HKSQ Webinar - Leveraging Industry 4.0 for enhancing overall productivity and quality performance

The HKSQ Webinar named “Leveraging Industry 4.0 for enhancing overall productivity and quality performance” was held on 16^th April 2021. The seminar aimed to share remanufacturing new production for shipment replacement and to recover customer satisfaction through the deployment of Industry 4.0 into product qualification and life testing cycle.  HKSQ and SEEM team members supported the seminar. 

(Left: Dr. Jane Wong (Vice Chairman, HKSQ), I (Chairman, HKSQ), Dr. Vincent Fung (Guest Speaker), Dr. KS Chin (SEEM), Dr. YC Chau (SEEM) and Ms. Alison Leung (Guest))

Before the seminar, Dr. KS Chin (Associate Professor, SEEM, CityU) gave welcome speech and briefed the aim of webinar.

Then I introduced guest speaker Dr. Vincent Fung who has over 40 years’ hand-on work experience in the manufacturing industry and solid background in different production environment from hand crafting workshop to industry 4.0 of smart manufacturing.

In the beginning, Dr. Vincent Fung (Executive Director, Kin Yat Holdings Ltd) compared between traditional manufacturing and smart manufacturing. Industry 4.0 promoted Digital Automation, Data Visualization, Intelligent Manufacturing and Smart Quality Control.

Then Dr. Fung briefed 5 fundamental causes of product rejects (5M) and they were Manpower (People), Machines, Materials, Methods and Management.  The key cause is improper management in all factors. 

After that he mentioned “Quality at Design” and its six success factors that is six steps QA testing showed in the following diagram.

Smart Quality is in an intelligent or automated manufacturing industry, the business management system is generally composed of four integrated management systems included Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacture Execution System (MES) and Measurement & Quality System (Smart Quality).  In Smart Quality, it included Quality Information System (QIS) and Integrated close loop Smart Quality System.

Finally, Dr. Fung shared the data integration in Smart Factory employed Shop Floor Information System (SFIS) that all information collected and integrated together. And also shared three cases such as “Jenga”, “Roomba” and “iRobot” to explain how to leverage Industry 4.0 for enhancing overall productivity and quality performance.  He got a great success in those cases.

Lastly, Dr. Vincent Fung concluded that implemented smart manufacturing and smart quality system achieved more than 70% production efficiency improvement and 94.4% reduction of defect rate.

Q&A Session.

After the webinar, I represented HKSQ and Dr. KS Chin represented SEEM, CityU to present a souvenir to Dr. Vincent Fung.

Reference:

HKSQ - https://hksq.org/

SEEM - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/

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