Dr. Laowattana’s research interest is primarily in fundamental areas of robotic dexterity, design for manufacturing / assembly of high precision systems. He was awarded an honor with his B.Eng. from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT). Under the Monbusho Program, he received a certificate in Precision Mechanics and Robotics at Kyoto University. He subsequently obtained his PhD. in 1994 from Carnegie Mellon University, USA under financial support from the Fulbright Fellowship Program and the AT&T Advanced Research Program. In 1996, he also received a certificate in Management of Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA. He holds two US patents for robotic devices. He is the founding director of the Institute of Field Robotics Development (FIBO) and the first President of Thai Robotics Society (TRS). He is now serving as Chairman of Strategy Committee and board member of TOT, the largest telecom public company. In addition, he is recently appointed by Prime Minister a member of the Digital Economy Board. Other board responsibility were Government Saving Bank and KrungThai Computer Co., Ltd. He is a technical committee at the Thai Stock Exchange. He was director of Hard disk Cluster Program at National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA). His responsibility was to strengthen hard disk industry in Thailand by formulating critical collaborative networks in the areas of R&D, HRD and Supply Chain Development among professionals from 30 national universities/laboratories and four multi-national companies, producing one of the highest annual turnover of 500 billions baht. He was named "Father of Thai Robotics" by representatives of public and private sectors in Thailand.

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DENSO explains how have been growing up by a stonger "MONOZUKURI" (manufacturing) with a key word "LEAN Automation system".
Mr.KOJIMA will unravel the origin of DENSO's automation and development history of industrial robot, DENSO's CORE Technology, phylosophy of MONOZUKURI, and elimination of waste in mafufacturing process.
Compare conventional manufacturing system with Lean automation system, introduce a tremendous advantage of Lean Automation and clarify why all factors are needed for Thailand manufacturing industry for achieving Thailand 4.0.

Fumio Kojima, Dr. Eng.
1979.3 Master Degree, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1979.4 NIPPONDENSO(Current DENSO) Corporation Engaged in Production Eng. Dept.
1997.3 Dr. Eng., Osaka Univ.
2000.1 Director Production R&D Dept., DENSO Corp.
2004.1 Director Production Dept., DENSO Corp.
2009.6 Managing Director, ASMO Corp. (Manufacturing)
2014.6 Technical Expert, DENSO Corp. 2015.4 Visiting Professor, Waseda Univ.
2017.4 Executive Advisor, DENSO Corp.
Field of Speciality
Manufacturing system design, Automation system design, Process engineering, Plant management

Schaeffler Asia-Pacific is exploring robotic solutions to complement Schaeffler's vast and global business interest, especially in the digital domain. As part of the Digitization roadmap, utilization of robots can contribute to the Future of the Factory. Robots can enable seamless and quality output through digitalized solutions, to create a more dynamic manufacturing environment. Apart from robots being equipped with smart technologies for sensing, recognizing and executing task more efficiently, robots can be integrated with Cloud Computing to perform analysis using Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics. The goal is to develop robots to be instrumental in enhancing and elevate manufacturing process and productivity.

Dr. Wong is currently working at Schaeffler Asia-Pacific and he is based at the regional headquarters in Singapore. He is actively driving digitalization transformation within Schaeffler. His current work involves developing strategies to create new digitalization solutions. He has been involved and provides consultation to support technology development, primarily in the fields of Robotics, Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence. His work enables Schaeffler to further strengthen the manufacturing and engineering footprint in the Asia-Pacific region.

In this presentation, I will talk about our recent research results on robotic manipulation. Especially, we focus on the basic theory and its industrial application. We first explain the reason why the robotic manipulation technology is needed in the industrial application. Then, we focus two topics; randomized bin-picking and product assembly. We show basic theoretical results on motion planning and machine learning as well as its implementation result to real environment.

Prof. Kensuke Harada received Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1997. He worked as a research associate at Hiroshima University from 1997 to 2002. Then, he worked at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology as a research scientist from 2002 to 2013 and as a research group leader from 2013 to 2016. From 2016, he has been working as a professor at Osaka University.

Delta Industrial Automation.
As a leading industrial automation manufacturer, we offer efficient and reliable products and solutions to serve global customers. With the integration of drives, controllers, motion, sensors, communication devices and software, we cooperate with machine makers in various applications such as food & beverage manufacturing, textiles, cranes and elevators, plastics and rubber, printing and packaging, machine tools, as well as electronics. We also provide energy-saving solutions, drive systems, facility management control systems, visualization and surveillance solutions, robot stations, power quality solutions and factory automation for the electronics and high tech, oil and gas, chemicals, metallurgy, transportation and municipal construction sectors.
Industrial Automation consist of 3 main business.

