Programos Foundation Advises Manufacturers on Tech Adoption
Programos Foundation, a Nigeria based non-governmental organisation, which specialises in the grooming of entrepreneurs has advised manufacturers in the country to adopt Information Technology (IT) tools in enhancing production and production processes.
It insisted that IT adoption could be used to address most of the challenges bedeviling the manufacturing industry.
The President of the Foundation, Mr. Amos Emmanuel, gave the advice on the occasion of the 31st Annual General Meeting of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Ogun State chapter in Sango-Ogun State.
According to Emmanuel, who spoke as a guest lecturer on the topic ‘Industries and the Economy: Problems, Prospects and the Way Forward’, though the challenges facing the manufacturing industry are not peculiar, the deployment of IT tools has proven to boost output and ultimately increase revenue for manufacturers.
Emmanuel who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Programos Software Group, an indigenous Capital Market software provider and designers of CloudIntegra Investment Trading solutions, believes that the manufacturing industries play pivotal roles in any economy, engendering rapid growth, jobs and wealth creation, which lead to improved standard of living. He insisted there was a need to leverage on technology to meet the demand of the manufacturing industry.
According to him, “It is a known fact that our world is technology-driven and any country with the necessary technological knowhow leads directly or indirectly in the committee of nations. As a country striving to become more industrialised, a new breed of technologists must come onboard to meet the demands of the manufacturing industry, a situation that will then position us in our desired status among our peers.”
He noted that though some manufacturers disagree in a survey conducted by Programos Foundation that lack of automation and technological knowhow is a contributory factor to the problems facing industries in the country, he said it remained to be disputed that the processes of quite a number of Nigerian manufacturers lack the necessary automations that would make work easy and more efficient.
He said as daunting as the challenges may be, they were not insurmountable. He said apart from technology deployment, the solutions to the enumerated problems would include improvement in Nigeria’s infrastructural base, especially electricity supply, adding that no nation on earth can industrialise without stable power supply.