Schneider Electric commits $25m to Tuas facility automation and AI
· Source: sbr.com.sg
In short
Schneider Electric is investing $25m to upgrade its 21,000-square-metre Hub Asia Distribution Centre in Tuas, Singapore, bringing goods-to-person automation, robotics and agentic AI to the site by 2027. The first phase has already gone live with roughly 10% productivity gains, and the full deployment is expected to handle about 40% of outbound goods with productivity up to 20% above baseline. Of the total investment, $19m will fund hiring and reskilling of 26 skilled employees to run and manage the new automated systems through 2030.
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Tags: warehouse, automation, robotics, agentic AI, reskilling, distribution