Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor targets automation of all 10,000 factories

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): The Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) has set a new target for all 10,000 factories in the zone to adopt robotics and automation.

Of the total factories in the EEC, about 1,000 are large, 2,000 medium-sized and 7,000 small.

The target will see 3,000 large and medium-sized factories pilot the robotics and automation systems from next month, said Djitt Laowattana, EEC special adviser on education/human capital and technology development.

He added that the EEC Office and SMEs Promotion Office would fund half of the Bt500,000 automation cost for each of 50 small and medium-sized enterprises.

The SMEs will take three months to complete the transition and another three months to test whether the system can help them boost production capacity and reduce costs.

Djitt added that the…