Prof. Xifan Yao

(Keynote Speaker)

South China University of Technology, China

Brief Bio: Xifan Yao received his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China in 1988 and 1999 respectively. He has been a full professor at the School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, SCUT, from March 2004. He is the author of 5 books and published 300 research papers at journals and conference proceedings. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of production and manufacturing systems, integrated manufacturing systems, smart manufacturing, proactive manufacturing, intelligent control and scheduling in complex manufacturing systems.

Title of Speech:  DIKW Enable Advanced Manufacturing: From Digitization in Industry 3.0 to Wisdom in Industry 4.0

Abstract: The progress in Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKW) has advanced manufacturing in digitalization to networking in Industry 3.0, and will to intelligence and even to wisdom in Industry 4.0, which reveals the inevitable trend of manufacturing evolution from “Computer Plus ” to “Internet Plus ”  to “Knowledge Plus”  and towards “Wisdom Plus”.