Vietnam has high demand for automotive robotics solutions
The robotics market has grown strongly in recent years due to enterprises’ growing demand for automotive solutions to optimise output and save both labour and operational costs.
Vu Trong Tai (L), general manager of Reed Tradex Vietnam, and Huynh Phong Phu, local business manager, robotics and discrete automation, ABB Vietnam, in an interview with the local media in HCM City on July 25. (Photo: VNA)
Ho Chi Minh City (VNS/VNA)— The robotics market has grown strongly in recent years dueto enterprises’ growing demand for automotive solutions to optimise output andsave both labour and operational costs.
Speaking in a recent interview with the local media in HCM City, Huynh Phong Phu,local business manager, robotics and discrete automation, ABB Vietnam, said in2017 Vietnam became the seventh largest robot market in the world with robotsales jumping by more than 8,000 units.
The driver of the growth was the influx of foreign investment, especially byKorean enterprises, in the electronics industry.
Robots were also used by companies in the fields of automobiles, food,beverages, consumer goods, and metal manufacturing, he said.
The market has around six robot suppliers, and all are foreign.
Phu said ABB sold nearly 5,000 robots in 2017. It achieved double digit growthlast year and targets over 20 percent growth this year.
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Also speaking at the event, Vu Trong Tai, general manager of Reed TradexVietnam, said: “The factories that are digitally advanced and connectedfacilities will sharpen the manufacturing performance in a host of operations.”
Phu said the auxiliary manufacturing industry in Vietnam was growing fasterthan ever with the convergence of many factors, including the entry of largeglobal manufacturers such as Samsung, LG, Toyota, Honda, Canon, and Brotherinto Vietnam, whose production facilities are at the heart of the global supplychain.
At METALEX Vietnam 2019, to be held from October 10 to 12 at HCM City’s SaigonExhibition and Convention Centre, the ABB would show a fully automatedproduction demo of robots controlled by ABB AbilityTM Connected Services, asophisticated suite of digital services, to enable visitors to experience thefuture factory, he said.
Tai said METALEX, an international exhibition of machine tools and metalworkingsolutions, would feature 600 brands from 45 countries and territories, 30 percentmore than last year.
This year WELDING Vietnam 2019, the only international exhibition of weldingand cutting materials, equipment, and technologies in Vietnam, would beco-located with METALEX Vietnam, he added. — VNS/VNA
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Vu Trong Tai (L), general manager of Reed Tradex Vietnam, and Huynh Phong Phu, local business manager, robotics and discrete automation, ABB Vietnam, in an interview with the local media in HCM City on July 25. (Photo: VNA) 
