Industrial visit to Canon Opto,Shah Alam

6.12.2012 we went to Canon Opto Malaysia sdn bhd at Shah Alam. We arrived at Canon Opto Malaysia at 9:00 am. After that, we take a course’s photograph with Canon factory as background.

After that, we go to see the production process of the camera. First, we need to wear a shoe plastic to reduce the dust. This because a dust in a lens can be a very large shadow on the screen to take picture. We also have go through a way that blow off the dust on our body. Then, we can the production process. There are many section to administrate the worker to produce camera. What I can see is a production need many robotic machine to make the production time faster and make more profit. The robotic machine is based our course electronic system to build it up and can do the process that human cannot do. For example, machine can solder the component that very very small and fast. Human is cannot do it accurately and fast.The circuit of the camera is designed by Japanese engineering. The technology of Japanese is so high level and they do not share with Malaysia partner. The worker just follow the instruction and test the camera by machine. I can see a camera can be fast to built when I walking straight. The worker is already very expert to do the process because they are already trained. I think the communication between workers is essential to reduce the conflict. In a company, tolerance is very important to complete a work more efficient. Not just company, a country also very need tolerance.I can see also there are a lot diagram to tell some information about safety way, introduction to the camera and some perfomance chart. Canon company encourage the worker to be do the work faster. When a worker is do fastest, the chart on the board will show his/her name to praise him/her. This can make the production more better in quality.After that, we go to visit the lens production section. In this section, we can just see a few things only since we cannot go more far and deep to see the production. In this section, the technology is more based on mechanic. However, there are still have many robotic machine to do the process. Then, we have a lunch at the cafeteria in Canon company.Then, we have a Q&A section for give chance for us to more understanding the process to make camera. After that, we start to go back to KSJ by bus.

Then, we are invited to a room. We listen a talk about safety in workplace. The lecturer tell us about the safety method that was practised in Canon company. The most important thing is the fire alarm and the route to escape from the factory when the workplace fire is occur.After that, there is a lecture about the history of Canon. We look a slide show which contain a video that tell the information of Canon. I can know that Canon is begin from early of 20th century. This company is begin by a brothers who learned the optic precision science. I am also surprise that the photocopy is invented by Canon. I can see also the film technology is replaced by digital technology.

Introduction to Electronic System in Industry

1.Overview of electronic system :

-Fundamental of our daily life

-Played a key role in technology advancement

-Replace previous system and more integrated into current society

-Will be a main stay in future development

2.Progression of electronic system :-
i.large -> small -> Miniature
ii.Simple -> complex architecture
iii.Analog -> digital

3.Role of electronic in Industry :-
i.Vital to current information and technology era
ii.A catalyst to enhanced production and productivity within industry
iii.Most Industries today are heavily dependent on Electronics

4.Conventional are classified into :-
   I.            Consumer     II.            Industrial    
III.            Defense    
IV.            Communication      
V.            Information processing systems

5.Modern day medical, imaging, transportation and power utilities segments are classified individual. In consumer electronics, the oldest segment of electronics with the advent of radio receivers. The examples are the microwave, Discman, and Nintendo. Meanwhile, in industrial electronics it is oriented towards manufacturing. Next point is defense. It is about a strategic and creates spin-off electronics for other segments.

6.For communication, electronics is very vital because current rapid growing speed. Other examples are optical fibers and semiconductors lasers. Electronics is very important in the development of Integrated Circuit (IC) and ASIC designs for information processing systems. In addition, electronics is important to the industries because it produces VLSI circuits, micro-controller, microprocessors, memory modules and FPGA.

7.Medical industry is considered as an important consumer of electronic systems. It uses electronics for creation of medical testing and monitoring equipment. Among of the importance devices in medical that required full used of electronics are NMK Scanner and ECG Machine. Next, imaging systems also required electronics to operate. It helps in developing and providing the platform for new techniques and creates modern infrastructures to provide details imaging. Overall, electronics plays two crucial parts in industry.
After explaining about the role of electronics in industries, Mr. Vivek moves to the overview of imaging industry.

