[TALK - 2 CPD] Technical Talk: "Industry4WRD: National Policy on Industry 4.0 - A Competitiveness Catalyst for Malaysia Manufacturing Sector"
BEM Approved CPD/PDP Hours: 2
Ref. No.: IEM19/PG/179/T
Technical Talk: "Industry4WRD: National Policy on Industry 4.0 -A Competitiveness Catalyst for Malaysia Manufacturing Sector"
Date : 25th May 2019 (Saturday)
Time : 9.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m.
Venue : IEM Penang Secretariat
Synopsis
The emerging technologies have changed the engineering environment at a fast pace. The emerging
technologies, such as cloud computing, internet of things, wireless sensor network, big data, and artificial
intelligence are starting to be implemented into manufacturing industries and it is believed to be
approaching. The advances in science and technology continuously support the development of
industrialization all over the world. The Malaysian manufacturing industry is needed to transform towards
the fourth industrial revolution in order to strengthen their competitiveness internationally. Malaysia
government has initiated a national level technical working group that lead by the Ministry of International
Trade and Industry to develop a National Industry 4.0 policy in 2017. The technical working group lead is
consists of the member from Ministry of Communications & Multimedia, Ministry of Higher Education,
Ministry of Human Resource, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation and SME
Corporation Malaysia. In addition, various organisations such as Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers
(FMM), Intel Malaysia, Malaysia Investment Development Authority (MIDA), Malaysia Technology
Development Corporation (MDEC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, etc. were contributed for the input into
the National Industry 4.0 Policy draft. The Industry4WRD - Malaysia National Industry 4.0 Policy has been
launched on 31 October 2018 by Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad. In the talk,
the speaker will describe and discuss the Industry4WRD.
Biodata of Speaker
Ir. Dr. Tan Chee Fai AMN has more than 18 years of experience in manufacturing industry. He graduated from
Universiti Putra Malaysia with Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering in 2000. He is actively
involved in strategic and technical consultation as well as research, design and development of smart
systems. Currently, he is the Chief Technical Officer of Robolab Technology Sdn. Bhd. Ir. Dr. Tan is actively
consult and assist manufacturing industry towards Industry 4.0 especially in relation to Intelligent
Manufacturing: Robotic Systems, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security. Fraunhofer IEM
is the technical partner institution of Robolab Technology Sdn. Bhd. He has led various Industry, University
and Malaysia Government as well as International Funded Projects. He was invited as Keynote Speaker in
various important international engineering events such as World Intelligent Manufacturing Summit (WIMS)
at Nanjing, China, Intelligent Manufacturing Seminar on Collaboration to Boost the Economic Development
of Belt and Road Areas, Parallel Session of the 20th Annual Meeting of China Association for Science and
Technology and ICE-IEM Future Engineers Conference. He was the UNESCO Individual Specialist. Ir. Dr. Tan
currently the Vice Chairman of SMI Sub-Committee, Federation of Malaysia Manufacturers (FMM) Selangor
Branch. Based on his contribution to engineering community and industry, Ir. Dr. Tan is the JCI Ten
Outstanding Young Malaysian Award Honoree in 2014.
Programme
0900 -0915 Registration
0915 – 1045 Industry4WRD: National Policy on Industry 4.0 -: A Competitiveness Catalyst
for Malaysia Manufacturing Sector
1045 – 1100 Q & A / END