The conference named “Re-Industrialisation –
Impact and Opportunities for Hong Kong” was organized by Hong Kong Science
& Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) and TecONE (HKPC) on 22nd
Feb 2016. “Re-Industrialisation”, one of
the outlined initiatives in the Chief Executive’s 2016 Policy Address, is a
potential new direction that drives the city’s economic growth and era of smart
manufacturing. In the beginning, Mr.
Andrew Young (Chief Commerical Officer, HKSTP) gave welcome remarks for Mr.
Allen Ma (CEO, HKSTP). He said Venice (威尼斯) was business centre in the past but it was
not able to keep their position about environment changed (new sea travel route
discovered). Therefore, HKSTP began
hosting the Smart Living@Science Park exhibition as showcasing solutions that innovated, designed and made in Hong Kong.
Then Mrs. Agnes Mak (Executive Director,
HKPC) gave welcome remarks. She said
they aimed to attract high value-added industries back to Hong Kong for three
areas:
i) Brand
Value-added (e.g. CEPA, IP)
ii) Operation
Model (e.g. Automation & Smart Manufacturing)
iii) Product
and Service Innovation (e.g. coop with Universities and R&D centres; Market
oriented)
Group photo
The first keynote speaker was Mr. Nicholas
W. Yang, JP (Secretary for Innovation and Technology). He said government would like to promote “Re-Industrialisation”
enhancing Hong Kong Industries. Hong
Kong has for advantage of industries included:
i) Good Manufacturing Technology structure ii) Good IT infrastructure
iii) Large Mainland Market
iv) Brand (e.g. Testing and Certification)
Moreover, HKSTP had developing three
platform included Health Aging, Robotic and Smart Centre. HKPC had assisting Industry upgrading, as
well as, IE provided one-stop-shop services, etc.
The second keynote speaker was Mr. Kay
Matzner (International Project Manager, bei Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) and his
presentation topic named “i4.0 in Germany and successful examples”. In the beginning, Mr. Matzner showed the
video named “The Fourth
Industrial Revolution” as introduction.
Mr. Matzner briefed the evolution of
Industry in Germany and successful examples.
He told us to prepare the evolution from Present to Future and became
Smart Factory. It related the
development by interaction of many individual technologies including Computer
performance, Miniaturisation, connectedness, Data storage, Identification,
Position systems, Robots and Simulation.
Then he mentioned the domains and challenges
of Industry 4.0 (i4.0) as follows:
i) Progressive computerization of the workplace (Production: Mobile computing devices, App technology, IT marketplaces and Internet-based services)
ii) Digitalisation of the workplace (Availability and analysis of big data, Early fault detection and Preventive Maintenance & Servicing)
iii) More Flexibility (Decentralisation and Networking, Machine condition monitoring, Remote diagnostics and remote control)
The following table summarized the potential
savings in i4.0.
After that Mr. Matzner stated the German
Road to i4.0 through consistent merging of the digital and real world, the
increasing dynamic and complexity would be manageable and AI of devices were
key for the next industrial revolution.
Then they needed to strengthen of material and production research,
comprehensive digitization of the production value chains, affordable Clean Energy
Strategies, Open Innovation and Human Capital.
He addressed four major challegnes of i4.0
in German as follows:
-
Competitiveness
of our high-wage location
-
Demographic
change
-
Resource
and energy efficiency
-
Urban
production
Some impacts of i4.0 were “Salaries of a
region would not matter anymore” and “Until 2020 globally 7 million traditional
jobs would be lost and 2 million jobs with new profiles created”.
Lastly, Mr. Matzner suggested to develop
Hong Kong as China knowledge base for Industry 4.0 technologies by upgrading
Universities, upgrading research centres, HKSTP, etc. The Road to i4.0 for Hong Kong companies was
shown as following diagram which included government and company funded in
order to achieve Smart Work System. Smart Work System characteristics had
Zero-defect manufacturing, Shortened assembly time, Reliability in the process
chain, high Flexibility for quantities down to 1, Sustainable quality
documentation, Validation and optimization of critical processes and Early
certainty for suppliers, OEM, Immediately recognizable safeguarded zones and
Ergonomic interaction.
The third keynote speaker was Ir. Prof.
Daniel M. Cheng, JP (Chairman, Federation of Hong Kong Industries) and his
topic entitled “How can HK Industries Capitalize on Re-Industrialisation”. Firstly, Prof. Daniel Cheng briefed the old
style manufacturing assembly line of Hong Kong Industry.
Then Prof. Cheng introduced the concept of
Smart World that everything was connected together. Some examples were mentioned including
Renewable Energy – Bahrain World Trade Centre in Manama, Robot People Carrier,
Hands-free sustainable energy vehicles, etc.
