Academic Qualification

Professional Membership

Professional Services

• Immediate Past President, Six Sigma Society of Hong Kong 2006-08
• Member, E&E Committee, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers 2010
• Member, CPD Committee, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers 2006-07
• Member, CS Committee , the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers 2006-07
• Member, Discipline Advisory Panel , MI discipline of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers 2005-2016
• School Ambassador, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers 2005-06
• Council member, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers 2005-07
• Member, Publications Committee, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers 2005-06
• Founding President, Six Sigma Society of Hong Kong 2004-06
• Council member, Hong Kong Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology (HKAAST) 2003-04
• Committee member, MI Division, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers 2002-2009
• President, Institute of Industrial Engineers (HK) 2000-2001.
• Member, Operation Management Committee, Rapid Prototyping Technology Centre (RPTC), co-organized by Hong Kong Productivity Council and City University of Hong Kong 1998- .
• Member, Rapid Prototyping Technology Centre (RPTC), co-organized by Hong Kong Productivity Council and City University of Hong Kong 1994-1998.
• Hon. Treasurer, Institute of Industrial Engineers (HK) 1998-99.
• Chairman, Engineering Committee, Institute of Industrial Engineers (HK) 1997-98.
• Chairman, Internet Services Committee, Institute of Industrial Engineers (HK) 1996-97.
• Vice Chairman, Engineering Committee, Institute of Industrial Engineers (HK) 1995-96.

Community Services

• Speaker, the Teacher Update Course (TUC) organized by City University of Hong Kong, June 2006. 2 workshops are presented to Secondary school teachers and principals. One in Introduction to RFID, and the other is Six Sigma Quality management for daily life.
• School Ambassador of HKIE Career Talk. To give talk to CCC Ming Yin College and HKTA The Yuen Yuen Institute No 1 Secondary School on Jan and April 2006.
• Member of Steering Committee , A PSDAS Projected Entitled “Capability Building Programme of Manufacturing & Industrial Engineers on the Application of RFID on Supply Chain Management March 2005 – July 2005
• Member of Steering Committee , A PSDAS Projected Entitled “Capability Building of Manufacturing & Industrial Engineers in Response to CEPA Initiative”, organized by HKIE (MIE) Division. Nov 2004 – June 2005
• Honorable Judges, the IVE Diploma Engineering Students' Project Competition, May 2003.
• Consultant, Publication of a series of 3 books called "innovative design and technology" for junior D&T secondary school students, Chinese Technical Press Ltd. May to Dec. 2002.

Applied Research

• Design and Development of a EPCIS compliant prototype for production system product tractability Oct 2006 – Feb 2007 (see website on www.cityu.edu.hk/meem/rfid_epcis/
• Committee member, Industrial Technology Research Group (ITRG), Department MEEM, City University of Hong Kong. 2006-
• Design and Development of a Certified Lean Manager training program, Collaborate with TQM Consultant Ltd. Feb 2006.
• Being one of the paper reviewer of a journal paper “Knowledge Management Research & Practice (KMRP), published by Palgrave Macmillan, editor : John S. Edwards, Professor of O.R. and Systems, Operations & Information Management Group, Aston Business School, Aston University, 2005-
• Produce a report on the survey of “the Impact of MIEs in the response of to the MAINLAND AND HONG KONG CLOSER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP ARRANGEMENT (CEPA)” Nov 2005.
• Design and Development of a new Six Sigma project management software for the industry. Nov – May 05
• Development of a new EPC-RFID Technology Laboratory at MEEM Department of CityUHK Jan 2005.
• Participation at the “PLM Academic Exchange Towards Higher Education in Design and Engineering”, organized by IBM and DS on 7-8 Nov, 2002 at Thai.
• Committee Member, the International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems in the Internet Age, to be held on Dec. 2001, organised by Polytechnic University. (Sept, 2000).
• Associated investigator of a SRG research proposal on “web-based remote sensing, fault diagnosing and collaborative maintenance”. (Strategic Grant 7001195, March, 2001).
• Local Programme Committee member of the 8th M2VIP conference, Aug., 2001.
• Associated investigator of a 2-year CERG project entitled “Research into an Intelligent scheduling methodology for the adaptive control of holonic manufacturing systems (HMS)”, Jan, 1999 to Dec, 2000.
• Associated Investigator of a two years CPHK funded Strategic Research project, entitled “Open System Environment for distributed control of intelligent flexible manufacturing systems”, Feb.,95 to Jan.,97.
• Principal Investigator of an one year CPHK funded development project, entitled “Flexible distributed multi-robots work cell”, Aug., 93 to July, 94.

