Education
Lasalle College of The Arts
Aug 2013 to June 2014
BA (Hons) in Fine Arts (Awarded by Goldsmiths U.K.)
Aug 2010 to June 2013
Diploma in Fine Arts (Photography Art)
Documentation for Foundation Studies Exhibition 2010
Design Poster for Foundation Studies Exhibition 2011Collaborated with 2 lecturers for the Lasalle Student-Lecturer Exhibition 2011
Raffles Design Institute
Jan 2009 to Sep 2009
Studied Graphic Design
Temasek Polytechnic
Dec 2004 to Dec 2005
Studied Mechatronics
ITE MacPherson
Jan 2003 to Dec 2004
NITEC in Mechatronics
Work Experience
SPT ASIA Pte Ltd
June 2020 to Mar 2022
Machinist
Conceptualise, design and build a working prototype for automating the X/Y axis on the current EDM machine
Harry’s International Pte Ltd
Nov 2018 to June 2020
Permanent Part-Time Staff
The Great Escape
Oct 2017 to Oct 2018
Bar Manager
Made a month sales on the final Friday and Saturday of operations
June 2017 to Oct 2017
Part-time Staff
Popular e-Learning Holdings Pte Ltd
Oct 2015 to Nov 2017
Freelance Media Trainer
Wow Education International Pte Ltd
May 2015 to Dec 2015
Part-time Media Trainer
Park @ Holland Village
Mar 2015 to Oct 2017
Part-time Barista
CreativeBits
Oct 2014 to Nov 2017
Freelance Media Trainer
Lussoz
Nov 2011 to Feb 2012
Intern Produce Photographer
Setup Photography Department
Art
Singapore International Festival of Arts (Singapore)
17 May to 2 June 2018
The Lapse Project as INTER-MISSION
Still Life with The Artist Village (Singapore)
6 Apr – 15 Apr 2018
Still Me
Metagraphy (Taipei, Taiwan)
11 Dec 2017 – 13 Jan 2018
At 200 Feet
Singapore open Media Art Festival 2017
(Seoul, South Korea)
16 Nov – 30 Nov 2018
At 200 Feet
Metagraphy (Singapore)
11 Nov – 26 Nov 2017
At 200 Feet
Performance Art Resource Orchestrator (Singapore)
6 Jul – 9 Jul 2017
Viralocity 2.0 as INTER-MISSION
INTER-MISSION X IAFT 16/17 (Singapore)
19 May 2017
At 200 Feet
19 May 2017
Viralocity 1.0 as INTER-MISSION
INTER-MISSION X BLACK-HUT (Singapore)
1 Feb 2017
INTER-MISSION X BLACK-HUT as INTER-MISSION
Interdisciplinary Art Festival Tokyo 16/17 (Tokyo, Japan)
25 Nov 2016
INTER-MISSION
Asia Kula Kula-Ring (Gwangju, Korea)
Over and Over
Osmosis Audiovisual Media Festival (Taiwan)
18 Aug – 4 Sep 2016, Taipei
R.T.T.P. (Fading Flats)
20 Aug 2016, Taipei
With Urich Lau, Yue Han and Lim Shengen
28 Aug 2016, Kaohsiung
With Urich Lau, Yue Han and Lim Shengen
Betwixt Festival ArtScience Late – Interstice: Imageries &
Bodies (Singapore)
25 Feb 2016
Video Conference: Co-Optive with Urich Lau and Yue Han
Singapore Open Media Art Festival (Singapore)
29-31 May 2015
R.T.T.P.
(Com)tempoary Osmosis 2015 (Taipei, Taiwan)
22-29 Mar 2015
R.T.T.P.
Digital Art Week; Off Label (Seoul, Korea)
10 – 11 Oct 2014
R.T.T.P.
