A Singapore company providing smart manufacturing and digitalisation products and solutions to plastic goods manufacturers is seeking potential business partners through the outsourcing agreement

The Singapore-based company, founded in 1999, focused on providing smart manufacturing and digitalisation advisory and training services to plastic goods manufacturers, with strategic partnerships and operations in Asia, including China and neighbouring countries such as Malaysia and Thailand. This Singapore-based company began as a global web trading platform for the plastics industry. Following that, over the next two decades, they began to expand outside of Asia, establishing plastics molding factories in Europe. By establishing an automated and digitalized moulding factory in Sweden, the company eventually became one of the largest plastic goods suppliers to one of Sweden's largest furniture companies. In addition to the manufacturing business, the company follows to spearheaded the establishment of a consulting arm to provide turnkey solutions to plastics companies in East Europe and Russia. Through these ventures, the company gained invaluable experience and insight into the manufacturing supply chain between Europe and Singapore. With the emerging German industry 4.0 concept in 2014, the company decided to put its experience to good use and began providing people-centric smart manufacturing advisory and training solutions. The products and solutions provided can be classified into 2 broad groups: 1)People-centric manufacturing •Industry 4.0 learning factory: the company collaborates with trade associations or government agencies to set up learning factories for the plastics industry, where workers can be up-skilled in digitalisation and smart manufacturing. •Injection Moulder 4.0 certification programmes: the company works with the plastics industry to systematically train and assess workers in the areas of scientific moulding, lean automation, and digitalisation. •Future talent development programme: the company collaborates with agencies or education institutes to provide supplementary training in smart manufacturing and digitalisation. 2)Smart manufacturing •Readiness checks: the company conducts an assessment for companies that want to transform their manufacturing processes and provides a digitalisation roadmap. •Manufacturing intelligence: the company offers a data collection, data analytics, and production monitoring system for injection moulding companies to digitalise their work processes. •Greenfield or brownfield digitalisation: the company builds or upgrades factories to become highly digitalised and automated. As a result of previous business expansion, the company has established a presence in parts of Europe such as Sweden and Germany. Therefore, the company is currently looking for more European regions to expand its business and offer smart manufacturing and digitalisation solutions to more European companies in order to ease their business manufacturing process. The Singapore company is interested in providing smart manufacturing and digitalisation products and solutions to European companies through the outsourcing agreement.