CD Publication

• Industrial Engineering, produced 2001 copyrighted by Institute of Industrial Engineers (HK)
• A multi-media kit for Innovative Engineering Practice for D & T students, produced 2001 copyrighted by Dept. MEEM, CityUHK
• Multi-media Trilingual Glossary System for Engineering Terminology and Jargon, produced 1999 copyrighted by Dept. MEEM, CityUHK

Books and Chapters

• Author of a textbook “Power Tools and Insights for effective Six Sigma Implementation” , Published 2007 by Six Sigma Society of Hong Kong and copyrighted by Dr. Ricky Yeung (ISDN: 978-988-99539-1-1).
• Author of a survey report called “The impact on Manufacturing and Industrial Engineers in response to the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)”, published Oct. 2005, copyrighted by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.
• A chapter "Modelling and Realtime control of Flexible Conveyor Systems (FCS) for Automated Assembly", for the book entitled "Fieldbus Technology: The digital Control networking system for automation and control applications" published by Springer-Verlag. 2004.
• Author of a booklet called “A multi-media kit for innovative engineering practices for D & T students” published 2001 , copyrighted by Dept. MEEM, CityUHK.

Software

• Designer of a software system, “A Integrated Knowledge Representation Modeling system” 2005, copyrighted by Dept. MEEM, CityUHK.
• Designer of a software system, “A on-line system for the management of Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA)” 2004, copyrighted by Dept. MEEM, CityUHK.
• Designer of a software system, “A Total Enterprise Knowledge Integration Platform (TEKIP)” 2003, copyrighted by Dept. MEEM, CityUHK.

Journal Papers

• Yeung R W H and Moore P R, "Steps towards advanced cell control systems: an application in flexible assembly", International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Vol.7, No.1, 2001, pp 3-21.
• Yeung R W H and Moore P R, "Genetic Algorithms and Flexible Process Planning in the design of fault tolerant cell control for Flexible Assembly Systems", Internation Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol.13, No.2, 2000, pp 157-168.
• Cheung E H M, Yeung R W H and Ng A H C, "HSCF: A holonic shop floor control framework for flexible manufacturing systems", International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol.13, No.2, 2000, pp 121-138.
• Fung R Y K, Pereira A C and Yeung R W H, "Performance Evaluation of a web-based Information System for Laboratories and Service Centres", International Journal of Logistics Information Management, Vol.13, No.4, 2000, pp 218-227.
• Yeung, W.H.R. and Moore, P.R., "A model for fault recoverable control of Flexible Assembly Systems", Mechatronics'98, Sweden, Sep 1998, pp 1-7.
• Yeung W H R and Moore P R, "Towards a fault tolerant cell controller for flexible assembly systems: An approach using colour Petri-Nets", Mechatronics, Vol.8, 1998, pp 746-764.
• Yeung W H R and Moore P R, "Distributed cell controllers using colour Petri-Nets and FieldBus: an application in flexible assembly", International Journal of Production Research, Vol.35, No.2, Feb 1996, pp 237-340.
• Yeung W H R and Moore P R, "Object-oriented modelling and control of flexible conveyor systems for automated assembly", Mechatronics, Vol.6, No.7, 1996, pp 799-815.
• Chin K S, Patri K V, Pun K F, Yeung W H R, Poon L T J and Poon G K K, "Starting the journey - team based quality improvement in university laboratories", The TQM Magazine, ISSN 0954-478X, Vol.8, No.2, 1996, pp 20-25.

