Alhamdulillah and congratulation to the team who double awards at the SAEMIIE 2023 organized by SAE International Malaysia at UTM Jalan Semarak, KL on 20th of December 2023. One of our aims in participating the exhibition is to seek for collaborator from industry who can bring the product forward i.e. commercialization. We are keep upgrading the technology to the latest requirement and demands by various stakeholders.
In conjunction with book launching, I have been invited by UMPSA Press (before known as UMP Press) to give review about the book. The book is about 5 engineers muslim who are really give impact to their community. Me and Prof Ahmad Razlan authored the book and alhamdulillah publish this year. The book can be purchased from various platfrom like Shoppee. It is a new experience to me. Thanks God, everthing gone smoothly and it had been delivered successfully. Hope that the book can be utilized and motivate as many people as possible.
Universiti Teknikal Melaka Malaysia (UTeM) is one of the public technical universities in Malaysia and well know as the most equipped with additive manufacturing facilities. Therefore, on the 4th of December 2023. I have paid a visit to their facilties, facilitate by Head of 3D Printing and Innovation Laboratory and Manager of one of the CoE at UTeM, Assoc. Prof. Ir. Ts. Dr. Mohd Rizal Alkahari. I am very impressed with the team and progress made in heading the country on addtive manufacturing research. As a new comer in this area, we at MFRL is hoping that one day, we can be like them.
Alhamdulillah pada 16 Oktober 2023 diberikan kesempatan untuk berjumpa dari hati ke hati dengan pesawah berkenaan dengan alat mekanikal mengatasi masalah padi rebah yang kian meruncing kebelakangan ini. Alat mekanikal telah dihasilkan dan berjaya mendapat hadiah pingat emas dalam pertandingan Airex pada tahun 2022 (link). Selepas beberapa kali penangguhan, 7 orang wakil pesawah hadir untuk memberi maklum-balas terhadap alat ini. Ujian lapangan sebelum ini oleh pelajar dan prototaip yang terhasil secara umumnya dilihat berpotensi untuk digunakan. Hasil kajian ini telah dibentangkan dalam persidangan antarabangsa 12th Kuala Lumpur International Agriculture, Forestry & Plantation 2023 (link). Dalam perjumpaan ini, beberapa cadangan baru telah diberikan oleh pesawah. Oleh kerana musim menuai dianggarkan pada bulan Januari atau Februari 2024, masa yang ada akan digunakan untuk membuat penambah-baikan kepada reka bentuk sedia ada. Peluang mendapatkan geran penyelidikan seperti MySI juga antara perancangan masa depan. Semoga hasil inovasi ini dapat dimanafaatkan oleh pesawah.
September 22, 2023 - Surface quality is one of the problem for specimen made by WAAM. Inavailability of the facilties does not give much choice to the researcher unless finding alternatives. Conventional milling machine is one of the alternatives, however thin specimen is not allow to be used on the machine to aviod specimen from flying. At the Metal Forming Research Lab, we have developed a custom-made rig for that purposes. The rig is attached to a belt-grinding machine. Specimen before and after the grinding is as shown below. The initila thickness 5-6 mm and the final 2-3 mm only.
