HP launches Singapore smart R&D center

Supported by the Economic Development Board of Singapore (EDB), the opening celebration included Dion Weisler, HP President and Chief Executive Officer; Richard Bailey, HP President, Asia Pacific and Japan; and Minister S Iswaran, Singapore’s Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry).

Located at Depot Close in the South West of Singapore, the new Campus is a further demonstration of HP’s commitment to Singapore, underscoring the importance of its business across the Asia Pacific region. HP Singapore was established more than 47 years ago, and has served as HP’s APJ headquarters.

SMARC Research and Prototyping Leadership. SMARC is a center of excellence to help digitally transform and reinvent HP’s Supplies manufacturing processes by leveraging next-generation digital technologies including additive manufacturing (3D printing), advanced robotics, and large-scale data analytics. SMARC’s research will help accelerate product design and speed production, while enhancing productivity, creating new efficiencies, and reducing costs throughout the Supplies manufacturing process. Successful developments from the facility will be implemented across HP’s Supplies manufacturing lines globally.

The team of engineers managing SMARC’s 6,000 square foot facility currently oversee more than 50 Supplies manufacturing lines across the world. The facility is located within the Singapore Campus and consists of four labs, each of which studies, designs, trials, and implements solutions to improve HP’s Supplies manufacturing processes and ecosystems. The target is to improve productivity by at least 20 percent.

HP’s Campus of the Future With diversity and inclusion at its core, the APJ Campus unites more than 3,000 employees from 35 nationalities in a single location for the first time including HP sales, operations, R&D, marketing, supply chain and logistics for the region. The Singapore Campus was built with a future-looking perspective centered on HP’s vision for the office of the future, allowing employees to work wherever and whenever more collaboratively and more sustainably. The Campus includes a new Customer Welcome Center (CWC) providing an ideal environment for customers and partners to explore tailored HP solutions based on the needs of individual end clients or target vertical markets.

“We are extremely committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our region and of our customers. The Singapore Campus, that includes collaborative workspaces and mobility solutions as well as the research and prototyping facility, is a reflection of our drive to constantly reinvent the way we work as well as develop new technologies to enhance productivity and efficiency across our global operations,” said Richard Bailey, President, Asia Pacific and Japan, HP Inc.