OIE promotes production line robots; automation implementation

[rooster59]

OIE promotes production line robots; automation implementation

Tanakorn Sangiam

 

 

BANGKOK, 8 June 2019(NNT) - As part of ongoing industrial sector structural reform through the implementation of technologies to reduce costs and enhance efficiency, the government is pursuing measures to encourage SMEs and farmers to implement robotic technology and automation in their businesses.

 

The Director General of the Office of Industrial Economics (OIE), Nattapol Rangsitpol says current business competition which is gradually entering the age of the new economy has led to a growing trend of technological implementation in both small and medium businesses. The OIE has been working with private firms to encourage businesses of all sizes to understand and have access to the implementation of robots and automation through various measures.

 

The office has been offering investment promotions, and consultations, as well as preparedness and investment worthiness assessments to businesses. It also helps them find low-interest sources of finance. This year, the OIE will be expanding these measures by providing support for SMEs in all industrial categories in implementing more robots and automation systems, especially in farming industries covering both farmers and community enterprises that can use technologies to improve their product quality and realize the Smart Farming practice.

 

The OIE will be piloting new measures first in the northeastern provinces of Ubon Ratchathani, Sisaket, Yasothon, and Amnat Charoen. Technologies such as parameter sensors for production factor assessments will be introduced to farmers, helping them cut down on manufacturing costs in the long run, enhance their production effectiveness, and help solve labor shortages in the future.

 

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[Srikcir]

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

implementing more robots and automation systems, especially in farming industries covering both farmers and community enterprises that can use technologies to improve their product quality and realize the Smart Farming practice.

Which typically means a reduction in labor.

Official statistics for 2019 indicate that 43% of the labor force is employed in the agriculture sector compared to 20% in industry and 37% in services sectors. http://www.voyagesphotosmanu.com/labor_in_thailand.html

Yet, agriculture sector contribution to GDP growth was negligible (<10%) compared to industry and services sectors that were about 4x-7x respectively greater share than the agriculture sector share. https://theodora.com/wfbcurrent/thailand/thailand_economy.html

Without a program to educate and retrain labor in the agriculture sector coming from higher unemployment into productive enterprise areas, robotic technology and automation in agriculture will have a disastrous ripple affect overall on the Thai economy.

[Cake Monster]

Automation in any sector of the Thai Economy will be a real headache for the Government, if implemented any any large scale.

The Education System in Thailand is really not geared up to produce 4.0 Citizens, which will be the only option open to the people that have lost their income after replacement.

Therefore the unemployment rate in Thailand will only get worse.

This is a problem now starting to face China, where a feeling of Civil unrest of the masses is causing some real concern., not just in China, but across the Globe.

[Pedrogaz]

When labour prices are very low, it is difficult to justify the expense of automating and you need a really long time horizon to get pay back. I tend to see Thailand as a market where businesses want instant success, profit and paybacks, rather than adopting a 15 or so year time horizon. But let's see what happens.