Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師): HKSQ Student Project Competition 2017

The HKSQ Company Based Student Project Competition aims to offer an opportunity for students to work on an actual industrial case and propose resolution annually. This allows university students to gain experience of resolving an industrial problem. The competition included three sessions. The first session is problems briefing and selection those problems are designed and would be explained by Sponsor Company. Sanmina Corporation is the sponsor company in 2017. The second session is factory visit and the last session is presentation of suggested solutions by different universities students.

The briefing session of the competition was performed on 13^th Feb 2017. Mr. Peter Fung (Chairman, HKSQ) led the briefing session. He introduced our sponsor company and invited their representative to brief the competition questions.

Then Sanmina representatives presented three titles as follows:

1. Inventory reduction through effective simulation forecast & control on the supply chain (by Ms. Becky Chan (Director, Program Management))

2. Labour resource utilization improvement (by Mr. Quincy Wong (GM-MU2))

3. Equipment utilization improvement (By Mr. Edward Law (Director, Operation))

Mr. Quincy Wong introduced different topics for student teams.

After that students could ask some questions about three titles before selection. Mr. Edward Law explained to students.

Students were from different universities (included CityU, CUHK, HKU, HKUST and PolyU) had discussed to select problems for competition. Following photos were taken during their discussion.

After 20min discussion, we wrote down different teams’ 1^st and 2^nd priority choices. Each questions had at least 2 teams and finally we got the event distribution for each questions. The final result was recorded on the whiteboard that Topic 1 selected by PolyU x2, Topic 2 selected by CityU & HKUST and Topic 3 selected by CityU, CUHK and HKU.