Hyundai Livart’s Manufacturing and Logistics Facility Recognized for Sustainability
Full Automation Across All Processes
Reducing Waste Wood and Harnessing Solar Energy
Hyundai Livart’s automated manufacturing facility, the “Smart Work Center,” has been acknowledged as a mannequin case for sustainable picket furnishings manufacturing.
On June 11, Hyundai Livart introduced that its Smart Work Center, situated in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, had been chosen as an official subject tour web site for the “2026 World Conference on Wood Science and Technology,” hosted by the National Institute of Forest Science below the Korea Forest Service.
Now in its 69th yr, the World Conference on Wood Science and Technology is a global educational convention held yearly by the Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST), essentially the most prestigious affiliation in the sphere. This yr’s occasion will run by June 12 at COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. It is the primary time the convention has been held in Korea for the reason that affiliation was based in 1958. The Society of Wood Science and Technology counts 1000’s of wooden specialists amongst its members, together with researchers from licensed organizations such as the United States Forest Service and the American Hardwood Export Council, college from main universities world wide, and executives from international corporations such as the distinguished U.S. wooden firm West Fraser.
This yr’s convention theme is “Wood Science and Materials for a Sustainable Future.” On June 12, greater than 30 main affiliation executives and wooden students from varied nations will go to the Hyundai Livart Smart Work Center in particular person.
A Hyundai Livart official defined, “The Smart Work Center has built advanced furniture manufacturing capabilities to reduce the waste wood rate and has worked to establish a sustainable production system, such as utilizing solar energy. Being selected as a field tour site for the World Conference on Wood Science and Technology means that our efforts to build a sustainable furniture production system have been recognized as a global model case by experts.”
View of the good manufacturing unit contained in the Hyundai Livart Smart Work Center. Hyundai Livart
The Smart Work Center, which started operations in 2022, is Asia’s first superior built-in manufacturing and logistics facility, protecting a complete space of 85,950 sq. meters (about 26,000 pyeong), equal to 12 soccer fields. The third ground homes the good manufacturing unit (17,000 sq. meters), whereas large-scale logistics facilities (68,000 sq. meters) are situated on the primary, second, fourth, and fifth flooring.
The good manufacturing unit operates by a “Smart Manufacturing Execution System (MES)” that automates your complete furnishings manufacturing course of. Once furnishings design data is entered, 3D drawings and estimated materials consumption are calculated in actual time, and all six manufacturing traces and 400 specialised items of apparatus are set concurrently. Every step from wooden transport, reducing, drilling, meeting, to packaging of completed merchandise is accomplished with out human intervention. Material transport can be dealt with solely by seven automated guided autos.
Hyundai Livart has decreased its waste wooden charge by round 10% utilizing the “Cut-rite” program, which calculates the optimum measurement and form of picket items to reduce leftover scraps. An organization consultant defined, “Wood processed through the Cut-rite program achieves a utilization rate of over 90%, which is 5–10 percentage points higher than wood processed through conventional methods.”
The growth of sustainable manufacturing infrastructure throughout the Smart Work Center can be accelerating. The firm plans to put in roughly 3,200 photo voltaic panels on the middle’s 16,528 sq. meter (about 5,000 pyeong) roof. Transport autos for supplies are additionally being transformed to electrical autos in phases. In addition, the corporate is reviewing useful resource circulation plans, such as accumulating waste vinyl and recycling it into pallets for product storage.
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A Hyundai Livart official acknowledged, “We will continue to develop and apply advanced technologies for furniture manufacturing to build unrivaled global competitiveness as a total interior company that adds new value to everything related to the home.”
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