Referred Conference Papers

• Jesse L.C. Shum and Ricky W.H. Yeung, “Application of RFID and EPCIS in Product Traceability in Manufacturing Industry”, Annual Journal of IIE(HK), 31 May, 2007, pp.1-10.
• Richard YK Fung, Ricky WH Yeung and Robert Chan, "Investigation of Knowledge Representation Models for Process Documentation - a case study in manufacturing industry", 33rd International Conference on Computer and Industrial Engineering, Korea, 25 Mar 2004(CDROM Version).
• Yeung WHR, Fung YKR and Wong MT, "Introducing a Knowledge Management System for SMEs in Hong Kong and Southern China", the 32nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Ireland, 11 Aug 2003, pp 858-863.
• Ricky WH Yeung, Carrie Wong and Richard Fung, "Adoption of Knowledge Management Practices in local medium-sized Manufacturing Industry", The 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Systems (APIEMS), Teipei, Taiwan, 18 Dec 2002(CDROM Version).(In Print)
• Ricky WH Yeung and Eric KT Ting, "CRM system design for an Electronic Manufacturing Services Provider: an engineering approach", Annual Journal of Institute of Industrial Engineers (HK), Hong Kong, 23 Mar 2002, pp 22-27.
• Ricky WH Yeung, Carrie Wong and Richard Fung, "Mapping of IT tools in supporting Knowledge Management initiatives in local medium-sized manufacturing industry", Internation Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management 2002, Beijing, China, 19 Sep 2002(CDROM Version).
• Yeung R W H, Ngan D T W and Cheung M C Y, "Application of business intelligence tools in education institutes: a case study of MEEM laboratory", Annual Journal of Institute of Industrial Engineers (HK), ISSN 1609-3208, Hong Kong, 22 Mar 2001, pp 25-28.
• TAM P K H, Fung R S T, Yeung R W H and Cheung E H M, "A CORBA-based negotiation scheduling model for holonic manufacturing systems", Proceedings of the 3rd World Congress on Intelligent Manufacturing Process & System, MIT, Jun 2000, pp 116-121.
• Yeung R W H, Tse P W T and Chang S M L, "A multimedia case-based training system fro mechatronics engineering design", the 27th International Conference on Computer and Industrial Engineering, Beijing China, Oct 2000, pp 247(CDROM Version).
• Fung R S T, TAM P K H, Yeung R W H and Cheung E H M, "A novel scheduling methodology for holonic manufacturing control system", The 27th International Conference on Computer and Industrial Engineering, Beijing China, Oct 2000, pp 223(CDROM Version).
• Fung R S T, Tam P K H, Yeung R W H and Cheung E H M, "Towards a fully distributed and heterarchical design of holonic shp-floor scheduling system : a CORBA approach", Japanese-USA symposium on Flexible Automation, USA, 23 Jul 2000.
• Tam P K H, Fung S T R, Yeung R W H and Cheung E H M, "Visual modelling for COBRA based negotiation scheduling of Holonic Manufacturing Systems", Computer Aided Production Engineering (CAPE 2000), Edinburgh, 7 Aug 2000, pp 213-222.
• Fung R.Y.K., Pereira A.C. and Yeung W.H.R., "A Performance Evaluation and improvement methodology for information systems in laboratories and service centres", 3rd Interantional Conference on Engineering Design and Automation, Vancouver, 1 Aug 1999.
• Ricky W.H. Yeung, I.K. Hui and W.H. Wong, "A WWW-enabled remote shopfloor monitoring and control system for a multi-national sunglass manufacturer", Annual Journal of Institute of Industrial Engineers (HK), ISSN 1609-3208, Nov 1999, pp 29-31.
• Ricky W.H. Yeung, Edmund H.M. Cheung and Amos H.C. Ng, "Holonic Manufacturing Task Scheduling using a multi-level negotiation protocol", 6th National Industrial Engineering Annual Conference, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, China, Beijing , China, Apr 1999, pp 95-100.
• Yeung W H R, Cheung H M E and Ng H C A, "IntraMEL: a dynamic WWW laboratory information system for manufacturing engineering laboratories", International Conference on Multi-media and Engineering Education (mmcc '98), Hong Kong, Jul 1998.
• Yeung, W.H.R., "Flexible Process Plans for the real-time control of Flexible Assembly Systems", 5th Industrial Engineering Annual Conference, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, China, China, May 1997, pp 604-609.
• Yeung W H R and Moore PR, "Proceedings of the International Symposium on Manufacturing Systems, World Manufacturing Congress (WMC'97)", Advanced cell control in the application of flexible assembly systems, New Zealand, Nov 1997, pp 202-208.
• Yeung W H R and Moore P R, "An integrated object oriented environment for rapid programming and control of flexible conveyor systems", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, Portugal, Vol.1, 16-20 Sep 1996, pp 409-414.
• Amos H.C. Ng, Ricky W.H. Yeung and Edmund H.M. Cheung, "An object-oriented reference model for holonic manufacturing systems", 12th Internation Conference on CAD/CAM Robotics and Factory of the Future, London, Vol.1, 14 Aug 1996, pp 8-14.
• Ng H C A, Yeung W H R and Cheung H M E, "HSCS - the design of a holonic shopfloor control system", Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (EFTA'96), Kauai, Hawaii, 18-21 Nov 1996, pp 179-185.
• Yeung W H R and Moore P R, "Synthesis of flexible assembly systems controller using colour Petri-Nets", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on CAD/CAM Robotics and Factory of the Future, UK, 14-16 Aug 1996, pp 697-703.

