Within our inaugural session, the initiators of the innovation labs will introduce the concept behind the innovation labs initiative and the different topics of the webinar series. We will listen to the insights of TDK Electronics, about their ideas for the future and collaboration with innovationlabs.my. We will then talk about technology partnership with the Fraunhofer Institutes. Rounding up the session, we will have an open discussion and we welcome you to be with us throughout the year. Thursdays with innovationlabs.my!

SPEAKERS:
Mr. Raymond Low, Prof. Dr. ‪Mohd Nazip Suratman, Prof. Dr. Mohd Shahir Shamsir Omar, Prof. Dato’ Dr. Ahmad Bin Ibrahim,
Dr.-Ing. Martin Rabe, Mr. Laban Asmar, Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr.-Ing. Low Cheng Yee, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hussain Ismail

Innovation in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence applications can add great value to strategic product planning and the development of products, services and production systems. Join us to learn about a new marketplace that brings together users and providers of such solutions in the future. In addition, we will show you two AI use cases, one for low-resolution face recognition and another for weed detection in the agriculture industry. Rounding up the session, an AI start-up will share with you their aspiring journey. Thursdays with innovationlabs.my ?!

SPEAKERS:
Mr. Laban Asmar, Dr. Low Cheng Yaw, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ong Pauline, Dr. Seah Choon Sen

Innovation in Measurement

Calibration of Measurement Devices – Conventional and with Artificial Intelligence
Industry 4.0 deploys a wide variety of sensors to monitor various parameters along the manufacturing processes and environment supervision. Instrument calibration enables the manufacturing units to have confidence in the results that they monitor, record and control. If the instruments are not calibrated, they will produce incorrect measurements, thus affecting the final products. Companies who take their responsibility seriously and wish to establish long-term business relationships therefore need to calibrate their equipment regularly. Join us to gain insights into the scientific fundamentals concerning the calibration of measurement devices. Both the conventional approach and the new approach by artificial intelligence will be explained! Thursdays with innovationlabs.my ?!

SPEAKER:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Hoffmann

Innovation in Social Media

The digitalization of marketing pushes companies to creating and managing advertising campaigns in social media platforms, and to evaluate the results of their digital marketing efforts. Besides creating engaging content, companies have to practice analyzing metrics, and more. Join us to gain insights into the best practices in validating product ideas in social media, and protecting your privacy and safety on social media platforms at the same time. Thursdays with innovationlabs.my ?!

SPEAKER:
Dr. Seah Choon Sen, Mr. Laban Asmar

Innovation in Management

Various studies confirm a positive correlation between agile methods and the innovative ability of companies or the probability of success of innovations. How can companies keeping an eye on the rapid technological change and a strong customer orientation while developing products and services? Join us to gain insights into the best practices in Design Thinking, Learn Startup and Scrum. Thursdays with innovationlabs.my ?!

SPEAKER:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Jais Alimin, Mr. Laban Asmar

Innovation in Healthcare

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize many aspects of our healthcare systems. How machine learning algorithms can offer better insight into healthcare data and improve health services for rehabilitation? Join our consultant rehab specialist, start-up and researchers to discuss the best practices in harnessing the incredible power of Artificial Intelligence for Smart Rehabilitation. Thursdays with innovationlabs.my ?!

SPEAKER:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fazah Akhtar Hanapiah, Dr. Khor Kang Xiang, Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr.-Ing. Low Cheng Yee, Mr. Yee Jingye

Innovation in Manufacturing

Digital transformation is not a simple task and requires the coordinate between equipment, people, processes and software. Integration is key and ease of use and user adoption is the answer to successful transformation.

The Singapore Manufacturing Consortium and Arcstone will walk through use cases of how these elements work in harmony to bring about improvements in efficiency, quality and productivity, and leads companies to better utilize data to enhance time delivery, transparency and ultimately build a stronger competitive advantage.

We’ll show how even small and micro manufacturers can get started with a free unlimited use toolsets called *arc.lite* to get everyone on the same level digital playing field to be more transparent and competitive in this intense manufacturing marketplace.

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SPEAKER:
Mr. Willson Deng, Mr. Cayden Chong

Innovation in Manufacturing

Industrie 4.0 connects all parties involved in business processes in the manufacturing and process industry. Information from suppliers, customers and within your own company is connected and transparently available. Workpieces and machines manage the production autonomously – flexible, efficient, resource-saving.

An architecture model as reference to build the Industry 4.0 ecosystem is necessary. This model is called Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0). In this webinar, we will reveal what RAMI 4.0 is, and why it is an important reference architecture for the enterprises, system integrators, network designers and software developers in developing digital systems and solutions for Industry 4.0.

