Biography: Liangchi Zhang is a Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Director of Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Cross-Scale Manufacturing Mechanics, Director of SUSTech Institute for Manufacturing Innovation, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering (FTSE). Zhang carries out research on both the fundamentals and industrial applications in the cross-disciplinary field of advanced manufacturing, advanced materials, tribology, nanotechnology, solid mechanics and optical and biomedical manufacturing. He has published extensively in his research areas, and his research outcomes are well received by peers. The innovative technologies that Zhang developed have led to significant economic benefits for the manufacturing industry, and thus he has been granted many awards and honours. Zhang has served as editor-in-chief, member of editorial boards of many international journals and technical book series.

Speech Title: Acoustoplasticity of Metals and its Applications in Precision Manufacturing

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Biography: Yupiter HP Manurung is a full Professor at School of Mechanical Engineering in UiTM Shah Alam in Malaysia and currently holding posts as Director of Smart Manufacturing Research Institute (SMRI) and Leader of Research Interest Group - Advanced Manufacturing Technology (RIG:AMT). He is also a Professional Engineer (Ir-BEM), a Professional Technologist (Ts-MBOT), a Chartered Engineer (CEng-IMechE) and member of Association of German Engineer (VDI) who received his A-Level, BSc, MSc and PhD in Manufacturing Technology from German universities. Additionally, he is a certified International/European/German Welding Engineer (IWE/EWE/SFI) and Laser Technologist as well as Laser Safety Officer from German Research Institutes. He has been supervising more than 200 bachelor students and postgraduate researchers, some of them are students or researchers from German Universities. With his postgraduate students and international research partners from Germany, Austria, Tunisian, Cyprus and Ukraine, he has been publishing high-impact scientific publications in various international journals and conferences on Advanced Welding Technology, Virtual Manufacturing, Metal Additive Manufacturing and Weld Fatigue Integrity with financial support from national and international research grant such as E-Science, FRGS, DAAD, Erasmus+, ASEA-UNINET, GIP and various industries. He is an examiner of more than 15 postgraduate theses from all over the world, a reviewer of various international scientific journals and an evaluator of national and international research grants. Since 2016, he is an international research fellow at Professorship of Virtual Production Engineering in Technical University Chemnitz in Germany.

Speech Title: Virtual Manufacturing as Advanced and Modern Technology for Assuring High Product Quality

Abstract: This presentation deals with application of virtual manufacturing tools to improve product quality while saving cost of production. Several major factors will be discussed in order to obtain fast and accurate results. Techniques such as design optimization and process simulation using thermo-mechanical (TMM), inherent strain (ISM) and combined methods (TMM-ISM) will be demonstrated using numerical computation software. Result validation between simulation and experiment will be deliberated.