Navigating Manufacturing Transformation

Transform your business using the Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) as a Industry 4.0 Framework

Established by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) in partnership with a network of leading technology companies, consultancy firms, and industry and academic experts, the Smart Industry Readiness Index comprises a suite of frameworks and tools to help manufacturers – regardless of size and industry – start, scale, and sustain their manufacturing transformation journeys.

SIRI covers the three core elements of Industry 4.0 through its Business Framework: Process, Technology, and Organisation.

Assessment Matrix

Smart Industry Readiness Index Framework

Validated by a global advisory panel of industry experts, the Assessment Matrix is designed to strike a balance among technical rigour, usability, and relevance. The tool breaks down each of the 16 Dimensions into 6 progressive bands of maturity. These dimensions represent assessment areas that companies can use to evaluate their current digital maturity, readiness of facilities, benchmark themselves against known scores of other companies and identify potential gaps in their transformation.

Overview of the Smart Industry Readiness Index

Prioritisation Methodology

A Holistic Prioritisation Framework

The Prioritisation Matrix is a management planning tool that helps companies quantitatively identify high-priority Dimensions that would deliver greatest impact to their organisation, after they have used the Assessment Matrix to determine the Industry 4.0 maturity of their manufacturing facilities.

Infographic below shows prioritization principles where companies can focus on where to invest, improve and fix, as well as to understand the impact value of each dimension.

The 4 Principles of Prioritisation

Official Siri Assessment (OSA)

Begin your transformation journey with the SIRI Assessment

The Official SIRI Assessment includes the evaluation of a manufacturing facility across the 16 dimensions of assessment, the identification of recommended areas of priority, and the provision of a report of the findings.

Today, over 350 companies from more than 15 different countries have completed the assessments.

"The Singapore Smart Industry Readiness Index is a framework that strikes a good
balance by offering practical applicability while maintaining both conceptual and
technical rigour."

Prof Dr -Ing Siegfried Russwurm,
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

"Singapore’s ambition is to be the global hub for manufacturing and one of the
best places globally for high-tech innovation. What makes Singapore unique
is the strong partnership between industry, the ecosystem of partners, and
the government. This allows companies to translate Industry 4.0 concepts and
technologies into new value, for Singapore and for the markets around us."

Mr Lim Kok Kiang,
Assistant Managing Director,
Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)

"With rapid advancements in digital technologies and the push for process
integration, the time for Industry 4.0 is now. For companies globally, disruptive
technologies of Industry 4.0 hold the promise of creating smart facilities that are
highly efficient and digitally integrated. It is an opportunity to take the lead in
shaping one of the most significant shifts in manufacturing that we have ever seen."

Mr Raimund Klein,
Executive Vice President,
Digital Factory & Process Industries &
Drives, Siemens

"The Index gives clear orientation to manufacturers on what Industry 4.0 means
and how they can initiate their transformation journey. It is a world’s first Industry
4.0 tool that is developed by the government for nation-wide transformation
of industrial sectors. Strongly aligned with Industry 4.0 and other global
manufacturing initiatives, it has the potential to be the global standard for the
future of manufacturing."

Prof Dr -Ing Axel Stepken,
Chairman of the Board of Management,
TÜV SÜD

"One of the key disruptive forces of Industry 4.0 is the ever-increasing volume,
velocity and value of data. Looking ahead, traditional manufacturing companies
need to change their perception of data, not just as numbers on a screen, but
as a strategic asset that can unlock revenue growth and deliver cost savings.
Companies who embrace this shift will start building the infrastructure for
connectivity and intelligence right away. "

PMs Vidya Ramnath,
Vice President,
Global Plantweb Solutions & Services,
Emerson Automation Solutions

"Companies must embrace Industry 4.0 to prepare the digital foundation needed
for a manufacturing future that is like no other - Industry X.0 - which has at its
heart highly intelligent, interconnected products and ecosystems that create a
fully digital value chain, supplemented by new core innovation competencies and
deep cultural change. Therefore, beyond digitalization, organizational talent,
structures and processes will need to be adapted and built across the enterprise
to put it on the right trajectory into this future of “connected everything."

Mr Senthil Ramani,
Managing Director,
Accenture

"Industry 4.0 is a global leadership topic that should be on top of any CXO’s
agenda. Strong leadership competency is an imperative to drive enterprise
transformation, to shift the focus from today’s operational needs to readiness for
tomorrow’s opportunities."

Mr Amos Leong,
CEO,
Univac

"The Index allows our manufacturing teams to take stock of what we are doing well and where
we can do better. This forms a good basis to build a shared Industry 4.0 vision and strategy,
enabling us to take decisive action in initiating a multi-year transformation journey."

Mr Hashim Baba,
Plant Manager,
Becton Dickinson Singapore

"While the term Industry 4.0 was created several years ago, many manufacturing companies,
particularly SMEs, remain unfamiliar with it. This index is an intuitive and realistic reference
framework which is useful for all industrial companies, both big and small, to not only learn
these new concepts but also to apply them to our facilities."

Mr Desmond Goh,
Director,
People Bee Hoon Factory

"Within many organizations, the level of familiarity towards Industry 4.0 concepts can vary
significantly across the different technology and operations teams. Even for companies with
considerable expertise, knowledge often resides in specific individuals or teams, rather than
being uniformly understood across the entire organization. The Index forms a good basis to
drive alignment towards a common understanding and vision."

Mr Allan Ferrie,
Assembly and Test Director,
Rolls-Royce Singapore

"As part of our Smart Enterprise program, we have been investing in many initiatives to achieve
significant improvements in speed, productivity, and quality. Here, we see this Index as a useful
tool to help us to unlock maximum value by not only pushing us to investigate new dimensions
that were not considered previously, but also allowing us to pursue our Industry 4.0 strategy in
a more targeted fashion."

Mr Laurent Filipozzi,
Site Head,
Infineon Plant, Singapore

"Often, companies tend to focus excessively on shop floor automation and under-invest in
equally important areas such as process design and workforce competency. The Index serves
as a useful counter-check to ensure that no dimensions are overlooked, in order to capture
maximum value from any Industry 4.0 initiatives."

Mr Yeoh Pit Wee,
Director for Manufacturing Operations,
Rockwell Automation

"There are many grand Industry 4.0 visions and plenty of innovative solutions to achieve these
visions. However, it is difficult to translate this into tangible steps that deliver real value to
the business. A well-defined roadmap will be a big help in identifying the most appropriate
technologies to apply and an execution plan, to achieve both short and long term goals."

Mr Lim Hock Heng,
Site Director,
GSK Singapore

"Like us, many companies have already started their transformation journey. Beyond
addressing the operational concerns today, this Index is a useful framework to also guide our
future decisions to deliver sustained impact. It also ensures that we’re always moving in the
right direction and focusing on the things that matter."

Mr Goh Koon Eng,
General Manager,
Chevron Oronite

CERTIFIED SIRI ASSESSORS (CSA)

Perform an Official SIRI Assessment with the help of our Certified SIRI Assessor (CSA), Wong Keat Tze. The Singapore Economic Development Board formally recognised CSAs as independent and neutral individuals capable of professionally assessing a manufacturing facility using SIRI and its corresponding frameworks and tools.

Wong Keat Tze,
Certified SIRI Accessor

Keat Tze’s professional career spans nearly 30 years in systems development, global supply chain, electronics manufacturing, and engineering solutions.

Currently, Keat acts as executive director of various companies, working alongside executive teams to “future-proof” these businesses which provide engineering & technology solutions to companies in the ASEAN region, helping them to digitalize and transform.

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