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SPEAKER:
Dr. Lee Wah Pheng

Innovation in Manufacturing

Developments in chemistry allowed the beginning of a new era where new products became available based on materials designed by man, for instance, corrosion-resistant stainless steel.

In this webinar, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Wettlaufer from Heilbronn Materials Center will reveal why are stainless steels stainless, and the art of combining teaching, research and industrial cooperation ─ the German way.

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SPEAKER:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Wettlaufer

Innovation in Manufacturing

Data drive values and increase the productivity of manufacturing. However, the data collection from omni-channel operations, such as machines and IoT devices, social media, e-commerce, and enterprise solutions, are usually in high volume, velocity, variability and veracity, and are stored in different places with different formats. Therefore, having an efficient big data management is crucial. Traditional manufacturing enterprises lack the standards, skills, knowledge and technologies to meet these challenges.

Join Dr. Lim YeeMei, the CEO of GMCM, and learn how to manage big data challenges and design the architecture framework for data-driven manufacturing. You will learn from an use case for such instantiation of the architecture, which is a fully automated mini factory that enables individualized production.

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SPEAKER:
Dr. Lim Yee Mei

Innovation in Manufacturing

The availability of affordable and accurate digital sensors and the definition of low power narrow band network technologies have resulted in numerous applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the spread of a massive number of sensor nodes over a potentially large area has some implications on the operational parameters of nodes and networks.

In this webinar, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ansgar Meroth from Heilbronn University of Applied Science in Germany will firstly give an overview on available sensor technologies, and their applications. Secondly, networks such as Narrow Band IoT, SigFox and LoRaWan are explained and compared. Furthermore, we discuss training and education aspects for these technologies in order to enable future engineers to design and apply their own network application.

The seminar is aimed at academics and practitioners who want to start with IoT networks and need an overview on existing affordable technologies.

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SPEAKER:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ansgar Meroth

Innovation in Manufacturing

Through the digitalization of manufacturing, an abundancy of data is available from machines, sensors and operations. Data Analytics uses methods from statistics and machine learning in order to optimize processes, continuously monitor product quality and improve maintenance of equipment.

This webinar addresses the success factors and challenges for implementing Manufacturing Analytics in Companies: How to ensure thorough data and domain understanding? How to improve availability and quality of data? Which tools are necessary? What algorithms for data analysis are recommended?
The talk concludes with an example use case for machine maintenance from the EU research project IMPRESS (Pattern-based Planning of Smart Services).

Join us and exchange thoughts with our experts Dr.-Ing. Sebastian von Enzberg and Mr. Arthur Wegel from Fraunhofer IEM.

Dr.-Ing. Sebastian von Enzberg heads the Industrial Analytics group at Fraunhofer IEM. With his team, he supports the selection, planning and implementation of data-based applications and artificial intelligence in corporate use. The focus is on applications in production such as smart maintenance or data-driven process optimization, but also on the evaluation of data from the value chain or product development.

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SPEAKER:
Dr.-Ing. Sebastian von Enzberg, Mr. Arthur Wegel

Innovation in Management

Increasing digitalisation in businesses create various opportunities to analyze not only business process within one organisation, but along entire supply chains. Process Mining and especially Artificial Intelligence leverages data to provide valuable insights into the execution and guidance of business processes.

This webinar will on the one hand focus on fundamentals and current research of Process Mining in industrial settings and on the other hand present the latest finding of AI in Supply Chain Management (SCM).

Join us and exchange thoughts with our experts Julia Woesthoff and Jonathan Brock from Fraunhofer IEM!

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SPEAKER:
Julia Woesthoff, Jonathan Brock

Innovation in Management

Muar is praised as one of ASEAN’s cleanest cities. One of UTHM’s campus is located there. In answering the local needs, UTHM initiated UTHM@Muar Living Lab to leverage on the university innovation initiatives for the benefit of the local people. Since 2018, the collaborative efforts between the researchers and the local authorities have enabled several successful innovations, for example, augmented reality murals, MPM smart bin and MPM Smart Covid Tracker. Some of these innovations had been awarded with recognitions, and could potentially be extended to the other cities.

Dr. Azizi will share the interesting journey of innovation, vibrant university-industry-society ecosystem, challenges and opportunities for future potential collaborators and innovators. Come and join us!

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SPEAKER:
Ts. Dr. Nor Azizi Yusoff

Innovation in Healthcare

This lecture will provide an introduction and overview of the regenerative rehabilitation concept. The fundamental principle underpinning the regenerative rehabilitation approach, specifically in neuro-rehabilitation intervention and treatment, will be discussed. Several rehabilitation interventions will be briefly described to illustrate the clinical application of integrating regenerative rehabilitation approaches towards patient management and treatment, including conventional therapies, pharmacotherapy, minimally invasive procedure, non-invasive brain stimulation, robotics, and their advantages and limitations.

