10:30 - 12:00 - การเสวนา เรื่อง Tech to Watch: Lessons Learned from International Experiences

Monday September 12, 2016
10:30 am -12:00 pm., Ball Room

It states that today’s emerging technologies will have a similar effect on our society as water power and steam engines had at the end of the 19^th century.  With the rising of Smart items, sensors and actors, products, tools, and machines, traditional “mechanical chains” in production are being transformed into “digital chains” which allows producing spare parts locally and whenever you need them and they will represent themselves as means for faster decision making and control.  According to this process, the growth of new technology trends will make many traditional production and logistic processes obsolete as the use of smart items will enable more flexible and autonomous manufacturing units.[1]

Those phenomenon could be summarized under one concept as “Industry 4.0” which is the hot issue for our world today.  Most countries around the globe, especially the leading industrial countries and others who aim to become one, are focusing on the evolution of new technology trends that will effectively change the face of the whole country.

As the crucial player of R&D of Thailand in Electronics and Computer Technology, NECTEC realizes the importance of emerging technologies and also focuses on the lesson learned from leading organizations at international level.  To celebrate our 30^th anniversary, the session of “Tech to Watch: Lessons Learned from International Experiences” will be organized as a stage where the interested participants would exchange the ideas, the vision of the futures and study from those who succeeded before.

The session will be presented as public lecture with 3 different presentations from 3 experts as follows;

1. Advancing Manufacturing Industry by A.I.
   by Dr.Satoshi Sekiguchi
   Director General of Department of Information Technology and Human Factors,
   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
2. Software-Defined Manufacturing Process for Industry 4.0
   by Dr.Tzi-Cker Chiueh
   Vice President and General Director of
   Information and Communications Research Laboratories,
   Cloud Computing Center for Mobile Application,
   Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan
3. Multinational Vision Care Projects to Promote Sustainable Development
   by Dr. Amitava Gupta
   Chief Technical Officer of One Focus Vision LLC
   and Chief Technical Officer of Elenza, Inc., USA.

With the guidance from leading industrial organization in the world, we would have better hint to step forward and smoothly get along with the swift-changing of world technology today.

[1] อ้างอิงจาก “Top 5 Reasons Why Industry 4.0 Is Real And Important” by Karola Schmitt

Abstract:
The emerging "Fourth Industrial Revolution” is a fusion of technologies that combines physical and digital spaces. In particular, the transformation in the segment manufacturing industry segment will be unlike anything people have ever experienced before. As the result of the Third revolution, which used electronics and information technology, the typical manufacturing process including plan, design, and assembly is fully performed in the “dual” space where physical and digital spaces are mirrored. This is similar to the concept of Industry 4.0. In addition, there is another innovation that intends to increase the effectiveness of the assembly process by introducing flexible floor plans and machine layouts to facilitate process optimization. Finally in big machines, such as press machine, construction machine, power generator, and wind turbine, sensors are embedded in the machines to monitor status and to proactively anticipate the timing of maintenance. To achieve these innovations, Robotics Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Internet of Things are key technology components. The speaker will touch on these topics and will give some hints for the future manufacturing industry by introducing ongoing efforts in Japan.

Abstract:
Industry 4.0 represents a manufacturing application of Internet of Things (IoT), and as such makes use of sensor, networking, and big data analysis technologies to optimize the efficiency of manufacturing processes.  In the best case, an Industry 4.0 manufacturing process dynamically re-configures itself and/or modifies the input design according to run-time defect measurements in order to maximize the overall manufacturing yield and throughput, and offers unprecedented flexibility via a software-defined architecture.

Abstract:
Sustainable development is a societal transformation that constantly renews itself even as the quality of life improves over time. Several studies have been conducted to identify the critical indices of social well-being that promote sustainable development.  Public health always shows the strongest correlation with development, for the simple reason that improving children’s health improves their educational attainment, a strong correlator with productivity. Improvement in public health also increases life expectancy, another strong correlator with worker productivity.

We will review two multinational product development projects in the vision care sector.  In both cases, unique vision care devices were developed that promoted sustainable development.  These products transformed vision care delivery to the poor and disrupted local traditional health care delivery systems, enabling more local and individual control of the outcomes.  Top down hierarchical health care delivery systems established by multinationals ae designed to efficiently capture as much of the monetary benefit as possible for the multinationals, accruing from introduction of innovative health care in developing countries.  This is why, disruption of the traditional health care delivery system is necessary to lay the ground for sustainable development in countries where demographics and quality of life metrics presage a sustained period of growth.