Reflection 7

Visit To Canon Opto Malaysia  :)

Tadaima :) Really tired for this week. Since we have wonderful trip, I feel it's worth for being tired. The journey also makes me feel impatient..it's a long journey, but quite valuable.

OK. Back to the story. Last Tuesday, on 27th November, we have a trip to Canon Opto Malaysia, also known as COM, situated at Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan. We went there by 2 buses, since almost 60 students are involved. At that time, I feel really excited because we are going to visit its factory. It means, I can see many workers and also equipments involved in order to produce a good camera.

After we reached there, there are many staff that greet us with a warm smile. We also invited to take a picture together. There are many of them bring along together their camera to take the picture of buildings and also the factory. After taking picture session was over, we were invited to main hall. At there, we were given some explanation, rules and regulations that we must obey.First of all, we are given a speech by the representative of Canon Opto Malaysia, Puan Zarina. After that, she invite the one of an engineer there to give us some explanation about rules and regulations that we must obey to avoid any accidents happen.  Since there are many place involved in the factory, we are having two session in order to visit almost all the place. Some of the place is very unique, such as Water Treatment Plant that divided two 4 phases in order to make it functions well. Besides, for second session, we visit the factory that produce camera. This factory also divided into sub-phases, such as making lens, making body of camera and also alignment for sharp image. We also are given a chance to see the region where they do the alignment for the image formed.
Also, we are having a great time when we are introduced to some code for latest camera like ec355 and ec319. Both of theses code are for digital camera, not the DSLR one.

Digital camera

DSLR camera

After we were having fun with our visit, we were back to main hall. There are all the staffs and engineers, waiting for us to briefing what we have visit before. Puan Zarina also had delivered souveniers to all of the students involved. We were also very happy because all of the students and staffs show their commitment along the process while being there.

"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way." - Karen S. Magee

- Thanks a lot to Dr. Kamal and En. Redzuan =) -

Reflection 6

 ELECTRONICS SYSTEM IN INDUSTRY

I love this week :)  Why ? Because we have another invited speaker came and delivered awesome speech to all of us. Topic for this week really inspired me to know electronics more deeply. 

Ok, let’s move to my story  ^_^.

Our speaker this week is Mr. Vivek Panicker, an Executive Director from Titan Thermal Solutions. With his smile and spirit, almost all of the students are interested to listen on him ( that's impress me ==”)

He starts with the first slide about briefing some ideas of thermal imaging. It's quite long for introduction, I think. However, I got new knowledge to 'engulf' before he starts to back to his slide. The first one is :

1) Overview of Electronics System

What I can understand about this point is how electronics can influence our live, how it play an important role in technology, replaced old system to the new one and also will be a mainstay in future development. There are so many things to consider. But the main thing is how electronics has made a progression year by year. For example :

Progression of component of electronics

2) Role of Electronics in Industry :

Electronics plays an important role in industry like vital to current information and technology era, penetrated seamlessly through various industries, a catalyst to enhanced production and productivity within the industry and most industries today are heavily dependent on electronics.

Also, there are some conventional in electronics. This conventional classified into:-

+Consumer

+Industrial

+Defence

+Communications

+Information Processing Systems

—Modern day  medical,  imaging, transportation and power utilities classified individuals.

—However current day electronics often blur the lines of classification.

3) Overview of Imaging Industry

—Imaging is the representation of an object’s outward form

>Chemical imaging, the simultaneous measurement of spectra and pictures

>Digital imaging, creating digital images, generally by scanning or through digital photography

>Geophysical imaging

>Medical imaging, creating images of the human body or parts of it, to diagnose or examine disease 

>Molecular imaging

>Optical imaging

>Radar imaging, or imaging radar, for obtaining an image of an object, not just its location and speed

>Thermography,  thermal imaging

4)  Electronics within Thermal Imaging Industry

Current thermal imagers are based on technology that was originally developed for the military. Thermal imaging technology provides the ability to see and target opposing forces through the dark of night or across a smoke-covered battleground. The properties that have made infrared detection valuable to military services around the world also make it valuable to fire services and law enforcement.

That's all for this week. I am happy to know a little bit about thermal imaging. Many effort I have to do in order to success. Thanks a lot to all lecturers that always give me chances to learn. And I'm not going to stop.