8.Imaging is the representative of an objects outward form; I.            Chemical imaging
 II.            Digital imaging 
 III.            Geophysical imaging 
 IV.            Medical imaging   V.            Molecular imaging  VI.            Optical imaging   VII.            Radar imaging
VIII.            Thermal imaging : thermography

9.Digital imaging (advents of electronics age)
Basic concepts and terms in imaging are classified to various groups;

·         Pixels and resolution
Þ     A digital image is formed by pixels.
Þ     Smallest piece of information in an image.
Þ     Often represented using dots.
Þ     More pixels in an image, the sharper and clearer the image is.
·         Videos and frames
Þ     A digital stream of video is made of a group of pictures (frames) captured across a period of time.
Þ     More frame per second, the lesser the jitter.
·         NTSC and PAL
Þ     Human eye requires a minimum 25 frames a second.
Þ     PAL TV standard.
Þ     NTSC standard

I think thats all for today...thank you

Lecture about Industrial Automation

hai guyz,so today we're going to have a lecture about Industrial automation by :-
Name         : Dr Azlan Bin Amran
                    Senior General Manager ,Administration centre
Lecture       : Industrial Automation (japanese work culture)
Date           : 6.11.2012\
Timeline      : 1990-graduate from University of Electronic Communication(Chofu,Tokyo,Japan)
                            -Join Canon Opto (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (Production Engineering department

               










Content about his lecture :-

1.Canon Opto (malaysia) sdn bhd
Date of incorporation  : 14 th Dec 1988
Address                      : Jalan Selisik ,Seksyen 26,
                                    40400 Shah Alam,Selangor
Land area                    : 131 600m2
Product                      : EF lenses,optical lens




2.Product assembly building :-
PowerShot SX160 IS :-

A Walkthrough the production of EF 40mm f/2.8 STM :-
Lens Mount - Canon EF
Filter size - 52mm
Weight - 130g
Height - 22.8mm


                    










3.Manufacturing Company roles in the product life cycle:-

Product design -> Product development -> Product Mass/Trial -> Production Mass/Production
                                                                  {<--------------factory (EQCD)----------------->
-> Sales and service.



E-Environment
Q-Quality
C-Course
D-Drawing

*In state of EQCD -
Engineers must transform a "prototype" production into a "mass production" product.
(R&D drawing ----------------->Process drawing (Manufacturing specification).


4.Lens Manufacturing :

Spherical Lens ;-

Penta Prism :-

5.Programming language use for Industrial manufacturing process :-

1.FORTH language
2.Basic
3.FIFTH
4.Assembler
5Visual Basic
6.PLC
7.Visual C/C++

6.Japanese work culture

i. HORENSO 

-Report(houkoku) ,contact (renraku),consultation (soudan)

houkoku - This is the most important ' soft skill' that you need.
              - Always start the report with ' conclusion'

Contact - give the information

Consultation -Always seek consultation by appointment or inform the issue/theme/problem.

ii. SAN-GEN

-Site,Actual Spot (Genba),Actual Thing (Genbutsu) , Reality (Genjitsu)

Fundamental of Bio-electronic engineering

Hey guys,So far we've learned about multisim and ultiboard.Now,lets move to bio-electronic engineering.Bio-electronic is the application of electrical engineering principle based on biology , medicine , health and behavior.It advanced our fundamental concept and tried to combine the uses of bio-technology and electrical system to improve the human life technology such as treating a patient.Thus,this can make them invaluable to medical communnity.

On 30 october 2012,we had a lecture on bio-electronic engineering introduction by lecturer from Universiti Teknology Malaysia International Campus located at Kuala Lumpur,malaysia namely Dr Azran which just came back from Japan few days ago after studying bio-electronic course at the country of the rising sun.

