Series of Dept Research Seminars - "Big Data Analytics for Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Manufacturing" (Date: 27 February 2017)
Series of Dept Research Seminars - "Big Data Analytics for Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Manufacturing" (Date: 27 February 2017)
Our speaker Dr. Ray Zhong would like to share with us on "Big Data Analytics for Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Manufacturing":
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies like RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) are used for manufacturing shop floors where typical manufacturing resources are converted into smart manufacturing objects (SMOs). SMOs are equipped with appropriate level of intelligence, allowing them to intelligently predict and react to physical world events, and make decisions autonomously with and without human intervention. Along with the enormous interactions among large number of SMOs in production sites, great myriad of data will be generated. Such Big Data is able to greatly upgrade the IoT-enabled manufacturing and create better decision-making mechanisms.
This talk introduces an IoT-enabled manufacturing by systematically deploying RFID devices and wireless network to create a smart environment where SMOs are able to interact and interconnect with each other so that vast number of data will be generated. A Big Data Analytics approach is presented to make full use the data for various applications. Firstly, an innovative RFID-Cuboid model is proposed to organize the abstract and complex sensed data. Secondly, a Big Data Analytics framework is presented to process the organized RFID Big Data. Thirdly, some application cases are demonstrated to show the feasibility and practicality of the proposed approach.
Future research plans are mentioned at the end of this talk. Two research areas are significant in the future: one is Big Data for smart manufacturing and supply chain management; the other is automation in smart warehouse and manufacturing.
All are welcome and no registration is in need.
| Date | 27 February 2017 (Monday) |
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| Time | 15:00 - 16:00 |
| Venue | HW 8-28 |
| Speaker | Dr. Ray Zhong is a lecturer in The Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Ray gained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Signal & Information Processing and Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the Guangdong University of Technology (China) and The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) respectively. His research interests include Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled manufacturing, Big Data in manufacturing & SCM and data-driven APS. He has published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences. Ray served as guest editors for several well-known international journals: International Journal of Production Economics and Computers & Industrial Engineering: An International Journal with the topics of Big Data for Service and Manufacturing Supply Chain Management and Intelligent Enterprise Systems. He was invited to be one of the leading guest editors to organize a special issue on “Data-driven Food Supply Chain Management and Systems” from Industrial Management & Data Systems. In addition, he has participated in a set of projects sponsored by the National R&D department, HK ITF and HKU. He is a member of CIRP RA, ASME (USA), HKIE (HK), IET (UK), IEEE (USA) and LSCM HK. Ray was awarded the certificate of merit in the HK U-21 RFID Awards, the best conference paper in The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, and the Young Author Prize in the 15th IFAC/IEEE/IFIP/IFORS Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing.
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