Prof. Cheng said the new positioning of Hong
Kong would be serving the Smart City in 50 years. It would be incorporate IoT, Robotics to
assist in manufacturing to make process SMART through Licensing, IP and
E-commerce. Then he shared Dunwell
bio-toilet (DMBR) to enhance of toilet cleaning efficiency.
Prof. Cheng told us there were 124
bio-toilets built in Hong Kong and all connected into internet for routine
operation and maintenance. Recently,
China had ordered DMBR for travelling area and the number of order was huge!
During the tea break, I met Prof. Winco Yung
(Professor, ISE Dept., PolyU; Centre-in-Charge, PCT Technology Centre) and took
a photo for memory. Prof. Winco Yung was
HKSQ exco member since 1996.
Mr. Kevin Ko (Managing Director, Radius China (a Jabil company)) was the fourth speaker and his presentation named “From Ideation to Production”. Mr. Ko briefed Radius aims which was “to help clients develop and deliver innovative, meaningful product solutions that improve experiences and enhance lives.”
Mr. Ko introduced their Ideation Framework and Approach. They were not used Business & Technology-Driven Innovation but using Human Centric-Driven Innovation. Human Centric-Driven Innovation approach was to draw from a range of design methods to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success.
Then Mr. Ko focused on “User Journey” to
understand the use cycle and then briefed Radius Approach using Discover,
Design, Develop and Deliver.
Lastly, Mr. Ko explained Innovation Realized
that Innovation mean “What to make / user experience design and Realized mean “How
to make it / robust Design for Manufacture (DFM) development”. The cycle enhanced to quickly Design, Build
& Test.
Ir. Thomas K.K. Lee (General Manager,
Materials & Manufacturing Technology Division, HKPC) was the fifth speaker
and his topic was “Transformation from Intelligent Manufacturing (i-mfg)
Towards Smart Manufacturing”. Ir. Lee
highlighted the topics such as Evolution of i4.0, transformation of i-mfg to
i4.0 Smart Manufacturing.
Firstly, Ir. Thomas Lee explained Intelligent Manufacturing (i-mfg) that connected all machines into one platform as Advanced Manufacturing Automation System. Industry faced a problem was huge hardware and software investment, lack of local expertise and support, as well as, lack of supply of major automation components. HKPC approach was to develop some major automation components, to integrate of existing machinery and to assist local manufacturers to realize mold automation wit minimum hardware investment.
Then Ir. Lee stated the evolution of the 4th
Industrial Revolution in the following diagram.
Obviously, degree of complexity had increased in each revolution and
they expected to use i-mfg (including Cyber Physical Production system) to
achieve SMART manufacturing. Ir. Lee
stated the definition of i4.0 that “The basis for the fourth industrial
revolution is the availability of all relevant information in real time by
connecting all instances involved in the value chain.” (Source: Platform
Industry 4.0, Translated from German)
Finally, Ir. Lee introduced that HKPC was
going to set up “Industry 4.0 Smart Demo Factory” through upgrading the
existing “i-mfg Centre” for demonstrating the principle of future factory
operation to Hong Kong industry. It
aimed to demonstrate “future Factory” which applied concept of Internet of
Things (IoT), Cyber Physical Production System (CPPS), Flexible Manufacturing
Technology (FMT), Collaboration of H2M & M2M, etc.
Dr. T. John Koo (Director, Cyber-Physical
Systems (CPS), ASTRI) was the last speaker and his presentation entitled “Opportunities
and Critical Success Factors for the Development of Cyber-Physical Systems in
Hong Kong”. Dr. Koo briefed the research
background of ASTRI and they had 400 R&D engineers in which had 27% with
PhD degree and more than 50% had master degree or above.
Firstly, Dr. Koo mentioned Intelligent
Manufacturing Initiative (IMI) R&D Focus & Strategy as follows:
i) Virtual
Prototyping Platform (by using the Virtual Prototype to reduce the design and
development cost on the actual system: >50% reduction in new product
time-to-market.)
ii) Surface
Defect Inspection (by using the Vision Technology and Defect Inspection: ~8%
manpower saving and ~65% manufacturing yield loss reduction)
iii) 3D
Power Electronics Module (by using the Virtual Technology for 3D power module:
>50% reduction in new product time-to-market)
Then Dr. Koo explained that Cyber-Physical
Systems are physical, biological, and engineered systems whose operations are
integrated, monitored, and/or controlled by a computation core. The behavior of CPS is a fully-integrated
hybridization of computation (logical), physical and human action. The systems development life cycle (SDLC) was
described and which enhanced the cycle time of new system delivery through “Design
Death Spiral”.
At the end, Dr. Koo briefed ASTRI supported
Industry 4.0 through ICT Driven from different R&D teams (involving
Hardware and Software).
Reference:
HKSTP - http://www.hkstp.org
TecONE - http://tecone.hkstp.org/t1_web/
The Fourth Industrial Revolution video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCGV1tNBoeU
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