Smart Manufacturing Research Institute (SMRI) was launched on 24th September 2019 in conjunction with our first Symposium on Academia-Industry Collaboration in Shah Alam, Malaysia.
The establishment of SMRI has the following roles and functions:
·Industry Support
·Technology and Knowledge Transfer
·Human Capital Development
·Corporate Social Responsibility
Main activities of SMRI are focusing on:
·Applied Research
·Consultancy
·Professional Training & Certification.
SMRI is supported by a number of highly
knowledgeable experts and equipped with advanced devices and software. This
institute consists of six (6) different units aimed to cover various major
fields in engineering, namely:
UNIT 1
Manufacturing, Dynamics & Numerical Computation
UNIT 2
Transport and Infrastructure
UNIT 3
Aerospace and Additive Manufacturing
UNIT 4
Sports and Medical Engineering
UNIT 5
Robotic, IoT & Big Data Analytics
UNIT 6
Energy and Oil & Gas
The units of SMRI are collaborating with various foreign and local universities and companies in the fields of automotive, railways, oil & gas, energy, aerospace, biomedical, maritime and others. Some established collaborations in research, academic and training are listed as follow:
Professorship of Virtual Production Engineering and Welding Engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.
Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Montan University in Leoben, Austria.
Metal Forming Research Corporation (MFRC) Korea.
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany.
Innovation Lab Fraunhoffer Institute Faculty of Mechanical Engineering UiTM.
Malaysia Automotive and Robotics and IoT Institute (MARii).
Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE), United Kingdom.
Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR).