Sylvania and Malaysia Industry 4.0 Strategy Work Together

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Highly-skilled talent pool will be beneficial to country’s journey towards industry 4.0

5/13/2019

 [Sylvania news from Malaysia]recently, southeast Asia's commercial market has become increasingly hot, and various industries are actively seeking breakthroughs and upgrades. Malaysia's international trade and industry minister datuk dalej said the industry 4.0 policy will boost productivity, create more jobs, train a group of highly skilled personnel and ultimately boost the country's economic prosperity, according to an industry policy report by Malaysia's New Strait's Times.

In numerous industries, lighting plays a key role that cannot be ignored. SYLVANIA, a century-old international lighting brand, has fully supported and cooperated with the national industry 4.0 policy, so it chose Malaysia as its southeast Asia headquarters to cultivate local talents to give back to the Malaysian society.

The group attaches great importance to the development and cultivation of local talents and the expansion and in-depth operation of the local market. Sylvania focuses on talent cultivation to help employees effectively improve their professional skills and experience. Sylvania will continue to work with human resources experts, academics and stakeholders to nurture and tap more local talent for future challenges. He also said Sylvania will expand its team to include people from all fields to be more innovative in technology.

Sylvania southeast Asia center was established in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2017 by FEILO ACOUSTICS CO.,LTD.SHANGHAI, the parent company of Sylvania group. Walter Hiew says the company is actively cultivating local talent, with the goal of developing a pool of future employees who can lead and manage the company's operations. At present, the team is also trying to use big data to help management, aiming at making efficient use of data for management and decision-making.

Zainal Amanshah, CEO of invest Kuala Lumpur, said:Malaysia ranked 22nd out of 63 countries in last year's imd rankings, ahead of Japan, the UK and France. Malaysia ranked 17th in investment and development of local talent, ahead of the us, Japan, France, South Korea and the UK.

As Sylvania diversified and developed its highly skilled talent, more and more multinationals like Sylvania began to recognize the value of the greater geelong region and establish and operate their regional and global business service centers. Of the service sector investments approved last year, up to rm16.5 billion was foreign direct investment in Malaysia to establish a global and regional centre. Amansa talked about the growth of digital technology investment in ai, big data analysis, the Internet of things and cyber security, in line with the national industry 4.0 policy (Industry4WRD) launched by Malaysia's ministry of international trade and industry. All of which makes Malaysia a favorite destination for global investors. With our strong business infrastructure and investment friendly ecosystem, the value of greater Kuala Lumpur will be recognized by more people.