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LG Display declared a full-fledged transition to artificial intelligence (AX) last year and began applying AX from the manufacturing and development organization, and is expanding its application to non-manufacturing and development sectors starting in the second half of this year.
LG Display announced on the 13th that it is operating the 'AX Squad' to foster artificial intelligence (AI) experts who will lead the company-wide artificial intelligence transformation (AX).
AX Squad is a project in which practitioners in each business division develop ways to solve difficult and repetitive tasks with AI tools, and AI experts participate as coaches to help all employees, including office workers, development, and production, solve tasks with AI.
Practitioners who accurately understand the problems in the field will create results with high usability and feasibility through coaching from experts familiar with AI tools.
Applications developed through AX Squad can be used by any employee through LG Display's in-house app market, 'HI-D Agent Hub'.
To date, the cumulative number of AX Squad tasks has reached about 450, and about 190 tasks have been automated, including a defect classification simplification program in the manufacturing area, an optical simulation tool in the development area, and a member survey system in the human resources area.
LG Display declared AX in full scale last year and is pushing to expand the application of AX to non-manufacturing and development sectors starting from the second half of this year, starting with the manufacturing and development organization.
An official from LG Display said, "AX Squad is a company-wide AI innovation promotion system that allows executives and employees who were previously in the role of simple AI users to directly participate from task formulation to execution. We will accelerate the transition to a technology-centered company through work innovation and AI internalization in which all executives and employees participate."

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