WOW!!!CANON...

27 NOVEMBER 2012, TUESDAY....We, all of the Electronics System Engineering students having a very nice visit to CANON factory that placed at JALAN SELISIK, SEKSYEN 26, 40400 SHAH ALAM, SELANGOR DARUL EHSAN. 

On that day, we arrived at the factory after one hour finding the factory...hehe...When we arrived, we saw some CANON's employee were waiting for us at the front door of the factory...so sweet...and we having some time to take some picture together as a memory.

After that, we are forwarding to a hall for some briefing and talk. First thing that briefed to us is about the safety precaution that we have take during the visit. This briefing was given by the representative from Safety and Health Department. After finished the briefing, there is another representative from the CANON that give us the talk about the company profile.

Started from year 1988, the company was build and the company was opened during year 1991. Up until now...there is a lot of achievement that they have done. One that is most great achievement is during year 1993 where they have received a National Landscape Awards Champion in Industry Category. 

The briefing was finished, and now we are forwarding to visit the water treatment area. During the visit, the person who accompany us tried to explain to us about how they handled their waste after the production. The production of the camera used so many water in order to make the camera. Therefore, to sustain the environment, they have build some building that placed many tank that needed to treat the water. They used a MEDIA FILTER to remove a fine particles from the water. They also used the process of REVERSED OSMOSIS to remove the minerals. After the water have treated, 45 percent of the water were used back for the production.

NOW, the time that we have been waiting for, visiting the production of the camera area. Firstly, we have to cover up our feet with some kind of plastic to prevent the dirty from our shoes affecting the process of camera production. During the visit, Mr Nor Mohammad as the manager at the factory was accompanied us. There is a lot of things that he told us.  About the production, products that they have produced and some other things about the factory. From the visit, I realized about something. Engineers not only responsible to design some products that will improve our economy but also at the same time have to think about the affects that we will produced to our environment. And think of some other way to reduce the effect. So, GOOD LUCK TO US AS BECOMING ENGINEERS. :)

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS IN INDUSTRY :D

Tuesday, 20 November 2012....SMJE students had attend a talk about 'Electronic Systems in Industry'. This talk presented by Mr. Vivek Panicker, who is the Excecutive Director of Titan Thermal Solutions.

In the two hours talk, we have heard many inputs given by Mr. Vivek. He start the talk with the Overview of Electronic System. During this time, we all have been told about the definition of electronics and electronic system.

ELECTRONICS : ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS THAT INVOLVE ACTIVE ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS SUCH AS VACUUM TUBES, TRANSISTOR AND DIODES.

ELECTRONIC SYSTEM : GROUPINGS OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND COMPONENTS WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO ACCOMPLISH ONE OR MORE COMPLEX FUNCTIONS.

Mr. Vivek also explained to us more about electronic systems. Electronic system is fundamental to our daily life. It also played a key role in advancement of technology. In addition, it will be a mainstay in future development.

Other than that, he also have show us the progression of the electronic system. You can see from the following :

1. Large =====> Small =====> Miniature

2. Simple =====> Complex Architecture

3. Analog =====> Digital

The SECOND thing that he told us is about the 'Role of Electronic in Industry'. I will simply jot it down in a point form :~

1. Vital to current information and technology era.
2. Penetrated seamlessly through various industries.
3. a catalyst to enhanced production and productivity within industry.
4. Most industries today are heavily dependent on it for their daily operations.

The electronics also conventional classified into :~
1. Consumer.
2. Industrial.
3. Defense.
4. Communication.
5. Information Processing System.

The important thing that we should know about electronic is that it plays two crucial parts in industry, as a platform for development or design of new systems and as a means to increase productivity of current systems.

Next, we should go through the IMAGING INDUSTRY WORLD...

Imaging is the representation of an objects outward form.

CHEMICAL IMAGING ==> SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF SPECTRA AND PICTURES.

DIGITAL IMAGING ==> CREATING DIGITAL IMAGES, GENERALLY BY SCANNING OR THROUGH DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

GEOPHYSICAL IMAGING ==> SATELLITE.

