GGM Pilot Production Begins... Targeting Mass Production of Vehicles in September This Year

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Gwan-woo] Gwangju Global Motors (GGM), the nation’s first regional win-win job creation company, has virtually completed factory construction, equipment installation, and test driving, and will begin full-scale trial production starting this month.

GGM announced on the 1st that trial production will begin on the 5th, starting with the body shop, followed by the painting shop and assembly shop in sequence.

The reason for the different trial production start dates by factory is that the automobile production process proceeds in the order of body → painting → assembly shop.

Trial production is the final stage before entering full-scale mass production, where cars are produced through the exact same process as the vehicles to be sold, and the performance and quality of every part of these cars are inspected.

Trial production will start this month and continue until September, with plans to enter full-scale mass production in September, according to GGM.

To this end, GGM has already selected 53 experienced technical staff, 5 veteran supporters, and 186 new technical employees, and is currently recruiting an additional 137 new technical employees.

With the addition of these 137 new employees, GGM will secure about 380 technical personnel, fully staffing the first shift for mass production.

They have also hired about 150 experienced and new general staff, creating a total employment of approximately 520 people.

Along with securing this workforce, GGM has completed equipment installation and test driving at the three factories: the body shop, painting shop, and assembly shop, establishing a perfect preparation system.

The body shop, which will begin trial production first, is the process of manufacturing the car’s body, forming the basic frame of the vehicle.

It operates with 118 welding robots and 29 personnel, and most parts for the body shop are supplied by local companies.

The painting shop is the process of applying color to the car, involving 38 robots and 82 personnel.

Notably, the substances added during the painting process use water, which is harmless to the human body, instead of the traditional thinner, making it environmentally friendly?this is its greatest advantage.

The assembly shop is the final stage of producing a complete car by assembling various parts such as the engine.

Unlike other car companies that receive parts already assembled as modules, GGM’s assembly shop receives parts individually and assembles them in-house.

This is explained by GGM as a measure to create more jobs.

Cars produced in the assembly shop are moved to the test track where all performance tests are conducted, and only when the quality is confirmed to be perfect are prototypes produced.

CEO Park Kwang-tae said, “I am very pleased that GGM has completed factory construction, equipment installation, and test driving, and is entering trial production. I also feel a completely different sense of tension, mission, and responsibility than before,” adding, “It is no exaggeration to say that how perfectly quality is achieved in trial production determines the quality of mass-produced cars, so we will do our best to produce cars of perfect quality.”

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