The MoU signing ceremony on February 22 (Photo: congthuong.vn) The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a number of trends such as automation,robotics and digital transformation towards the future of the supply chain ofdigitisation and self-operation. This trend promises huge benefits such asmaintaining and stabilising production in the context of the pandemic,increasing productivity, saving costs, optimising resources.
However, the digitalisation application has seen challenges due to the lack ofcorrect information and understanding about digital transformation inproduction, as well as the lack of resources.
On that basis, the two sides have studied and built a cooperation project todevelop Smart Factory in Vietnam with the goal of training 100 Vietnameseexperts and assisting in consulting and improving 50 businesses to apply SmartFactory in two years in order to improve the expertise of the team ofconsultants, improve the production operation capacity on the informationtechnology platform of the enterprise.
Participating in the programme, the consultants will be trained for 12 weeks toimprove knowledge and skills to set up smart factories.
Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien said: “I think the above cooperation project is a methodical, practical andimportant training programme to elevate Vietnam's industry in the context ofthe 4.0 industrial revolution. I hope that the students and businessesparticipating in the project will gain a lot of useful knowledge as well asnecessary skills to help Vietnamese businesses meet domestic demand and enhancecompetitiveness in the global value chain.”
Choi Joo Ho, President of the Samsung Vietnam Complex, said “In this project,experts from Samsung Korea in the field of smart factories will participate indirect instruction at the factories of participating enterprises, so I hopethat this support will be a premise for businesses to raise their capacity to anew level. We respectfully request the Vietnamese Government to continue to payattention to and support in terms of policies so that Vietnamese enterprisesthat are competitive after being trained will have the opportunity tocontribute to the development of Vietnam's support industries. At the sametime, I hope that the representatives of businesses participating in thisproject will actively promote their leadership and high responsibility, andmake maximum efforts to implement the project to achieve the highest results.”
The smart factory cooperation project is the latest programme in a series ofinnovative consulting activities for Vietnamese businesses and trainingVietnamese experts to effectively replicate, strengthen synergy and continue tostrengthen supporting industry development activities.
The cooperation has again affirmed Samsung Vietnam’s strong commitment toVietnam. Last week, Thai Nguyen province granted an adjusted InvestmentRegistration Certificate to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Vietnam (SEMV) to furtherinvest 920 million USD in the province, lifting the plant’s total capital toaround 2.27 billion USD./.
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