MEDICAL IMAGING ==> CREATING IMAGES OF THE HUMAN BODY OR PARTS OF IT, TO DIAGNOSE OR EXAMINE DISEASE. 

                            

MOLECULAR IMAGING

OPTICAL IMAGING

RADAR IMAGING ==> FOR OBTAINING AN IMAGE OF AN OBJECT, NOT JUST ITS LOCATION BUT ALSO SPEED.

THERMOGRAPHY ==> THERMAL IMAGING

The advent of electronics have moved the imaging into new heights. This leads the development of new methodologies. Imaging technology have moved into new wavelength spectrums for commercial usage.

Now, we move on the 'Basic Concepts and Terms of Imaging'....

@ PIXELS AND RESOLUTION
     ~ A digital image is formed by pixels.
     ~ Smallest piece of information in an image.
     ~ Often represented using dots, square or rectangles.
     ~ More pixels in an image, the sharper and clearer the image is.

@ VIDEO AND FRAMES
     ~ A digital stream of video is made up of a group of pictures (Frames) captured across a period of
        time.
     ~ More frames per second, the lesser the jitter in the video.

@ NTSC AND PAL
     ~ Human eye require a minimum 25 frames a second.
     ~ PAL TV standard :-
                  - 25 frames per second
                  - Resolution of 320 by 720
                  - Asia, Europe, South America and East Africa
     ~ NTSC TV standard :-
                  -30 frames per second
                  - Resolution of 480 by 720
                  - North America and Japan

Imaging industry requires processing huge quantities of data in a short span. Electronics eases these complexities, making the technology affordable.

ELECTRONICS WITHIN THERMAL IMAGING INDUSTRY

^.^  Thermal imaging originally a spin-off defense electronics.

^.^  Makes use of wavelength in 7-14 micrometer to form an image.

^.^  Sensors make use of focal plane arrays and are commonly Indium Gallium Arsenide (In Ga AS).

^.^  Often referred to as a 'Dirty Imaging System' compared to CCD and CMOS architectures.

^.^  A lot of pre and post processing of data is required.

^.^  Thermal requires Non-Uniformity Calibration (NUC) on data stream.

^.^  Data varies in state and space.

^.^  Enables implementation of intensive algorithms such as Kalman Filters, Edge Detection and 
       Neural Network Modeling.

^.^  Incident Energy(I) = Emitted Energy(E) + Transmitted Energy(T) + Reflected Energy(R)

^.^  Equations are expanded into models that are described in electronics.

^.^  Electronic processing data allows thermal imaging to be used in various other industries :-
       1) Maintenance
       2) R&D
       3) Medical research

^.^  Electronics and the advancement of technology has huge impact on thermal industry.

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL 4

Hmm...I wonder what should I write in this entry since I'm not there in the public lecture. I do not why suddenly I got dengue that time....huhu....really depressing. I do really want to attend the lecture so that I can also hear about the experiences Dr Azran had at Japan. Hearing it from my friends makes me feel really disappointed that I can not attend the lecture.

Now I want to describe a little about bioelectronics. We can define bioelectronics as a branch of science that deals with electronics control of physiological function especially as applied in medicine to compensate for defects of the nervous system. We can also simply said that bioelectronics is a branch of science that deals with the role of electron transfer in biological processes.

Wah...that is what I got from Mr Google....huhu....Even I am not attend the lecture but I have to take note about it right???

Another thing that my friend tell me about the lecture is doppler effect...which included in Dr Azran research project.

DOPPLER EFFECT is an increase or decrease in the frequency of sound waves as the sound-producing object moves toward or away from an observer. The most popular example of doppler effect is AMBULANCE SIREN....

• as ambulance approaches, the siren's sound waves become more frequent.
• as the ambulance drives away, the siren's sound waves become less frequent.
 

Example of doppler effect

The students also were told about how to calculate IMPEDANCE....

That is all for this time....see you guys on the next entry....