Main Organiser Venue Sponsor
The Institution of Engineers, Singapore
Continual Professional Development & Outreach Sub-Committee of the Railway and Transportation Technical Committee
present
Railway Technology Seminar 2
Date : Friday, 20 April 2018 Time : 9.00 AM to 5.00 PM Registration start at 8.15 AM sharp). Venue : SIT Lecture Theatre 1A SIT @ Dover, 10 Dover Drive, S(138683) Fees : IES Members = $53.50/- per pax Non-members = $107.00/- per pax Student Members - Free of Charge (Limited to 20 seats Only for Student Members) Fees includes prevailing GST , 2 tea break & lunch CPD/PDU : 5 PDU for PEB PE (Approved) 5 PDU for IES C.Eng (Approved for all Engineering branches/disciplines listed in http://charteredengineers.sg/branches/).
Synopsis of the Talks
1. Digitalization of railways ‐ The development of Future System By Ng Bor Kiat, Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President, Systems & Technology, SMRT Corporation Ltd
Digitalization – the use of technology to transform business – is an opportunity for urban rail operators to bring about higher levels of safety, reliability, efficiency and passenger experience. Hear about SMRT’s development of Future Systems, and their 6 pillars of technology framework used to guide the company’s digitalization journey.
2. Depot Automation and Digitalization by Ms Ng Liang Chin, Division Manager, Maintenance Management System, Singapore Technology Electronics Ltd
3. Singapore DTL Signaling system by Ms Joana Lee Chien Yee, Deputy Engineering Manager, Siemens Rail Automation
The presentation mainly described the development of Singapore Downtown Signalling Project. The main topics that would be covering are Dual Signalling Systems and Unmanned Train Operational mode. Dual Signalling Systems, includes both CBTC (Communications Based Train Control) and the fall back system FBSS (Fixed Block Signalling System). The Downtown Line perfectly operates with the transition between these two signalling systems. As such, it is proven to be a positive impact in the operational line in future. Unmanned Operation mode, involves trains to be driven automatically without the needs of having an operator. This allows the Downtown Line to further operate more efficiently and technologically. This system helps to mitigate the delays and allows a seamless journey for all passengers.
4. SBST Good Practice in Track Inspection and maintenance by Mr Quek Chin Hock, Assistant Vice President, Permanent Way & Civil Structure, SBS Transit DTL This talk is about the good practices SBST had accumulated over a period of 15 years in MRT track inspection and maintenance. The speaker will share the good track inspection practices adopted by SBST and the pway maintenance philosophical approach in achieving better train service reliability.
5. Connecting the dots – From Racing to … Railway by Mr Rakesh Menon, Chief Engineer, McLaren Applied Technologies
McLaren’s 50+ years of competing in the pinnacle sport of Formula 1 is not only a history of heroic drivers’ legendary stories, but also a race of technology advances, product innovations and process management. It’s holistic approach towards decision making leveraging objective data measurements coupled with predictive analytics/simulation as well as design capabilities have been deployed in various other industries outside of Motorsports.
The aim of this talk would be to be to shed some insights around this, primarily McLaren’s data‐ driven approach to support decision making and what some of the required core competencies are.
6. Cyber security in railway by Dr Guo Huaqun, Senior Scientist, Department Head of Network Security,I2R, Chairman of IEEE ITS Singapore Chapter, President of International Research Club.
7. Laser application on railways by Prof Hong Ming Hui, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, National University of Singapore
Laser is playing a more and more important role in our advanced manufacturing. Being as fast as light, it provides the maximum speed allowed for rapid optical sensing and data commination. Being as accurate as light, it offers a reliable means to fabricate tiny micro/nano‐devices. Being as colourful as light, it serves as the basis for optical imaging and industrial process real‐time monitoring. The unique properties of laser are achieving varieties of innovations and bringing about plenty of new opportunities. In this talk, the beauty of laser will be highlighted. Its potential applications in railway industries will be showcased with a few recent research activities being carried out in Optical Science and Engineering Centre, National University of Singapore: (1) Laser cleaning to remove rusty, paint or oil etc. contamination layers, (2) Laser peening to harden metal structures for better anti‐corrosion performance, (3) Laser texturing to create color marks and super‐hydrophobicity on metal surfaces, (4) Optical imaging and laser diagnostics to detect cracks on and inside steel structures as well as (5) Laser spectroscopies to sense gas leakage and oxygen depletion at a high speed in remote mode.
