Hyundai Mobis Hosts Employee Idea Festival 'M-Fields Festa 2021'

800 Employee Ideas Submitted Worldwide

Hyundai Mobis held the 'M.FIELDs Festa 2021,' an idea festival for employees, on the 16th at the Yongin Technical Research Center. At this festival, 'Rear Camera-Based Lamp Failure Diagnosis' and 'Parabolic Motion Glove Box' were selected as the best ideas.

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[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] Hyundai Mobis announced on the 16th that it held the 'M.FIELDs Festa 2021,' an idea festival for employees, at its Yongin Technology Research Center.

M.FIELDs is an idea portal where Hyundai Mobis employees both domestically and internationally can post R&D challenges they want to pursue on the system, and outstanding projects recommended by colleagues are promoted as actual R&D projects. This year’s Festa received a total of 800 invention ideas proposed by employees from research centers worldwide, including Korea, North America, Europe, India, and China.

Hyundai Mobis held the M.FIELDs Festa for the second time both online and offline this year, following last year, to encourage researchers who proposed excellent ideas and to establish a creative R&D culture and expand communication.

At the M.FIELDs Festa, among the approximately 800 ideas, researchers who proposed four projects that passed the quarterly preliminary screening presented their R&D plans. They expressed their aspirations for leading independent R&D activities, not just proposing ideas.

The top ideas selected were 'Rear Camera-Based Lamp Fault Diagnosis' and 'Parabolic Motion Glove Box.' Hyundai Mobis plans to support the selected top ideas to enable leading R&D activities next year. In addition, opportunities such as visits to excellent global companies and attendance at overseas academic conferences were also provided.

The ideas proposed through this event, which has been held since last year to foster a voluntary and creative R&D culture among researchers, are steadily leading to actual achievements. On this day, Hyundai Mobis also shared the results achieved by promoting projects selected as excellent last year into actual R&D projects.

A representative case is the '4 Face LED Optical Module.' This product, evaluated as next-generation lamp optical technology where the vehicle lamp LED light is irradiated 360 degrees, led to the world’s first product development achievement just one year after the idea was proposed. Hyundai Mobis plans to propose the application of this technology to global customers, aiming to apply it to premium electric vehicles in the future.

Jae-seung Cheon, Executive Director of Hyundai Mobis R&D Division, said, "We are making efforts to foster a creative R&D culture, such as sharing profits generated from patented inventions with inventors," and added, "We will continue to strive to ensure that employees’ ideas lead to future car technology development."

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