Industry 4.0, the 4th industrial revolution, smart manufacturing, digital factories and data exchange in manufacturing technologies are key elements that create what has been called a “smart factory”. A design of modular structured smart factories and cyber-physical systems monitor has created a physical world which easily helps makes a decentralized decision. The Internet of Things (IoT), a system of interrelated with computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects or people have unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. This sharing session will help you understand the digital structure change and how to provide the consistent and reliable framework.

Introducing!

Dr. Mazlan is the co-founder and CEO of FAVORIOT Sdn Bhd. He is ranked among 50 Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders by World CSR Congress 2017, ranked Top 10 in IoT Top 100 Influencers by Postscapes 2017, ranked No. 20th Thought Leader in IOT by 2014 Onalytics Report – “The Internet of Things – Top 100 Thought Leaders”, ranked Top 100 in Smart Cities Top Experts by Agilience Authority Index May 2016 and UTM Alumni Industry Personality 2016. He is currently one of Global Vision Board Member (2017).

Before Favoriot, he spent 2.5 years as CEO of REDtone IOT and 8 years in MIMOS Berhad as Senior Director Wireless Communications Cluster. He also spent 13 years in CELCOM (mobile operator), handling many senior management positions. Prior to Celcom, he spent 10 years as an Assoc. Professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He is currently the Adjunct Professor at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Universiti Malaysia (UniMY) and Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP). He was also the Adjunct Professor for UTM from 2008 to 2013 and UTHM (2004-2005, 2013-2016).

Dr.Mazlan is a frequent speaker at many major & established IOT, Smart Cities and telco conferences locally and globally. He sits in Industry Advisory Panel (IAP) for several local universities. He graduated from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia with a BEE (1984), University of Essex (UK) with MSc. in Telematics (1986) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia with a PhD in Telecommunications (1993). He also received an Honorary Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from UTHM (2017).

Haziq Faris is the CEO of REKA Inisiatif Sdn Bhd, and co-founder of both REKA Studios and REKA Axis. He is a self-taught techie who had formal education from Cambridge University, MIT and Universiti Malaya. His specializations are from Cyber Security to Software Development. With over than 10 years of coding and hacking experience, Haziq used to work in Silicon Valley companies such as Google, Mozilla, Ubuntu, as well as Wmware.

His experience has brought REKA into a greater milestone. REKA has successfully produced its most special product which is the self-driving car using Proton Waja, IoT Development Board and Autonomous Car Kit. The self-driving car was the first in the Malaysia and was invented entirely in-house. Who should attend? *Disruptors *Startups *Educators *Creatives *SmartCities *Students *Professionals *Entrepreneurs *FinTech specialists *Innovators *Risk Takers

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Calling all FKEE students! Join us & become a Generation Internet of Things (Gen-IoT) UTHM. Don’t miss out to be a part of IoT World. You will get firsthand experience to develop a fast IoT project and connect your devices to the Favoriot platform!

I was invited to talk on the above topic at ““Symposium on Manufacturing with Nanotechnology – Towards Industry 4.0” organized by IC-I Nanotechnology, SIRIM Berhad on Nov. 6-7, 2017.

The original article below was first published here – “Industry 4.0 is the “Energy Pill” for IoT in Malaysia”

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) said the Industry 4.0 was critical to boost the industrial and economic growth and for Malaysia’s economy to reach RM2 trillion target within the next eight years as announced recently by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Will this be another hype? Will it face similar skepticism as Smart Cities development in Malaysia? Will it go beyond than just Strategies, Blueprints and Frameworks?

How do you jumpstart IoT?  One thing that you can do is by getting a company as big as Siemens AG to announce that it will be providing some €100 million (RM468.85 million) worth of software grants to local universities and colleges to boost re-skilling and increase training capabilities in preparation for the next industrial age in Malaysia.

“We offered to the (Malaysian) Prime Minister yesterday that Siemens can provide first-class help in establishing software tools for the industrial Internet to be applied to areas of manufacturing like Industrie 4.0, and will willingly grant the sum of €100 million worth of software to universities and colleges so that the young generation can learn to simulate in the virtual world of manufacturing,” its president and chief executive officer (CEO) Joe Kaeser said in a statement on April 14, 2017 recently.

This is a welcoming news for the whole IoT industry. Nothing moves without proper investment. The industry needs a boost, need to get its feet off the ground, need to act fast – and that amount of €100 million is a real “energy pill.”

There is 3 key success factors Industry 4.0 can realize IoT in Malaysia faster than Smart Cities:

1. Survivability – If SMEs in Malaysia want to compete and remain relevant, there is no other way but to introduce cyber-physical technology such IoT, Big Data Analytics, and automation. With the rising costs of resources and challenging economic situation, the only way to ensure sustainability is to reduce operational costs and increase productivity.
2. Stakeholders – Unlike smart cities deployment that needs to go through multiple stakeholders, the introduction of Industry 4.0 to their manufacturing facilities are made by the smaller individual companies. The criticality and urgency of their situation far surpass the life of a city.
3. Scale – SMEs are far smaller than a city. Thus, any implementation is less risky and have better control. Build small but think big.

When Siemens AG plan to introduce Industry 4.0 to the Universities and Colleges, it shows that education is essential and must start at the very early stage to produce a new generation of engineers and software developers.

Industrial Revolution 4.0 has been mentioned in the recent 2018 Budget by the Government of Malaysia as one of the core activity to transform the Smart Manufacturing and turn the Nation into a Digital Economy.

About the Author

Dr. Mazlan Abbas is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of FAVORIOT Sdn Bhd. He is an IOT Evangelist and a Thought Leader. He received an award as 50 Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders by World CSR 2017. He is ranked No. 20th Thought Leader in IOT by 2014 Onalytics Report – “The Internet of Things – Top 100 Thought Leaders”, ranked Top 10 in IoT Top 100 Influencers by Postscapes 2016/2017, ranked Top 100 in Smart Cities Top Experts by Agilience Authority Index May 2016. You can reach him on LinkedIn or Twitter. Check all his presentation slides HERE.