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1. As announced in the Budget 2021 speech by the Minister of Finance, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) is establishing a RM1 billion High Tech Fac...

1. On August 4, 2020, China’s State Council released the Policies of Promoting High-quality Development of Integrated Circuit Industry and S...

 1. The meeting of the Board of Investment of Thailand (the “BOI”) held on 4 November 2020 approved a large number of packages in order to p...

  BACKGROUND 1. The RCEP negotiations was launched in November 2012 at the 21st ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia but the negotiations on...

1.  2018, an Arvedi ESP (Endless Strip Production) line installed in a plant belonging to the Chinese steel producer Rizhao Steel Group Co.,...

1. Manufacturers today seek to achieve true business intelligence through collecting, analyzing, and sharing data across all key functional ...

Differences between Hot rolled steel vs cold rolled steel, advantages, disadvantages, characteristics, and usage.

 1. Embracing Industry 4.0, digital manufacturing and the interconnectivity that comes with it opens a myriad of benefits for companies, inc...

1. The practice of anodizing — a form of electrolytic passivation that thickens the oxidized outer layer of a metal part — has existed for a...

1. A BOM can define products as they are designed.” Most people now acknowledge the role of another critical enterprise business system to m...

1. Poor master data management is often a hindrance to using an ERP system well. Bills of Material, BOMs, are a key piece of that ERP master...

1. A bill of materials (BOM) is a comprehensive list of parts, items, assemblies, and other materials required to create a product, as well ...

 1. ABC inventory analysis is a method used to classify a business’s stock items into three categories – A, B and C, based on their value to...

1. A sales forecast is a prediction of future sales revenue. Sales forecasts are usually based on historical data, industry trends, and the ...

1. Inventory demand forecasting is the process of predicting customer demand for an inventory item over a defined period of time.  2. Accura...

1. There are many ways to forecast business trends and all of them fall under two extensive categories like qualitative & quantitative. ...

 1. Launched in June 2001, the Global Trader Programme is a merger of the Approved Oil Trader (AOT) and the Approved International Trader (A...

1. Innovative new technologies are laying the foundation for the latest hydraulic systems and applications designed for construction, agricu...

1. Building ‘new infrastructure’ (新型基础 or新基建 for short) has recently become a top development priority for China – and refers to infrastruct...

APRIL SNAPSHOT 1. European strip mill product steel prices were largely unchanged, in late March/early April, despite the major impact of th...