Identiv has successful completed of its manufacturing transition from Singapore to its state-of-the-art facility in Bangkok, Thailand.
The transition to Thailand represents a significant achievement for the Perform pillar of Identiv’s Perform, Accelerate, Transform (P-A-T) strategy, establishing a state-of -the-art and highly efficient manufacturing operation in a location known for its strong workforce and competitive cost structure.
This strategic milestone is expected to drive operational excellence, while positioning the company as an IoT industry leader in Multicomponent Manufacturing (MCM), the forward-looking production method critical for the next decade of advanced IoT applications.
Identiv’s Newquist Comments
According to Kirsten Newquist, CEO at Identiv, the completion of the Thailand production transition is a foundational milestone for Identiv as a pure-play IoT company.
“[This] marking the end of a successful two-year process and delivering on a key strategic objective for operational excellence,” said Newquist in a statement. “By providing a state-of-the-art, high-quality and cost-efficient base, the Thailand facility is now the engine of our competitive advantage, engineered for the future of IoT and sustained, profitable growth.”
Thailand Facility
As IoT applications expand from inventory management and asset tracking to complex, high-value applications, simple, single component inlays are evolving into more sophisticated, multi-component designs to deliver this data accurately and consistently.
Identiv officials see MCM an important production method for this new era of IoT manufacturing, enabling the industrial-scale integration of various components, including chips, sensors, and batteries, into advanced RFID- and BLE-enabled tags.
To that end, the Thailand facility is strategically positioned with this advanced MCM capability, enabling the Company to rapidly commercialize next-generation, high-value IoT solutions and support continued growth.
The Strategic Advantage of MCM
MCM is expected to play a key role in expanding Identiv’s specialized IoT solutions, including advanced BLE capabilities for healthcare and logistics applications.
Dr. Manfred Mueller, Chief Strategy Officer at Identiv, said MCM is not merely an assembly method; it is the orchestration of interdependent disciplines, including product design, process engineering, material science, and testing.
“The decade of experience our teams have in refining these parameters across thousands of production runs is a key competitive advantage for Identiv,” said Mueller.”This expertise is what allows us to rapidly prototype and commercialize complex systems for critical high-value applications, cementing our role as the infrastructure layer shaping IoT’s future.”