8 JUNE 2023IN MYPINIONIntroduction - 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: trans-forming facilities and operations, R&D part-nerships to develop new talent, and collabo-rating 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 companies 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 all three pillars will be a never-ending journey. Advanced technologies and services can have a transformative effect across all three pillars, substantially increasing the bottom line for manufacturing companies. In a general sense, manufacturing firms are turning to High-Performance Computing to support various workloads within the manufacturing domain, including Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) workloads. High-performance computing can help manufacturers at every stage of product development, from running advanced design simulations to automating processes and predicting maintenance issues. There are multiple solutions with different capabilities to suit very specific workloads. In AMD alone, customers can choose from our EPYC processor family, our RyzenTM ThreadripperTM PRO family and now, the AMD EPYCTM 7003 processors with AMD 3D V-CacheTM technology.Data centres powered by AMD EPYCTM processors help deliver incomparable performance and scalability for CAE and EDA workloads of virtually any size. AMD EPYCTM processors are designed to increase the computing throughput of engineering simulation workloads such as CAE, and EDA by reducing latency impacting design cycle time, contributing to better, higher quality product designs.AMD RyzenTM ThreadripperTM PRO processors deliver up to 64 cores for multithreaded simulation and rendering along with the advantage of high-frequency capable cores for lightly threaded workloads, helping organisations rip through the most demanding design projects.The best is only getting better with the launch of the AMD EPYC 7003TM By Peter Chambers, Managing Director, Sales, AMDINDUSTRY 4.0: NAVIGATING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN MANUFACTURINGPeter Chambers
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