Theme 2
Manufacturing Revolution
The manufacturing industry embraces an innovation revolution across automation, customisation, and sustainability dimensions driven by emerging technologies. SparkX 2024 invites student participants to build solutions addressing next-generation intelligent factories, resilient supply chains. Key challenges include leveraging AI and advanced robotics for hyper-customized output, enabling distributed manufacturing through 3D printing, optimising planning with predictive data analytics, designing carbon-neutral smart factories, and applying IoT and Machine Vision to help proactive maintenance and quality control.
Intelligent Factories
The Intelligent Factories track seeks solutions leveraging AI, machine learning and data analytics to optimise production facilities' productivity, quality, and maintenance. The goal is to build data-driven brains that enhance the operational performance of next-gen smart factories and ageing plants.
Advanced Robotics & Automation
Advanced Robotics & Automation track focuses on cutting-edge robotic capabilities for manufacturing, including human-machine collaboration and autonomous systems. Projects can showcase advanced skills like natural language processing, innovative gripper designs, motion planning to enable the next generation of intelligent and collaborative robots to optimise manufacturing operations.
Sustainable Manufacturing
The Sustainable Manufacturing track seeks green innovations to embed environmental sustainability across production and distribution operations.
Mass Personalization
The Mass Personalization track focuses on innovations that enable the on-demand production of customised products at scale. Potential solutions can showcase technologies like 3D printing, modular product families, reconfigurable production lines, and other flexible systems that allow manufacturers to efficiently deliver personalised products tailored to individual customer needs and specifications.