TSMA Yearbook 2018

119 Taiwan Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association market opportunites and helps Taiwan to break through the pincer attacks; (3)intelligent manufacturing together with the waste-reducing and recycling methods can optimize the use of resource so as to respond to resource and environmental pressures; (4)coordination with robots in production will lift production efficiency and supplement the insufficient labor; (5)the network system of manufacturing, logistics and consumption can renovate the business models and create new industries. 2. Taiwan’s strategy on Productivity 4.0 and its industrial development a.Having gone through three times of industrial revolution, Taiwan starts its fourth revolution with the global development Over the past 30 years, our manufacturing industry has gone through capital intensive, technology intensive and innovation intensive stages. Now it enters the stage of intelligence intensive stage (See Diagram 3). The development process of Taiwan’s manufacturing automation After 2011, it is the early stage of Productivity 4.0 from 2011 to 2015 Productivity 1.0 Capital intensive industry stage Productivity 2.0 Technology intensive industry stage Productivity 3.0 Innovation intensive industry stage Productivity 4.0 Intelligence intensive industry stage Source: Industry Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs b.Taiwan’s Industry 4.0 strategy is to retrieve the merits of Germany and the U.S.A, and add the refined management In response to the global trend and domestic industry upgrade, Taiwan’s strategy of Productivity 4.0 combines the advantages of Germany Industry 4.0 on intelligent machinery and American AMP plan on information and communication, together with IoT, intelligent robot, big data and refined management.