Thailand’s robotics drive

Thai investment in robotics and automation is rising steadily, but the country is leaving nothing to chance in its efforts to modernise its industry, recently announcing several new incentives in an attempt to speed up its industrial modernisation. Brent Balinski spoke to Ajarin Pattanapanchai from the Thai Board of Investment about the efforts to encourage automation.
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Hooking your factory into an Industry 4.0 world (part one)

The Industry 4.0 concept has slowly been gaining traction over the last four years, and despite aspects of it in use, it still hasn’t properly been realised. In part one of the two-part feature, Michael Freyny, Executive General Manager, Digital Factory, Siemens Australia, tells Brent Balinski about what will be needed to be competitive, and the trend towards batches of one.
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How to avoid making buggy whips

Innovation might be a word some are sick of, but it remains essential for success. Melbourne-based manufacturer Trajan Scientific and Medical shared a few insights into what it involves for them. Brent Balinski writes.
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