Year 2010-11

• A talk on “The Essence of Lean Six Sigma for Process Management” on 24 April 2010, organized by CES Internship Alumni Association, CityUHK.

Year 2007-08

• A talk on “The Essence of Lean Operations” on 26 April 08 at Technical Seminar on LEAN Management organized by MIE Section of the IET Hong Kong.
• A talk on “Essence of Lean Operations” on June 08 to a group of staff of SAE Magnetics (HK) Ltd.

Year 2006-07

• A talk on “A RFID/EPCIS enabled prototype production system” on 7 Feb 07 organized by GS1 Hong Kong.
• A talk on “A survey on the status of application of Six Sigma in industry” on 21 April 07. Hong Kong Six Sigma Forum organized by IETHK.
• A talk on “A preliminary study of the training certification model of Six Sigma” on 21 April 07. Hong Kong Six Sigma Forum organized by IETHK.

Year 2005-06

• A talk on “A RFID/EPCIS enabled prototype production system” on 7 Feb 07 organized by GS1 Hong Kong.
• A talk on “A survey on the status of application of Six Sigma in industry” on 21 April 07. Hong Kong Six Sigma Forum organized by IETHK.
• A talk on “A preliminary study of the training certification model of Six Sigma” on 21 April 07. Hong Kong Six Sigma Forum organized by IETHK.
• A speech on “Six Sigma and Process Management”, the Document Management Solutions Symposium, organsied by Fuji Xerox on 22 July 2005
• A seminar on “Lean Manufacturing” , organized by HKPC on 20 Aug 2005 at HKPC tower.
• A talk on “Evaluation and selection of RFID devices in different industrial setting at the Review Seminar on RFID application on supply chain management, organized by IIE(HK) on 22 Oct. 2005.
• A seminar on “Application of Six Sigma in process improvement and optimization”, organized by the Hong Kong Institute of Marine Technology on 25 Oct. 2005 at CityUHK.
• A talk on “Evaluation and selection of RFID devices in different industrial setting”. A public seminar on “Business Application of RFID and Retail Technology organized by EPCglobal (HK) on 23 Nov. 2005.
• A talk on “Industrial Engineering and daily life” , a seminar for the Young Engineers Project (YEP),organized by HKIE-MI Division , 11 Feb. 2006.
• A speech on “Engineers and HKIE”, the Education and Career Expo 2006, to be held at HKCEE on 23 Feb. 2006.

Year 2004-05

• A talk on “A RFID/EPCIS enabled prototype production system” on 7 Feb 07 organized by GS1 Hong Kong.
• A talk on “A survey on the status of application of Six Sigma in industry” on 21 April 07. Hong Kong Six Sigma Forum organized by IETHK.
• A talk on “A preliminary study of the training certification model of Six Sigma” on 21 April 07. Hong Kong Six Sigma Forum organized by IETHK.
• A speech on “Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing”, a 2-day Manufacturing Forum at GongGuan organized by HKPC. 19-20 Oct. 2004.
• A speech on “Integrating Six Sigma with Knowledge Management”, a 3-day DocuWorld 2004 exhibition and shows organized by Fuji Xerox Ltd. on 2 Nov. 2004.
• A 3-hours workshop on “Design of Experiments” organized by Six Sigma Society of Hong Kong on 29 Oct., 2004
• A 2 hour speech on “Knowledge Management Practices for SMEs” to a group of Delegate from Yan Oi Tong, 14 Jan 2005.
• A 1 hour speech on “Integrating Six Sigma with Knowledge Management” for HKPC on 19 Dec 2004 and 21 March 05.
• A 1-hour talk on “Integrating Six Sigma with Lean Practice” 4 June 2005, organized by HKPC.
• A Keynote Speech on Six Sigma Implementation practices”, the 11th Hong Kong Quality Management and 1st Six Sigma Convention on 21 June, 2005.

