Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師)

2025年11月29日星期六

CityUHK (Dongguan) SYE2066 Guest Talk i4.0 & Startup

Dr. Vincent Fung was our industrial guest speaker in the class of SYE 2066 “Professional Engineering Practice”. Dr. Fung’s lecture entitled “Innovation and Technology in Engineering & Industry Transformation” was held on 29^th Nov 2025.

In the beginning, Dr. Vincent Fung introduced his background that he got EngD in PolyU and Constant at HKSTP, Chief Technology Advisor at QP Group, Deputy Chairman & Executive Director in Kin Yat Holdings Ltd. He had 40 years expertise in product design, mold design, NPI, production process and marketing in the manufacturing industry in HK, Mainland China, Asian countries, US and Canada. Then he briefed the transformation journey from the traditional manufacturing to i4.0.

And then he introduced his company old products including toys and home appliances.

After that he mentioned the motivation for transformation and voice of customers.

One of his proudest products is the robotic vacuum cleaner.

He also stated that they invited quality expert Prof. Fugee Tsung (also exco member of HKSQ) to provide six sigma and lean training to their company engineers.

Finally, he shared smart manufacturing for the toy “Jenga”. Using AI for inspection enhanced the accuracy and efficiency.

In the second part, Dr. Vincent Fung introduced Startup and briefed the ABC concepts including Auto, Build and Cell.

He also shared to students about I&T life cycle and double valley of death.

Then Dr. Fung briefed the evolution of smart baby product.

Lastly, I on behalf of SYE Dept and CityUHKDG presented the appreciated certificate to Dr. Vincent Fung.

Yesterday morning, Vincent and I had breakfast in CityUHK and took a shuttle to go to CityUHKDG. (Remark: Following the devastating fire in Tai Po, CityUHK lowered its flag to half-mast.)

When we arranged CityUHKDG, we took a photo with Prof. Ron Kwok and Prof. Alan Chan.

When we visited the campus, we meeting the book fair and selected some books for students.

After that we enjoyed the coffee in the Kcoffee.

Finally, we visited the library.

Dr. Vincent Fung took a smart photo inside the library!

In the evening, I visited Vincent’s home in Dongguau.

We arrived his apartment.

Very special design, there are actually two floors in one unit. (Top view)

(Down view)

Lastly, we had hot pot dinner here before returning to CityUHKDG.

Reference:

CityUHKDG - https://www.cityu-dg.edu.cn/home

BEng in Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering - https://uga.cityu-dg.edu.cn/en/Intelligent-manufacturing-engineering

Related to CityU Dongguan (DG):

20251025: CityUHK (Dongguan) ICAUAS 2025 & SYE2066 Class - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/10/cityuhk-dongguan-icauas-2025-sye2066.html

20251011: CityUHK (Dongguan) ITME Students Visit to ATL - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/10/cityuhk-dongguan-itme-students-visit-to.html

20250927: Introduction of Extenics in CityUHK (Dongguan) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/09/introduction-of-extenics-in-cityuhk.html

20250906: The First Lecture of SYE2066 in CityUHK (Dongguan) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-first-lecture-of-sye2066-in-cityuhk.html

20250517: CityU Eminence Society (CES) visits CityU (Dongguan) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/05/cityu-eminence-society-ces-visits-cityu.html

2025年11月27日星期四

ACP Meeting for IT System in Tai Po

We had originally planned to hold an ACP meeting on November 27, 2025, to continue pushing forward IT system development. However, a serious fire broke out yesterday at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, classified as a level 5 fire. Most of the victims needed to move outside their residences, and many of them were elderly. ACP were required by Government in this morning to support medicine to the victims. That we changed meeting place in Tai Po. After our meeting, Mr. Peter Suen and Ms. Wendy Mui returned to the Wang Fuk Court and elderly rescue station to support their medicine need.

