FPT IS and Dell Technologies to “untangle” the digital transformation journey for FDI enterprises in Da Nang
Recently, Da Nang Investment Promotion Agency, Da Nang Hi-Tech Park and Industrial Park Management Committee, together with FPT Information System Corporation (FPT IS) and Dell Technologies have jointly organized a Digital transformation seminar themed “Digital transformation in manufacturing in the new era: when Automation combines AI” for FDI enterprises.
The seminar aims to accompany the leaders of Da Nang city to support FDI organizations and enterprises in accessing effective digital transformation solutions, turning information technology into a competitive advantage in order to reach out to the world. Besides, FPT IS and Dell Technologies will help businesses formulate their digital transformation roadmap in accordance with global technology trends, focusing on adopting automation solutions into manufacturing, identifying goals, orientations, and methods of adopting information technology.
FDI enterprises have been making important contributions to the socio-economic development of Da Nang. By October 2023, the city records 1,045 FDI projects with a total investment capital of over 4.2 billion USD, an increase of 135% over the same period in 2022. The projects mainly focus on the fields of services; commerce; manufacturing of equipment, machinery, components; garments; construction materials; information technology; restaurants; legal services; investment, etc.
Speaking at the seminar, Mr. Le Hoang Phuc – Deputy Director of Da Nang Investment Promotion Agency – emphasizes: “FDI enterprises play an important role in the fields of manufacturing and goods export. They also create jobs as well as contribute to supporting domestic capital enterprises in the city to take part in the global value chain and promoting the economic restructuring towards modern industry. Therefore, in addition to a dynamic and competitive investment environment, the leaders of the city always create the best conditions for the growth and operations of the FDI enterprises. The seminar is expected to open up opportunities for extensive cooperation among the enterprises in the manufacturing sector, creating a premise to expand to other sectors such as tourism and services, establishing an attractive investment environment, delivering outstanding growth to FDI enterprises”.
Mr. Le Hoang Phuc – Deputy Director of Da Nang Investment Promotion Agency – expects that the seminar will be an important premise to open up opportunities for extensive cooperation in digital transformation.
On behalf of FPT IS, Mr. Than Minh Ngoc – SVP & Deputy Director of Enterprise Sector – delivers a speech on “A roadmap for enterprises to start smart in Digital transformation” that suggests many digital transformation approaches for FDI enterprises.
“Together with Dell Technologies, we expect that the seminar will open up opportunities for technology enterprises to accompany the digital transformation journey of FDI enterprises in the city. FPT IS’s technology solutions are all based on the FPT Digital Kaizen methodology, capable of addressing demands of enterprises of all sizes. The methodology helps identify the most painful points, determine the initiatives and solutions, then conduct initial deployment on a small scale. When expected outcomes are seen, the deployment will quickly be expanded to address other bottlenecks. With 30 years of experience in the field of information technology, deeply understanding business problems in many fields, FPT IS has always been ready to accompany organizations in implementing digital transformation strategies in accordance with global technology trends, focusing on automation solutions for manufacturing enterprises. We also support to determine goals, directions and ways of technology adoption”, affirmed Mr. Ngoc.
Mr. Than Minh Ngoc – SVP & Deputy Director of Enterprise Sector, FPT IS – gives suggestions regarding digital transformation approaches for FDI enterprises.
Besides, Mr. Le Minh Quan – Director of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing, FPT IS – has also given many suggestions for enterprises in “smartening manufacturing activities”. Accordingly, Mr. Quan emphasizes the application of AI to address major problems in manufacturing, such as automation, anomaly detection, and early warning.
“To address such problems, FPT IS presents the Intelligent manufacturing execution system (akaMES) – the first Make-in-Vietnam product in the world to adopt AI into real-time smart manufacturing execution. The solution is dedicated to manufacturing execution, designed to enhance the overall performance of business operations. In particular, the integration with Dell Technologies’ infrastructure in combination with NVIDIA also helps optimize akaMES AI. With outstanding features such as automatic manufacturing planning and execution, AA dashboard that provides a comprehensive view of the factory, anomaly detection model, early forecasting of delivery capacity, warning of errors occurring in orders, material replenishment alert, and support for seamless manufacturing operations, akaMES allows enterprises to conduct digital transformation for manufacturing activities in a comprehensive way, forming a solid foundation for business breakthroughs”, said Mr. Quan.
Mr. Le Minh Quan – Director of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing, FPT IS – presents the Intelligent manufacturing execution system (akaMES).
Regarding the HR management problems, Mr. Trieu Bui Sy Nhien – Consulting Director of Digital Enterprise Solutions, FPT IS – emphasizes that for effective and sustainable operations, manufacturing enterprises need to organize the staff in an efficient and optimal way. Mr. Nhien says: “FPT IS has been developing a suite of digital transformation solutions for the HR sector (HR DX) with the core platform being the Human resources & payroll management system (FPT.iHRP). The solution aims at comprehensive digital HR management, delivering optimal experience to all parties, including HR specialists, employees, managers, and the leadership. The solution offers flexible integration and expansion capacity, helping to digitalize more than 90% of HR management processes, saving the relevant costs by more than 30%, and increasing the labor productivity by more than 30%. FPT.iHRP can be integrated with many other Made-by-FPT-IS solutions such as FPT.eContract, FPT.eLearning, FPT.eBizTrip…”.
Mr. Trieu Bui Sy Nhien – Consulting Director of Digital Enterprise Solutions, FPT IS – suggests that enterprises adopt FPT.iHRP in HR management activities.
Over the past 20 years, FPT.iHRP has been adopted by more than 200 enterprises in many fields such as manufacturing, retail, F&B, agriculture, finance – banking, including: Sovico Group, Masan Group, PTSC, Heineken Vietnam, Saigontourist, Lavie, Golden Gate, Canon Vietnam, Daikin Vietnam, etc.
Deeply understanding the difficulties of FDI enterprises when it comes to the infrastructure, such as high costs, dependencies on vendors, limited scalability, Dell Technologies has developed Dell VxRail. This is a market-leading hyper-converged cloud-based solution that addresses all shortcomings of conventional infrastructure, accelerates the modernization of data centers, and is able to respond to any demands. This is a “ready-to-use” platform for businesses as it delivers high flexibility, integrates Storage, Network and Computer in a single device, Hardware and Software on a single server, and manages everything using a common interface. Dell Technologies is confident to provide the most optimal infrastructure solutions, addressing technological issues, creating a foundation for enterprises to make great leaps in business.
The hyper-converged solution Dell VxRail is presented at the event to address the infrastructure problems.
In the coming time, FPT IS and Dell Technologies will coordinate with Da Nang city to accompany FDI enterprises in the area with technologies, eliminating bottlenecks in business operations, promoting business development, enhancing competitiveness, thereby contributing to the goal of making Da Nang a leading technology and innovation center in Asia.
