Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師): HKIE MI Division Gala Dinner 2016

I (Former Chairman of HKSQ) was honor to be invited by both Dr. Sammy Wan (Head of Quality, Safety and Envir., Analogue Group of Companies - ATAL) and Dr. Aaron Tong (Former Chairman of HKSQ) to attend HKIE MI Division Gala Dinner on 15 Jan 2016. Before the dinner, we took some photo with HKIE friends for memory. (Left: Dr. Pat Cheung (TQM), Dr. Aaron Tong (HKSQ; TQM), Mr. Harry Li (Past President of IIE(HK)), Dr. Sammy Wan (ATAL; HKIE) and I (HKSQ))

(Left: Dr. Jackson Tang (Varitronix Group; HKIE), Ir. SC Ho (Chairman, HKIE-MIE), Dr. YC Chow (Vice President, China Operation Improvement Group, TDK) and I)

OUHK friends

(Left: I, Dr. George HK Lau and Mr. SL Mak)

I met some old friend Ir. Davis Liu (Senior Manager – Training and Development, Kowloon Bay Training Centre, Construction Industry Council) who also joined ANQ Congress with Dr. Sammy Wan in the past. Mr. Coleman Tse (Sales & Marketing Director, BSI) was my old friends too. (Left 1^st row: Mr. Coleman Tse and Ir. Davis Liu; Left 2^nd row: I and Dr. Sammy Wan)

In the beginning, Ir. SC Ho (Chairman, HKIE-MI Division) gave a welcome speech. He briefed the industry 4.0 and smart city that could bring many opportunity to Hong Kong. Then he introduced the keynote speaker Professor Lu Jian.

The keynote speech was Professor Lu Jian (Vice President of City University of Hong Kong) and his topic named “The Hong Kong’s role in “Made in China 2025” initiatives”. Firstly, he briefed 5 key elements of made in America and they were “Design”, “Material”, “Process”, “AM Genome” and “Value Chain”. Then he mentioned Industry 4.0 which was a part of the German High Tech 2020 plan in order to enhance its capacity for integrating Cyber Physical Systems and to achieve the goal “Design by German”.

After that Prof. Lu briefed the comparison among Made in China 2025, Industry 4.0 (Germany) and Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (USA). He stated 5 strategy of Chinese Innovation below:

1. Support Original Innovation by building up the environment and platforms;

2. Developing Chinese Manufacturing Core Technologies;

3. Promote Created by China;

4. Enhance the IP protection;

5. Created new Chinese value chain.

Finally, Prof. Lu mentioned value chain of precious metal and explained how Apple to create value in “Apple Gold” through advanced materials and manufacturing. Lastly, he briefed some research and entrepreneur cases.

Then all HKETA committee members and VIPs took a group photo.

Then HKIE MI Division chairman and committee member took a song performance and Ir. Dr. Hon Lo Wai Kwok, BBS, MH, JP (Fellow of HKIE) performed music.