Why did Seagate partner with Singapore’s EDB on the Dream Factory?
In 2015, Seagate partnered with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) as part of the Dream Factory initiative, which is aiming to transform the hard drive industry through smart manufacturing solutions. With the Singapore government's support, the initiative focused on designing, developing, and implementing a fully automated hard drive factory. Seagate aimed to equip its hard drive manufacturing facilities with advanced process intelligence and use AI, machine learning, big data analytics, mobile solutions, cloud software as a service (SaaS), and industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies.
Singapore has a history of assisting future-minded industries through state-sponsored initiatives such as the Singapore EDB. Seagate, now in its fourth decade of providing data storage solutions to global customers, has a tradition of integrating the latest technologies into its manufacturing and operations. The combination of these efforts resulted in Seagate's Dream Factory, where the latest technologies are evaluated and propagated.
The goal: rolling out AI factory solutions globally.
Seagate executives tasked the company's Dream Factory core team—which includes members of the Factory IT, equipment design, R&D, test engineering, and product performance engineering teams—with discovering, testing, and rolling out new Industry 4.0 solutions for global manufacturing facilities.
Seagate data storage devices, including hard drives and solid-state drives (SSDs), are also integral parts of our customers' AI solutions. It made sense for Seagate to not only enable AI but also benefit from it in its own manufacturing facilities.
