The Vietnam plant in Bien Hoa City has been set up as a global production hub for our industrial bearing products and applications.The Bien Hoa manufacturing plant has a land plot of 50,000 sqm with a building area of 25,000 sqm. Schaeffler Vietnam is a branch of Schaeffler Group operations in South East Asia. We established a representative office in Ho Chi Minh City in June 2011. Our factory was officially inaugurated in Amata Industrial Zone, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai province in December 2007. During that time, we also expanded our services to customers in the North by starting off a second Sales office in Ha Noi City. With total of more than 370 employees, we are proud to introduce and offer the best Schaeffler Group portfolio of industrial bearings, related components, complete bearing installation and maintenance services to end-users in Vietnam. Over the past few years, we have added new production lines for portfolio and range extensions and implemented holistic digitalization projects integrated with Schaeffler’s latest Industry 4.0 solutions. Along with the expansion of facilities, Schaeffler is also developing the production hub in Vietnam as a digital pilot plant for its global production system. The digital networking of production facilities along the entire value chain is one of the most important goals of Industry 4.0.
Vietnam Success Story
Watch the video to find out more on how our Bien Hoa plant makes Precision Bearings Made by Schaeffler. Our manufacturing plant in Bien Hoa City, Vietnam, is a global production hub for a wide range of industrial products. Developed as a pilot for a new digital manufacturing concept, Schaeffler Vietnam is part of our network of 75 plants around the world. Each plant in this network operates under the same production system and technology framework; this ensures that our plants meet the same high requirements in terms of efficiency and quality.
Products Made in Vietnam for Customers Worldwide
New Product Lines & Range Extension
Since the start of production in 2019, the company has scaled up operations at the plant to add two new product lines - the Radial Insert Ball Bearings (RIBB) ISO range and Schaeffler’s flagship product Needle Roller Bearings (NRB). Three more products lines will be added to Vietnam’s product portfolio by end of 2020 – Deep Groove Ball Bearing (DGBB), Mast Roller Bearing (HMR) and an extended range of Tapered Roller Bearings (TRB). The range and product line extensions will serve regional and global customers with best-in-class performance for a wide range of industrial applications.
Global pilot for new digital manufacturing concept at Schaeffler
Along with the expansion of facilities, Schaeffler is also developing the production hub in Vietnam as a digital pilot plant for its global production system. “The digital networking of production facilities along the entire value chain is one of the most important goals of Industry 4.0. This project is in line with our global initiatives to digitally map the entire product lifecycle by implementing new technologies at an early stage in our own operations” explains Klaus Mueller, Chief Operating Officer at Schaeffler Asia Pacific.
The project supports the Government of Vietnam’s thrust to digitally transform industries as part of the next wave of socioeconomic development in the country. As part of the digital pilot plant project, Schaeffler has been working with Vietnam’s biggest software development company, FPT, to develop a holistic digitalization concept integrated by continuous data management solutions. A cross-functional team is working on developing and setting up the right infrastructure, equipment and software solutions to make digitalization a major enabler for Schaeffler’s production excellence. This will be achieved by enabling optimum efficiencies based on data driven decision making and high flexibility through real time data utilization.
Appreciation for crisis management and business continuity planning
As businesses around the world are trying to manage the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, our Bien Hoa plant, a crucial part of the global production footprint of Schaeffler, the Vietnam plant adopted a precautionary stance and implemented several crisis management measures and business continuity plans at the start of the coronavirus outbreak in January 2020. This allowed the plant to continue operations despite the partial lockdown measures implemented by the Government of Vietnam, which has been very effective in handling the crisis. The measures implemented at the plant were also appreciated by the Health Ministry of Dong Nai province and Schaeffler provided a dossier to the government authorities to serve as a benchmark for other companies in the region.
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