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      Foreword

      Since the term “Industry 4.0” was coined in Germany in 2011, industries worldwide have been investing in the development of smart factories that are more efficient and better adaptive to digital transformation to enhance their service‐oriented and customized‐supply capabilities.

      To take Industry 4.0 a step further, Professor Fan‐Tien Cheng proposed the upgraded version of Industry 4.1, core to which is the realization of Zero Defects, a solution taking advantage of the newly developed Intelligent Factory Automation (iFA) System Platform to address the production quality issue that has received relatively scant attention in Industry 4.0. To put into practice Zero Defects as well as in response to the Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Innovation policy of the Taiwan, ROC government, he further established the Intelligent Manufacturing Research Center (iMRC) at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in 2018.

      As NCKU’s President, I always take great pride in the achievements of all my colleagues and students. In the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2020, NCKU is ranked first in Taiwan, ROC, second in the Asia region, and 38^th globally. It excels especially in “Industry, Innovations, and Infrastructure,” one of United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and earns the 10^th place worldwide. Professor Cheng’s innovative research has played a critical role in this intense competition because, as I understand it, his Industry 4.1 and Intelligent Manufacturing are key to NCKU’s success in the SDG of “Industry, Innovations, and Infrastructure” and NCKU’s continuous leadership in the Engineering field.

      As NCKU is accelerating its research momentum, especially in disciplines of traditional strengths like Intelligent Manufacturing and Engineering, I am glad that Professor Cheng is willing to share his valuable research and industry‐university cooperation experiences in this book, one that will become an important reference not only for students but professors and researchers alike, and not only at NCKU but in industries and higher education worldwide whose focus is Intelligent Manufacturing.

This book not only details the essentials that have paved the way from Industry 4.0 to Industry 4.1 but also provides numerous practical industrial application cases in different manufacturing industries. It thus offers readers a comprehensive perspective of what they are and will be facing in the industry. I am sure this book is fundamental – a must‐have indeed – for researchers, engineers, and focused students in the fields of, among others, Intelligent Manufacturing and Industry 4.1.

      Huey‐Jen Su

      President, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)

      Industry 4.0 is a confluence of trends and technologies for the fourth industrial revolution. It has been “pushed” by the digital revolution over the past many decades and the recent Internet of Things (IoT); and “pulled” by demand from customers for high quality and customized products at reasonable prices and lead times. With (i) the ubiquitous connection and interaction of machines, things, and people; (ii) the integration of cyber and physical systems; and (iii) the emerging of disruptive technologies such as big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, 3D printing and robotics, the ways we design and manufacture products and provide services are undergoing fundamental changes.

      Although much R&D progress has been made, industries have been slow to develop effective holistic Industry 4.0 strategies. From a recent survey of 2000 C‐suite executives by Deloitte (https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/us32959‐industry‐4‐0/DI_Industry4.0.pdf), only 10% of the executives surveyed indicated they had long‐range strategies to leverage new technologies that reach across their organizations. This is not surprising since creating and implementing holistic Industry 4.0 strategies are complicated, and require deep understanding, sharp vision, inspirational leadership, and resolute persistence. Among those with comprehensive Industry 4.0 strategies, the results have been impressive: 73% of those with a strategy report success in protecting their businesses from disruption, versus 12% of those with more scattershot approaches; 61% of those with Industry 4.0 strategies report that they have developed innovative products and services, versus 12% of those lacking strategies; and 60% of those with Industry 4.0 strategies report that they have found growth opportunities for existing products and services, versus 8% of those lacking strategies. Those companies with strategies also are growing more financially, and making more progress investing in technologies that have a positive societal impact.

      Consider specifically a key area of Industry 4.0, the quality of products and processes. It is well‐known that a host of methods and processes such as Statistical Process Control (SPC), Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM), Six Sigma Methodologies, Preventive Maintenance (PM), Continuous Improvement (Kaizen), Total Quality Management (TQM), etc., have been around for years and are contributing to the quality of products and processes. Integrating the digital revolution, the Internet of Things, big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to raise the quality of products and processes to a new level and with СКАЧАТЬ