"People excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to."- Peter Senge-

Reflection 5

Electronic System Automation to Industry Automation :)

This week, we had a talk with invited speaker, specially invited from Canon Opto (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. His name is En. Muhammad Azlan Bin Amran. For the first slide show, he had showed to us the background of this company. Here was the detail :

Canon Opto (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Date of Incorporation : 14th December 1988
Built-Up area : 57,775 m square
Land area : 131,600 m square
Address & Location : Jalan Selisik, Seksyen 26, 40400 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan

After that, En. Azlan had introduced himself to us how he can get involved in this company. After graduated from University of Electro Communication, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan in 1990, he started joined Canon Opto (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd as a production engineer. Then, in 2000, he involved in the company in Production Inovation Division. He also be a part of Human Resources Division in 2005 and lastly, he joined Administration Division from 2006 until now. (What a long journey~)

With the philosophy of 'Kyosei', which means 'living and working together for the commnon good', Canon Opto (Malaysia) had designed many products of camera for user. They started to create spherical lens and penta prism in 1989. What the most impressive me is, almost 90% of penta prism usage in 'camera field' was made by Canon Opto Malaysia.

En. Azlan also glad to introduce us his products assembly building. There was so many of them, with different specification, function and so on. I had jotted down some of them, such as :

1. PowerShot SX16015 
2. PowerShot ELPH 110HS
3. EF 40mm f / 2.8 STM
4. EF 50mm f/ 1.8 II
5. EF-S-55-250mmf / 4-5.6 IS-I
6. EF 75-30mmf/4-5.6 III USM

We also had been explained about the company roles in the product life cycle. It was quite complicated to explain. However, I got new knowledge why the things that sold straight from factory was cheaper than the suppliers that sell the things. This was due to life cycle of the product. Many people do not realize and started complain why all the new things today become expensive and expensive. In the Canon Opto itself, there were five steps involve before the product will arrive to user's hand. Here was the flowchart:

Product Design --> Product Development --> Product Mass/Product Trial--> Product Mass Production --> Sales and Service (wow! just here then we get our camera? )

The factory of Canon Opto (Malaysia) also practice 'EQCD' in order to achieve a maximum productive of good, samrt and style camera. That 'E' stands for Environment. They have to consider this to sell the products all around the world. Because a few of country in EU (Europe Union) had some speciality to reject  a product that will harm their environment. What about Malaysian? Are we going to do the same thing :) ?
The 'Q' stands for Quality. As we know, all company have to maintain their good appearance on society and one of the characteristics was quality. Then, 'C' means Cost, the most important things to bear in mind when  the engineers wants to design a new product. They have to transform a 'prototype' product into a 'mass' product to cut a high cost. Lastly, the 'D' means Delivery. Delivery here is about where you can get that product when it was handed to supplier. The company have to make sure it products will be in current market for the user.

Canon Opto also practice Japanese work culture. (punctuality is the most important!) There are three rule here, that is :

1. HORENSO - Job Ethics/Style
- 'HORENSO' is the combination of three main words, that is 'HOUKOKU'(report), 'RENKAKU'(contact) and 'SOUDAN'(consultation). Out of this three rule, Houkoku is the most important to consider. You need this soft skills in order to tell something. But please remeber, start with CONCLUSION first! Then, Renkaku is about information; when did the event happen, how cope with it, who involved. All this things will help you to analyze critically on one problem. Next, Soudan. Always seek consultation by appointment and inform the issue or the problem is.

2. San-Gen
- San-Gen here means 'three-gen' combines together. They are Genba (Site, Actual Spot), Genbutsu (Actual Thing) and Genjitsu (Reality)

3. 5S
- 5S is the name of a workplace organization method that uses a list of five Japanese words: seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu, and shitsuke. Transliterated or translated into English, they all start with the letter "S". The list describes how to organize a work space for efficiency and effectiveness by identifying and storing the items used, maintaining the area and items, and sustaining the new order. The decision-making process usually comes from a dialogue about standardization, which builds understanding among employees of how they should do the work.

That's all for today. I really enjoyed the talk. With that awesome speaker, we were also inspired to do best in all our work. I hope I have a chance to visit Canon Opto (Malaysia) after this. Thanks a lot to En. Azlan and Dr. Kamal for being the backbones of this successful talk. :)

"Excellence is the result of an attitude that always wants to do the best." -Anonymous-