Majority of Malaysian SMEs yet to adopt Industry 4.0, say industry experts | Malay Mail

Penang State Exco Datuk Abdul Halim Hussain pose with panellist and participants during the Industrial Transformation Asia Pacific 4.0 Forum in Penang August 19, 2019. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin

“This is a rough estimate that only 10 to 15 per cent of the SMEs that are dealing with tier one MNCs are migrating to I4.0 because they don’t have a choice,” he said in a press conference at an Industrial Transformation Asia Pacific 4.0 Forum at PSDC today.“There are migration by some companies but the numbers are not many and bigger migration can only happen when the government lay out their plans under the I4.0 Blueprint,” he said.

Messe Worldwide Sdn Bhd sales director Foong Lai Lyn said the main issues in the implementation of the I4.0 blueprint were that too many agencies wanted to take the lead in it. “All sectors, the public and the private too, needed to work together on this rather than having different agencies giving different information that could confuse the SMEs,” she said.

SingEx Exhibitions Pte Ltd executive director James Boey the slow uptake of I4.0 among SMEs was not only confined to Malaysia but also in other Asean countries including Singapore.

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