Industry 4.0 brings machines, cloud computing, analytics, and people together to improve the performance and productivity of industrial processes. According to the recent MPI 2020 Industry 4.0 Study, 83% of manufacturing leaders see “Industry 4.0 is extremely or very important” to their companies and 56% believes that “Industry 4.0 will have a significant impact” in the next five years. (Source: Forbes)
As often as we hear about Industry 4.0 and how it promises to revolutionise supply chain, logistics, and manufacturing through Intelligent Automation, there still exists a gap between expectations and reality. One roadblock is knowing where, where, and how to start. Another roadblock is whether the investment justifies the costs which are not evident until deployment on the production line.
If you or your company is contemplating automating manufacturing efficiency and processes through Industry 4.0, come join us for a morning of learning and discussions.
We will cover topics such as the business mindset of manufacturing digitalisation, a range of approaches and architectures in Smart Manufacturing, and the Stackable learning pathways offered by the NUS-ISS Masters in Technology in Software Engineering, including the Architecting Smart Systems Graduate Certificate.
Business owners, industrialists, and technology developers seeking to learn more about enabling Industry 4.0 digital transformations on current or new manufacturing processes.
- 23 October 2020, Friday
- 9:30am - 11:30am
(You may start logging in from 9.15am)
- The session will be conducted using a webinar format. Details and link for the webinar will be sent to participants closer to the date.
| 9:30am |
Welcome Address
by Swarnalatha Ashok, Chief, MTech Software Engineering, NUS-ISS
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9.40am
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Overcoming the Hype in Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing
by Mr Joseph Lum, CTO, Auk Industries
Join Joseph as he describes the business drivers for Industry 4.0, barriers to factory floor digitalisation, recommendations on how to address the challenges, and how you can adopt scalable, self-deployable building blocks to build customised solutions to improve industrial equipment efficiency and productivity.
Joseph will also share his company’s learnings from “on the ground” deployments with small and medium enterprise production lines in Singapore and the region.
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| 10:20am |
From Concept to Reality: Insights from Smart Manufacturing Testbeds
by Ms Lisa Ong, Principal Lecturer and Consultant, Software Systems and StackUp Practices, NUS-ISS
Testbeds are multi-stakeholder, open-standards-oriented partnerships spearheaded by collaborations such as Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). The goals of testbeds are basically to “put one’s money where one’s mouth is”, to implement and rigorously validate solutions, architectures, and technologies on the factory floor before coming to market. Stakeholders include Cisco Systems, Huawei, and Fujitsu.
Join Lisa as she surveys the testbed investigations conducted by Smart Manufacturing stakeholders around the world. She will cover architectures and lessons learnt from their implementations of predictive maintenance, real-time operations visibility and analytics, and production quality improvements.
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| 11:00am |
QnA and Panel Discussion
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| 11.30pm |
Thank You and Goodbye
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Programme may be subjected to changes.
Mr Joseph Lum
Chief Technology Officer, Auk Industries
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Joseph is CTO of Auk Industries, an Industrial Internet-of-Things company that offers an end-to-end (hardware/software) industrial operations analytics solution. Auk Industries is a founding member of the EDB Smart Industry Readiness Index Partners' Network, and are currently serving small SMEs to large manufacturing conglomerates across Southeast Asia and beyond.
Joseph was formerly from DSTA, with experience in large-scale networked systems integration for the Air Force, as well as a stint in DSO as a research engineer. He is experienced in diverse technical skills cutting across electronics hardware, software development, data analytics, cloud computing and architecture, and has played a pivotal role in development across the entire technology solution stack.
He is also currently serving on the Singapore Computer Society's IoT Executive Committee 2020/21.
Ms Lisa Ong
Principal Lecturer and Consultant, NUS ISS Software Systems and StackUp Practices
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Lisa is with the Software Engineering and Design Practice, StackUp program for National University of Singapore, Institute of Systems Science (NUS-ISS).
Lisa has multiple years of extensive experience in software product research and development at Microsoft Corporation (USA). Her background includes writing and delivering operating systems code, building and deploying web services, and also building AI systems in recent years.
At Microsoft, Lisa has led and participated in many interesting projects including the Microsoft Embedded Learning Library, involved compressing and deploying computer vision and machine learning algorithms on tiny devices. While part of the Windows product team, Lisa delivered operating system features such as a unified sensors API and driver stack, the Media Transfer Protocol stack, and geo-fencing capabilities on Windows OneCore.
Before Microsoft, Lisa had a stint at Nuance Communications (USA) as an Embedded Software Engineer, working on small footprint text to speech systems.