(Left: I, Ms. Wendy Mui, Mr. Peter Suen, Mr. Matthew Tsui and Mr. Vincent Lau)

Reference

ActiveCareGroup - http://www.activecaregroup.com/

ACP related events:

20251121: ACP in Gerontech and Innovation Expo cum Summit

20251104: ACP Steering Committee Meeting for IT System - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/11/acp-steering-committee-meeting-for-it.html

20251018: Meeting in ACP for IT Project Cooperation - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/10/meeting-in-acp-for-it-project.html

20251017: Visit to ACP for COMP Student’s Capstone Project - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/10/visit-to-acp-for-comp-students-capstone.html

20250923: The 10th World Summit of Chinese Quality 2025 (第十屆全球華人品質峰會) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-10th-world-summit-of-chinese.html

20250921: Grand Opening of ActiveCarePharmacy Limited - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/09/grand-opening-of-activecarepharmacy.html

20250506: Dashun Foundation Webinar – A brief talk on smart medication use (淺談用藥精明) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/05/dashun-foundation-webinar-brief-talk-on.html

20250324: Visit ActiveCarePharmacy Limited for COMP Students’ Capstone Project - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/03/visit-activecarepharmacy-limited-for.html

20211126: The 6th World Summit of Chinese Quality (Online) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-6th-world-summit-of-chinese-quality.html

20211122: Visit to HKSQ Corporate Member - ActiveCarePharmacy Limited - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2021/11/visit-to-hksq-corporate-member.html

20200501: HKSQ Quality Professional visit to ActiveCareGroup Surgery Face Mask Production Line - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/05/hksq-quality-professional-visit-to.html

20200425: Visit to ActiveCareGroup Clean Room and Surgery Face Mask Production Line - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/04/visit-to-activecaregroup-clean-room-and.html

20190312: Visit to ActiveCareGroup Fo Tan Office - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/03/visit-to-activecaregroup-fo-tan-office.html

20190202: Meeting for Pharmaceutical/Healthcare Industry in Hong Kong - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/02/meeting-for-pharmaceuticalhealthcare.html

20190122: ActiveCareGroup meeting in CityU - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/01/activecaregroup-meeting-in-cityu.html

20190106: ActiveCareGroup Annual Dinner - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/01/activecaregroup-annual-dinner.html

20180419: Peter Suen sponsor Student FYP and visit CityU SEEM Laboratories - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/04/peter-suen-sponsor-student-fyp-and.html

20180301: Visit to ActiveCareGroup Intelligent Robotic Solution (Shenzhen) Limited (II) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2018/03/visit-to-activecaregroup-intelligent.html

20180210: Visit to ActiveCareGroup Intelligent Robotic Solution (Shenzhen) Limited - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2018/02/visit-to-activecaregroup-intelligent.html

20171217: Visit to Song Shan Lake (松山湖) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2017/12/visit-to-song-shan-lake.html

20150528: HKSQ Technical Visit to ActiveCarePharmacy Medication Management Centre - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/05/hksq-technical-visit-to.html

20150411: HKSQ Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Workshop - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2015/04/hksq-pharmaceutical-good-manufacturing.html

20140319: HKSTP Seminar to gain trust from business partners by using management tools - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/03/hkstp-seminar-to-gain-trust-from.html

2025年11月25日星期二

Leader 2030 – The Success Secrets of Japan Richest Man from UNIQLO

The Executive Study Group (ESG) webinar named “Leader 2030 - The Success Secrets of Japan Richest Man from UNIQLO” was held by Asia Pacific Institute for Strategy Limited (APIFS) on 25^th Nov 2025. Firstly, Dr. Mark Lee briefed the topics including “Company Profile”, “Sales & Marketing Strategy”, “Operation & People Strategy”, “Strategic Value Chain Analysis”, “Global Strategy” and “Group Discussion”.

Then Dr. Mark Lee reviewed ranking of worldwide apparel specialty stores and UNIQLO (Fast Retailing) was ranked number 4 in 2010. Its market share less than ZARA, H&M and Cap but the growth rate was the number one.

The goal of UNIQLO in 2009 was 5 trillion yen by 2020. It got the highest profitability in gross margin (upto 50%).

It had high inventory turnover that double than the industry norm.

UNIQLO boss visited Giordano in Hong Kong in 1986 and got insights from Giordano on virtual value chain strategy. In 2010, UNIQLO had much higher sale than Giordano.

One interested story about UNIQLO trade name in Hong Kong come from mis-spelling by its Hong Kong partner. (Remark Uni-Cloth (UNICLO) typed to UNIQLO.)

Then Dr. Mark Lee quoted Prof. Michael Porter that a strategic position is not sustainable unless there are trade-offs with other positions. UNIQLO employed value-for-money strategy.

The second one was “Hot-Item Driven-Sales Strategy” that which means that a best-selling product (e.g. Fleece) drives the sales of other non-best-selling products.

Finally, Dr. Lee shared their failure cases of SPOQLO and FAMIQLO due to unclear positioning.

