Capacity building for digitalization of manufacturing industries toward industry 4.0 in Thailand

Manufacturing is the most important sector, contributing the most GDP in Thailand. The organizations are trying to develop to industry 4.0 through technology adoption. Capability building is one of the key factors companies invest in to step up in industry 4.0. The study’s objective is to investigate the key factors for collaboration between the companies and academic sectors, including the participation of the government. The three outstanding large companies related to digitalization were selected to be the case study of this paper. Data collection is interpreted by literature review and secondary case study and then analyzed by the thematic analysis of focus point and key success model. The detail of the result of the analysis is broken down by the focus point of the case factor between sectors of each case study.