The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) and Perodua have introduced the MIDA-Perodua Digital Transformation Ecosystem Programme, which aims to push local automotive suppliers to the next level via cutting-edge technologies and machinery, and to digitalise their manufacturing processes through adoption of Industry 4.0.
Today’s event at MIDA’s KL Sentral headquarters was to showcase the progress of the first group of three vendors, as well as to welcome the second group of five companies into the project.
“The government has undertaken concerted efforts to review existing policies and recalibrate investment strategies to ensure that Malaysian business environment remains conducive to global investors. The government has also been persistently undertaking efforts to promote and facilitate local companies to scale up and accelerate their adoption of smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 technology through various incentives and facilities,” said MIDA CEO Datuk Arham Abdul Rahman.
“The initiation of the MIDA-Perodua collaboration in 2020 was crucial to ensure a steady development of our local player’s capabilities in the automotive industry. We have been successful to contributing immense growth in Perodua’s manufacturing volume, through the empowerment of its industry partners and service providers,” he added.
Perodua president and CEO Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Ahmad said the programme is aligned with the government’s efforts to enhance local technology ecosystem development activities in terms of supply and value chains, R&D activities, and innovation and commercialisation.
“The implementation of Industry 4.0 is not only for the automotive supplier’s benefit, but the impact of this programme will contribute greatly to the national’s digital transformation agenda. The programme also can fast track Malaysia’s industries, from small to large, as it provides both funds and guidance. Perodua’s role has always been to develop the automotive ecosystem and this programme is another example of our commitment towards this objective,” he added.
The first phase of the MIDA-Perodua Digital Transformation Ecosystem Programme saw the participation of three auto suppliers – LSF Technology, J.K. Wire Harness and Autoliv Hirotako. These “Perodua friendly partners” (these are big local vendors that also supply to Proton and non-national makes) benefited from the Domestic Investment Strategic Fund (DISF) as part of the government’s initiative to assist local companies to enter the global supply chain.
For round two of the programme, MIDA and Perodua have identified five new vendors for transformation. The companies are Armstrong Auto Parts, Ingress Aoi Technologies, Namicoh Suria, P.D. Kawamura Kako Manufacturing and Kumpulan Jebco. Zainal said that the companies were chosen because of the willingness of their managements to upgrade and adopt digitalisation.
MIDA, being the principal promotional agency of Malaysia, will be extending its support services to help more companies obtain growth in terms of productivity, talent and bridging financial and technology gaps. The agency is confident that through such facilities and empowerment measures, the auto suppliers will be able to increase their business offerings and expertise and “climb the supply chain ecosystems”.
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Just want to know can PoTwo EV selling at rm39k (PoTong-Cili EV sell EV at rm39k at China); if cannot then others all actions = useless.
China? Design resembles car in the 90’s with steel rims, no airbag, with linglong tyre?
Did you just came out from a cave since going in during the 90s?
Do you think all china cars having the same quality level just because you have seen some with nicer designs and perceived good quality on the internet?
Wakeup! The world is no longer what it was 30 years ago, now pretty much everything is made in china even your rm 6000 iphones that you use to type this drivel. China manufacturing has evolved leaps & bounds necessary to cater for the world, even the cheapest of chinese products have acceptable level of quality for the money you pay so stop this china hate. Go MAGA somewhere else, as even muricans have rejected such myopic thinking.
No need to help others. Help yourself first by choosing better suppliers. Product quality teruk gila.
LOL! If P2 genuinely want to help develop Malaysian auto parts suppliers, they should have design and make their own cars like P1 had done for many years, this way the parts suppliers will have to R&D and develop new parts rather than celup parts for cars that P2 are essentially just celuping. Even LHD to RHD conversion as P1 did for X50X70 pun boleh lahhhh but what really new parts did P2 develop themselves? Teh tarik hook that can buy from Mr DIY?
Design like P1? And end up selling the company 2 times in 5 years?
P1 should be made case study in Ekonomi subject in Form 5 “How not to run a business”.
You think every success had been smooth sailing? Even Elon Musk had failed many times, Paypal was almost bankrupt at one time, SpaceX continue feeding of US taxpayer subsidies, Tesla was nearly declared bankrupt many times until Elon was kicked out, Solar City still haven’t made a revenue yet. People like you are the reason why Malaysia has few successes and fewer entrepreneurs. Tell me what success had Perodua achieve?
Then emulate successful company. Of so many successful company, why follow the footsteps of a company like Proton?
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Not easy to lepaskn tongkat hikmat…else mgt will take a lot of heat from the shareholders..netizen je yg sibuk2 dgn nation pride buying p2…p2 design underbody pn dh kembang gila kira suatu pencapaian lah hahaha
Habis nak kembang macam P1 dapat design dashboard. Skrang lagi teruk, design grille je pun bangga semacam.