Professional

Professional Experience

Engineer and Acting Head, Mechanical Design & Development Section, Productivity & Standards Board (PSB), Singapore (1978-1981)

Before joining N.U.S., Y.S. Wong worked at the Singapore Insitute of Standards and Industrial Research (S.I.S.I.R.), now called the Productivity and Standards Board (P.S.B.), where he was involved in the design and development of special-purpose automated machines for manufacturing and quality control for both small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and multi-national companies (MNCs) of the local industry. This involved discussion with the firms on their requirements, detailed design and manufacture of the required systems, and commissioning of the equipment. These automated machines and equipment were used in the manufacture or quality check of a variety of consumer and industrial products, ranging from household appliances to motors and pipes. Subsequently, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Mechanical Design and Development Section and in addition to overseeing the design of customised equipment, was also involved in and took charge of a section that was responsible for the design of air pollution control equipment for factories and quarries.

Acting Executive Director, The Logistics Institute - Asia-Pacific (Nov. 98 - June 2000)

Consultant on various Manufacturing Automation Projects and Short Courses.

Y.S. Wong continues to be involved as a consultant in the design of automated machines and equipment for the local industry, such as the customization of a 3-axis CNC machining centre for automated 5-axis machining of space frame nodes used in the fabrication of non-standard space frame structures. He also works with various multi-disciplinary groups in the design and development of specialized systems to be commercialized, such as rapid prototyping and micro-machining systems for applications in rapid tooling and micro-component fabrication. With the emerging trends towards distributed manufacturing, he has established a team to develop domain-specific portals and Internet-based applications to facilitate collaborative design, engineering, manufacturing, prototyping, product tracking and process monitoring and control among SMEs and MNCs. Besides system design and development projects, he has also conducted and participated in seminars and workshops, and taught specially organized courses pertaining to manufacturing automation to engineers in Singapore and overseas.

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