automation

Aviation & Engineering

The airport of the future is here. And it doesn't need humans

(Sept 17): Imagine landing at a major airport and the only human official you meet on your way through the terminal is a customs officer.

Timepieces

Jaquet Droz 'Singing Bird Clock': Possibly the most mysterious automation ever

So Jaquet Droz almost casually dropped this on us. On the occasion of its 280th anniversary, amid the many commemorative timepieces trhat include the amazing Tropical Bird Repeater and one of our favourite wristwatches of 2018, the Grande Seconde Skelet

53rd National Day

Future of work: Tech-enabled freedom

SINGAPORE (Aug 6): Imagine hosting an international business conference from a deck chair on a beach, through a laptop and virtual reality device. Midway through your presentation, a robot brings you a cocktail. It does not matter that you are in surf sho

Tech

Robots still missing from the largest part of Japan’s economy

TOKYO (June 22): Japan is famous as a land of robots, but most of those machines haven’t made their way off of factory floors.

Fintech

UOB partners NTUC to encourage wider SME adoption of BizSmart cloud-based productivity suite

SINGAPORE (May 9): United Overseas Bank (UOB) is offering its cloud-based integrated business solution, BizSmart, to business owners under U SME, an NTUC initiative, as part of its collaboration with NTUC to help small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Management & Corporate Governance

How management accountants of today can avoid being replaced by tomorrow's technology: IMA

SINGAPORE (May 7): With technology evolving faster than many organisations can adapt, it is unsurprising that an increasing proportion of traditional accounting roles may soon be replaced by automation.

In print this week

Can Singapore's hotels depend on automation to ease its manpower woes?

SINGAPORE (Apr 6): CDL Hospitality Trusts (CDL HT) is embracing automation amid a general lull in its local operations. The profitability of its Singapore hotels has been on a downtrend for the last five years, in line with the broader sector.

Singapore economy

MAS unveils transformational roadmap for data collection processes

SINGAPORE (Mar 14): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is implementing a number of measures from its new transformational roadmap for its data collection approach from financial institutions.

State of the City

Small manufacturers face urgency to automate amid difficult business environment

SINGAPORE (Dec 11): Daniel Tay’s office is a hotchpotch of everything he loves ­— an extensive collection of Chinese teapots, a Japanese sword he purchased from a travelling salesman, a pastry chef’s apron — but it is on the apron that Tay is bui

In print this week

Small manufacturers face urgency to automate amid difficult business environment

SINGAPORE (Dec 11): Daniel Tay’s office is a hotchpotch of everything he loves ­— an extensive collection of Chinese teapots, a Japanese sword he purchased from a travelling salesman, a pastry chef’s apron — but it is on the apron that Tay is bui
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