FIM Learning Factory Faculty of Industrial Management, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia
Operational Status
Professor: Dr. Mohd Ridzuan Darun (General Manager)
Mr. Mohd Ghazali Maarof (Production Manager)
- 3 Associate/Assistant Professors
- 1 Fellow Consultant
- 1 Technician
- 3 undergraduate courses conducted
- Lean Management
- Creativity and Innovation
- Cross Module Seminar 2 (together with ESB Business School, Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences)
- Undergraduate final year student projects.
- MBA Summer school program for GRG School of Management Studies, India. Involves a practical hands-on activity in the learning factory.
- More than 150 students have been trained (2018).
Latest developments
- Developing own product – prototype of an Air Purifier.
- Constructing a new smart manufacturing assembly line (size: 250 sqm). Expected to complete in Q1/2020. Among the design includes:
- Assembly with collaborative and SCARA robots
- Using Light Guided Picking systems for assembly workstation.
- Warehouse using the Automated Storage and Retrieving System (ASRS)
- Material Handling using Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV)
- Assembly Planning and Control within intelligent assembly (MES, SCADA, PLC)
- Implementation of RFID track and trace and real time KPI visualization