Delta Electronics Inc (台達電) yesterday said its long-term global production plan would stay unchanged amid geopolitical and tariff policy uncertainties, citing its diversified global deployment.
With operations in Taiwan, Thailand, China, India, Europe and the US, Delta follows a “produce at the market end” strategy and bases its production on customer demand, with major site plans unchanged, Delta president Simon Chang (張訓海) said on the sidelines of a company event yesterday.
Thailand would remain Delta’s second headquarters, as stated in its first-quarter earnings conference, with its plant there adopting a full smart manufacturing system, Chang said.
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Thailand is the firm’s second-largest overseas production site after China.
“In the long term, our production won’t be solely focused on China,” he said. “We aim to produce closer to the market end and strike a balanced deployment.”
Delta’s Thai center would use Nvidia Corp’s Omniverse platform to integrate virtual verification with physical implementation, speeding up production line development and serving as a key base for its business in Southeast and South Asia, Chang said.
Asked about production plans for power systems and liquid cooling solutions for Nvidia’s GB model, Chang said manufacturing would remain in Taiwan for now, but could expand to the US or Europe depending on customer demand.
Delta yesterday launched its first smart manufacturing innovation center in Taoyuan’s Jhongli District (中壢), offering training courses on hardware-software integration from single machines to full production lines in collaboration with Nvidia.
The company plans to replicate the model at its centers in Thailand and China to meet customer demand and market trends, Chang said.
By using simulation for production line verification, Delta expects to raise application accuracy to 90 percent and shorten new product introduction cycles, said Andy Liu (劉佳容), general manager of Delta’s industrial automation business group.
As Delta promotes its smart manufacturing plant, the main challenge is convincing customers to invest amid uncertainty over returns, Chang said, adding that the company must provide quantitative proof, such as improved efficiency, better quality and lower costs.
“Clients want to know, for example, whether training error can be reduced to 30 or even 60 percent, and exactly how much cost they can save — we need to show them the numbers,” he said.
In the past, it was difficult to demonstrate solutions without simulation tools, but with new capabilities, Delta can now engage customers in early-stage discussions and offer greater customization flexibility — key to promoting smart production, Chang said.
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