HPS is also a technology-oriented and engineer-driven approach, moving towards minimizing worker involvement, which is in sharp contrast to TPS.
Hyundai management has made massive investments in automation over the past two decades.
As a result, the automation of the press and body-welding shops has reached almost 100% and that of the assembly lines has increased up to 15%, comparable with Toyota.
Hyundai management chiefly has pursued automation to save labour, compared with Toyota, wherein automation has been treated as a supplementary means to make each worker’s job efficient and easy.