Abstract

Malaysia's manufacturing industry played a significant role in transforming the country into an industrialized nation. The manufacturing sector is constantly evolving from the conventional mass production lines using the intensive labor force to the use of smart manufacturing using human-machine interaction (HMI) technology to increase the productivity. This new phase of evolution of smart manufacturing using HMI technology has called for the need for a National Policy in Malaysia.While smart manufacturing using HMI technologies has a potentially huge opportunity, there are concerns among many manufacturing companies as to how the HMI technologies would evolve the products and services that are produced and the business models or manufacturing processes that are used to produce them.In 2018, the Malaysian government took the proactive measure and launched the "Industry4WRD: National Policy on Industry 4.0," with the objective to transform the Malaysian manufacturing sector to be resilient, smart, and systematic.

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