FOW6: Chow Cher Wong - What is The 4th Industrial Revolution and How Will it Impact Singapore?

Chow Cher Wong is the Technical Director at the Advanced Remanufacturing & Technology Centre in Singapore. In this conversation, we take a journey from Chow Cher's education origins in the industrial heartland of the United Kingdom to more recently, building the factory fo the future, available today at the ARTC. We discuss how the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) will impact work, both destroying and creating jobs, as well as how 4IR will underpin hypergrowth in the manufacturing landscape of Asia. Will 4IR level the playing field giving emerging markets access to skills that were once the competitive edge of Singapore? We also go deep into the world of robots and "cobots" - a term that may be unfamiliar to many but increasingly will become part of our daily work.