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SPEAKER:
Dr. Natiara Mohamad Hashim

Innovation in Healthcare

Precision medicine proposes customization of personalized healthcare by providing targeted treatments.

Canonically, tissue engineering has been concerned with recapitulating the cellular microenvironment, with a focus on the extracellular matrix. Extracellular vesicles, and exosomes in particular, are gaining attention for their role in intercellular signalling. Exosomes are particularly appealing for precision medicine because of their ready extraction from various biofluids, their parent-cell dependent composition, and their ability to be engineered to carry a specific cargo.

This webinar will provide a brief overview of Cell Guidance Systems’ methods for exosome purification and characterisation, and highlight some examples of how exosomes have been used in tissue engineering applications. We will also discuss 3D culture applications and current trends in tissue engineering. We will show how to tailor the microstructures and mechanical properties of electrospun scaffolds to obtain desirable cellular interaction.

Join us to discuss opportunities of precision medicine in tissue engineering!

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SPEAKER:
Dr. Koh Ching Theng, Assoc, Prof. Dr. Sharaniza Ab. Rahim, Dr. Jenna Shapiro

Innovation in Management

Digitalisation implies many challenges for companies: Products, processes and business models are facing a transformation process that needs to be mastered on a company-specific basis. Transformation means the development from a current state to a future target image, which in most cases still has to be defined as a digital strategy and requires creativity and creative power. Within the webinar, theory and practice will be discussed and current trends of defining digital strategy will be discussed.

Join us and meet our experts Dr.-Ing. Arno Kühn!

Dr.-Ing. Arno Kühn is head of department at Fraunhofer IEM. With his team, he focuses on advising medium-sized companies on strategic product and company design against the backdrop of digitalisation. The topics range from digital strategies for product and business, to digital platforms and Industry 4.0. Dr.-Ing. Arno Kühn is part of the management team of the Leading-Edge Cluster it’s OWL – Intelligent Technical Systems OstWestfalenLippe as well as branch manager of the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Ruhr-OWL.

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SPEAKER:
Dr.-Ing. Arno Kühn

Innovation in Healthcare

How much do we know about providing the maximum amount of treatment modalities to help improve recovery and neuroplasticity in patients with neurological deficits? There are a number of hypothesis that drives rehabilitation for people with neurological deficits, stroke to name one of the most common neurology we see in our practice. Today, we explore 3-D Virtual Reality and how it can help stroke patients undergoing neurorehabilitation. We will also look at virtual telerehabilitation with ways of monitoring progress, a solution for those with accessibility hurdles, an issue most evidently surfaced during the pandemic.

Join us and meet our consultant rehabilitation specialist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fazah Akhtar Bt Hanapiah!

Dr. Fazah Akhtar Hanapiah is an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine. She graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland (RCSI) in 1996 and completed her specialist training at University of Malaya. She has 25 years working experience in multiple disciplines of medicine in various hospitals in Ireland, United Kingdom and Malaysia. She headed departments while working with the Ministry of Health Malaysia and later joined academia at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). She founded the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the faculty and later became the faculty’s Deputy Dean for Research & Innovation. Currently, Dr. Fazah is the Vice President of the Malaysian Association of Rehabilitation Physicians (MARP). Her latest appointment as President and Consultant Rehabilitation Physician at Daehan Rehabilitation Hospital Putrajaya sees her as part of the team developing South East Asia’s largest stand-alone Rehabilitation Hospital.

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SPEAKER:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fazah Akhtar Hanapiah

Innovation in Healthcare

A dental implant is an artificial tooth root that is surgically implanted into the jawbone to support one or more false teeth. Some of us may be unfamiliar with the materials used in dental implants, as well as the techniques used to process them. What constitute a novel aspect of such an implant? What is the procedure for conducting a clinical trial? What will be the role of industrial players in the commercialization process? Today, we will share the journey of our collaborative efforts between materials engineers, dental practitioners, and a medical device start-up on research and innovation of our novel porous NiTi alloy dental implant.

*Sneak peek* – https://youtu.be/zhPtPwjT4Xw

Join us and meet our experts Prof. Dr. Rohana Ahmad, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hussain Ismail and Mr. Muhammad Asif Ahmad Khushaini!

Innovate with innovationlabs.my ?!

SPEAKER:
Prof. Dr. Rohana Ahmad, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hussain Ismail, Mr. Muhammad Asif Ahmad Khushaini

Innovation in Corporation

SPEAKER:
Ir. Dr. Tan Chee Fai, Dr. Mazlina Shafii, Mr. Vincent Oh