This sector has a favorable effect
on other industries such as the automotive, logistics, electronic and aerospace
The
Information Technologies (IT) sector plays an important role in the strategy of
Mexico’s development, not only because of its growth potential, but also for
the favorable effect it has on other industries, such as automotive, logistics
and aerospace, as well as on the results about competitiveness of the regional
and national economy.
The
IT’s have become one of the industries with the most dynamism in the country,
with that, ProMexico estimates that in 2019 this sector will reach a value of
14.7 thousand million dollars and will growth in an annual average rhythm of 9
% in the next two years.
Likewise,
according to data from ProMexico, in terms of market value, the services
industries of information technologies and software in Mexico grew an annual
average of 12 % since 2010 to reach a joint value of 12.3 thousand million
dollars for 2017.
In
that same year, export manufacturing of medium and high technology represented
23 % of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP.)
Cesar
Fragozo Lopez, chief of the sectorial development unit of ProMexico, said that
the country has several sides of competitiveness in different industries,
mainly in the automotive, aerospace, medical devices and of energy. That these complement with companies that
integrate the 20 IT clusters existing nationally and that group more than 1,000
companies.
He
explained that based on the amounts from the Mexican Association of Internet,
in the period 2009-2016, the electronic commerce value grew at an average
annual rhythm of 38 %, reaching a value of 17.7 thousand millions dollars in
the last year.
A way
of increasing companies’ competitiveness, he said, is through innovation and
the adoption of information technologies solutions of information in
traditional sectors.
In addition,
he said that Guanajuato has all the elements required to introduce industry 4.0
in the State’s economy.
“The
region has companies that already implement the technology and the automation
on its processes; in addition that for several years the entity has a dynamic
in the automotive industry and the traditional are increasingly incorporating
technological solutions,” he said.
Recently,
he added, the Information Technologies Cluster Guanajuato was recently
constituted.
In
order for the Mexican sector evolve to the industry 4.0 explained which are the
strategies promoting this process as the promotion of the use of Mexican
services by exporting companies, to increase the content of the exporter sector
and promote the adoption of technological solutions.
Complementing
the diversification of exporting of IT solutions to different markets, through
the linkage between Mexican exporters and their counterparts abroad, as well as
the participation in events from the information technologies sector.
“Less
than 5 % of Mexican companies that integrate the agro-industrial sector of
these kinds of solutions on their productive processes, what could represent an
increase of up to 30 % in production in case of doing it,” he said.
HIGHLIGHTING COMPETITIVENESS IN THE
INDUSTRY
Alfredo
Pacheco Vasquez, national general director of the National Chamber of
Electronics, of Telecommunications and Information Technologies (CANIETI, by
its Spanish initials) said that Guanajuato is one of the States that are adding
efforts to develop the best competitiveness in this sector.
One of
the main challenges he perceives is that sectors have to relate among them to
potentiate the results.
“Guanajuato
has been modernized and for the Chamber is something interesting, because it is
one of the objectives of CANIETI and, without doubt, the State goes in the
correct direction and is accelerating it,” he said.
For
the representative of CANIETI Nacional, the technology industry in Mexico is
implementing work strategies together with the Government, private sector and
the academy in order to fulfill the objectives.
The
first step he considered essential to achieve this is that the Triple Axis
achieve working in a joint manner in order for the three sectors keep a same
level of efficiency.
He
said that before the programs implemented by the Federal and State Government,
there is a great opportunity for companies to start implementing the industry
4.0; likewise that the country has a great number of youngsters being
introduced to IT.
The
Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT, by its Spanish initials) announced
that the number of women in this industry is increasing reaching a 30 %, while
that worldwide it ranges in a 25 percent.
“We
want to achieve youngsters achieve becoming developers and technology
entrepreneurs, there are steel some issues about training to be improved and
certifications to close that gap students have when graduating from the
university,” he said.
CANIETI
announced the High Technology Industry Perspectives 2016-2019. In that they underlined the functioning of
the Industry 4.0 for its application in the entire value chain of the sectors
to be interconnected transversally and generate changes in the way of doing
business and produce products.
One of
the advantages the Chamber highlighted about this Industrial Revolution is the
best operative efficiency, a predictive maintenance with new production
ecosystems, innovation in platforms, products and services; as well as the
flexibility in production and customization, creating new work positions and
better opportunities.
With
the Telecommunications Reform, more than 6,000 million dollars have been
invested, and it was planned that this year there will be an investment of
13,500 million dollars in investment.
“We
are still a little slow due to the reaction capability, but I am confident we
will be reaching it and the expectation is good because industry 4.0 is here to
stay, it is not a seasonal style, it is a new way of work,” he said.
INNOVATION PLATFORMS
According
with the Ministry of Economy (SE, by its Spanish initials) Mexico is the third
IT exporter worldwide.
Recently,
the SE gathered with the CONACYT and they detected that for this year the goal
is the expense in research and development is of 1 % from the GDP, considered
as one of the lowest in the OCDE countries.
This
was mentioned by Raul Rendon Montemayor, general director of innovation,
services and interior commerce from the Ministry of Economy (SE,) who said that
this has not become profitable because most of the investment amounts are from
the Federal Government and only a small percentage is from the private sector.
“This
means that the investment issue has not being enough. Mexico is below an average, the challenge is
of that challenge. We are at a
disruptive moment. With Industry 4.0 a
public organizational policy was created in order for the country be introduced
into technology as soon as possible.”
He
explained that at the SE were created public policies strategies oriented to
the market through the execution of a culture and an innovation ecosystem
aligned to the economic sectors with the SE, INADEM, IMPI, ProMexico, CONACYT
and the Ministry of Public Education.
Regarding
the implementation of a collaborative culture, he highlighted the creation of an
open innovation platform, where innovation is demanded and adopted, outstanding
innovators are recognized and a critical mass of innovators are unified.
“Mexico
is one of the few countries that already have established a public policy of
4.0 and that place us in a different context.
The organization level has to be accelerated and that is what we are engaged
in,” he noted.
Another
strategy is the creation of a path map of Industry 4.0 in Mexico, priorizing
technologies to generate it as an augmented reality, nanotechnology and
artificial intelligence; the implementation of the Innovator Development
Program 2013-2018 and the Industrial Promotion Policy.
All
this orientated by the Consultative Council of Industry 4.0, which is an organ
of public analysis in matter of this industry, where the most representative
actors from the sectors, academy and the Government participate.
Having
as function the definition of responsible objectives and decision making about
the actions and strategies to execute the different subjects on their 8
worktables: cybersecurity, infrastructure, public policy alignment, smart
automation, education and technology adoption, transition costs, financing and
electronic commerce.
“What
we did was a route map, where we saw specific technologies in which the country
will be. We want for technologies get
out of the country in an industrialized context in 4.0. We have the objective of companies growing
and sale more,” he ended.
ADVANTAGES OF INDUSTRY 4.0
·
Improve in operative efficiency
·
Predictive maintenance and remote management
·
New production ecosystems
·
Innovation in platforms, products and services
·
Production flexibility
·
Customization of products
·
New positions and better opportunities
CHALLENGES OF INDUSTRY 4.0
·
Suitable legal and regulatory framework
·
National Cybersecurity Strategy
·
Systems Interoperability
·
New business model based in innovation
·
Smart logistics models
·
Confidence to share information
·
Development of physical and digital infrastructure
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