Abstract:

Smart manufacturing depends on the timely acquisition, distribution, and utilisation of information from machines and processes from manufacturing shop floors and across product lifecycles. Effective information sharing can improve production quality, reliability, resource efficiency and the recyclability of end-of-life products. Smart manufacturing built on digitalisation also aims for better sustainability. As emerging infrastructures, cyber-physical systems and cloud manufacturing provide new opportunities to achieve the goals of smart manufacturing. For the sake of the audience with diverse background, the following topics will be covered in this lecture:

·A brief overview of manufacturing history

·Current status and movements towards smart manufacturing, including Industry 4.0 (Germany), AMP 2.0 (USA), and Production 2030 (Sweden)

·Latest advancement and future opportunities of cyber-physical production systems, particularly in cloud environment

·Showcases of remote monitoring and robot control, and human-robot collaboration

While advanced technologies show great promise in smart manufacturing, challenges towards digitalisation in the areas of future trends remain to be identified and will be highlighted in this lecture.

Biography: 

Lihui Wang is a Chair Professor of Sustainable Manufacturing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research interests are focused on cyber-physical systems, human-robot collaborations, real-time monitoring and control, predictive maintenance, adaptive and sustainable manufacturing systems. Professor Wang is actively engaged in various professional activities. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Manufacturing Research, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Manufacturing Systems. He has published 9 books and authored in excess of 500 scientific publications. Professor Wang is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, CIRP, SME and ASME, the President-Elect of North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, and the Chairman of Swedish Production Academy.