The Artist Village SHOW (Singapore)
26 Nov – 10 Dec 2013
Book Cover
COS•MO (Singapore)
8 – 24 Nov 2013
Pinhole Recording
Production Team
Noise Singapore 2013 (Singapore)
27 July2013 – 14 Aug 2013
Time
The Story of The Creative (New York, USA)
25 July 2013 – 10 Sep 2013
King Kong series
Picnic Serangoon (Singapore)
13 April 2013
Video Car 2013 With Urich Lau
Closure Artshow (Singapore)
12 Jan 2013 – 17 Jan 2013
Last Look Around
.MOV <Red Dot> Monthly Open Video (Singapore)
Vanity
Lasalle Student-Lecturer Exhibition 2011 (Singapore)
Stormspotters with Lim Shangen, Nissel Yu
and Charmaine Ong
Orbital Cinema with Urich Lau and Yue Han
Lasalle Foundation Studies Exhibition 2011 (Singapore)
Vanity
Prototype for X/Y Axis
Why
- The process has not changed since it was brought into Singapore
- Increase the productivity of both the process and the operator
- Reduce alignment time
- Remove the need of the operator for alignment
- Operator will be able run more machine (large wire) and focus more on in process inspection
- Increase productivity by processing while the operator is doing the inspection
- Reduce human error due to alignment error hence reducing material wastage
- Reduce training time for new staff
- Current process is labor intensive
- Increase consistency of the product
- Streamline between shifts
Current Process
Step that the Operator will have to do for every tool.
1. Insert the tool
2. Found the Front
3. Zero the meter
4. Found the Back
5. Do the math to find the position based on the Percentage
6. Move to that position
7. Press the button to the Burning Process
Proposed Process
The Operator will only have to turn a knob to set the write Percentage once at the start of the job.
With this upgrade, the operator will have insert the tool and press the start button.
This upgrade will do the rest
User
- All the operators who are assigned to work on the parts.
- They would have to work on multiple machines/parts as it have a long processing time is long.
- may not be tech savvy
- maybe lazy and do not want to do calculation for every piece.
- There will be some who make mistakes in calculation due to fatigue especially the night shift crew.
Scope, Constraints & Roles
Scope
- Upgrading an outdated machine at minimal cost
- Add automation
- Finding ways to integrate hobby grade components with an industrial machine
Constraints
- Worked on the project without upper management’s knowledge
- Working outside my job scope
- Hobby grade components has different voltage signal with the EDM machine
Roles
- Conceptualization
- Research
- Design
- Coding
- Fabrication
- Testing
Task Flow
Current Operator Task Flow
With the current process, there could be human error especially when the assigned machine is using an analog meter. There will be some guesswork along the measurement process.
CASE STUDY
Part number: 3132349
Description: CKVD-150-WJ-3MM-76MM-G 2024893
Drawing number:2024893
Average burning time: 1min 35sec
Operators running the large wire will always operate multiple machines and when they run tools like these, the machine will always be left idle during process when the operator is attending to the other machine. For this part, they would have to made 3 alignments during the whole process
- First alignment: at the beginning like another tools
- Second alignment: half way through the first impression
- Last alignment: at the second impression before the burning process continues
Proposed Task Flow
New operator task flow
The operator’s has been cut down into 2 steps
Program task flow
Intergraded with EDM machine task flow
With this proposed, the upgrade will take all guesswork out of the equation as it takes measurements and calculations digitally.
Process
Fig. 2 shows the whole movable bed.
Fig. 3 is hex screws so the size of the gab can be varied
Fig. 4 is a hex screw to simulate the tool and its not movable.
Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 are connection points to get a signal when it touches each other.
Fig. 7 is modeled at dimension and where the motor will be installed
Fig.8 current setup
Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 are different gear ratios (12.5:1, 25:1) there were tested.
The motor chosen was a 5.5kg NEMA17 stepper motor and is programmed to run at 1/16 step to reduce vibration and increase accuracy per step
Proposed control panel
Top View
Front View
Isometric View
Right Side View
The control was designed to fit the mental model of the operator.
The knobs at the front and side would be for controls in manual mode and it’s in the same orientation as the machine (Front for Y axis, Right for X axis).
The bigger screen will display measurement readings from both micrometers and the knob at the side is for setting the center position value.
The smaller LCD screen at the top will display the mode it is set to.
The operator can change to different modes with the turn-toggle switch at the top and it has labels at each position of the switch so they will not need to guess or remember which position is what mode. The LED at the side of the label will light up in the selected mode.
The Start and Stop buttons are also placed in a similar layout as the machine’s control.