International Metalworking News for Asia - April 2022

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Manufacturing is one of the most important contributors to Asia Pacific’s economy and is going through a rapid digital transformation. With unforeseen pandemic interruptions to factory operations in the past two years, smart manufacturing comes to the forefront in 2022.
International Metalworking News for Asia’s coverage on smart factory presents three noteworthy interviews of some of the big names in the industry. Let’s start with an interview with TRUMPF South East Asia / Pacifics Head of Smart Factory Solutions. In this story, Wolfgang Liertz discussed Industry 4.0 and the trends to watch out for in 2022. He also explained TRUMPF’s mission to further develop and digitally connect production technology, to make it even more efficient, precise, and future-proo
On this note, we were invited to a virtual roundtable where Bas Kuper, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Asia Pacific,Siemens Digital Industries Software, along with Tim Srock, CEO of Mendix, and Vincent Lim, Vice President, and Head of Asia Pacific,Siemens-Mendix shared their perspectives on how the future of manufacturing will evolve in 2022 and beyond. Siemens is seeing a big drive for digitalisation, as a means for a closer collaboration, between differentfunctional domains within a customer. Currently, companies are not just facing a technological challenge, but an organisational one as well.

International Metalworking News for Asia Magazine Description:

International Metalworking News for Asia is published 6x a year in English with highlights in Chinese. The magazine facilitates technology transfer by providing readers in South East Asia's metalworking industry with the latest information on metal cutting and metal forming processes, and the latest technology in machinery and use of materials. It also offers practical solutions to improve productivity, reduce cost, and turn innovations into real competitive advantages as well as the latest market information, trade show reviews and videos, and people and company profiles, written by industry experts and correspondents across the region. Also included are exclusive content and articles from Ringier's family of metalworking industry magazines covering Greater China and other parts of the world, such as International Metalworking News for China, International Mold & Die Making News for China, Modern Machine Tools, American Machinist, and International Metalworking News – Middle East & Africa. The interactive content allows readers to make direct and immediate contact with advertisers/suppliers and featured companies in the editorial by clicking on the web site and email addresses in each issue, access online content in Ringier’s metalworking website (metalworking.industrysourcing.com), and avail of video content through iTunes and Google Play.