2021年1月28日星期四

HKSTP Online Forum – Reindustrialise Hong Kong and the Way Forward

HKSTP arranged online forums named “Reindustrialise Hong Kong and the Way Forward” on 28th Jan 2021. There are separated into two forums which are “Advanced Manufacturing in Hong Kong” and “Data in Action”.  I attended the first one “Advanced Manufacturing in Hong Kong”.


Dr. HL Yiu (Head of Re-industrialization, HKSTP) was moderator and gave a welcome speech and introduction the reindustrialization policy in the beginning of the forum. We expected to create smart manufacturing ecosystem.


Mr. William Yim (Executive Chairman & CTO, Sanwa Biotech Limited) was the first speaker and he shared his re-industrialization road.  Firstly, he introduced his company “Sanwa” since 1991 which competences in advanced manufacturing process including micro joining, laser micro machining and precision mechanics, etc.


Then he mentioned their integration of advanced technology for lab-on-chip for biological detection and testing including H1N1 and other diseases.


Finally, he briefed their production and laboratory facility in Fo Tan.  His future plan is to move or expand their production line into AMC, HKSTP. 


Dr. Alex Wong Siu-wah (Founder, King’s Flair International (Holdings) Limited) was the second speaker and he shared his reindustrialization path for 5 year practice on nanomaterial (e.g. nano fiber).  


Then Dr. Wong said they would like to build a platform for universities students who would like to work in the industry.  He had already cooperated with 5 universities in Hong Kong.


Finally, he introduced the key features of nanofibers including high porosity, small pore size, interconnected pore structure, unique physical and mechanical performance, as well as design flexibility for chemical/physical surface functionalization.  Lastly, he showed their Nano Material R&D Lab to us.


The third speaker was Dr. Shuyu Chen (Director, Lumi Technology Co., Ltd.) and his talk named “Intelligent Manufacturing of Advanced Function Materials”. Their new material technology had developed since 2014.  They used 5 years for commercialization.


And the Dr. Chen employed AI to enhance material customization and development efficiency. 


Lastly, Dr. Shuyu Chen shared their products employed into different industries.


The forth speaker Mr. Raymond Shan (Principal Consultant, HKPC) and his topic entitled “Intelligent Manufacturing (i-mfg) Enabled by Smart Technology”.  Firstly, he briefed the goal of i4.0 that was to increase flexibility.


Then Mr. Shan introduced their framework of industry 4.0 and two key feathers were digitalization and connectivity. And then i4.0 smartification model was briefed that many HK companies were from -2i to 1i, Germany companies were ahead from 1i to 2i.


Finally, he shared some successful i4.0 migration cases enabled by HKPC such as Ka Shu Holding, Trio Electronics Ltd’s digitalization & connectivity, etc.


Dr. T. John Koo (Director of Cyber-Physical Systems, ASTRI) was the last speaker and his topic entitled “Collaborative Mobile Manipulators”.  Firstly, he introduced smart factor for advanced manufacturing had the following features: High-Mix Production, Low-Volume Manufacturing, Agile Product Design and Flexible Deployment System. 


And then Dr. Koo mentioned Mobile Platform and Manipulator were key factors in smart factory.  He introduced a mobile manipulator (Dexterity plus Mobility) which designed for implementation of smart factory.


Finally, Dr. Koo introduced their successful case to employ Collaborative Mobile Manipulator in industrial Magnetic Head Clean Room for TDK.  Moreover, it won the Equipment and Machinery Design Award under Hong Kong Award for Industries 2018. 


Lastly, Dr. John Koo explained the smart manufacturing concept using Digital Twin and Physical Twin together and their approach was from Physical Space to Digital Space and then back to Physical Space.


Q&A Session


2021年1月27日星期三

CityU SDSC Seminar – Promises of Machine Learning from Material Discovery to Dynamic Resource Allocation

The CityU Online Seminar named “Promises of Machine Learning from Material Discovery to Dynamic Resource Allocation” was organized by The School of Data Science (SDSC) and The Hong Kong Institute for Data Science (HKIDS) and was held on 27th Jan 2021.  This talk invited Prof. Jay H Lee (Professor, Dept. of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering; Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) as guest speaker and he would critically examine the main motivation behind and advances in deep learning. 


