Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師): HKSTP Online Forum – Reindustrialise Hong Kong and the Way Forward

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 28^th 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.