs), Superior Air Mobility (AAM), and robots.
The progressive manufacturing applied sciences developed at HMGICS will probably be regularly utilized to factories globally, together with Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in Georgia, and the devoted electrical automobile plant in Ulsan. The long run-oriented factories will enable the Group to strengthen manufacturing competitiveness by enhancing security and comfort for workers whereas bettering operational effectivity.
These improvements are setting new benchmarks for the event of future mobility options and have contributed to the 2023 manufacturing of the Hyundai IONIQ 5—the primary regionally constructed EV in Singapore—and the 2024 debut of the Hyundai IONIQ 6, each of which have garnered international acclaim for his or her design, know-how, and eco-conscious manufacturing.
The innovation at HMGICS goes past manufacturing and extends into the realm of buyer expertise enhancement. The ability has redefined the shopper journey with immersive Discovery Excursions, which permit guests to get pleasure from a 3D digital actuality tour of the EV manufacturing course of, take check rides on the Skytrack and discover the location’s two-story vertical good farm.
The good farm inside HMGICS provides produce to Na Oh, a novel Korean restaurant that opened at HMGICS in June primarily based on a seed-to-table idea and led by three-Michelin-Star Chef Corey Lee. This initiative provides a cultural dimension to the broader HMGICS journey, specializing in culinary excellence and enhancing the general buyer expertise.
HMGICS additionally actively engages with the area people by nurturing expertise and collaborating with analysis establishments and universities. In 2024, it elevated its native workforce by 30 p.c, emphasizing R&D and engineering roles. The middle additionally companions with native establishments to supply internships and sensible studying alternatives in superior manufacturing and progressive applied sciences.
The Group will proceed to drive innovation and foster a world the place companies and society develop collectively. With HMGICS on the forefront of this journey, it’s dedicated to embracing steady transformation to realize sustainable development, fueled by technological innovation and the creation of significant social worth.