In the beginning, Prof. Lee briefed different branches of machine learning included unsupervised learning, supervised learning and reinforcement learning.  It also separated to passive and active learning. Machine Learning employed in the image classification & Alpha-Go that were very success.


Then Prof. Lee introduced the Machine Learning used in material science. Active Bayesian Learning to search for optimal composite composition was mentioned.


The overall approach was showed from initial experiment to property prediction and recommendation for next experiment until satisfied the objective for new material composition. So that property prediction model plus validation is important.  And then he shared some case studies including industrial composite material. 


After that Prof. Lee discussed more ambition goal to use AI inverse design for new synthesized molecule. Inverse design included high-through virtual screening (e.g. with 3 filtering stages) and optimization, evolutionary strategies, generative models (e.g. Variational Auto Encoders (VAEs), Generative adversarial networks (GAN) & Reinforcement learning (RL)). 


However, there were three problems of inverse material discovery that were Huge Chemical Space, Mapping between Chemical Space & Functional Space, as well as, Efficient Molecular Representation and Generative Model are needed.


Finally, he mentioned the next challenge was structure-property-performance for generated user-desired material (e.g. zeolites).  He also explained why reinforcement learning for dynamic resource allocation problem. It was because of “Combinatorically Complex”, “Dynamics are simple and results are easy to evaluate”, and “Significant Stochastic Uncertainties”.


Lastly, Prof. Lee concluded recent enthusiasm in machine learning is spurred by algorithmic advances in deep learning and hardware advances (e.g. GPUs).  And deep learning is particularly effective for automatic feature extraction from very high dimensional data.  At the end, he showed the Hype Cycle that ML located on the top.


Q&A
I asked about chemical reaction that were too many parameters.  Prof. Lee agreed and he added if many missing data that model would be over-fitting.


Reference:

SDSC - https://www.sdsc.cityu.edu.hk/

HKIDS - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/hkids/

Poster - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/sdsc_web/seminar/2020-09-17_sdsc_seminar.pdf

Other CityU’s AI seminar:

20201023: CityU Distinguished Seminar Series – Artificial Intelligence – Computing, Algorithm, Interaction - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/10/cityu-distinguished-seminar-series.html

2021年1月23日星期六

Online Teaching Experience Sharing in CityU 2021

I was honor to be guest speaker for teaching SEEM Programme named “Professional Engineering Practice” in Semester B, 2020/2021 in CityU again. Since Covid-19 Pandemic is still not under controlled, we need to prepare Online Teaching Activities within this period in 2021.  My first online teaching was held on 23 Jan 2021 (Saturday morning) and my class discussed Professional Engineer in Sustainability.


Dr. CY Chau and I had breakfast in CityU student canteen before the class.


In the beginning, Dr. KS Chin introduced us to student that we both are adjunct professors in SEEM, CityU.


We observed an improvement for facility that using dual monitors for online teaching. So that we can manage the presentation and students enquiry through chat room easily.


My class started.


No student was found in classroom eventhough CityU allow a portion of students who would like to attend the class or online at home.


Our interaction depends on chat and polls.  I taught Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for UN 2030 Agenda and asked students to poll on each goal during the class.


After the class, I summarized students’ result of the SDG’s relevance and impact on students’ future career. 


Reference:

SEEM of CityUHK - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/

BEng Systems Engineering and Management (BENG SEM) - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/prg-bengsem.htm

Related to BETQE & BESEM & MScEM past events:   

20200210: Online Teaching Experience Sharing in CityU - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/02/online-teaching-experience-sharing-in.html

20200201: Professional Engineering Practice - New Syllabus - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/02/professional-engineering-practice-new.html

20200118: HKSQ Membership drive and Student Project Competition Promotion in CityU - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/01/hksq-membership-drive-and-student.html

20191104: CityU Industrial Experts' Talks for MSEM Students

https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/11/cityu-industrial-experts-talks-for-msem.html

20181022: CityU Guest Lecture for BEng SEM Students - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/10/cityu-guest-lecture-for-beng-sem.html

20180416: CityU Guest Lecture of Quality Innovation & Extenics to CityU Students - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/04/cityu-guest-lecture-of-quality.html

20180201: CityU & Hanyang University Students visit to HKSTP 2018 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2018/02/cityu-hanyang-university-students-visit.html

