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SINGAPORE – French aerospace company Thales has added a new "digital factory" to its research laboratories in Singapore, with the aim of producing high-tech, data-driven solutions for the region, using local expertise.
The research laboratory, which opened Thursday, November 29, will welcome next year about 30 experts from different nationalities, including Singaporeans.
The Paris company entered Singapore in 1973 and has about 700 employees, but plans to expand to about 2,000 after the acquisition of digital security company Gemalto in the first quarter of next year.
The new laboratory at 8 Cross Street marks the beginning of an investment of 20 million euros (31 million Singaporean dollars) over the next five years. The number of staff is expected to increase during this period.
The group hopes to tap into a pool of data scientists, software engineers, designers and cybersecurity experts from the region.
These specialists will produce digital solutions, using technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing to solve the problems faced by Singaporean companies and test them to see if they can be deployed in the whole world.
Olivier Flous, Vice President of Digital Transformation at Thales, said: "What we want is to work with our Singapore customers to test these original products and then implement them around the world so to serve a global market. "
The company's customers are Singapore Airlines, SMRT, Changi Airport and the Singapore Armed Forces.
Singapore has not been an amazing choice for the group to set up its third digital plant because of its strong presence here and its proximity to its Asian customers, according to its senior vice president of international development, Pascale. Sourisse. The other Thales digital factories are located in France and Canada.
Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said Thales' new plant was strengthening the country's digital capabilities and was a microcosm of what he hoped Singapore would embark on. to come up.
"We see exactly the model we are going to engage in," he said on the sidelines of a factory visit. "In this factory, Singaporeans work with talented people from overseas and around the world in a larger network, and Singaporeans have many opportunities to participate in this learning and development. finding solutions. "
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