Biography - Thailand Automotive Institute
Biography - Thailand Automotive Institute
Biography - Thailand Automotive Institute
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Welcome Address<br />
Dr. Patima Jeerapaet<br />
President of <strong>Thailand</strong> <strong>Automotive</strong> <strong>Institute</strong><br />
On behalf of <strong>Thailand</strong> <strong>Automotive</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> and the organizing committee, I would like to express my gratitude to<br />
the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industry Dr. Witoon Simachokedee for your honorable attending and<br />
presides at <strong>Automotive</strong> Summit 2013 “Moving towards Global Green <strong>Automotive</strong> Industry”.<br />
As <strong>Thailand</strong> <strong>Automotive</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> had conducted the Master Plan for automotive industry 2012 - 2016 by<br />
reviewing the vision, strategies and action plans to accommodate the rapid growth of global trade and<br />
competitiveness together with the trend of the world’s automotive technology development and we have<br />
generated the vision of <strong>Thailand</strong> automotive industry in year 2021 as “<strong>Thailand</strong> is a global green automotive<br />
production base with strong domestic supply chains which create high value added for the country”. It indicates<br />
that there is widen-objective in <strong>Thailand</strong> automotive industry development from automotive manufacturing base<br />
of ASEAN to the world market. It can be seen from this vision that <strong>Thailand</strong> automotive industry development in<br />
the future will focus on utilizing benefits from being the world’s automotive manufacturing base by building up<br />
value added to <strong>Thailand</strong>, promoting to use more local products throughout supply chains. In order to achieve<br />
these it requires advanced technology development, research and development (R&D), human resource<br />
development and upgrading vehicle testing facilities to international standards.<br />
The objective of <strong>Automotive</strong> Summit 2013 conference under the theme “Moving towards Global Green<br />
<strong>Automotive</strong> Industry” is to share academic knowledge, technical know-how and visions related to the<br />
development of automotive technology, R&D and human recourse development by government and private<br />
sectors in automotive industry. These are essential to strengthen industrial operators and benefit the economic<br />
development for the country along with increasing value added, exports, employment and industrial linkage in<br />
manufacturing and various other supporting industries. According to the forecast, <strong>Thailand</strong>’s car production will<br />
reach 3 million units in 2015.<br />
Organized by:<br />
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