1. Smart Machine
2. Smart.Factory solution
3. Smart Green life Factory solution

Education King Mongkuit institute North Bangkok.(EE)
Education King Mongkuit Institure Lat Krabang as Instrumentation Engineer (BE)
Business Development Manager at Siemens for Motion Control Business.
Sales Manager at Metso Automation for Pulp and Paper
Sales Manager at Festo Automation for Process Automation
Reigional Senior Manager at Delta for Industrial Automation

Institute of Field Robotics (FIBO) at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi is the first robotics institute in Thailand that has important impacts on research, academic service, and education related to robotics and automation engineering for more than 20 years.
This session will introduce the main activities and roles of FIBO that cover both technology development and human resource development in the area of robotics and automation.

Assoc.Prof. Dr. Siam Charoenseang is the director of institute of FIeld roBOtics (FIBO), King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degress in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt University, USA. His research areas are human-computer/robot interface, virtual/augmented reality, telepresence, and intelligent systems. He was one of the founding members of Thai Robotics Society (TRS), project leaders of Thai Robot Strategies, Evaluation of MIT One Tablet Per Child (OTPC), Robotics Learning Module Development for EEC. He is now the leader of industrial technology roadmap development for ARIPOLIS to increase the competitiveness in automation, robotics, and intelligent systems of Thailand.

Robot automation has been focused to be a crucial part of technology development for smart industry. There are many industry using robots to replace human for productivity, quality and efficiency improvement. To utilize robot for automation in industry, it is necessary to adopt smart control system to automated process and automated information for automated control. Big data, SCADA, Machine Learning, AI, Smart control and IoT system are applied to be requirement for Robotic System Integration for automation in order to support Smart Factory platform. By adopting these, it will help to improve efficiency of automated assembly process which can be applied for monitoring system and human interaction by using mobile solutions to work on MRP and ERP.

Robot is a core technology for automation system development. There are many types of robot using in industry such as AIV, ARV, AGV, Scara, 3-axis XYZ, and Robot arm. It has been using in variety of working areas such as material handling, high precision pick and place, assembly process, inspection process, test process and packing process which are the key areas in factory need to be focused for productivity, quality and efficiency improvement. To meet factory requirements, robot is developed to have high flexibility for system integration to support future growth and business expansion.

1. Summary of Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp.
   Introducing current Nachi situations, all Nachi products, Nachi robot history and etc
2. Nachi Robot Product
   Introducing Nachi robot line up, new products and recommended products
3. New development of Nachi Robot
   Develop items of robotics.

Join Nachi-Fujikoshi corp. in 1996
Belonged Software development group
Move to Nachi Robotics Systems Inc. (U.S.A) in 2002 as Engineer Coordinator
Back to Nachi-Fujikoshi corp. in 2007 as a Leader of software development group
Move to Nachi Technology Thailand Co.,Ltd in 2014 as a General Manager of robot division
Promoted Vice President of Nachi Technology Thailand Co.,Ltd in 2017

1. Explanation of Japanese drone business market
2. Which fields are major in Japan?
   Agriculture/Construction/Inspection/Civil/.etc
3. A remarkable Japanese company
4. Government and regulation
5. Future prospects

Editor-in-Chief of Drone Journal at Impress Co., Ltd.·
Worked on impress through an advertisement company etc. I am in charge of setting up a new business at Impress Holdings.
Study planning and editor of "Drone business survey report" which posted market trend analysis of domestic drone business and market data etc.
In October 2016, I set up a drone specialty medium "Drone Journal" and became the editor in chief.We conduct daily surveys on domestic and overseas markets for business using drone.

Keyence Vision system for robotis is user friendly with 4 easy points below.

1. Easy Connect, can connect with many brands of robot such as Denso, Yaskawa,Kuka Fanuc, Mitsubishi, Nachi, etc. with only 1 cable
2. Easy set up, don't need to use PLC to program to communicate with Robot.
3. Easy move. We can send out of sample program to robot when it moves.
4. Easy inspection. Not only position but we also have other tools of camera such as strain, pattern search etc. that easy to apply for any application.

Keyence is a world wide fast growing innovative company for automation. We have many range of products such as, sensor, measurement, vision system, PLC, microscope etc so we can apply our products to many kinds of customers, automotive, electronics, HDD, food, and packaging etc. We lead industrial automation world because we have all in one solution. More over our strong points are direct sales, support world wide and fast shipping.

