Building Quality Culture and Workforce Accountability: Why Talent Resilience Matters for Future-Ready Industries
As industries across Southeast Asia navigate digital transformation, evolving customer expectations, and increasing global uncertainty, one challenge continues to surface across manufacturing, technology, and industrial sectors: how do organisations build a workforce that is not only skilled, but resilient, accountable, and capable of sustaining quality at every level? This important topic was explored during a […]
MIDA’s New Incentive Framework: Why Manufacturers Must Shift from Process Excellence to Product Innovation
As global manufacturing becomes increasingly competitive, success can no longer be measured solely by production efficiency. Manufacturers across ASEAN are now facing a new challenge: how to move beyond process excellence and create higher-value innovation, intellectual property, and globally competitive products. This was one of the key messages shared by Vinothan Tulisinathzan, Director, High Commission […]
Corporate–Startup Synergy in Manufacturing: Breaking the Innovation Trap in ASEAN’s Deep Tech Ecosystem
At the Advanced Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Asia Summit 2026, one of the most candid and insightful discussions focused on a challenge that continues to slow industrial innovation across ASEAN: the disconnect between corporates and startups. Under the panel theme, “Unlocking Investment, Funding & Capital Raising Opportunities for Deep Tech Innovators & Manufacturing Scale ups […]
Green Manufacturing & JS-SEZ: Building Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through Cross-Border Collaboration
At the Advanced Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Asia Summit 2026, one of the key discussions shaping the future of ASEAN’s industrial transformation focused on a critical question facing manufacturers today: How can green manufacturing and cross-border collaboration create real competitive advantage in the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ)? As industries across Asia accelerate towards sustainability, […]
Agentic AI & Industry 5.0: Why Human-AI Synergy Will Define the Future of Advanced Manufacturing
At the Advanced Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Asia Summit 2026, one of the most thought-provoking discussions explored a topic dominating boardrooms, factories, and innovation ecosystems worldwide: Agentic AI and the future of Human-AI Synergy in Industry 5.0. As manufacturers across ASEAN race to adopt artificial intelligence, automation, and intelligent systems, the session challenged a critical […]
Scaling ASEAN Workforces: Automation, AI & The Future of Manufacturing
As ASEAN accelerates its position as a global manufacturing powerhouse, one critical question is reshaping boardroom discussions: How can companies scale production without scaling workforce complexity? At the Advanced Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Asia Summit 2026, this pivotal issue took centre stage in a high-impact panel discussion on Cross-Border Collaboration for Sustainable Workforce Development. Bringing […]
Catalysing Regional Competitiveness: The JS-SEZ Blueprint for Growth
As Southeast Asia accelerates into its next phase of industrial transformation, the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) is emerging as one of the most strategic cross-border initiatives shaping the region’s future. At the Advanced Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Asia Summit Johor 2026, the opening plenary session, “Catalysing Regional Competitiveness: The JS-SEZ Blueprint for Cross-Border Innovation […]
At AIM Asia Summit 2026: Johor Reinforces FDI Leadership and Advances JS-SEZ as a Catalyst for Cross-Border Growth
This content is translated and adapted from the original article published by Astro Awani. JOHOR BAHRU: Johor is committed to maintaining its position as the country’s leading investment destination and remaining at the forefront of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, which reached RM110.1 billion in 2025, the highest among all states. Johor State Economic and […]
Bridging Borders: Scaling Asia’s Advanced Manufacturing from the Heart of Johor at AIM Asia Summit 2026
The Advanced Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Asia Summit 2026, held on 1 April 2026 in Johor, delivered a powerful convergence of industry, policy, and innovation at a critical moment for global manufacturing. Over the course of the summit, more than 180 senior delegates from across Asia’s advanced manufacturing ecosystem gathered to shape the next phase […]
Innovative Manufacturing Digital and Remote Strategies for a Global Impact
As semiconductor manufacturing grows more complex and costly, GlobalFoundries is redefining how innovation scales globally. In her session at the 2nd Annual Advanced Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Asia Week 2025, Yvonne Keil shared how AI-powered analytics, automation, and remote hubs in Penang and Bangalore are transforming the way fabs operate worldwide, proving that the future of manufacturing lies not in location, but in intelligent, connected collaboration.