20171010: The 1st Major Programme Committee Meeting for BEng in SEM, CityU - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2017/10/the-1st-major-programme-committee.html

20170403: CityU Guest Lecture of Quality Innovation & Extenics to TQE Students - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2017/04/cityu-guest-lecture-of-quality.html

20141110: CityU TQE Students visit HKSTP

https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/11/cityu-tqe-students-visit-hkstp.html

20120402: CityU Guest Lecture for Quality Management in Science Park Laboratory and HKSQ Membership Drive

https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2012/04/cityu-guest-lecture-for-quality.html

20111110: Guest Seminar for CityU BETQE student in World Quality Day

https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2011/11/guest-seminar-in-cityu-world-quality.html

20101109: Industrial Guest Talk to BEng(Hon) in Total Quality Engineering, CityU

https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2010/11/industrial-guest-talk-to-benghon-in.html

20091105: HKSQ membership drive to BEng (Hon) in Total Quality Engineering, CityU

https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2009/11/hksq-membership-drive-to-beng-hon-in.html


2021年1月22日星期五

HKIE Enginpreneurs Hub Webinar - Opportunities in GBA for Technological Startups and Professionals under 14th Five Year

The HKIE Enginpreneurs Hub Webinar named “Opportunities in GBA for Technological Startups and Professionals under 14th Five Year” was held on 22nd January 2021. The Enginepreneurs (EP) Hub is an initiative of the Institution under the Presidential Theme of Session 2020/2021, “Believing is seeing – Innovation for transformation”, which seeks to draw from the combined talents and ample experience of all HKIE members’ innovative ideas.


The guest speaker was Prof. Witman Hung, JP and he firstly introduced China’s 14th Five-Year Plan.  He mainly explained the “dual circulation” economic policy from China’s One Belt, One Road initiative, RCEP, GBA, to Innovation & Technology, etc. 


In this dual circulation, he proposed Hong Kong to have special roles including GBA commercialization, legal and international service provider, super-connector on professional service and academic-research-industry cooperation, education industry, etc. 


And then Prof. Hung briefed the China’s new infrastructure plan including seven key areas: 5G networks, industrial internet, inter-city transportation and rail system, data centers, AI, ultra-high voltage power transmission, and new-energy vehicle charging stations.  He focused on new generation IT related infrastructure.


After that he mentioned the opportunity of 5G plus that including AI, Data and Edge Computing, etc.


Finally, Prof. Hung stated digital economic and its key elements included capital, land, labor, data and technology.


Lastly, he introduced Qianhai talent policy for professional especially for engineer. Some qualifications were recognized each other.


Q&A Session, Prof. Hung used polling to survey participants’ comments on the policy presented and most of engineering agreed the incentive provided to be attractive.


At the end, HKIE president Ir. Prof. P.L. Yuen presented HKIE tie to Prof. Witman Hung.

Reference:

HKIE - https://www.hkie.org.hk/en/

President's Message for 'The Enginpreneurs Hub' (EP Hub) - https://hkie.org.hk/en/discover/aboutpresident/


2021年1月20日星期三

The Annual Working Meeting of World Alliance of Chinese Quality 2021 (全球華人品質聯盟年度工作會議)

The annual working meeting of World Alliance of Chinese Quality (全球華人品質聯盟) was held on 20th Jan 2021.  Because of COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was still held online.  All representatives of Mainland, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, as well as, Thailand were gathering online.  We took a group photo for memory. 


Dr. KS Chin and I was held online meeting in CityU and Dr. Aaron Tong in his office.  We all represented HKSQ to attend the meeting.


In the beginning, Dr. Duan Yonggang (Vice-Chairman, CAQ) (段永剛博士 - 全球華人品質聯盟理事長、中國質量協會副會長兼秘書長) gave opening speech.  He summarized WACQ work in 2020.  Then Prof. Lin Chang (Chairman, Macau Quality Management Association (MQMA)) (林暢教授- 澳門品質管理協會會長) reported the summit of the fifth WSCQ in Macao performed online. 


And then Ms. Wang Li-Lin (王麗林) reported working progress and confirmed WACQ members.


During the discussion, Prof. Ching-Chow Yang (Chairman, CSQ) (楊錦洲教授 - 中華臺北品質學會理事長), Mr. GE Tan (Chairman, SQI) (陳敬賢先生- 新加坡質量學院主席), Dr. Aaron Tong, Prof. Phulporn Saengbangpia, and Dr. KS Chin gave different idea for the coming the sixth World Summit for Chinese Quality.  We all expected to meet in Hong Kong again at the end of 2021 after pandemic period and vaccine applied.


