Hanse Mobility holds employee-led 'AI Idea Competition

Hanse Mobility, the automotive parts specialist within the Hanse Yes24 Group, announced on the 30th that it is strengthening company-wide AI-based work innovation by running an 'AI Utilisation Idea Competition' to discover and disseminate AI work tools and automation cases developed directly by its employees.

Hanse Mobility has held the competition twice this year to identify AI use cases that reduce repetitive tasks and solve real on-site problems. The competition is open to all employees across five categories: ▲ AI work tool development ▲ work automation ▲ data analysis and prediction ▲ work process improvement ▲ and collaboration systems.

Participants submit their ideas along with tangible outputs such as actual usage screens and videos. Winning entries are selected through review by the organising department, evaluation by practical judges, and presentation assessments before management. The judging process comprehensively evaluates the effectiveness of work improvements, the potential for roll-out to other teams, creativity, and the level of practical application.

In particular, the second competition focused on cases where employees either developed AI work tools such as in-house programmes and mobile apps from scratch, or improved existing work processes. Going beyond simple information searches or document organisation, the level of AI utilisation has been significantly elevated towards employees solving real on-site problems.

In the first competition, the 'CATIA Macro Tool using ChatGPT' developed by Manager Kim Seong-jae from the Drivetrain Design Office was awarded the top prize, 'AI Champion'. This case automates repetitive modelling tasks in the automotive parts design process by defining required functions in natural language and generating VBA code drafts.

Following the award, Hanse Mobility has been running utilisation seminars and additional hands-on training sessions for research institute employees to broaden the application scope of the tool. Plans are in place to enhance its functionality so it can be used with other design programmes and to expand it into tools tailored to the specific work characteristics of each department.

At the US subsidiary, ChatGPT and Claude have been used to automate manual documentation tasks such as equipment inspection checklists, worker allocation, rework data, and scrap and machine error reports. A web application that digitises quality and production check sheets has also been developed and is being prepared for on-site deployment.

In the second competition, the 'QMS Mobile App using Webview' developed by Na Jeong-ryul, a specialist in the Quality Strategy Division, was named AI Champion. This solution enables the existing PC-based quality management system to be used in a mobile environment, incorporating barcode and QR code scanning along with photo attachment functionality so that inspection results can be entered directly on site. Hanse Mobility plans to begin a pilot operation in August and expand it to the quality management teams of all plants by the end of October.

Hanse Mobility, established in 1984, is a specialist automotive parts company and a subsidiary of Hanse Yes24 Holdings. It develops and manufactures drivetrain, braking, and steering systems as well as electronic components, supplying to GM, Hyundai and Kia, Stellantis, Volkswagen, and Porsche. As the group's future growth engine, it leads the mobility business and is expanding its production network centred on North America and Central Asia.