8. Rail simulator and its potential by Dr Zhou Yi, Assistant Professor, Singapore Institute of Technology
In this talk, a Railway Engineering Simulator (RES) developed by London Underground is introduced. The RES started in 1995 for the Northern Line signalling system tender evaluation and performance assessment and has further developed into a system engineering tool that able to model different levels of details and with applications from micro level calculations to complex networks. This simulator is able to model and simulate interaction between trains and signalling systems, power network and passenger flow. It has great potential in areas from railway system design, upgrading to performance and capability evaluation. It also offers a tool to explore innovative solutions in railway optimization.
Profile of the Speakers
Mr Ng Bor Kiat Chief Technology Officer Senior Vice President, Systems & Technology SMRT Corporation Ltd
Ng Bor Kiat, as Chief Technology Officer, oversees the Technology Management Office and is responsible for developing and implementing SMRT’s technology investment strategy, as well as enhancing technology partnerships with external organisations.
As Senior Vice President of Systems & Technology, he is responsible for the Systems and Technology domain pillars in SMRT Trains.
Prior to joining SMRT, Mr Ng was Director, Corporate Development at the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, with responsibility over all of its corporate functions. He has close to 30 years of management and engineering experience, with an extensive background in research and development, project and system management, maintenance operations and corporate functions. He has held numerous senior positions in his career including Director (Land Systems) at Defence Science and Technology Agency, as well as Chief Maintenance and Engineering Officer while on secondment to the Singapore Armed Forces and as consultant to the Temasek Defence Systems Institute of NUS.
Mr Ng was awarded the Defence Technology Prize (Team) in 1997 and Public Administration Medal (PPA) Silver in 2007.
Mr Ng holds a Master of Science from Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK, and a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He has attended the Programme for Management Development at Harvard Business School and the Stanford‐NUS Executive Programme.
Ms Ng Liang Chin Division Manager, Maintenance Management System Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd
Ms Ng is currently the Division Manager of the Maintenance Management System at ST Electronics with 24 years of both projects and technical experience. She graduated with a Bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. She manages 100 engineering staff working on delivery of IT engineering projects , steer the division vision and roadmap, review people skills build up and infrastructure to support the project team and O&M team. She is also the acting Project Manager and Project Director for green field projects. She is also a Certified Project Manager by Project Management Institute.
Dr Zhou Yi Assistant Professor, Engineering Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology
Dr ZHOU Yi is an Assistant Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). He was a lecturer at Singapore University of Technology and Design and Singapore Polytechnic before joining SIT. Dr ZHOU has been a council member of Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) since 2012 and currently serves as chairman of Electrical, Electronic and Computing Engineers Technical Committee and deputy chairman of Railway and Transportation Technical Committee.
Ms Joana Lee Chien Yee Deputy Engineering Manager Siemens Rail Automation
Ms Lee is currently the Deputy Engineering Manager with Siemens Rail Automation since 2016 and she graduated with a Bachelor degree in Electrical, Electronics and Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. She represented Siemens for a Singapore Downtown Line Project, Signaling presentation organized by IRSE, led and managed a team of 5 engineers in daily operations (eg. Troubleshooting, deployment, testing, etc.) and participated in weekly and monthly meetings to report on the progress of the project and status of outstanding issues to client – LTA.
Mr Quek Chin Hock Assistant Vice President Permanent Way & Civil Structure SBS Transit DTL
Mr Quek first joined SBSTransit Ltd as an Engineer in 2001 after graduating from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering. Mr Quek was a pioneer involved in the setting up of Permanent Way Team (Pway) to maintain the North East Line (NEL) MRT and the Sengkang‐ Punggol Light Rail Transit (LRT) System. His responsibilities include maintaining the Track, Tunnel, Viaduct and Power rail systems. Subsequently, Mr Quek was appointed the Head of Permanent Way & Civil Structure in 2008.
In 2012, Mr Quek was appointed the Head of Downtown (DTL) Line Infrastructure Department, which he spearheaded the taking over of the DTL MRT Civil and Mechanical services from the Singapore Land Transport Authority. He successfully set up a maintenance team to operate and maintain the DTL Infrastructure systems that include Pway, Civil Structure and Building Mechanical services.