Reference:

China Association for Quality (CAQ) - http://www.caq.org.cn/

Chinese Society for Quality (CSQ) - http://www.csq.org.tw/mp.asp?mp=1

Singapore Quality Institute (SQI) - http://www.sqi.org.sg/

Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) - http://www.hksq.org/index.asp

 

History (Past Events & Meeting);

Chinese Quality Forum

20120526: The first meeting for the Chinese Quality Forum (華人品質論壇) - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2012/05/first-meeting-for-chinese-quality-forum.html

20140314: Pre-Chinese Quality Forum (華人品質論壇) Dinner Meeting 2014 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/03/pre-chinese-quality-forum-dinner-meeting.html

20140315: The 2nd Chinese Quality Forum (華人品質論壇) - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/03/the-2nd-chinese-quality-forum.html

20150923: Pre-Chinese Quality Forum (華人品質論壇) Meeting & Dinner 2015 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/09/pre-chinese-quality-forum-meeting.html

20151104: The 15th China Quality Award cum Chinese Quality Forum – Day 1

http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/11/the-15th-china-quality-award-cum.html

20151105: The 15th China Quality Award cum Chinese Quality Forum – Day 2

http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/11/the-15th-china-quality-award-cum_5.html

20151106: The 3rd Chinese Quality Forum – Day 3 Work Meeting & Visit TusPark

http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/11/the-3rd-chinese-quality-forum-day-3.html

World Alliance for Chinese Quality

20160707: The Pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (全球華人品質聯盟()) Meeting - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/07/the-pre-world-alliance-for-chinese.html

20160708: The 1st World Summit for Chinese Quality - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/07/the-1st-world-summit-for-chinese-quality.html

20160709: Post-WSCQ Seminar on Extenics (可拓學) and its application - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/07/post-wscq-seminar-on-extenics-and-its.html

20160919: ANQ-CEC and Pre-WACQ Meeting & Dinner 2016 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/09/anq-cec-and-pre-wacq-meeting-dinner-2016.html

20171116: The 2nd World Summit for Chinese Quality – Part 1 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2017/11/the-2nd-world-summit-for-chinese.html

20171116: The 2nd World Summit for Chinese Quality – Part 2 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2017/11/the-2nd-world-summit-for-chinese_16.html

20171117: Post - World Summit for Chinese Quality (WSCQ) Technical Visit - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2017/11/post-world-summit-for-chinese-quality.html

20181107: Per – The 3rd World Summit for Chinese Quality (WSCQ) Visit - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/11/per-3rd-world-summit-for-chinese.html

20181108: The 3rd World Summit for Chinese Quality (WSCQ) – Day 1 (Part A) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-3rd-world-summit-for-chinese.html

20181108: The 3rd World Summit for Chinese Quality (WSCQ) – Day 1 (Part B) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-3rd-world-summit-for-chinese_8.html

20181109: The 3rd World Summit for Chinese Quality (WSCQ) – Day 2 (Technical Visit) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-3rd-world-summit-for-chinese_9.html

20190827: The Commemorative Congress of the 40th Anniversary of China Quality Association and TQM Promotion cum the 4th Summit of pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (WACQ) - Registration and Banquet - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-commemorative-congress-of-40th.html

20190828: The Commemorative Congress of the 40th Anniversary of China Quality Association and TQM Promotion – Opening & Technical Visit - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-commemorative-congress-of-40th_28.html

20190829: The 4th Summit of pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (WACQ) – Day 1 (Part A) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-4th-summit-of-pre-world-alliance.html

20190829: The 4th Summit of pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (WACQ) – Day 1 (Part B) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-4th-summit-of-pre-world-alliance_29.html

20190830: The 4th Summit of pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (WACQ) – Day 2 (Technical Visit) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-4th-summit-of-pre-world-alliance_30.html

20190831: The 4th Summit of pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (WACQ) – Post-Summit Culture Tour - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-4th-summit-of-pre-world-alliance_31.html

20200925: The 5th World Summit of Chinese Quality (Online) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-5th-world-summit-of-chinese-quality.html