SYNOPSIS

Today's engineering product world is driven primarily by two things: quality and cost. FEA of critical design components, be they in the early design stage or on the engineering change list, can greatly enhance the overall product quality. This is accomplished by ensuring that the design can meet deformation, stress, vibration and/or temperature specifications for specified worst case configurations. FEA can also reduce product cost significantly, especially if applied early in the design cycle. Analysis results identify critical areas which carry the bulk of stresses caused by deformation or vibration, as well as less important areas in which a material reduction may be possible. The number of prototypes required can usually be reduced. Finally, the cost of a field repair or replacement will usually be many times the cost of a finite element analysis. Using finite element analysis, then, is really a matter of good engineering and good business.


COURSE OBJECTIVES

This course will support companies' finite element applications, by teaching Basic FEA classes, and working firsthand with design engineers to help them correctly apply the method. Finally, the trainees can provide prompt finite element analysis of the product designs in their daily jobs.


WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The course is applicable to a wide range of disciplines and areas especially any personnel who plan to involve and responsible in project. The course also can be a refreshment course for engineer, technologist, technician, contractor, academician, student, etc.


BIODATA OF THE SPEAKER

Associate Professor Ahmad Rivai graduated from Engineering School (Ecole Nationale Superieure de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace) in 1994 at Toulouse, France. He has more than 10 years work experience in the aircraft industries as technical engineer and management and more than 10 years academic experience as lecturer. In aircraft industry such as Indonesian Aerospace, he worked on structure design and analysis using CAD and CAE, on aerodynamic as stability and control engineer and wind tunnel test engineer. He has been head of Project Manager at Fairchild-Dornier GmbH, led the development of scope of work, schedule and budget for Flight Physics group and managed it implementation. He used to work on the international environment, 8 years in France, one and half years in Germany and now almost 10 years in Malaysia.

Ir.  Dr.  Tan  Chee Fai is a practising mechanical consultant, researcher and academician. He is graduated with Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and M. Sc. (Manufacturing  Systems  Engineering) from Universiti  Putra  Malaysia  (UPM),  as  well  as  PhD in Industrial Design Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.  He  is  a  registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical) with Board of  Engineers,  Malaysia  (2006)  and  a member of Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (2005). He actively involved in academic, publication,  consultation  as  well as research, design and development  activities.  His  field  of  expertise covers the aspects of mechanical engineering and industrial design engineering. He has vast experience in mechanical design of machinery, robotic and commercial vehicles. He has lead numbers of university and Malaysia Government funded projects as well as international funded projects. In addition, he has published more than  100  publications in international and local journals and conference proceedings that related  to mechanical engineering.