This photo provided by Hyundai Motor Group on Oct. 16, 2024, shows company employees examining a vehicle design through the group’s newly developed automated vehicle press mold design system. (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Wednesday it has developed the world’s first automated system for designing vehicle press molds, allowing drastic reduction in design time and quality improvement in the automobile production process.
Press molds are tools used to produce exterior parts, such as trunks and hoods, and each part requires three to five press operations, with different molds used for each step.
The group said it has standardized the technical documents and design conditions for mold design and integrated the previously scattered design processes into a single system.
The system allows designers to simply input the necessary values step by step into the system, which then automatically generates the optimal design blueprint for the press mold.
Hyundai said the mold design time can be reduced by over 75 percent, and design errors can be eliminated through its new system, leading to improved quality.
Hyundai Motor and Kia have been applying this system partially since 2020, and they have recently completed the development of the system that can be utilized for the design of molds in all press operations.
(Yonhap)
