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COPE-BEST received IChemE Public Engagement Global Award 

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December 02, 2022

COPE-BEST received IChemE Public Engagement Global Award

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The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) has announced COPE-BEST as Highly Commended recipient of the 2022 IChemE Global Award under Public Engagement Category.    

IChemE announced winners in 15 team categories and two individual award categories (Young Industrialist and Young Researcher) from 15 countries at the first in-person awards ceremony since 2019 at the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester, UK, on 17 November 2022. Across all categories, Optimal Systems Engineering (OPTIMISE) is the only organization in ASEAN, and one of the three from Asia to receive IChemE Global Award this year alongside Saudi Aramco and Dubai Municipality. 

The Convention on Promotion of Best Practice in Energy Sustainability (COPE-BEST) is founded by the UTM Spinoff, Optimal Systems Engineering Sdn Bhd (OPTIMISE) as a community of best practices to synergise open innovation in energy sustainability among industry, academia, policy makers and community within ASEAN and beyond. 

This year’s COPE-BEST 2022 was organised from 20 – 22 September 2022. A total of 1121 participants from more than 20 countries, including from Europe, Africa, Asia and, as far west as Mexico and the USA attended COPE-BEST 2022. This made COPE-BEST one of ASEAN’s biggest energy conventions. COPE-BEST 2022 was held in conjunction with the International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition & Conference Malaysia (IGEM 2022), in collaboration with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia University Sustainability Network (MySUN), Malaysia Energy Services Companies (MAESCO), ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), Centre for IMT-GT (Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand) Sub-regional Cooperation (CIMT), SIRIM Berhad and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). 

For more information about the IChemE Awards, please visit: https://www.icheme.org/about-us/press-releases/digital-twins-are-a-win-win-at-icheme-global-awards/ 

This article is published on December 02, 2022 by Optimal System Engineering

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Press Release: Over 1000 from more than 20 countries attended COPE-BEST 2022.

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September 27, 2022

Over 1000 from more than 20 countries attended COPE-BEST 2022.

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Leveraging technology the 4A-way enabled Anyone to Access COPE-BEST at Anytime from Anywhere.

A total of 1121 participants from more than 20 countries, including from Europe, Africa, Asia and, as far west as Mexico and the USA attended COPE-BEST 2022. This makes it one of ASEAN’s biggest energy conventions.  

We attribute the overwhelming response to the Ten Uniqueness of COPE-BEST that has made it one of the top 4 Finalists of the IChemE 2022 Global Awards under the Public Engagement category. The award winner will be announced in November 2022 at Manchester, UK.  

With 76% participants comprising industrialists and policymakers and the rest from academia, COPE-BEST and ENERGISE provide a platform for the energy sustainability community of practice to exchange experiences and insights, explore potential partnership, share best practices, and innovation and discuss business prospects.  

“A Virtual COPE-BEST that Feels Physical”

Many participants shared how pleasantly surprised they were to know that they could actually do networking, visit exhibition booths, meet other participants and have a one-on-one interaction with speakers at COPE-BEST. In short – they were glad to be able to do just about all they were used to doing at a physical conference, and more.  

Some shared how easy it was to initiate contact. All they had to do was to scroll down the list of participants’ profiles and click on a name to start a chat. They could then set up one-on-one virtual meetings to discuss partnership and business prospects. To them, it helps to have some leads on their potential connections prior to a meeting. 

Flexibility and Ubiquity

The COPE-BEST 4A also provides the much needed flexibility for participants who could ill afford an extended time away from the office. They highly appreciate the chance to hop into a session of their interest, hop out to attend meetings at their office after the session, and rejoin the next session without having to leave office.  In fact, those who were unable to attend COPE-BEST live could follow the recorded sessions at their own pace.

Committee members, on the other hand, shared that engaging high profile speakers exposed them to the risks of sudden cancellations and schedule changes.  COPE-BEST 2022  leveraged technology ubiquity to overcome this challenge the 4A-way by accessing speakers from anywhere they are either live, or through recorded presentations.

Practicing Planet Protection

By conducting the event online, we have avoided the needs of travelling for participants, speakers and committees.  As a result, we have managed to reduce about 60,000 kg of equivalent CO2 emissions from the combustion of fuel in our transports.  Our quick estimate  showed that the avoided emissions is equivalent to the annual CO2 absorbed by 6000 trees and generated sufficient oxygen for 12,000 people for 2 years. This is how we are able to practice what we all so vigorously preached about protecting our planet by avoiding a significant amount of emissions. 

