SMART-GRID 2011 - Implementation Issues & Challenges
Date: 22nd to 24th June 2011
Venue: Kuala Lumpur

Electricity is the driving force of economic development world-wide. With the excess use of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide emission surges, causes global warming which includes climate change as well as other sorts of natural disasters. The existing power grids are not connected to renewable energy sources, and respon-sive to power outages.

“Smart Grid” is a term that refers to the modernization of the electric system through the integration of new information-age technologies, new strategic public policies, and allows for new uses of the electric grid, both in operations and through new customer side applications, that extract the benefits of more efficient operation, more efficient use of grid assets, and more cost-effective expansion of the electric grid.

Highlights of Smart Grid 2011 Workshops and Case Studies: -

• Day 1: Smart Grid Workshop - “Putting the Pieces Together”
• Day 2: Global Smart Grid Case Studies
• Day 3: Special Workshop on “IEC 61850 Edition 2”

For enquiries and registration, please call 03-78057905 or email to info@iknowledge.com.my

BEYOND MAINTENANCE 3 - Bridging the Gap for World Class Maintenance
Date: 19th and 20th April 2011
Venue: Holiday Inn, Glenmarie, KL, Malaysia

• 20 CCD Points Approved by CIDB
• 8 CPD Hours Approved by BEM

Featuring Presentations from the Regional Maintenance Experts:

• Managing Successful Shutdown and Turnaround
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Vs Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Practical Best Maintenance Practices - Lubrication Management Strategy & Empowering the Maintenance Workforce
• TPM Implementation and Experiences in India - Saving the Leaking Resources and becoming Competitive
• Maintenance - Paradigm Shift from Cost Center to Profit Center
• Eliminating Quality Defects Through Quality Maintenance
• A Back to Basics Approach to Maintenance - First Step to Achiece Zero Breakdown
• Optimal Plant Performance - Utilizing the "RIGHT" Maintenance Strategies and Reliability Engineering
• What's Hot in Maintenance Technology

BREAKTHROUGH FACILITY MANAGEMENT - Towards Cost Saving, Greener & Smarter Buildings
Date: 24 & 25 November 2010
Venue: Holiday Inn, Glenmarie, Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia

Overview:
This conferences comes at a time when facilities management (FM) is in a state of flux. The global economic recession has brought FM under the spotlight as the main area of improvement in terms of cost-efficiency for every organisation. Considered as a non-core business activity, facility managers have been under pressure by their core business counterparts to improve the energy and overall cost-effectiveness of their assets.

Building assets become the stage, FM services the props and the 'experience' itself becomes the value adding performance. With energy prices on the rise, it is important to update your skills and knowledge of new techniques and technologies. At Breakthrough Facility Management, you will address all critical issues faced by facility managers and provide the answers to their pressing needs and concerns.

Covering all aspects relating to Leadership, Energy Efficiency, Latest Technology & Case Studies Breakthrough Facility Management is a not to be missed two-day conference!

BEYOND MAINTENANCE 2 - Towards Proactivity, Reliability & Productivity
Date: 5th and 6th May 2010
Venue: PWTC, KL, Malaysia
Overview:
Owing to rapid development of various industries—manufacturing, construction, building services, medical, automotive, power, oil & gas, transportation etc, the CRITICALITY of maintenance function and maintenance management has risen tremendously. Maintenance has become imperative for companies to increase their productivity and customer satisfaction at highest possible level

Reviewing the development history of maintenance, we have come all the way from Reactive Maintenance (or Breakdown Maintenance), Preventive Maintenance (or Schedule Maintenance), to Predictive Maintenance, followed by Proactive Maintenance and evolving to Self Maintenance or Maintenance-Free Machine. Where do we stand now? Are we still struggling in the fire fighting nature of maintenance task today and suffered from tonnes of losses and breakdowns that caused by improper maintenance?

In the 2-day technical seminar, our eminent group of international speakers and local industrial leaders will reveal successful maintenance case studies, latest maintenance trend and maintenance technologies to boost productivity and equipment reliability. Most importantly, Beyond Maintenance 2 will divulge the 12 disciplines of world class maintenance management, remedial maintenance strategies with handy yet effective tools to cope with your daily maintenance obstacles, advanced tool in solving chronic equipment problems and key principles with innovative ideas to achieve world class cost reduction performance. Fire fighting nature of maintenance task will soon become history, Zero Breakdown will no longer be “mission impossible”.

INDUSTRIAL WASTE & WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT - Towards Sustainability & Profitability
Date: 24th and 25th March 2010
Venue: PWTC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
CPD Hours Approved: 12 DOE CPD Credit Hours
Overview:
Industrialization has brought us the benefits of a comfortable modern lifestyle: health-giving pharmaceuticals, labour-saving household appliances, automobiles and ships, paints and detergents, synthetic fibres and polythene packaging, personal computers and TVs, just to name a few out of an endless list of manufactured goods. However, behind the luxury and convenience of modern living lies the real price of this industrial production – the generation of hundreds of million tonnes of hazardous waste every year.

In Malaysia a total of 1,138,839.491 metric tonnes of scheduled wastes were generated in 2007 as compared to 1,103,457.06 metric tonnes in 2006. The main categories of waste produce in the country were gypsum, dross/slag/clinker, oil and hydrocarbon, heavy metal sludge, mineral sludge and e-waste were the main categories of waste produced in the country. With the growth of various industries is also the increase in waste water generated from industries.

This 2 days-long event will address ways businesses can save money (make profit) and sustain the environment by implementing successful waste management practices in their daily operations. Locally groundbreaking and informative, the conference is designed to bring Malaysian businesses together with knowledgeable experts in the field of Industrial Waste & Wastewater. These experts will demonstrate how to turn a company’s waste stream into a profitable resource and sustain the environment.

DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT - "Your BIGGEST Asset"
Date: 12th and 14th August 2009
Venue: Sheraton Subang Hotel, Malaysia
Overview:
The use of data, information and knowledge has been extensively used in the industries. Unfortunately, it is only about 11% of these assets are retrievable in the ocean assets.  It seems that is not a cost-effective solution to run the business. Accurate, integrated and easy access data, information and knowledge is really needed to be cost saving in the company and boosting the company result.

“Data Quality Management - Your Biggest Asset” aims to divulge the essential initiatives of data quality management to streamline your business processes, boost business performance, eliminate waste and seize business opportunities.

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IEC 61850 - SUBSTATION AUTOMATION, PROTECTION & CONTROL
Date: 26th and 28th May 2009
Venue: PWTC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Overview:
IEC 61850 is an imperative and new international standard for electrical substation that will significantly impact on how electrical power systems are designed and constructed in the future.

This technical event has provided a national and regional platform for exposures and practical case studies on successful implementations of IEC 61850 around the globe. The event revealed the world class substation automation, protection and control practices on the new international standard - IEC 61850. Delegates gained in-depth insights and updates in the latest trends on IEC 61850. Attendees were exposed to an innovative approach of IEC 61850 that will result in significant improvements in both costs and performance of electric power systems.

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SF6 GAS MANAGEMENT
Date: 5th and 6th August 2008
Venue: Bukit Kiara Equestrian & Country Resort, Kuala Lumpur
Overview:
Sulphur Hexafluoride or SF6 in chemistry jargon is an inorganic compound that is mainly used by electrical industry as a gaseous dielectric medium for switchgear, transformer and other electrical equipment because of its various property.

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