(picture above-Dr Azran giving a lecture on bio-electronic engineering)

So now I want to share few things that I obtained from his lecture:-

1.DNA in human body:-

-Its also known as dioxyribonucleic acid

-1 of 3 in major macromolecules in life form

-Genetic information is encoded as a sequence of nucleotides in form of G,A,T,C.

-Organised into a long structure called chromosomes.

-Consist of Hydrogen,Oxygen,Nitrogen,Carbon and Phosphorus.

-Its function is to encode the genetic instruction used in development and functioning of all living organisms and many viruses.

2.Learn about electronic system symbols :

3.How to calculate impedance :

4.Calculate resistor , inductance , and capacitor:

After the end of the lecturer of Dr Azran.Dr kamal (electronic system engineering lecturer) took the second session to give a briefing about presentation.We were divided into group of 4 person each and given a topic based on three major elective course which is :

-Industrial Automation system

-Bioelectronic system

-embedded system

I think thats all for today,look forward for my next post.thank you.

Basic learning of Ultiboard

Hello,so far there's two post about electronic that had been published so far.So,for this time it's all about ultiboard.What is ultiboard?It is a Rapidly prototype printed circuit boards (PCBs) with Ultiboard. The flexible Ultiboard design environment accelerates design with automated functionality while maintaining precision with manual control.

Circuit from multisim 11 :

Transfer to ultiboard :

3 Dimension version of ultiboard :

Procedure of using Ultiboard 11 :

1.Open the saved file from the mutisim 11

2.Transfer the schematic design to Ultiboard 10 by selecting Transfer » Transfer to Ultiboard 11.

3.Use the Save As dialog box to save the new Ultiboard file to your Z drive. Click 

OK on the message box that appears. 

4.Select the Layers tab near the middle of the left of the screen. This lists the board 

layers and other useful elements of the board. Double-clicking a particular layer 

sets that layer as active. Double-click Board Outline from the list. 

5.Right-click an edge of the yellow rectangle and select Properties from the menu that appears. Under the  Rectangle tab set the width to 2000 and the height to 1500. Click OK and notice that the yellow rectangle becomes much smaller. This rectangle represents the area of the circuit board in which all of the components and traces must fit.

6.Double-click the checkbox next to Ratsnest in the layers list. This removes the yellow lines that 

connect all of the components together and simplifies the picture to lay the component.

7.Begin placing the components inside of the yellow rectangle. Notice single brown lines coming out of each component. These are Force Vectors and they point to the most efficient place to put the component based on its necessary connections. .Voltage limiter ideally have all of the components stacked on top of each other in the middle of the board.

8.The next step is setting the up the routing parameters for laying out the copper trace. Go to the  Netlist Editor  by selecting  Tools » Netlist Editor. This tool keep track of all connections between pins on the  board. Each set of pins connected together are referred to as a Net. Use the dropdown menu in the Netlist Editor to view the different Nets on the board. The tabs  in the  Netlist Editor provide different information and options for the selected net.

9.To prepare the Nets for routing select the first Net from the list. Select the Misctab and check the box next to Copper Bottom. This tells the Autorouter that this Net can be connected by placing trace either on the top of the board or the bottom of the board.

10.The board layout is ready for the Autorouter. Start the Autorouter by selecting Autoroute » Start/Resume Autorouting. The Autorouter should only take Possible Component Layout seconds to place traces for the board. Notice that there are green and red lines that appear. The green lines represent copper trace on the top layer of the board and red lines represent copper trace on the bottom layer of the board.

11.It is important to cleanup and check the work of the Autorouter after use. Excessive bends and sharp angles in the traces greatly increase the chances of board failure during manufacturing and use. Take some time to look through the traces and get a feel for dragging traces into more appropriate shapes and angles. The Autorouter is never perfect and there are always traces that can be cleaned up. Once you are satisfied with the traces on the board Save and Close the design.


So,I think thats all about ultiboard,more information will be updated later on.thank you.

RJ2 - Multisim Software

2 October 2012,we learn about how to use the multisim , therefore I would like to all about how multisim software works.Now,lets move throughout this question :

1.what is multisim all about?

