Through Productivity 4.0, the ROC hopes to achieve the goals of industrial transformation and value-added industries in addition to creating a new generation of competitive products for the global market, Premier Mao Chi-kuo said today while presiding over the closing ceremony of Productivity 4.0: Strategy Review Board Meeting 2015.
Productivity 4.0 is a response to the Industry 4.0 policies of other countries and encompasses a wider scope, the premier said. He has unveiled three major directions for achieving Productivity 4.0: key technologies, the A-Team model and talent cultivation.
In the past the nation's industries could not get hold of key technologies; as a result, they could only earn meager profits in contract manufacturing and were unable to effectively promote brands of their own, the premier emphasized. Faced with international price wars, Taiwanese industries could thus easily be displaced by foreign competitors. Therefore, implementing Productivity 4.0 involves getting hold of key and core technologies. Via breakthroughs in key technologies, Taiwan's industries could achieve industrial transformation and enhance their international competitiveness.
The premier cited the Taiwanese bicycle industry's successful development model as an example for the Productivity 4.0 A-Team model. The bicycle industry effectively incorporated technologies of each and every related small-scale industry to become a significant and competitive value chain and even develop an internationally competitive industrial scale. Other key fields could revise and utilize the A-Team model, and promoting Productivity 4.0 would help the nation's numerous small and medium-sized enterprises effectively develop their competitiveness, Mao said.
Third, talent is the core in promoting this new policy, the premier pointed out. The Ministry of Education must review the comprehensiveness of teaching materials of relevant courses in the formal education system—including technical and vocational schools, universities and post graduate studies—to determine whether graduates are equipped with sufficient fundamental knowledge. Meanwhile, those already in the job market must rapidly learn the skills and knowledge necessary for industrial transformation so that they can also contribute their capabilities and wisdom to the project.
The premier tasked relevant ministries and agencies to get hold of key technologies, reactivate the A-Team success model, and link industry and academics for talent cultivation. Via these three major directions, it is hoped that Productivity 4.0 will be realized soon.