Title：Introduction to Industry 4.0 and its application
Time：14:30 to 15:30, Apr.17, 2019
Place：F210, School of Mechanical Engineering
Host：ZHENG Meimei, Professor (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management)

Biography
Kan Wu is currently an assistant professor in the Division of Systems and Engineering Management, NTU. He received the B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in Taiwan, M.S. degree from University of California at Berkeley in 1996, and Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009 (Major in ISyE). He has over 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, from consultants to managers. Before joining NTU, he was the CTO and founding team member of a startup company in the US. His PhD dissertation was awarded the third place for the IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2010. His research interests are primarily in the performance evaluation of supply chains and manufacturing systems.

Abstract
The term of Industry 4.0 was first used in 2011 at the Hannover Fair and has become a fashion. Many organizations want to enjoy the benefit of Industry 4.0 by introducing the new technologies, such as cyber-physical systems, IoT, AI or 3D printing. However, it is often not clear how those technologies are related to the objective of Industry 4.0, and the concept of Industry 4.0 is sometimes obscure to the public and even researchers. Nevertheless, implementing the technologies should aim at improving an organization's competitiveness, but not just following a fashion. In this talk, the concept of Industry 4.0 will be explained. The roles of different technologies and their relations with Industry 4.0 will be clarified. To have a better understanding of a smart factory, case studies from semiconductor manufacturing are given.