8 DECEMBER 2024IN MYPINIONIN MYPINIONBy Peter Chambers, Managing Director, APAC Sales & Country Manager, Australia, AMD APJPeter ChambersINDUSTRY 4.0: NAVIGATING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN MANUFACTURINGIntroduction - Industry 4.0 in APJIn recent years, the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region made remarkable strides in accelerating Industry 4.0 adoption. In fact, according to GSMA Intelligence, a definitive source of mobile industry insights, forecasts and research used around the world, "countries in the Asia Pacific have established frameworks on a national level, recognising the potential of Industry 4.0 to help prepare economic structures for greater productivity and resilience" with dedicated official task forces in various markets including Japan, Korea and Singapore . The same report provides a summary of Industry 4.0 visions in several nations, listed below: Australia has instituted an Industry 4.0 Taskforce that works through its Testlabs initiative to collaborate with industry to improve the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry . Japan's Society 5.0 focuses on mobility, healthcare and caregiving, manufacturing, agriculture, food, disaster prevention, and energy . Malaysia's Industry 4.0 policy framework focuses on labour productivity growth, manufacturing contribution to the economy, innovation capacity, and high-skilled jobs . Singapore's key strategies include: transforming facilities and opera-tions, R&D partnerships to develop new talent, and collaborating with manufacturing communities .Evident in many of the national Industry 4.0 priorities stated above, the manufacturing industry across the region is poised to benefit significantly from the Industry 4.0 vision, which places a great emphasis on innovation-driven manufacturing. In order to efficiently capitalise on what Industry 4.0 technologies have to offer, design and manufacturing enterprises across the region are beginning to move away from legacy systems and traditional processes, to take advantage of next-gen technology to automate, improve and streamline processes. A study by Deloitte supports this transition, reporting that digitally mature AMD APJ enjoy a wide range of specific benefits arising from their digital transformations that include, but go well beyond, the bottom line . As a substantiation, Deloitte's 2020's digital transformation study found that companies with higher digital transformation maturity reported 45% net revenue growth . Elevating Performance in Core Manufacturing WorkloadsCost, product quality, and productivity are the three core pillars in the manufacturing industry; greater efficiency across
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