Distinguished Lecture Series : Digital Twins in Industry 4.0

Professor Xun Xu is a Chair of Manufacturing at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland. He joined the Department after completing a PhD from the University of Manchester (then UMIST), UK in 1996. He has been working in the field of intelligent manufacturing solutions for some 30 years. Dr. Xu is an internationally recognized expert in smart manufacturing systems, cloud-based manufacturing and IoT enabled manufacturing. He serves as an Associate Editor and member of Editorial Board of a number of international journals and has published over 350 research papers. Dr. Xu is the founding Director of the University of Auckland “Innovative Manufacturing and Materials” Programme, which draws expertise and experts from the Faculties of Engineering, Business and Science of the University. He is the Director of Laboratory for Industry 4.0 Smart Manufacturing Systems (LISMS), the only Laboratory for Industry 4.0 in New Zealand. His current research focus is around the Industry 4.0 technologies, e.g. smart factories, digital twins, cloud manufacturing, Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR) for manufacturing, big industrial data and data analytics. Dr. Xu is the Fellow of American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Engineering New Zealand (EngNZ). In 2020, he is named among of the “20 most Influential Professors in Smart Manufacturing” by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).