Smart Factory: Transforming Manufacturing for Industry 4.0

Around the same time in 2019, we published Industry 4.0: Navigating the Manufacturing Revolution in ASEAN with a strong belief that Industry 4.0 will take the way up to transform ASEAN's economy for a long term. We are moving from automation to highly-connected, intelligent, cyber-physical enabled eco-systems with the fourth industrial revolution. Technology that automates and augments the human-worker to elevate efficiency and productivity in all kinds of facilities. In the end, technology enables new processes and business models that will spur a new age of manufacturing.As more ASEAN countries are looking into the roadmaps associated with the Industry 4.0 initiative, we believe there is a need to highlight the basic knowledge of Industry 4.0, especially in the manufacturing industry. ASEAN region faces an uphill challenge to stay competitive in this data-driven era. One of the challenges to tackle with the urgency is to boost up the skills and knowledge of Industry 4.0 across the regional workforce. As the core of Industry 4.0, Smart Factory plays the critical role being the central hub and platform connecting and integrating various technologies to form valuable solutions -in most time in the forms of services - to deliver to the industrial players. On the other hand, both regional governments and industry practitioners realised that Industry 4.0 disrupts the global manufacturing landscape, automation threatens to shift production facilities back to major consumer markets and those regions that do not will be left behind. With our combined 50-plus years of experience in leading technology development in the ASEAN region, we decided to put up more introduction on Smart Factory to smoothly form a knowledge base to help the manufacturing community go through Industry 4.0 journeys.For ASEAN companies, we offer guidance on best practice and common pitfalls when implementing their digital transformation.We analyse and compare the ambitious strategies being put forward for governments, associations, and industry organisations, promoting collective ASEAN development.For international companies and investors exploring opportunities in ASEAN, we provide a full picture of the region, market-by-market, in the context of major global trends.And for the established and aspiring industrial engineers in the ASEAN region, we present the future.Smart Factory: Transforming Manufacturing for Industry 4.0 comes after our first book - Industry 4.0: Navigating the Manufacturing Revolution in ASEAN(2019), and takes us through the key technologies as the pillars to build up a Smart Factory to transform the current manufacturing operations into a brand new business model driven by the innovations based on the real-time based data collection, processing and analysis. We also present our understanding of the principles of building a real smart factory. As a critical industry embracing the latest technologies, manufacturing is on its way to be modernised and playing an ever-important role in today's global economy through the Industry 4.0 journey.We invite you to join us for a voyage into the future of manufacturing. For more info visit www.asean4ir.com