Industry 4.1: Intelligent Manufacturing with Zero Defects & Industry 4.2: Green Intelligent Manufacturing for Net Zero
Fri, 03 Oct
|Online
Fan-Tien Cheng reveals how Industry 4.1's zero-defect intelligent manufacturing evolves into Industry 4.2's green approach, accelerating the path to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Registration opens 03 Sept 2025, 6:00 am GMT+2
Time & Location
03 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm GMT+2
Online
Date/Time in Local Time Zones
Central European Summer Time (CEST) 1:00 PM 3rd October 2025
Eastern Time (ET) 7:00 AM 3rd October 2025
Pacific Time (PT) 4:00 AM 3rd October 2025
China Standard Time (CST) 7:00 PM 3rd October 2025
Japan Standard Time (JST) 8:00 PM 3rd October 2025
New Zealand Standard Time (NZST) 12:00 AM 4th October 2025
Industry 4.1: Intelligent Manufacturing with Zero Defects
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Industry 4.2: Green Intelligent Manufacturing for Net Zero
Fan-Tien Cheng
Intelligent Manufacturing Research Center (iMRC)
National Cheng Kung University
Industry 4.0 defined the goal of Digital Transformation, aiming to enhance Productivity. On the other hand, the core of Industry 4.1 is to realize Intelligent Manufacturing with Zero Defects, which is used to resolve production quality issues that receive relatively little attention in Industry 4.0 and achieve the goal of not producing defective products. Further, developing the advanced technologies of Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction based on the Industry 4.1 platform can assist various industries to realize not only Digital Transformation but also taking Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction into account. In this way, the goal of net zero carbon emissions (Net Zero) in 2050 can be accelerated for international competitiveness and sustainable development. This state is the so-called Industry 4.2—Green Intelligent Manufacturing for Net Zero (I4.2-GiM).
Speaker Biography
Fan-Tien Cheng (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, in 1976, and the master’s and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, in 1982 and 1989, respectively. After his graduation in 1976, he started to work with the Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST), Ministry of National Defense, Taoyuan, Taiwan, until 1995. He then began his academic career at the Institute of Manufacturing Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, NCKU. He has been the Chair Professor with NCKU since 2009. He has dedicated himself to applying the technologies of automation and system integration that he learned at CSIST to the intelligent manufacturing of both high-tech and traditional industries to exceed Industry 4.0 so as to reach the goal of Industry 4.1, meaning zero defects of all products. He received major honors and awards domestically and internationally, including the 2011 Award for Outstanding Contributions in Science and Technology from the Executive Yuan; the National Science Council (NSC) Outstanding Research Award for three times in 2006, 2009, and 2013; the National Invention and Creation Award for three times in 2011, 2012, and 2018; the 2008 University Industry Economy Contribution Award–Individual Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA); the Outstanding Industry-University-Cooperation (IUC) Award from the Ministry of Education in 2003; the 2010 TECO Award from the TECO Technology Foundation; the 2014 Outstanding Research Award from the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation; the 2014 K.-T. Li Science and Humanities Chair-Honorary Scholar Award; the 20th Outstanding Achievement Award from the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society in 2015; the 2013 IEEE Inaba Technical Award for Innovation Leading to Production (for contributions to the development of the AVM System); the IEEE ICRA Best Automation Paper Award for two times in 1999 and 2013; the IEEE CASE Best Application Paper Award in 2017; and the IEEE ICRA 2018 Best Paper in Automation—Finalist. He is currently in his second term (11th and 12th) of the President of the Chinese Institute of Automation Engineering. He was the Program Chair of the IEEE CASE 2014 and the Award Chair of CASE 2016 and ICRA 2017. He has been a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering since October 2017. He is also the Chair of the IEEE CASE Steering Committee since August 2020.