Welcoming Contributions for ENERGISE and COPE-BEST 2023

Optimal Systems Engineering (OPTIMISE) as the main event organiser appreciates our co-organisers Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Malaysian Green Technology and Climate Change Centre (MGTC). We are grateful for the support of the COPE-BEST community comprising all collaborators, sponsors, exhibitors and contributors including distinguished speakers, panelists, session chairs and co-chairs as well as masters of ceremony of COPE-BEST 2022.  In anticipation of COPE-BEST 2023, we warmly welcome your contributions as sponsors, speakers, collaborators, committee and participants of ENERGISE talk series and COPE-BEST.  Do stay in touch.  May we all bind together to COPE-BEST with the challenges ahead!

This article is published on September 27, 2022 by Optimal System Engineering

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COPE-BEST announced as the finalist for IChemE Global Awards 2022

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September 12, 2022

COPE-BEST announced as the finalist for IChemE Global Awards 2022

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The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) has announced COPE-BEST to be among the finalists of the 2022 IChemE Global Awards.  COPE-BEST has been announced as finalists under two categories, namely the Global Public Engagement Award and IChemE Malaysia Training and Development Award.

IChemE announced that the winners in 15 team categories and two individual award categories (Young Industrialist and Young Researcher) from 15 countries will be announced at the first in-person awards ceremony since 2019 at the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester, UK, on 17 November 2022.

The Convention on Promotion of Best Practice in Energy Sustainability (COPE-BEST) has been founded by the UTM Spinoff, Optimal Systems Engineering Sdn Bhd (OPTIMISE) to create a community of best practices and innovations to catalyse open innovation in energy sustainability among energy industry, academia, policy makers and community within ASEAN and beyond.

COPE-BEST 2022 is organised from 20-22 September 2022. It is expected to attract more than 1000 participants from across ASEAN and beyond, with more than 75% participants comprising private industry and government stakeholders.  COPE-BEST is held in conjunction with the International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition & Conference Malaysia (IGEM 2022), in collaboration with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia University Sustainability Network (MySUN), Malaysia Energy Services Companies (MAESCO), ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), Centre for IMT-GT (Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand) Sub-regional Cooperation (CIMT), SIRIM Berhad and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).



This article is published on September 12, 2022 by Optimal System Engineering

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Optimise Introduces a Suite Of Intelligent Facility Management Software Products

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August 15, 2021

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Optimal Systems Engineering announced the launching of a suite of OPTIMISE intelligent facility management software products, in conjunction with COPE-BEST 2021, the first Convention on Promotion of Energy Sustainability Best Practices.  

The c-SMART, A-SEDAR and P-SEDAR are the three new OPTIMISE intelligent facility management software systems that were launched during COPE-BEST 2021. Below area highlights of the software features.

(i) c-SMART, or the Comprehensive-Smart Management of Asset Real Time is an IoT-based total asset management and preventive maintenance system that can help raise a company’s productivity and ensure efficient and smooth business operation through an effective, data-driven, smart asset management program. c-SMART enables organization to perform preventive maintenance by keeping track of the performance of its essential assets through real-time monitoring of its critical operating parameters. Equipped with a complete maintenance work order status (from raising the user request until completion of the task), c-SMART is the perfect solution for managing your business’ assets.

(ii) a-SEDAR, or the Smart energy data acquisition real time is a cloud-based IoT software to monitor and manage energy and water consumption. It is designed for organisations looking for smart energy and water meters for their facility. A-SEDAR has already been deployed in numerous hospitals in Malaysia such as the Hospital Kuala Lumpur. A-SEDAR helps energy managers at the hospitals to perform real-time monitoring and analysis of facility energy consumption using a single platform, and prepare regular comprehensive report for the management.

(iii) p-SEDAR or the Personalized Smart Energy Demand Analysis & Reduction mobile and web-based apps is equipped with special features to engage, motivate and excite employees to conserve energy through competition, gamification, and empowerment. P-SEDAR empowers users to control energy appliances and join various energy awareness promotion and reward programmes. It is a smart energy solution that involves all levels of employees. P-SEDAR is currently being used at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia hostels as part of a program to instil smart energy awareness among university students.

For more information: https://optimalsystems.my/energy-management-softwares/

This article is published on August 15, 2021 by Optimal Systems Engineering

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Optimise Academy: The Online Energy Training Platform For All

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August 15, 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the effort to democratize education to enable anyone, to learn anything from anywhere at anytime. Optimal Systems Engineering announced its latest on-demand upskilling programs at the launching of OPTIMISE Academy during COPE-BEST 2021, the first Convention on Promotion of Energy Sustainability Best Practices. 

    • OPTIMISE Academy offers flexible learning-on-demand programs in areas of resource conservation to help develop people as the key driver in building a sustainable organisation. 
    • OPTIMISE Academy provides an online training platform for upskilling all levels of people in an organization.

