Chai Meng Fee
There are so many options in technology, tools and resources which are available to us to develop new products today. So where do we start? Chai Meng Fee, who is currently the President for Agilent Malaysia and with close to 30- years of working experience in various industries and different fields, firmly believes that a set of “good practice” guidelines that complies to the appropriate requirements should be the guiding light. Clearly this can help to lower overall development cost, reduce technical risk, as well the potential to shorten project schedule too. This is especially important when launching instrument product for the health care market as the developer must be very sure that they have fulfilled all of the core regulatory requirements. If they fail, the consequences can be costly - ranging from warnings, huge fines, stop shipment to imprisonment.
Meng Fee also talked about how Agilent Malaysia had gone about doing this when they were given the challenge to design and develop a new healthcare product recently. Among the many things that they did was to set up the appropriate working team to undertake such projects.
Furthermore, in a product driven execution strategy, there are three key elements which drive the product development, namely, core performance, internal requirements and finally, customer delight.
Chairman of IET Malaysia, Ir Dr Matthew Teow, presenting a token of appreciation to Chai Meng Fee (on the left) for graciously sharing his experience and expertise with the local IET community.
Professional Registration
Ir. Dr. Matthew Teow
In this final talk of the day, the Chairman of IET Malaysia, Ir Dr Matthew Teow showed the audience how to be professionally registered as a professional engineer with the Engineering Council (U.K.). He also touched on membership of the IET and how to gain professional recognition of the individual ‘s competence as an engineer.
Matthew believes that a professionally registered engineer can demonstrate to our peers and employers that we have made a commitment to maintaining, developing the knowledge, skill set and competence required to meet the engineering and technological needs of the modern world.