ANQ Congress 2023, in Phy My, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam – Day 2 (Part B – Closing Ceremony)

Asian Network for Quality (ANQ) Congress 2023 was held by Vietnam Quality Association of Ho Chi Minh City (VQAH) in the Vabis International College, Phy My, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam from 17-20 Oct 2023. The congress theme was “Quality Transforms with A.I. Booming”.  The day 2 morning was parallel sessions on 19^th Oct 2023. Before closing ceremony, I met Prof. Noriaki Kano and took a photo for memory. 

HKSQ team took photo with Prof. Kano.

I joined CAQ team to take photo with Prof. Kano too.

Photos with Prof. Kano for happiness.

JSQC, HKSQ, VAQH and KSQM teams

Mr. Lu Ruiyan (盧瑞彥), Prof. Kano and I

Prof. Kano and Prof. TN Goh (吳桐毅)

Prof. Kano and Mr. Lai Hsin-Yang (來新陽)

Ms. Linh Dao Ngoc and Ms. Ngoc Do Thi (VQAH)

I took a photo with Mr. Kang, Myung-soo (Chairman & CEO, KSA) (middle) and Mr. Kim SiYoul (Director/National Quality Center, KSA) for memory.

I met Prof. Jeongil Choi (President, KSQM).

My Germany friend Dr. Roland K. Jahnke who is one of keynote speakers in ANQ Congress 2023.

Photo with Dr. Nguyen Thi Hoang Lien (VAQH).

HKSQ full team gathered in the table for the closing ceremony.

The first keynotes were Dr. Myung Soo Kang and Prof. Wan Seon Shin. Dr. Myung Soo Kang presented first with the topic named “Digital Quality Management: A New Model and Its Assessment Results for Korean Companies”. He presented the part 1 and briefed the journey of Korea’s quality management including industrial development, role of KSA and current challenges.

Dr. Kang mentioned the role of the government and KSA to lead the quality changers from Quality1.0 to Quality4.0 (Quality as Discovery). He also introduced KSA promoted the Korean Standard-Service Quality Index (KS-SQI). 

After that he stated the three challenges that turn-around strategies to be in three dimensions including Tool, Talent and Task.

And then Prof. Wan Seon Shin presented the part 2 named “Digital Quality Management (DQM)”. Firstly, he stated the shift in quality paradigm form QC inspection to QA standards to QM customer satisfaction and then to QR quality responsibility. He also introduced the core values in DQM including Internal, External and Partnership Quality Value.

The Model of Digital Quality Management was introduced and its core including Management Performance and ESG Performance. 

Finally, Prof. Shin mentioned DQM suggested Measurability-Traceability-Connectivity-Integrated (MTCI) based level assessment model. Finally, he said it was a new investment for digital quality innovation.

Dr. Lien and Dr. Tung presented souvenirs and flowers to keynotes.

The second keynote speaker was Dr. Roland K. Jahnke (President of QiETT, IAQ) and his topic entitled “A Key Role: Quality Education in the Period of AI”. 

Firstly, Dr. Roland remembered Dr. Ngo Van Nhon for his contribution on quality education for long time. 

Then he briefed the started of the large-scale-project that the 1^st IAQ/ANQ Symposium Hong Kong in CityU of Hong Kong in 2012. Dr. Roland successful start of the Quality Education initiative by IAQ and cooperated with ANQ and UNESCO.

Lastly, he concluded that quality education is in the heart of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The third keynote speaker was Dr. Hoang Quoc Viet (Head, Barcodes Center, MOST, Vietnam) and his topic named “Traceability – A central tool to support product quality monitoring in the ear of digital transformation and towards sustainable development”. Dr. Viet briefed GS1 and Digital Transformation in the beginning.

Then Dr. Viet introduced traceability in digital transformation and started since ISO 9001:1986 version.

Finally, Dr. Viet briefed integration between traceability and sustainable development in the industry. 

Prof. Tan Cher Ming (Chang Gung University, Taiwan) was the last speaker and his presentation topic entitled “Leveraging AI in Product Reliability Assurance”. Firstly, he introduced his center for reliability sciences and technologies’ mission including to transform the scientific knowledge into technologies for design-in reliability and employ new technologies (e.g. AI) to enhance their reliability. 

After that Prof. Tan introduced OpenAI and reviewed the current situation of reliability. He proposed to use AI in reliability engineering by analyzing data from sensors and other sources so that potential failure could be indicated and allowing maintenance to be performed in a more timely and cost-effective manner. 

Finally, Prof. Tan Cher Ming proposed that we need to know how to ask questions to AI and had domain knowledge for judgement because AI had limitation to give true answer.

After all keynote speeches completed, Mr. GE Tan (Chairman, ASA and ARE-QP Award Committee) presented the awardees for Asian Service Award (ASA) and ANQ Recognition for Excellence in Quality Practice (ARE-QP).

Kenmec Mechanical Engineering Co., Ltd. (CSQ) was winner of ASA.

ARE-QP Winners included Jiangsu Suyan Jingshen Col, Ltd. (CAQ), Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (CAQ), Faraday Technology Corporation (CAQ), Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI) under National Research University (Russia), Phu My 3 Specialized Industrial Park (Vietnam), etc.

Then the best paper awardees were announced. Group 1 winners’ group photo was taken.

Mr. Too (SQI), Dr. Albert So (HKSQ) and Dr. Kenny Ma (HKSQ) were winners of this award in group 2.

HKSQ team celebrated with two awardees.

Then Prof. Shu Yamada appreciated all session chairs and presented certificates.

After that VAQH hand over the participants congress signatory to JSQC for ANQ Congress 2024.

Lastly, Prof. Shu Yamada introduced the ANQ 2024 that would be held in Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.

ANQ 2024 would be held from 16 to 20 Sep 2024 and some important dates were listed. See you all in Japan!

Reference:

ANQ website - https://anforq.org/index.php

ANQ 2023 - https://anq2023.org.vn/

VQAH - https://vietnamquality.org.vn/

HKSQ - https://hksq.org/

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