The
webinar named “How Products Reliability and Systems Safety help Local Industry
to address market needs and promote business opportunities” was organized by
Centre for Advan es in Reliability and Safety (CAiRS) and supported by HKSTP on
26th Nov 2020. It aimed to
share industrial and research experiences on products reliability and systems
safety and how the industry needs could be addressed and business opportunities
could be promoted.
Prof.
Winco Yung (Centre Director, CAiRS) was the first speaker and his topic
entitled “Introduction of Reliability and Safety Research in CAiRS”. Firstly, Prof. Yung mentioned the vision of
CAiRS that aimed to be world leading and regional hub for research in
reliability and safety innovation.
And
then he introduced CAiRS approach in which focused on AI based methods for
system health assessment so as to ensure reliability and safety. It aimed to develop
a real-time and predictive solution for system safety.
After
that Prof. Yung introduced five key research programs for achieving their
objectives below.
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Identification and acquisition of useful data relating
to reliability and safety.
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Development of different AI technologies in
bridging the above knowledge gaps and formation industry big data
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Integration of Data-driven Model and Physics of
Failures approaches on data set in various industry sectors
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Development of algorithm for Predictive Failure of
critical components and systems
l Formulation of practical modelling on product’s life prediction and process quality forecast
Finally,
Prof. Wu stated their testing laboratory capabilities included AI
supercomputing, Temperature & Environment Testing, Failure Analysis
Equipment and Life Cycle Assessment Equipment. Moreover, he also introduced their
team member in different departments in PolyU with different supporting organizations
such as HKEIA, HKEIC, ASM, Compass, nVidia, HAECO, CLP, GP, Defond, … etc.
Lastly,
Prof. Wu emphasized several benefits to collaborate between Industry and CAiRS
such as failure prevention and cost saving.
Until now, there were five application sectors in the program and they
were Transportation, Public Utility, Products, Parts & Components, and Data
Integrity & Software Trustworth.
Dr.
Brian Li (Executive VP, Gold Peak Industries (Holdings) Limited) was the second
speaker and his presentation named “Marketing Needs and Challenges of Products
Reliability and Systems Safety”. In the
beginning, Dr. Li briefed the background of Gold Peak Group.
Then
Dr. Li mentioned the product quality and reliability that was the livelihood of
a manufacturer. He said that the integral
cost of supplying products to customers included customer service costs and
warranty costs, which could be higher than the manufacturer’s Free On Board
(FOB) cost in terms of brand. Therefore,
high quality and high reliability is a most important qualification to establish
the brand. After that he briefed their
group’s batteries was working with CAiRS on new approaches for assessing
product reliability using Big Data analysis and AI techniques.
Finally,
Dr. Li briefed their GP batteries service and requirements. He expected the best quality and reliability were
achieved before new product launch through new technology and research employed
from the program with CAiRS.
The
last speaker was Dr. Steven Boles (Associate Professor, PolyU) and his
presentation title was “Reliability and Safety Research Methodology with
Industrial Applications”. Firstly, he briefed the demand trend for energy. Electricity increasing daily was observed that
Natural Gas and Renewables were growing.
Then
Dr. Boles said we needed for energy storage using electrochemical energy
storage device. It was observed that
Lithium-ion Battery (LIB) was growing in recently years.
After
that Dr. Boles briefed the principles of LIBs and said more energy stored, the higher
risk was. Therefore, safety and reliability
of LIBs were concerned especially travelling in fight (e.g. spare lithium
batteries never go in a checked bag).
Finally,
Dr. Boles briefed some cases about “Physics of Failure” in LIB such as Li-metal
plating, Overcharging, Manufacturing issues, thermal runaway, etc. Therefore, he suggested to add sensing in
batteries like “canary” device so as to improve safety, reliability and health
in the future.
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