The Technical Briefing of ‘IR4.0 NOW & FUTURE – SMART MANUFACTURING DIGITALIZATION IN TVET’ received encouraging participation from TVET institutions who are keen to explore and materialize the cyber-physical of manufacturing environment into training system, on 17 April 2024.

The Ministry of Youth and Sports (KBS) is collaborating with the National Youth Institute of Higher Skills (IKTBN) in Dusun Tua to introduce Hybrid and Electric Vehicle (EV) Maintenance courses starting February 2024, aimed to help young people become more competitive in the EV sector. Currently IKTBN Dusun Tua EV lab is equipped with Yalong EV training systems in Powertrain, Battery Management, High Voltage, etc. in the training lab.

The international TVET collaboration between JPK (Jabatan Pembangunan Kemahiran - Department of Skills Development) and Advance Retro Solution Sdn Bhd (ARS) was further deepening, following with the MoU exchange session held on 5th March 2024, at Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya, in conjunction with the Tripartite Seminar 2024 ‘Greater TVET Future Talent: Facing the Changing World of Work’.

Malaysia were invited to attend the World Young Scientist Summit 2023 - 4th Belt & Road Talent Cultivation Forum from 8th to 9th Nov 2023, at Wenzhou, China.

The forum received more than 500 experts, ministry officer and academic representatives from China and overseas. Delegation from Malaysia were represented by Department Skills Development (JPK), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Taylor’s University as well as University College TATI who recently signed the international collaboration MoU with Yalong, Zhejiang Industry & Trade Vocational College (China) & Advance Retro Solution (Malaysia).

More than 100 TVET lecturers were exposed to training methodology of Malaysia’s key industrial clusters in Electric Vehicle (EV), IR4.0 (Smart Manufacturing with IIoT) & HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning), on Oct 2023.

Total of 120 local and overseas guests participated the TVET Towards IR4.0 (Digitalization of the Teaching Factory) Seminar, which was officiated by Dr Mohd Faizal bin Tokeran, Director of TVET Coordination, Ministry of Human Resources (KSM), who represented the Ministry’s Secretary General (KSU), Datuk Seri Dr Zaini bin Ujang, on 20 July 2023.

In order to stay competitive and productive globally or even locally, more and more manufacturing companies are moving into production digitalization, with the help of IOT software, machine and automation system integration into Cloud. This lead to a huge demand of relevant skilled talents from academia. A sharing session was organized on 7th Oct 2022, at ADTEC Shah Alam, by showcasing how this is working in real system and machine.