LibGuides: * Guide for MAE: ST news & other industry news (2025)

This study explores the potential growth opportunities for AGVs and AMRs in discrete manufacturing industries. There is a trend toward mass customization in industries such as automotive, electronics, and semiconductors, which is paving the way for flexible manufacturing practices. Agile manufacturing requires seamless intralogistics operations that enhance growth opportunities for AGVs and AMRs.

Advanced robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) are rapidly transforming industrial operations by integrating adaptability, intelligence, and precision into core processes across various sectors, including healthcare, manufacturing, automotive, and agriculture.

Once hailed as a scientific marvel, plastics now pose significant environmental and health risks. This program investigates growing evidence of the dangers of chemicals used in plastic manufacturing, such as phthalates and PFAS, and follows researchers tackling these issues with innovative solutions. It also examines recent developments in fossil fuel free bioplastics that aim to reduce both plastic and food waste, offering hope for a more sustainable future.

Rapid growth in edge computing power, robotics, high-speed connectivity, and optimization of AI models has been a key facilitator of modern additive manufacturing.This research report covers the developments in the technology and its impact on the market.

This report features trend advancements in the supply chain, including new business models, such as cold chain-as-a-service, flexible fulfillment, microfulfillment distribution hubs, warehouse-as-a-service, shipping software-as-a service, and features of advanced technologies in supply chain, such as edge computing, smart contracts, and supply chain control tower.

Singapore’s Digital Economy at 18.6% of GDP, up from 14.9% in 2019.
Pulse survey unveiled 3 in 4 workers are using AI tools regularly, with 85% of the AI-using workers polled finding that AI helps them to work faster and better.
SMEs’ AI adoption rate more than tripled in just one year: 14.5% of SMEs and 62.5% of non-SMEs adopted AI in 2024.

MOM: Singapore unveils data-driven human capital index to enhance workforce mobility and competitiveness

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has introduced the Singapore Opportunity Index (SOI), a human capital index that measures how employers support meaningful career growth and improve economic outcomes for their employees.

The SOI is the first index of its kind in Singapore that uses objective, verified government data from almost 1,500 companies and close to one million residents, to understand how economic mobility is forged in the workplace.

1st phase: national level insights report and comprehensive information on the SOI website, including its methodology. 2nd phase: featuring organisations who have demonstrated strong workforce outcomes Q1 2026.

MOM: Full Report of Job Vacancies 2024; Press release


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EDB: Singapore tops global innovation ranking of over 70 countries

Future of Jobs Reports
World Economic Forum, Jan 2025

This year’s edition captures the perspectives of over 1,000 employers, representing more than 14 million workers across 22 industry clusters & 55 economies. Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts & the green transition are among the major drivers expected to shape & transform the global labour market by 2030:

Broadening digital access
Increasing cost of living
Climate-change mitigation
Aging & declining working age populations
Geoeconomic fragmentation & geopolitical tensions

Skills Demand For the Future Economy Report 2025
Skillsfuture SG, Jan 2025

SSG studied 5 years of job posting data from 2019 to 2023, to understand changes to job requirements for skills, & the use of digital applications and tools (“Apps & Tools”), focusing on the priority skills in the Green, Digital and Care Economies. It also includes a deep dive on the Creative Industries, where jobs and tasks are both reliant on human ingenuity while also profoundly affected by advances in Information Technology

SSG: SSG Launches Interactive Dashboards on Jobs and Skills Data, Spotlights Singapore’s Creative Industries in Latest Skills Report

MOE: Opening Address by Ms Gan Siow Huang, Minister of State, Ministry of Education for the Launch of the Skills Demand for the Future Economy Report 2025, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre