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meet these targets, TAMI recommends a strategic focus
on supporting customers in adopting smart manufacturing
through digital and intelligent machinery products and
components, alongside the integration of production lines
and systems. Additionally, the industry is encouraged to
enhance quality through intelligent digital applications and
to bolster customization and flexible production capabilities.

To gain deeper insights into the smart manufacturing
concepts championed by TAMI, Economic Daily News/
CENS recently interviewed David Chuang, the Chairman of
TAMI and General Manager of Dahlih Machinery Industry
Co., Ltd. Chuang highlighted that the foundational direction
for the smart manufacturing of machinery products was
established nine years ago during the tenure of former
TAMI Chairman Ko Pa-Hsi. With support from the Industrial
Development Administration (IDA) under the Ministry of
Economic Affairs (MOEA) for Industry 4.0 and the Smart
Manufacturing initiative, TAMI brought together industry
leaders, academia, and research institutes to form the
Smart Machinery Promotion Committee, which has
successfully achieved its planned milestones.
In recent years, TAMI has actively aligned with
government policies to robustly promote smart machinery
and manufacturing. Through leveraging policy resources,
the machinery industry has developed advanced equipment
with smart functionalities, harnessed strong technological
expertise and domain knowledge to create a distinctive
system integration approach, and worked tirelessly to
David Chuang, the Chairman of TAMI and General elevate Taiwan’s Smart Machinery presence on the global
Manager of Dahlih Machinery Industry Co., Ltd. (Photo stage.
courtesy of Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry)
To further advance the “Five Plus Two Industry
carbon, green manufacturing practices, paving the way for Innovation Plan” initiated by former President Tsai Ing-wen,
net-zero emissions and reducing dependence on human the Taiwan government established the Smart Machinery
labor. Promotion Office in Taichung. David Chuang, as a key
member of this office, emphasized his dual role as both
Over the past decade, various national initiatives, a liaison between the government and the industry and a
including the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Partnership 2.0, conduit for sharing the committee’s initiatives with TAMI’s
Germany’s Industry 4.0, China’s Made in China 2025, and member manufacturers. In addition, TAMI has formed
Taiwan’s Smart Machinery, have underscored the critical specialized committees for each category of machinery
need for smart manufacturing. These policies collectively products, including machine tools, controllers, robots,
represent a paradigm shift in the global manufacturing and plastics and rubber machinery. These committees
industry, signaling a future where technology-driven are tasked with staying at the forefront of industry trends
innovation is at the forefront of industrial development. and regularly organizing exchanges between government
officials with relevant expertise and industry professionals.
2035: A Vision Unfolds
Furthermore, Chuang elaborated on the significant
Earlier this year, TAMI and the Industrial Technology
Research Institute (ITRI) released the latest edition of the role that the Taiwan government and the Smart Machinery
Promotion Office play in supporting the adoption of new
“White Paper on Taiwan Machinery Industry Development,” technologies. He highlighted the collaborative efforts
setting forth three ambitious goals for Taiwan’s machinery among ITRI’s Mechanical and Mechatronics Systems
industry by 2035: achieving an annual output value of Research Laboratories, the Precision Machinery Research
NT$3 trillion, attaining a value-added rate exceeding 35%, & Development Center (PMC), the Ministry of Science and
and reaching a per capita output value of NT$6 million. To

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