Keynote Speaker
張培仁 (Pei-Zen Chang) 副院長/工業技術研究院
張培仁 (Pei-Zen Chang) 副院長/工業技術研究院
Topic
ITRI's Latest Development in Smart Factory Technology
工研院在智慧工廠科技之新近發展
Abstract
ITRI is a research institute which consists of research labs in various fields, including Information and Communication, Electronic and Optoelectronic System, Material and Chemical, Biomedical Technology and Device, Mechanical and Mechatronics System and Green Energy and Environment. The main mission of ITRI is to enhance industrial development through technology research and development, create economic value and improve social wellbeing. In recent years, ITRI has been actively progressing in cross-disciplinary innovation, with the aim of combining the development of most innovative technology with industrialization and commercialization. The objective is to bring greater industrial value and social efficiency by developing co-creation collaboration model in various fields such as Smart Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation, as well as establishing software and hardware integrated pilot sites, which consist of clusters involving the industry, universities and international R&D teams.
Like many other countries, Taiwan’s positive economic growth, low unemployment rate and high quality of life are associated with the success of the export sector. Facing emerging challenges such as falling birth rate, ageing society and scarce resources (energy, materials, water resources, etc.), the industrial ecosystem from manufacturing to service needs to be systematically updated in order to adapt to the future social environment and industrial competition. Smart Factory could be the core foundation of Taiwan’s future industry. Such factory will need a flexible system which could automatically optimize the performance of the whole network, it could self-learn and adapt to the new environment factors, and in turn run the entire production system automatically.
The smart factory related facility system requires top-notch cross-domain technology integration. From the demand side, we can divide it into seven categories, including smart manufacturing systems, digital manufacturing transformation, smart grids/water networks, smart infrastructure and security monitoring, human-machine collaboration and safety, customer service, and smart logistics. ITRI’s industrial technology development is based on the Open Innovation System Platform model, which facilitates the latest innovation results to be quickly adjusted and combined, and then directly applied in order to overcome obstacles encountered by the industry. Thanks to the aforementioned seven technological development targets, such as digital transformation and the industrial-level integration platform, we can connect equipment purchased many years ago to a larger network, which helps industrials in keeping track of all their important data such as the production rate. Therefore, big data analysis is crucial to create more efficient profit models and increase added value. On top of that, Micro-grid system and waste water recycling circular system can increase factories’ autonomy to respond to the changes in the overall regional power supply structure and water network system. The recent technical development of drone systems can be used for factory safety inspection or logistics. Other technologies such as smart clothing combined with positioning technology and collaborative robots can be greatly beneficial to the safety and health management of human-machine collaboration. Security network defense systems and smartphone virtualization technology can be applied to solve security issues such as production-to-service network systems.
The integration of innovation is an opportunity to seize and a challenge to tackle for the progress of our industry and our society in general. ITRI works together with the industry and academia to provide systematic hardware and software integration solutions for smart high-tech production plants in order to facilitate the growth of our industry and contribute to a better future for our society.
工研院是具有資訊與通訊、電子與光電、材料化工與奈米、生醫與醫材、機械與系統、綠能與環境等多元領域的研究機構，主要的任務是要「以科技研發，帶動產業發展，創造經濟價值，增進社會福祉」，近幾年積極開展跨領域協同創新，將前瞻創新與產業化融合發展，以〝智慧系統、人工智慧與數位轉型〞主題及共創(Co-Creation)的合作模式、軟硬整合的試驗場域匯聚產業、學校及國際研發群聚發展，期能帶動更大的產業價值與社會效益。
台灣的經濟成長、就業提升、以及美好生活(good life)高度仰賴出口行業的成功，很多國家亦是如此。面對高齡少子化、以及資源(能源、物料、水資源、生產數據(unique data)等)要有效的被循環再加值使用等趨勢，從製造到服務供銷產業生態體系需系統性整個思考更新 (industrial renewal)，以能因應未來的社會環境與產業競爭環境。智慧工廠可以成為各產業的核心基石，這樣的工廠需要一個彈性的系統，可以自行優化整個網絡的表現，可以從近及時的新環境條件學習並自行調適，進而自動運轉整個生產系統。
智慧工廠有關之設施系統是需要高度跨領域的技術整合，從需求面可分成七大類思考，包括設備系統智慧製造、製造數位轉型、智慧電網/水網等基礎、智慧建築與安全監控、人機協作與健康安全、客戶連結、以及智慧物流供應。工研院產業技術的發展是以開放式創新系統平台模式，讓包容性高的創新成果可以快速組合調整，以應用於解決產業的問題；針對前述七個面向的新進科技發展例如製造數位轉型的智慧機上盒與工業級聯網平台，讓數十年前採購的機台設備得以聯網，業者除可隨時掌握稼動率等製程數據，配合大數據分析，更可創造新的營利模式及增加附加價值；微電網系統與廢水回收循環再利用系統，可以增加工廠的自主調控，以因應整體區域供電結構與水網系統基礎的改變；無人機(隊)系統載台的技術建立，可以運用於廠區之安全巡檢或廠區物流；智慧生理監測服飾結合定位技術、安全皮膚機器手臂等，可運用於人機協作之安全與健康管理；聯網安全防禦系統與智慧手機虛擬化等技術，可應用於解決生產至服務聯網系統之安全課題等。
整合創新是產業與社會進步必須掌握的機會與面對的挑戰，工研院期能與業界和學術界合力共創，為智慧高科技廠房設施提供系統性的軟硬整合方案，為產業的成長與社會的永續貢獻心力。
ITRI's Latest Development in Smart Factory Technology
工研院在智慧工廠科技之新近發展
Abstract
ITRI is a research institute which consists of research labs in various fields, including Information and Communication, Electronic and Optoelectronic System, Material and Chemical, Biomedical Technology and Device, Mechanical and Mechatronics System and Green Energy and Environment. The main mission of ITRI is to enhance industrial development through technology research and development, create economic value and improve social wellbeing. In recent years, ITRI has been actively progressing in cross-disciplinary innovation, with the aim of combining the development of most innovative technology with industrialization and commercialization. The objective is to bring greater industrial value and social efficiency by developing co-creation collaboration model in various fields such as Smart Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation, as well as establishing software and hardware integrated pilot sites, which consist of clusters involving the industry, universities and international R&D teams.
