HYUNDAI launches its sporty-ish looking IONIQ 6.
The first of the model to be made outside of South Korea, the units rolling on Singapore roads will be assembled at the Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICS), in the Jurong Innovation District.
It’s a busy area full of heavy vehicles, large structures and roads that don’t show up on some of the navigation maps. But, let that not deter you from eventually finding your way to the high-tech HMGICS facility.
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EV Innovation
This state-of-the-art building features the latest in Hyundai’s EV technology and serves as an innovation centre. Along with robots are 300 people who keep things moving along.
Able to produce 30,000 cars when all cylinders are firing, it’s not running at full capacity as yet.
As the facility is assembling for the local market, the demand for cars isn’t anywhere near the potential volumes it can deliver. But, as an innovation centre, a lot of neat new things are tested out here.
At the secret Digital Command Centre (smartphones are sealed in plastic bags), where monitors flank the walls, there is a constant stream of data that keeps the fingers of those manning the keyboards very busy as their eyes remain glued to their monitors.
Near real-time images show how the system is flowing. Little red flags point to issues that are resolved by those on the ground, working hand-in-“hand” with the robots.
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Jurong Attraction
As a destination for those who are curious about how this smart automotive assembly functions, you can book a Discovery Tour that will take you to the smart farms, with robots tending to the plants, the factory VR tour and the Skytrack Experience, on the roof, where a road with inclines of up to 36.8° will give you the feeling of what it’s like to test a car.
Take a ride on the Skytrack in the video below.
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Na Oh’s Korean Cuisine
And if you’re lucky, and book in advance online (bookings for a month ahead are open from 10am daily) you could get a spot at Na Oh, the omakase Korean restaurant led by San Francisco-based Michelin-starred chef, Corey Lee.
Na Oh’s presence and popularity will help to cement HMGICS as, perhaps an unusual tourist destination in this otherwise remote industrial district.
