Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and robotics associations from Taiwan and the U.S. city of Pittsburgh signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding in Taipei Wednesday to jointly develop a platform to facilitate smart manufacturing by strengthening supply chain resilience.

The MOU was signed by officials and executives from the Taiwan-USA Industrial Cooperation Promotion Office under Taiwan’s MOEA, Taiwan Automation Intelligence and Robotics Association, and the Pittsburgh Robotics Network during a ceremony as part of the 2021 Taiwan-US Smart Manufacturing Summit.

The trilateral partnership is aimed at solidifying links between the two countries’ industrial clusters in the robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, and smart manufacturing sectors, according to a statement issued by MOEA.

Through the cooperation platform, Taiwan hopes to leverage top-end U.S. technology to help Taiwan’s manufacturing industries transform their business to develop high-value products and services so that their international competitiveness can be enhanced, according to the statement.

Yang Chih-ching (???), deputy director of MOEA’s Industrial Development Bureau, said at the summit that Taiwan initiated a smart machinery industry promotion program in 2016 to help drive industry transformation and upgrades.

The program started with promoting digitalization, and then digital optimization before achieving the goal of smart machinery industrialization and “smartization” of manufacturing industries, Yang added.

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel