The APO COE on IT for Industry 4.0, established in 2017, promotes the adoption of Industry 4.0, AI, and related digital technologies for productivity improvement through a range of capacity-building, research, and knowledge-sharing initiatives. In 2025, activities focused on developing the APO I4AI Framework, together with Need and Readiness Self-assessment (NRSA), Diagnostic Assessment Framework, training […]
Material flow cost accounting (MFCA) is a prominent productivity tool that focuses on tracing input materials, waste, emissions, and negative products. MFCA helps enhance an organization’s overall economic and environmental performance, which is a useful innovation in the kaizen approach. In this respect, DOSMEP plans to implement the Workshop on MFCA for Lao PDR’s agroprocessing […]