Recent TRG blog posts

Innovation is critical to the manufacturing industry. But how does an idea evolve from inspiration to execution? Sometimes it’s a mystery, sometimes pure luck—and sometimes an idea comes to fruition via a carefully orchestrated process with many individuals participating, each person playing a vital role. What can you do to create an environment that’s conducive to creative thinking and encourages your people to act on those ideas?

A collaborative robot (cobot or co-bot) is a robot designed to work alongside human workers in a shared workspace. On the contrary, industrial robots typically operate autonomously and with little physical interaction with humans. The role of cobots in the Industry 4.0 will only get bigger.

“Inbound strategy” is a terminology mostly used in Marketing. It is the process of acquiring new customers organically through a combination of blogs, SEO, social media, and other content marketing strategies. Based on that concept, Inbound Recruiting requires the recruiters to generate attractive content and strategically publish them on various recruiting platforms to entice the candidates’ attention. These are the reasons why the recruiters used Inbound Recruiting as an effective recruitment tool.

The APEJ region (Asia Pacific excluding Japan) is expected to spend US$125.4 billion on robotics in 2022, tripling the spending in 2017, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.7 per cent from 2018 through 2022. APEJ is currently the largest robotics market and poised to account for more than 62 per cent of the global robotics spending in 2022, according to the research firm IDC.

Innovation is a central component of the manufacturing industry. It can take many forms and address many functions. It can be a simple tactic for improving shop floor operations. It can be a concept for a new type of product or service. It can be a revolutionary approach that completely disrupts the way you do business.

Psychometric assessments are used to evaluate the candidates’ skills, personalities, attitudes, and knowledge. They typically contain multiple choices to save time for both the recruiters and the candidates. This type of assessment is sometimes performance-based and evaluates likability where the candidates need to solve different kinds of numerical, graphical, and verbal problems. 

Entry-level recruitment, though brings tremendous benefits, the process still presents some unique challenges. Some of the most common entry-level recruitment challenges facing companies today are the lack of qualified candidates, high turnover rate, and generational differences in the workplace.

For manufacturers, one of the top priorities is to maximise the machinery life cycle. As sudden machinery breakdowns can lead to downtime and expensive reparation. Consequently, manufacturing businesses have to look for a solution to reduce the maintenance cost and increase the equipment uptime and availability.