Reference:

Asia Pacific Institute for Strategy Limited (亞太策略研究所有限公司) – www.apifs.org

ESG facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/esg08

Leader 2030 - Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders - https://www.apifs.org/Leader2030-en

Leader 2030 series:

20250307: Leader 2030 Webinar – Lean Startup: Quick Innovation Strategy - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/03/leader-2030-webinar-lean-startup-quick.html

20250319: Leader 2030 Webinar – How Are AI Projects Different from Traditional IT Projects - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/03/leader-2030-webinar-how-are-ai-projects.html

20250422: Leader 2030 Webinar – The Secret for Successful Strategy Execution - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/04/leader-2030-webinar-secret-for.html

20250502: Leader 2030 Webinar – The Secret for Successful Strategy Execution (II) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/05/leader-2030-webinar-secret-for.html

20250515: Leader 2030 -Negotiation Strategy to Lead Changes - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/05/leader-2030-negotiation-strategy-to.html

20250806: Leader 2030-Innovation Strategy-How to Increase Customer Satisfaction and Reduce Costs Simultaneously - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/08/leader-2030-innovation-strategy-how-to.html

20250915: Leader 2030 -How to Turn Customer Loyalty to High Profits - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/09/leader-2030-how-to-turn-customer.html

20251023: Leader 2030 Webinar – Motivational Strategy - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/10/leader-2030-motivational-strategy.html

20251107: Leader 2030 Webinar – Motivational Strategy (II) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/11/leader-2030-webinar-motivational.html

Previous talks summary:

https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/search/label/Executive%20Study%20Group

2025年11月24日星期一

Ceremony for Professional Talents in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) Engineering "Professional Title" Evaluation (粵港澳大灣區職稱評價工程專業人才慶祝典禮)

I joined the Ceremony for Engineering Professional Talents in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) "Professional Title" Evaluation (粵港澳大灣區職稱評價工程專業人才慶祝典禮) in HKCEC on 24^th Nov 2025. The ceremony was co-organized by Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA), Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE) and Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS).

I met many HKIE MIS old friends. I took a photo with Ir Dr. KW Lo.

Photo with Ir Dr. Jackson Tang

Ir Prof. Winco Yung was met here.

Ir Dr. Aaron Tong was sitting behind me.

I sat with Ir Dr. Ritz Lau (Managing Director, Standbot Robotics Limited).

Ir Dr. Alan Chan was in front of me.

In the beginning, Ir Ricky Lau Chun-kit (劉俊傑) (Permanent Secretary for Development (Works)) gave opening speech. He said 371 Hong Kong construction and engineering professionals from the public sector, consultants, and contractors have passed the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) engineering "Professional Title" evaluation and obtained corresponding professional qualifications on the Mainland in 2025.

Then Mr. YE Shuiqiu (Deputy Director-General, Department of Educational, Scientific and Technological Affairs, Liaison Office of the Central People's Goverment in HKSAR) (中聯辦教育科技部副部長葉水球先生) gave a speech in Cantonese. He had already serviced in Hong Kong for 20 years. He pointed out that talent reflects a country's overall strength.

Many engineers attended the ceremony!

And then Ar POON Ho Lun Allen (潘浩倫) (Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA)) gave speech. He said HKIA had 103 engineers succeed to obtain the professional title.

Ir Alice CHOW Kin Tak was the first chairlady of HKIE and she gave speech to encourage young engineers to use this scheme.

Sr LEUNG Chi Tim Robin (President, The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS)) gave speech to all surveyors who achieved the professional title.

Then guests took a group photo.

After that all professional engineers took a photo for memory. “Professorate Senior Engineer” (正高級工程師) go to the stage first. Ir Dr. Alan Chan was the first person in the first row.

The group photo was taken for the first row.

I was first in the second row and took a picture with all the engineers in line.

Thanks Jackson took a photo for me.

Ir Dr. Aaron Tong was in the second one of the third row.

And then Ir Dr. Jackson Tang and Ir Lam Tat Ming in next round.

I also met Ir Dr. Eric Liu.

Ir Dr. YM Wong, Ir Prof. Winco Yung and I took a photo for memory.

Ir SC Ho sat in the front row.

And then we took a group photo. Ir Herman Chiu (Principal Solution Consultant, Westwell Holdings (HK) Ltd) sat in the middle.

Finally, Mr. David Lam (林智文) (Under Secretary for Development) gave closing remark. He had over 30 years of experience in the town planning industry and hopeful the scope of professional title extended to town planning in the future.