Like many other countries, Taiwan’s positive economic growth, low unemployment rate and high quality of life are associated with the success of the export sector. Facing emerging challenges such as falling birth rate, ageing society and scarce resources (energy, materials, water resources, etc.), the industrial ecosystem from manufacturing to service needs to be systematically updated in order to adapt to the future social environment and industrial competition. Smart Factory could be the core foundation of Taiwan’s future industry. Such factory will need a flexible system which could automatically optimize the performance of the whole network, it could self-learn and adapt to the new environment factors, and in turn run the entire production system automatically.
The smart factory related facility system requires top-notch cross-domain technology integration. From the demand side, we can divide it into seven categories, including smart manufacturing systems, digital manufacturing transformation, smart grids/water networks, smart infrastructure and security monitoring, human-machine collaboration and safety, customer service, and smart logistics. ITRI’s industrial technology development is based on the Open Innovation System Platform model, which facilitates the latest innovation results to be quickly adjusted and combined, and then directly applied in order to overcome obstacles encountered by the industry. Thanks to the aforementioned seven technological development targets, such as digital transformation and the industrial-level integration platform, we can connect equipment purchased many years ago to a larger network, which helps industrials in keeping track of all their important data such as the production rate. Therefore, big data analysis is crucial to create more efficient profit models and increase added value. On top of that, Micro-grid system and waste water recycling circular system can increase factories’ autonomy to respond to the changes in the overall regional power supply structure and water network system. The recent technical development of drone systems can be used for factory safety inspection or logistics. Other technologies such as smart clothing combined with positioning technology and collaborative robots can be greatly beneficial to the safety and health management of human-machine collaboration. Security network defense systems and smartphone virtualization technology can be applied to solve security issues such as production-to-service network systems.
The integration of innovation is an opportunity to seize and a challenge to tackle for the progress of our industry and our society in general. ITRI works together with the industry and academia to provide systematic hardware and software integration solutions for smart high-tech production plants in order to facilitate the growth of our industry and contribute to a better future for our society.
工研院是具有資訊與通訊、電子與光電、材料化工與奈米、生醫與醫材、機械與系統、綠能與環境等多元領域的研究機構，主要的任務是要「以科技研發，帶動產業發展，創造經濟價值，增進社會福祉」，近幾年積極開展跨領域協同創新，將前瞻創新與產業化融合發展，以〝智慧系統、人工智慧與數位轉型〞主題及共創(Co-Creation)的合作模式、軟硬整合的試驗場域匯聚產業、學校及國際研發群聚發展，期能帶動更大的產業價值與社會效益。
台灣的經濟成長、就業提升、以及美好生活(good life)高度仰賴出口行業的成功，很多國家亦是如此。面對高齡少子化、以及資源(能源、物料、水資源、生產數據(unique data)等)要有效的被循環再加值使用等趨勢，從製造到服務供銷產業生態體系需系統性整個思考更新 (industrial renewal)，以能因應未來的社會環境與產業競爭環境。智慧工廠可以成為各產業的核心基石，這樣的工廠需要一個彈性的系統，可以自行優化整個網絡的表現，可以從近及時的新環境條件學習並自行調適，進而自動運轉整個生產系統。
智慧工廠有關之設施系統是需要高度跨領域的技術整合，從需求面可分成七大類思考，包括設備系統智慧製造、製造數位轉型、智慧電網/水網等基礎、智慧建築與安全監控、人機協作與健康安全、客戶連結、以及智慧物流供應。工研院產業技術的發展是以開放式創新系統平台模式，讓包容性高的創新成果可以快速組合調整，以應用於解決產業的問題；針對前述七個面向的新進科技發展例如製造數位轉型的智慧機上盒與工業級聯網平台，讓數十年前採購的機台設備得以聯網，業者除可隨時掌握稼動率等製程數據，配合大數據分析，更可創造新的營利模式及增加附加價值；微電網系統與廢水回收循環再利用系統，可以增加工廠的自主調控，以因應整體區域供電結構與水網系統基礎的改變；無人機(隊)系統載台的技術建立，可以運用於廠區之安全巡檢或廠區物流；智慧生理監測服飾結合定位技術、安全皮膚機器手臂等，可運用於人機協作之安全與健康管理；聯網安全防禦系統與智慧手機虛擬化等技術，可應用於解決生產至服務聯網系統之安全課題等。
整合創新是產業與社會進步必須掌握的機會與面對的挑戰，工研院期能與業界和學術界合力共創，為智慧高科技廠房設施提供系統性的軟硬整合方案，為產業的成長與社會的永續貢獻心力。