Republic of Mauritius- NPCC workshop provides local businesses with insightful approach on Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 refers to the fusion of digitalisation with traditional industrial processes that result in intelligent value chains and product lifecycles starting with development, go through manufacturing, assembly, product delivery and maintenance, and end with recycling. The training workshop, an initiative the National Productivity and Competitiveness Council (NPCC), will enable participants to understand how industries are continuously transforming themselves amid the current trend of automation and data exchange.

The resource person for the workshop, the Head of the Innovation Strategy team at the RINA Consulting Industry Business Unit, Genoa, Italy, Dr. Andrea Ferrari, also provided participants a thorough overview of how organisations can benefit from this new trend while offering a practical insight of the approach needed to execute and deliver results for a productive environment.

In a statement, the Executive Director of the NPCC, Mr. Deepak Balgobin, said that Mauritius is presently in an era of economic transformation, for which local industries have to gear up to face upcoming challenges. Industry 4.0, he added, will revolutionise the entire Mauritian business landscape in the years to come adding that the country should not ignore the breakaway that it is going to entail with the emergence of Industry 4.0. He also recalled the need to prepare the society and the industry for this new trend.