Mar 2008
PCM Training in the Industrial Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Industrial
Centre is a multi-disciplinary department. I myself look
after five widely different manufacturing disciplines in
a number of workshops, the main function of which is to
provide industrial-style training for engineering under-
graduates, covering a wide range of engineering prac-
tices and process technologies. Photochemical machin-
ing (PCM) is one of these technologies.
PCM has been my fascination for about thirteen years now,
and I think I can claim some modest knowledge of the
practicalities of setting up and operating a small-scale PCM
facility. As a PCM practitioner I have done some interesting
things and produced a number of interesting items over the
years, some of which have become quite popular in Hong
Kong. However, the Industrial Centre is not a commercial
enterprise, nor is it an academic or research department of
the university. Our function is to train.
H. M. Leung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
