According to the research, manufacturers experience up to 800 hours of unscheduled downtime annually due to operational complexity, paperwork constraints on the shop floor, human error and machine availability.
Growth of smart factories in Thailand will largely be driven by productivity gains. According to experts, this means an incremental gain of US$45-50 billion from additional revenue streams through new products and quality improvements as well as lower cost
as manufacturers adopt Industry 4.0 technologies.
“As such, customers want solution providers to overcome implementation difficulty,” said Vuttipong Vongsankakorn, Industry Marketing Manager at
OMRON Thailand. “It is to migrate their (semi-)manual production (machines) line into ...