Taiwan World's Second Largest Mask Supplier

Taiwan - With Covid-19 creating a havoc in the manufacturing world, most factories around the globe have either paused work or are slowly recovering. However, Taiwan has been able to maintain full staff levels in offices during this period owing to the massive increase in its mask production capacity, which has made the country the world’s second largest mask supplier.

The capacity expansion, which was estimated to take six months at first, took just 40 days to build up all the 92 sets of automated mask production lines with the support from the Machine Tool industry. The country’s mask production, which was at 2 million and 240 thousand masks per day in January, has been increased fivefold within 40 days to 13 million in March. Now, 17 million masks are being produced per day.

To reduce the number of onsite workers required and solve manufacturing issues, remote control management (RCM) and other non-contact technologies such as augmented reality (AR) have been deployed. Several Taiwan machine tool brands like YCM, GOODWAY, CAMPRO are already seeing some good potential in furthering this manufacturing trend even after the virus situation calms.

Source: Magic Wand Media

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