Prior to his 17 years of railway career in SBSTransit, he had also worked in civil engineering construction projects involving MRT and residential building.
Mr Rakesh Menon Chief Engineer McLaren Applied Technologies
Be it Statistical models or Numerology Rakesh loves the stories that numbers tell him. Trained as a Civil Engineer, the prospect of working in the sun, swayed him towards an office bound job in a research environment which got him looking at numbers – and he never looked back. 21 years as a data analytics practitioner has seen him work in different capacities, in various organizations dealing with projects across multiple industries from manufacturing, consumer electronics, rail, healthcare, banking and more. Though Rakesh has a Master’s in Civil and Financial Engineering as well as a Phd in Data Mining, his biggest teachers have been his two daughters and he is still learning from them….
Dr Guo Huaqun Senior Scientist, Department Head of Network Security, Institute of Infocomm Research Chairman of IEEE ITS Singapore Chapter President of International Research Club
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Prof Hong Ming Hui Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department National University of Singapore
Prof. Hong Minghui specializes in laser microprocessing & nanofabrication, optical engineering and applications. He has co‐authored 10 book chapters, 24 patents granted, and 400+ scientific papers in Nature, Chemical Reviews, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications and 60+ plenary/keynote/invited talks in international conferences. He is Chair of International Workshop of Plasmonics and Applications in Nanotechnologies (2006), Chair of Conference on Laser Ablation (2009) and Chair of Asia‐Pacific Near‐field Optics Conference (2013 & 2019). Prof. Hong is invited to serve as an Editor of Light: Science and Applications (Nature Publishing Group), Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Associate Editor of Science China, Editor of Laser Micro/nanoengineering, and Executive Editor‐in‐chief of Opto‐Electronic Advances. Prof. Hong is Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA), Fellow of International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and Founding Fellow of International Academy of Photonics and Laser Engineering (IAPLE) and Fellow of Institute of Engineers, Singapore (IES). Prof. Hong is currently a Full Professor and the Director of Optical Science and Engineering Centre (OSEC), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. He is also the Chairman of Phaos Technology Pte. Ltd.
Programme
0830 – 0900 hrs Registration
Welcome speech by Er. Leong Yim Sing, Chairman, IES CPD & Outreach Sub‐Committee of 0900 – 0910 hrs the IES Railway and Transportation technical Committee
Keynote Address : Digitalization of railways ‐ The development of Future Systems
0910‐ 0940 hrs by Mr Ng Bor Kiat, Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President, Systems & Technology, SMRT Corporation Ltd
Track 1 Depot Automation and Digitalization by Ms Ng Liang Chin, Division Manager, 0940 – 1010 hrs Maintenance Management System, Singapore Technology Electronics Ltd
1010‐ 1030 hrs Q&A, Presentation of Token of Appreciation to Keynote Speakers
1030 – 1100 hrs Coffee Break
Track 2 Singapore DTL Signaling system by Ms Joana Lee Chien Yee, Deputy 1100 – 1130 hrs Engineering Manager, Siemens Rail Automation
Track 3 SBST Good Practice in Track Inspection and maintenance by Mr Quek Chin 1130 – 1200 hrs Hock, Assistant Vice President, SBS Transit DTL
1200 – 1230 hrs Q&A, Presentation of Token of Appreciation
1230 – 1330 hrs Lunch Break Track 4 Connecting the dots – From Racing to … Railway by Mr Rakesh Menon, 1330 – 1400 hrs Chief Engineer, McLaren Applied Technologies
Track 5 Cyber security in railway by Dr Guo Huaqun, Senior Scientist, Department Head 1400 – 1430 hrs of Network Security,I2R, Chairman of IEEE ITS Singapore Chapter, President of International Research Club.
Track 6 Laser application on railways by Prof Hong Ming Hui, Professor, Electrical and 1430 – 1500 hrs Computer Engineering Department, Director of Optical Science and Engineering Center, National University of Singapore 1500 – 1530 hrs Tea Break Track 7 Rail simulator and its potential by Dr Zhou Yi, Assistant Professor, Singapore 1530– 1600 hrs Institute of Technology
1600‐ 1630 hrs Q & A. Presentation of Token of Appreciation
1630 – 1700 hrs CAFEO & SITCE Presentation
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