E-Factory to be launched in Thailand

BANGKOK, November 29 (TNA) - Thailand's Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA), under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, plans to work together with Japan-based Mitsubishi Electric Corporation to launch an e-factory project in Bangkok and in seaside Chon Buri Province in the Thai East as a center for conducting the test run of innovative automatic hand systems to be used in the country's industrial sector. DEPA Director Dr. Nattapon Nimmanpatcharin told journalists on November 28 that the cooperation plan was discussed when he led a team of DEPA executives and staff members to meet representatives of Mitsubishi Electric in Tokyo during his team's recent visit to Japan from November 22 to 27. Dr. Nattapon said the e-factory project is also aimed to be a learning center for the development of the advanced digital functions to run the automatic hand systems in Thailand. "The e-factor project, if finally approved, will be launched at the DEPA headquarters in Bangkok and at the Internet of Things (IoT) Thailand in Chon Buri's Si Racha area, where relevant training courses for personnel in the Thai industrial production sector may also be jointly provided by DEPA and Kasetsart University to enhance the country's industrial and national competitiveness in advanced digital technological skills and innovations", the DEPA director revealed. According to the DEPA director, his team also visited the Kashiwa-no-ha smart city in Tokyo, in which Hitachi has developed the Kashiwa-no-ha Area Energy Management System (AEMS) in good place, an integrated energy network usable for residential, shopping complex and office buildings, as well as other public facilities in the area. The DEPA director acknowledged that energy in the AEMS in the Kashiwa-no-ha smart city comes from solar sources and battery grids, including the Lithium Ion system, the largest of its kind in Japan, in order to support safe and good quality of life of people as, among others, carbon dioxide emissions can be efficiently controlled based on the realtime command. (TNA)