C. Richard Liu takes the example of the service for automation of production that has been promoted by the institute's Mechanical Industry Research Laboratories for many years now. Taiwan basically did not have any intermediary companies providing this kind of service in the past, and the MIRL could only take on the responsibility of giving direct guidance to all kinds of enterprises and industries.
劉中鴻以機械所推行多年的廠商生產自動化服務為例，以前台灣根本沒有自動化工程服務公司之類的中間廠商，機械所只得負起直接輔導各行各業廠商的重責。