INGENIEUR
Engineering Innovation Foresight
- The Way Forward
Caterpillar, 2015. Articulated trucks. http://www.
cat.com/en_US/products/ new/equipment/
articulated-trucks.html
Owing to the continuous national development
of various countries worldwide, as engineers we
are very confident that engineering innovations
and the global industrial sector will continue to
be vibrant into the next millennium and beyond.
Some of the ingenious engineering foresights
envisaged to progress the global community
towards a better tomorrow are (Figure 12):
- Virtual Reality industrial site design
- Interactive industrial plant control setup
- Parametricism urban development design
for ex-industrial sites.
Kim, W.C. and R. Mauborgne, 2005, Blue Ocean
Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market
Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press. 240 pp
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Do You
Know?
Mullis, A, 2016. How does virtual reality work?.
http://www.androidauthority.com/virtual-realitywork-702049/
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Volvo, 2015. An articulated truck that performs.
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Volvo C on s truc tion Equipment , 2015.
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Innovation for growth
By Tan Moi Kwan
With the rapid pace of innovation viz. Fourth Industrial Revolution,
a study estimated that 47% of workers in United States and 35%
in UK face the risk of being replaced by technology over the next 20
years. The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) report
estimated that 40% of the Australian workforce face a high probability of being replaced by
computers over the next 10 to 15 years.
Most innovations and breakthroughs come from mistakes, serendipity, false starts, setbacks and
misapplications. Many innovations were unplanned and unexpected.
Under the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2016, the Malaysian Government is ranked world’s top
sixth most tech-savvy i.e. efficacy in promoting information and communication technologies and
providing online services to the population. For overall NRI, Malaysia ranked 31st .
The momentum for the world in digital technology is rapidly shifting eastwards; today, American giants
such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google may be undisputed leaders in bringing innovative
technology to market, however, the next generation of start-ups will look to the likes of Alibaba, Baidu,
Lenovo and Tencent for inspiration.
According to World Bank, every 10 additional mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing
nation will result in a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of approximately 0.8%.
ICT’s contribution to the Malaysian economy increased to 17.8% in 2015. ICT industry employed 1.06
million persons and contributed 7.6% to total employment in Malaysia.
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