On 09 January 2020, several members of SLA and Singapore Transport Association as well as the management team toured the Virtual Manufacturing Lab at the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC). The centre is a public-private partnership led by A*STAR to bridge the gap between research and industrial application. It offers state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, equipped with industrial machines and digital systems which allow companies to test advanced remanufacturing technologies in a learning environment and to co-develop solutions for greater productivity and efficiency.
ARTC will be initiating Supply Chain 4.0 which aims to research and develop deployable platform technologies for accelerating the adoption of supply chain innovation in Singapore and Asia Pacific. ARTC in collaboration with SLA has been engaging logistics companies to come onboard the Supply Chain 4.0 initiative.