Indonesia’s Automotive Industry 4.0 Symposium

On the 20th of November 2019, the event Indonesia’s Automotive Industry 4.0 Symposium is held and attended by more than 80 people who have expertise in the field of automotive manufacturing assembled. The event begins with a keynote speech by Mr. Heru Gunawan, SE, M.T as the Head of Sub Directorate for Maritime Industry Development Program, Transportation Equipment, and Defense Equipment from the Ministry of Industry.

The keynote speech discusses Indonesia’s automotive road map and hopes, aspirations & goals towards industry 4.0 in the 2030 Indonesia automotive system. Indonesia aspires to be an automotive industry leader in ASEAN. This means they have to produce on a large scale. In order to manufacture automotive spare parts on a large scale smoothly, a system such as Infor LN is needed. Because Infor LN ensures a smooth production line no matter the amounts of products to be produced.

Afterward, the event is followed by a panel discussion. The panelists are Mr. Heru Gunawan, Mr. Matthew Adley as Infor’s Industry & Solution Strategist, Ir. Hadi Surjadipraja as Secretary-General of GIAMM, Mr. Sommy Lumadjeng as the Chairman of Askarindo, and Mrs. Lystiani Ria Dewi as the Prsident Director of PT. FSCM Manufacturing Indonesia. With the moderator: Mr. I Gusti Putu Suryawirawan as the Head Commisionary of PT. Krakatau Steel (BUMN) and Special Assistant for the Minister of Economy Coordinator. Each panelist shared their insight about their experiences about their perspective in the automotive industry and how Infor will help or has helped them.

ERP technology is discussed next. The speaker is Matthew Adley. This era is the age of automotive industry transformation; so therefore, the automotive trends of 2021 are to prepare for industry 4.0. The transition between the old ERP system & the new ERP system is also discussed. Infor also is capable of integrating information from the frontline of production and the end line of production making it efficient and simple.

The event was continued with the customer sessions. The theme Enabling Digital with CloudSuite is presented by Matthew Adley. The theme discusses when companies digitalize their traditional manufacturing processes, companies are able to optimize their supply chain, reducing development cycles, increasing efficiencies and driving down costs. The cloud system has advantages of secure, stable and available solutions regarding security and risks. The cloud system is also capable of being up to date with the latest innovations in analytics, social collaboration, extensibility, and AI in relation to the adoption of innovation. Another advantage of the cloud system is that it enables access of data anywhere, anytime regardless of device & browser. The cloud system could also scale and predict costs as the business grows.

Next, Mrs. Lee Luan Aw as the principal solution consultant for Infor presents about modernization with Infor LN CloudSuite. Modernization is important as business models are changing. Their focus is no longer about pushing a product to be released but putting out products that are catered towards customers. Infor also modernizes themselves by continuously improving to serve customers better. The newest addition of Infor’s improvement is Infor CloudSuite. So now businesses are not tied to an on-premise system if they wish to use Infor for their manufacturing line. New features of the system are also discussed, which are improved with the new interface of the system.

Lastly, Mr. Noel Sebastian as Senior Principal Partner manager for Infor presents about Infor ERP LN product lifecycle policy. The product life cycle is the three phases of maintenance for Infor software and provides visibility into what is expected of Infor Support and Infor Maintenance at each stage in the product life cycle. During each stage the components available are different. Maintaining the product is important as it provides a predictable policy that governs applications support and maintenance to enable better planning and control of your Infor software upgrade strategy. The event ends with the door prize draw and photo session.

PT BSI has aspirations as the host of Automotive Industry event is to educate automotive industry practitioners to be aware of the trend change, about global challenges and also regarding how to execute preventive actions in responding to the global challenges.

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