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1 minuto The Defence Technology Institute shows an unmanned aerial vehicle to be used to survey forest areas in the county. (Photo by Tawatchai Kemgumnerd)  The government is planning new “special economic zones” aimed at better supporting Thailand’s defence technology industry. The plan, backed by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon who on Wednesday chaired the Defence Council meeting, will be carried out under the 2019 Defence Technology Act. Defence spokesman Kongcheep Tantravanich said a panel would be set up to oversee the zones, but Continue lendo→

5 minutos According to the number of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) operating in the country, Lithuania is the third in the Western world, after the United States of America and Poland. While SEZs can be found in about 70 percent of developed countries and are mostly customs-free zones to encourage foreign trade, Lithuania, Poland, and other countries like Bulgaria are different, with other fiscal incentives offered as well in an effort to boost the growth of industry, especially in the less developed regions of Continue lendo→

2 minutos Free trade zones, from the coastal to the inland provinces, have well implemented the major tasks assigned by the central government in the past five years, a report said on Friday. The first Shanghai FTZ, set up in 2013, has completed 98.99 percent of the tasks-the highest rate, according to the Report on the Development of China Free Trade Zones. The completion rate for the second batch of FTZs in Guangdong province, Tianjin, and Fujian province exceeded 90 percent, the report said. Continue lendo→

2 minutos La nueva ola de políticas industriales y el aumento de la competencia por las inversiones internacionales provocan el auge de las zonas económicas especiales, reveló un estudio disponible hoy. De acuerdo con el Informe sobre las nuevas inversiones en el mundo de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo (Unctad), en los últimos cinco años se han creado más de mil de estas zonas, y al menos otras 500 están en la etapa de proyecto. Más de 145 economías Continue lendo→

2 minutos Industry 4.0 has arrived, and it is reshaping the relationship between manufacturers, digital systems, and skilled and unskilled workers.  Also known as the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0 is the fusion of automation technologies, such as artificial intelligence-driven machine learning and data exchange, with advanced manufacturing technologies such as robotics.  It includes cyber-physical systems, the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine communications, and cloud computing. The concept of industry 4.0 was developed in Germany; the “4.0” is a nod to previous revolutionary industrial Continue lendo→