Multisim (formerly MultiSIM) is an electronic schematic capture and simulation program which is part of a suite of circuit design.

2.Why use this multisim software?

With Multisim, you can optimize your circuit design performance with powerful SPICE simulation and intuitive analyses. You can reduce design errors, prototype faster, and improve productivity. Save prototype iterations and optimize printed circuit board (PCB) designs earlier in the design process by using the Multisim design approach.

3.How does it looks alike?

4.How to use it?

• Click on the "Place" menu tab. This is located in the top left-hand corner of the Multisim main screen, directly to the right of "View." This will bring up a drop-down menu, from which you should click on "Components." This brings up the "Select a Component" window.
• Choose your desired component by navigating the window's menu systems. Click the drop-down menu underneath the word "Group" to select the type of component you wish to place. Choose "Basic" for simple components such as resistors, switches and transformers. Select the desired "Family" of components from the list on the left-hand side of the screen.
• Select the specific type of component. After you've selected a "Family" of components, such as "Resistor," a list of specific components will appear in the central column. Click on the desired component to select it, and then click "OK." The component lists are often long, and they can be quickly searched by typing the start of your desired component's name in the field underneath the word "Component" at the top of the column.
• Place the component in the desired location in the workspace. The workspace is the large white, dotted board that takes up the majority of the display. The component you have selected will be shown in a ghost image attached to the mouse cursor. Click the location where you wish to place the component.
• Repeat the process of selecting components until all the desired components are in their designated locations. For example, if you want to add a power source, go to the "Sources" group and make your selection from the options displayed there.
• Right click a component if you wish to rotate it. Select "90 Clockwise" from the menu to rotate the component to the right, and "90 CounterCW" to rotate the component to the left. Double click a component to bring up the component's window. From this window, you can change the component's value and the way the component is displayed.
• Connect your components using wires. These can be selected by going to the "Place" menu followed by "Wire." You can then click and drag wires in the desired locations to connect your components.
• Click on the "Grounding" icon to ground your circuit. This icon is located in the far left hand side of the main screen, two spaces below the "New" icon. The "Grounding" icon has two horizontal lines, and the higher of the two is wider.
• Press "F5" or the "Run" icon to simulate your circuit. The "Run" icon is a green "Play" triangle, and is located on the upper right portion of the screen.  

This is the latest multisim software you can use if you are intersted to learn how to design a circuit in a simple way.Stay tune fro more updates later on about electronic .Thank you

RJ1-Introduction to world of electronic system

Hello,its been a while since I wrote my new blog after publishing so many entertainment blog.So this time I want to try a little different theme of this blog . It's a world of electronic system blog that I just learned from my new course namely 'electronic system engineering'.Besides of following my father footstep of mastering electronic subject,I'm also interested in making an electronic related machine such as robot.A robot name ' Asimo' from japan impress me to learn more about electronic since at the first time a met him at tokyo , Japan .Due to that,I would like to introduce about what is electronic system is all about.Electronic systems are groupings of electronic circuits and components which are designed to accomplish one or more complex functions. Examples include telecommunication systems, computer systems, power distribution systems, radar systems, electronic music systems, and many others.The mission of the section electronic systems is to provide a scientific basis for design trajectories of digital electronic circuits and systems 'from (generalized) algorithm to realization'. To identify the key problems, and verify the validity, robustness and completeness of our results, we develop, implement and maintain consistent and complete fows, and use them for realizing innovative multimedia hardware with emphasis on video processing and embedded architectures.So,my first time of learning an electronic system engineering subject was at Malaysian-Japan International Institute of Technology located at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,Kuala Lumpur.It was a new building and start to operate last year for degree student in KL.It was just about 5km from the Malaysian World Heritage which was KLCC (Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre) building.So far this is just the introduction to this electronic based theme blog on behalf of my first post.Will write more post later on to share with you my experience of becoming a student with knowledge of the world of electronic system.