Year 2003-04

• An officiating speech on “the Development of Manufacturing Industry in PRD in Recent Years”, the AGM of Hong Kong Design and Technology Education Association (HKDETA), 5 July 2003.
• An talk on “Six Sigma Implementation in Education Institute” at the Six Sigma Industrial Project Presentation by HKPC, December 2003.
• An invited lecture on “Six Sigma for SME” for City Junior Chamber, Hong Kong, 20 May 2004.
• A talk on “Six Sigma in Asia” public seminar organized by the Hong Kong Productivity Council, 30 March 2004.
• An invited Talk on “An Integrated Knowledge Representation Model to Support Knowledge Management”, public seminar organized by IVE (Haking Wong), Hong Kong, 28 November 03.
• An invited talk on “Effectiveness and efficiency – How to achieve it via the Essence of IE”, Young Engineer Project organized by MIE division of HKIE, Hong Kong, 14 February 2004.
• An invited talk on “Advanced IE Applications” at IIE forum organized by IIE (HK), 26 June 2004.
• An invited lecture on “Lean Manufacturing”, a public seminar organized by HKPC, Hong Kong, 4 June 2004.
• An invited lecture on “Lean Practice for Productivity Improvement”, a PSDAS Project Organised by MIE of HKIE, 25 October 2003.

Year 2002-03

• A seminar on “IE development trend around the World” to YEP2003 on 8 Feb. 03.
• A speech on “Knowledge Management Practices for SMEs” at the 10th HKQMC on 27 March 03.
• A speech on “Industry prospect and future” at AGM of the Hong Kong Design and Technology Education Association (HKDTEA) 5 July, 2003.
• A keynote speech at the IEEM2002 conference on 18-20 Sept. BeiJing, PRC.

Year 2001-02

• A speech on “the role and direction of D&T teaching” to a group of about 50 secondary D&T teachers on 24/5 and 1/6/02.
• A speech on “supervision of From 5 D & T projects for HKCEE” to a group of about 50 secondary D&T teachers on 26 June, 02.

Year 2000-01

• An Opening Speech for the Innovative Quality and Productivity Symposium, 26 March, 2001, jointly organised by HKQMA, HKPC and IIE(HK).
• A 1.5 hour talk to a group of supervisors/engineers of Team Concept Ltd. Topic: “Evolution of Manufacturing systems and how we can retain our productive edge” at MainLand China, 8-9 Sept, 2000.
• A talk on “e-Manufacturing” at SAE Magnetic Ltd., 30-31/10/2000.
• A talk on “From information to knowledge management : Role of IT” to Wong’s electronics (Holding) Ltd. on 12 Jan. 2001.
• A 2-days seminar on “Team Building and MEEM experiences” at Harbour Rings Holdings Ltd. on 19-20 Jan. 2001.

Teaching

• Principal course designer of ME5150 – “Manufacturing Project”. Delivered in year 1995/96, 1996/97 and 1997/98.
• Principal course designer and course in-charge of MEEM2016 – “Engineering Drawing”. Delivered in year 1999/00, 2000/01 and 2001/02.
• Course designer of “A series of e-Manufacturing courses” conducted at SCOPE in year 2002.
• Course designer of 11056 – “Continuing Education Diploma in e-Manufacturing”, conducted at SCOPE in year 2002.
• Course designer and course in-charge of MEEM2031 - “Rapid 3D Product Concept Design and Prototyping”. Delivered in year 2000/01 and 2001/02
• Course designer to support a EE course, EE3002 – “3D Product Design and Rapid Prototyping”. Delivered in year 2002/03.
• Principal course designer and one of the course in-charge of MEEM3040 – “Manufacturing Database and Systems”, delivered in 2002/03.
• Course designer of “Practical Training Workshop for MEEM Year-1 Students”. Delivered in year 2005/06.
• Course designer and course in-charge of MEEM3054 - “Manufacturing Project”. To be delivered in year 2006/07 - now.
• Course designer of MEEM2020 – “Engineering Workshop Practices”. To be delivered in Sem.B year 2008 onward.

Academic Based Project