Keynote presentation — 2: Smart tooling, smart machines and smart manufacturing: Working towards the Industry 4.0 and beyond

Smart manufacturing has tremendous potential and is becoming the key enabling technology for the future advanced manufacturing particularly in the Industry 4.0 context. Smart manufacturing processes are operated with some characteristics, e.g. being intelligent, connected, managed and secured. It will enable a new level of manufacturing capability and adaptability, including high process reliability, high precision, machining process optimization, plug-and-produce operations, and bespoke high value applications, etc. This presentation will present some innovative design concepts and, in particular, the development of a number of smart tooling devices and smart machines, and their intrinsic relation and impact to smart manufacturing at an industrial scale. Practical implementation and application perspectives for these smart tooling and smart machines are explored and discussed, taking account of the requirements for smart manufacturing against a number of industrial applications, such as contamination-free machining, high speed smart drilling, machining of tool-wear-prone varifocal lenses and medical applications. Additional research on smart tooling implementation and application perspectives will also be presented, including: (a) plug-and-produce design principle, (b) novel cutting force modelling and the associated implementation algorithms, (c) piezoelectric film and surface acoustic wave transducers to measure cutting forces, (d) critical cutting temperature reduction and control in real-time machining, (e) Multi-physics based design and analysis of smart tooling and smart machines, and (f) application exemplars on smart machining. The presentation will conclude with further discussion on the potentials and applications of smart tooling and smart machines development for Industry 4.0 and future manufacturing.