![[2025 SMART+ Manufacturing Exhibition] NCKU Showcases AI Technologies to Boost Factory Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation](/userfiles/images/20250506075106483.jpg)
SDG9
[2025 SMART+ Manufacturing Exhibition] NCKU Showcases AI Technologies to Boost Factory Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation
The 2025 SMART+ Smart Manufacturing Exhibition is a major event in Taiwan’s smart manufacturing sector for the first half of the year. National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) is participating alongside its internal research and development teams, focusing on areas such as digital transformation and system integration, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), as well as smart factory and enterprise war room integration. The exhibition showcases NCKU's strong capabilities and research achievements in AI and cybersecurity technologies.
Hsiao-Fen Hsu, Director of the NCKU Center for Corporate Relations and Technology Transfer (hereafter referred to as the Center for Technology Transfer) under the Innovation Headquarters at NCKU, stated: “NCKU has long received support from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and other relevant government agencies as well as enterprises. For this exhibition, we have carefully selected AI-related application technologies from within the university to present. Through participation in such major events, we aim to share the outcomes of government-sponsored projects with industry leaders, promoting the practical application of academic research achievements. The Center for Technology Transfer has supported these showcased projects, which are already strategically positioned for the international market through patent portfolio planning, enhancing the global competitiveness of our partner companies.” The Center for Technology Transfer launched a patent optimization and selection mechanism in 2017 and has extended this mechanism to alliance universities through the Southern Taiwan Science Platform to assist partner schools in improving their research management capabilities. In 2024, the center initiated the patent optimization 2.0 transformation, adding industry intelligence and merger and acquisition information research to the original mechanism, thereby enhancing the overall management and application process of R&D outcomes.
At the exhibition, NCKU’s Information and Electromechanical Integration Laboratory, led by Professor Shang-Liang Chen, is showcasing AI application systems, including: “5G-Based Virtualized Software Control System”,“Cybersecurity Intrusion Prevention System for Industrial Control”,“Remote AI Model Automated Deployment and Dynamic Cloud-Based Model Updating Platform”, “5G and Fog Computing-Enabled Augmented Reality Monitoring and Maintenance System”,“Smart Predictive Diagnostic and High-Efficiency Maintenance Platform”,“Assembly Personnel Misoperation Smart Recognition System”. These system integrations are major highlights, providing vital analytical information and real-time decision support for smart factories and enterprise war rooms.
In addition, the exhibition features materials strengthening technologies and energy-saving devices for smart factories:
- Professor Shih-Kang Lin from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering developed a “Structural Material Reinforcement Technology for Vehicles” that addresses the challenges of material processing and softening.
- Associate Professor Bang-Yu Hsu developed a “Light-Emitting Device and Manufacturing Method” to overcome previous limitations by simultaneously achieving high luminous intensity, high external quantum efficiency, and stable performance across a wide working voltage range.
- Professor Chi-Hua Yu from the AI and Multiscale Simulation Laboratory introduced an “Advanced Packaging EDA Tool”, which leverages generative AI to simulate and emulate the entire chip system’s environmental state without the need to pre-construct large databases, allowing faster and more advanced computational modeling and solution generation.
- University Chair Professor Fan-Tien Cheng, an outstanding researcher repeatedly recognized by the NSTC, presented the “Smart Energy Management System and Method”. This system, known as iEMS, integrates production scheduling, factory operation control, microgrid integration, and carbon emission data to help manufacturers accelerate the realization of green smart manufacturing and achieve net-zero carbon emissions goals.
The NCKU Center for Technology Transfer has carefully selected AI-related technologies with high industrial value to offer new patent commercialization mechanisms to potential industry partners. In response to diverse AI integration needs across various industries, NCKU’s research centers also provide related AI integration services, aiming to transfer academic technologies to industry and promote collaborative development and application between academia and industry.
Hsiao-Fen Hsu, Director of the NCKU Center for Corporate Relations and Technology Transfer (hereafter referred to as the Center for Technology Transfer) under the Innovation Headquarters at NCKU, stated: “NCKU has long received support from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and other relevant government agencies as well as enterprises. For this exhibition, we have carefully selected AI-related application technologies from within the university to present. Through participation in such major events, we aim to share the outcomes of government-sponsored projects with industry leaders, promoting the practical application of academic research achievements. The Center for Technology Transfer has supported these showcased projects, which are already strategically positioned for the international market through patent portfolio planning, enhancing the global competitiveness of our partner companies.” The Center for Technology Transfer launched a patent optimization and selection mechanism in 2017 and has extended this mechanism to alliance universities through the Southern Taiwan Science Platform to assist partner schools in improving their research management capabilities. In 2024, the center initiated the patent optimization 2.0 transformation, adding industry intelligence and merger and acquisition information research to the original mechanism, thereby enhancing the overall management and application process of R&D outcomes.
At the exhibition, NCKU’s Information and Electromechanical Integration Laboratory, led by Professor Shang-Liang Chen, is showcasing AI application systems, including: “5G-Based Virtualized Software Control System”,“Cybersecurity Intrusion Prevention System for Industrial Control”,“Remote AI Model Automated Deployment and Dynamic Cloud-Based Model Updating Platform”, “5G and Fog Computing-Enabled Augmented Reality Monitoring and Maintenance System”,“Smart Predictive Diagnostic and High-Efficiency Maintenance Platform”,“Assembly Personnel Misoperation Smart Recognition System”. These system integrations are major highlights, providing vital analytical information and real-time decision support for smart factories and enterprise war rooms.
In addition, the exhibition features materials strengthening technologies and energy-saving devices for smart factories:
- Professor Shih-Kang Lin from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering developed a “Structural Material Reinforcement Technology for Vehicles” that addresses the challenges of material processing and softening.
- Associate Professor Bang-Yu Hsu developed a “Light-Emitting Device and Manufacturing Method” to overcome previous limitations by simultaneously achieving high luminous intensity, high external quantum efficiency, and stable performance across a wide working voltage range.
- Professor Chi-Hua Yu from the AI and Multiscale Simulation Laboratory introduced an “Advanced Packaging EDA Tool”, which leverages generative AI to simulate and emulate the entire chip system’s environmental state without the need to pre-construct large databases, allowing faster and more advanced computational modeling and solution generation.
- University Chair Professor Fan-Tien Cheng, an outstanding researcher repeatedly recognized by the NSTC, presented the “Smart Energy Management System and Method”. This system, known as iEMS, integrates production scheduling, factory operation control, microgrid integration, and carbon emission data to help manufacturers accelerate the realization of green smart manufacturing and achieve net-zero carbon emissions goals.
The NCKU Center for Technology Transfer has carefully selected AI-related technologies with high industrial value to offer new patent commercialization mechanisms to potential industry partners. In response to diverse AI integration needs across various industries, NCKU’s research centers also provide related AI integration services, aiming to transfer academic technologies to industry and promote collaborative development and application between academia and industry.
NCKU joins forces with its in-house R&D teams to participate in the "2025 SMART+ Smart Manufacturing Exhibition," with Hsiao-Fen Hsu (left), Director of the NCKU Center for Corporate Relations and Technology Transfer , and I-Ting Hwang, Deputy Director.
Hsiao-Fen Hsu (left), Director of the NCKU Center for Corporate Relations and Technology Transfer, shares NCKU's research and development patents
