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DIRECTORY OF SINGAPORE PROCESS & CHEMICALS INDUSTRIES 2021/2022
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS |
“To promote member’s adoption of Digitalisation, Innovation and Technology so as to enhance their productivity and competitiveness”
Digitalisation, Innovation & Technology Adoption (DITA)
DIGITALISATION WEBINAR WITH RICOH AND HUAWEI
A s more companies adopt digitalisation members the various ways of integrating AI and
to maintain their business operations
during the COVID-19 pandemic, ASPRI in partnership with SGTech organised a digitalisation webinar on 18 November 2020 involving Ricoh and Huawei to share with
technology into their business operations.
Mr Alvyn Lim, Head of Digital Workplace Services Group of Ricoh Singapore, commenced the webinar by giving an overview of the three types of Digitalisation Transformation (DX) - organisational based, operational based and product & customer based - before diving deeper into the first: organisational based DX.
The DX journey, he said, begins by digitising physical documents such as paper, microfilms, and books. These digitised contents are then stored as an archive for ease of future reference. Mr Lim also shared the steps companies could follow to begin their DX journey.
Firstly, companies would have to acknowledge the need for DX. They would then need to appoint the right team members to manage the DX. These members have to identify any pain-points or areas of digitalisation required by the company. By identifying these points, he added, it would be easier to find a solution by investing in technology, resources and time. Finally, companies would have to track the progress and projected return of investment and optimise it accordingly.
In the second half of the webinar, Mr Chen Zhen, AI Business Development Manager of Huawei, talked about the development of facial recognition and how CCTV technology can be implemented to address COVID-19 measures - to determine the number of people in a given area and to measure the distance between people to ensure social distancing. The technology can also detect if a worker is wearing his personal protective equipment (PPE). Failure to detect any PPE will result in an alert, prompting the management to take necessary action.
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