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.