Roles of TRS (Thai Robotics Society) are mainly to promote and distribute robotics technology for Thailand academic society including coordinate with other local and international associations to enable collaborative research network in order to strengthen higher education. Medical robots are a very extensive area of research topics in Thailand, especially rehabilitation robots. We developed many types of rehabilitation robots for stroke patients such as upper extremity exoskeleton, wrist exoskeleton, lower extremity exoskeleton, single-plane end-effector, and multi-plane end-effector. The development criteria are well defined together with medical doctors from the department of rehabilitation, faculty of medicine, Chulalongkorn hospital. Two control strategies: active assistive mode with adjustable resistive force and repetitive speed, based on impedance force control, for patients who have some difficulty in moving his hand or physically weak muscle. The impedance models, suitable for rehabilitation are developed, have been purposed for the torque control scheme. The resistive mode for a patient who want to improve his hand motion or after finishing the active assistive with adjustable resistive operation training program. Each jointed of the exoskeleton robots is actuated by a brushless DC servomotor with the indirect force measurement. From clinical trial of all the developed robots, we are confirmed that robot-assisted therapy is a very effective method for promoting motor recovery in patients with neurological deficit.

Viboon Sangveraphunsiri is the Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University. He received the B.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University in 1978, and received MS.ME. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S.A., in 1980 and 1984 respectively. Since the graduation, he has joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, as a faculty staff. He has worked in various areas as Dynamic Control and Robotics: advanced control systems, force control, computer vision, manipulators, autonomous mobile robots, CAD/CAM/Rapid-prototype in product design and manufacturing. In 2008, he founded the Regional Center of Robotics Technology, Chulalongkorn University, to be a research center in the areas of Advanced Control of Dynamic Systems and Robotics. The research works of the center are more toward medical robots especially in stroke rehabilitation as well as robots for industrial applications. He received the Thailand Outstanding Researcher Award in 2016 and the Outstanding Technologist Award in 2017.

Mr.Kosalwitr, Vice President at CPF(Thailand) PLC., received his Master degree in Business and Administration from Chulalongkorn University, Bachelor and Master degrees in Mechanical Engineer from Khon Kaen University. He started his career at Siam Cement Group in 1990 and worked at Thai Beverage Public Company Ltd. from 1993-2005. Mr. Kosalwitr has been at Charoen Pokphand Foods since 2005. He is also a lecturer at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi and has been part of Robotics Cluster, Ministry of Industry and Thai Industrial Standards Institute's working committees.

People are striving to be unique and quick.
Mass customization with smart factory refers to a company's ability to efficiently mass produce products that meet individual consumer wants and needs.
In this session ,Mitsubishi Electric will Introduce e-F@ctory,a concept of smart factory and FR series, a smart factory oriented robot with some benefits and examples.
Also Mitsubishi Electric will show the roadmap for harmonization of human and manufacturing system with technology of collaborative robot and artificial intelligence.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Robot Development 1990-2003
-Developed small to large robot(1-100kg payload)
 Robot Quality Assurance 2004-2006
-Supported over seas quality assurance
 Robot Technical Center 2007-Present
-Supported robot business on Europe/North America
-Developed robot business for EMS over Pacific

Factories in Thailand have been investing heavily over the past few years in machineries and systems in order to increase the level of process automation and remain competitive in the global manufacturing arena. This has driven market growth in the automation and industrial robot industries in Thailand. BOI recognizes the importance of automation and robotics, and offers a wide range of tax incentives for projects related to automotaion and robotic.

The BOI presentation includes summary of BOI incentives for companies in automation and industrial robot industries to both the demand and supply sides. Such incentive packages are offered for both existing and new investment projects.

Mr. Chokedee Kaewsang is a Deputy Secretary General of the Thailand Board of Investment (BOI). He began his service with the BOI in 1982, working in the Project Development Division. Since joining the BOI, he has held many positions including Assistant Economic Counselor (Investment) at Thailand Board of Investment, New York Office, between 1994 and 1997, Director of International Affairs Division in 2002, Director of the Investment Facilitation Division from 2003 until 2004 and Director of the Investment Strategy and Policy Division between 2005 and 2008. He also served as a Minister (Economic and Investment) of the Office of Economic and Investment Affairs in Tokyo, Japan from 2008 until 2011. Prior to assuming his current role, he was the Executive Director of Investment Promotion Bureau 1 (Agro-industry and light industries) in 2011.

He received his bachelor degree in Economics from Thammasat University. He was awarded a Lee Kuan Yew scholarship and graduated from the National University of Singapore with a master’s degree in Public Management. He also participated in Lee Kuan Yew’s Fellowship Program in Public Management, at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, U.S.A. Moreover, he received a certificate of completion for advanced training program from the National Defense College, Thailand (NDC55).

Dr. Supachai Vongbunyong, PhD, is a lecturer & Assistant Director of Research and International Affairs at Institute of Field Robotics (FIBO), King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand. He is a co-founder and head of I AM Research Group at FIBO. He received PhD in Manufacturing Engineering from The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Bachelor and Master Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University. His research expertise is life cycle engineering, sustainable manufacturing, additive manufacturing, disassembly automation, CAD/CAM, and robotics and automation in medical applications. He worked at UNSW and manufacturing company in Australia in the field of robotics, additive manufacturing, and life cycle engineering.