The Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones, known as MODON, has successfully evaluated 58 factories using the international Smart Industry Readiness Index.
The SIRI index, owned by the International Centre for Industrial Transformation, is the only index approved by the World Economic Forum to measure the adoption rates of industrial facilities for the applications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).
MODON launched the National Productivity Program to help industrial institutions reach the highest levels of production efficiency through drawing transformation plans to apply operational excellence principles and adopt technologies of the fourth industrial revolution on 100 existing factories to become a model for other manufacturers via a partnership with the Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.
4IR looks into technologies such as High-speed mobile internet, artificial intelligence, automation, the use of big data analytics, and cloud technology.
Qusai Al-Abdul Karim, MODON’s director of marketing and corporate communications, confirmed that this success comes as a culmination of the authority’s efforts to keep pace with developments in the global industrial sector.
He added that the National Productivity Program has trained more than 450 leaders from 76 factories on the concepts of the fourth industrial revolution according to the best training programs in cooperation with global technological partners: General Electric (GE) and McKinsey Company, which contributed to realizing the targets of the Human Capabilities Development Program as part of the Saudi Vision 2030.