An organization looking to drive energy efficiency to support its business goals, for example, may consider the OPTIMISE Academy’s customized in-company workshop on the implementation of Energy Management System standards that involve company’s middle and top management. In adopting energy-efficiency best practices in processes and operations, many organizations have enrolled their technical staff in OPTIMISE’s energy audit and optimization training programs. We also conduct general energy awareness programs that are suitable for all company staff, company stakeholders and the public to help companies build an inclusive energy sustainability culture.  OPTIMISE Academy also provide programs for upskilling and certification of energy professionals such as energy managers, energy auditors, energy consultants, energy service companies, academicians, researchers, and students.

One of the unique signature courses of OPTIMISE Academy is the Thermal Energy Recovery Technologist (TERT).  TERT workshop is one of OPTIMISE’s initiatives to build capacity and expertise for the current and future thermal energy auditors, energy professionals and  energy experts, in support of the government’s aspiration to build resilience and create a sustainable and efficient industrial eco-system through initiatives such as the National Energy Award (NEA), Energy Audit Conditional Grant (EACG) and the anticipated enactment of Malaysia’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act (EECA). There are four levels of the Thermal Energy Recovery Technologist (TERT) Certification program.  Level 1 and 2 provides the fundamentals and advanced knowledge on thermal energy recovery based on Pinch Analysis. TERT Level 3 will qualify participants as ‘Certified Professional Thermal Energy Recovery Technologist (CP-TERT) while TERT Level 4 will qualify them as ‘Certified Expert Thermal Energy Recovery Technologist (CE-TERT)’.  The TERT workshops are now available at OPTIMISE Academy as a self-paced, or live, and as customized in-company workshops.

Checkout all OPTIMISE Academy available energy trainings now: https://academy.optimalsystems.my/

This article is published on August 15, 2021 by Optimal Systems Engineering

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Meet Malaysia’s First Batch of Certified Thermal Energy Recovery Technologist (CP-TERT)

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August 15, 2021

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Congratulations to the first batch the Certified Professional Thermal Energy Recovery Technologist (CP-TERT)! The inaugural Thermal Energy Recovery Technologist (TERT) workshop series kicked off earlier this year on 28 February 2021 with the first batch of 25 selected trainees from among experienced, and future energy auditors, energy managers, consultants, industrial practitioners, technologists and researchers out of nearly 100 workshop applicants.

Fully sponsored by PENJANA HRDF GIG fund, the workshop is part of OPTIMISE’s and UTM initiative to build capacity and expertise for the current and future thermal energy auditors and experts, in support of the government’s aspiration to build resilience and create an eco-system for sustainable and efficient use of energy in industry through initiatives such as the National Energy Award (NEA), Energy Audit Conditional Grant (EACG) and the anticipated enactment of Malaysia’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act (EECA).

The first batch of the TERT trainees have completed the TERT User (Level 1) and Advanced (Level 2) programs. To date, 14 trainees have progressed to TERT Level 3 and successfully completed the training module and assessment programs to qualify them as Certified Professional Thermal Energy Recovery Technologist (CP-TERT). The certification enables the candidate to provide energy audit services for industrial facilities on how to maximize thermal energy recovery and minimize utility costs using Pinch Analysis technique. The professionals can later apply for conversion to Certified Expert – Thermal Energy Recovery Technologist  (CE-TERT) once they have successfully completed a real-life industrial project.

This article is published on August 15, 2021 by Optimal Systems Engineering

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IEM WEBINAR (12 Jun 2021) – Building Organizational Resilience via a Sustainable Energy Management Program

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June 6, 2021

IEM WEBINAR (12 Jun 2021) – Building Organizational Resilience via a Sustainable Energy Management Program

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Get insights from the success and performance delivery of the SEM initiative that have been widely promoted to over 1000 organisations in ASEAN and beyond from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).

This webinar presents the implementation of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) 6P Energy Sustainability Transformation (Energy-STAR) Program that created a competitive edge and built a resilient ecosystem of innovation-driven best practices. In driving change, the UTM 6P Energy STAR strategy began by pin pointing the specific and major pains experienced by UTM management and community. Understanding the pains allowed the team to build the compelling purpose for the reform initiative. An inclusive SEM Program was then established and innovative products developed. A key component of the program involves grooming people as program champions to mobilize change and partnership with stakeholders from industry and policy makers. Success and performance delivery of the SEM initiative have been widely promoted to over 1000 organisations in ASEAN and beyond.

This webinar is brought to you by IEM, featuring Building Organisational Resilience via a Sustainable Energy Management Program, and is the Key Forum Topic in the Convention on Promotion of Energy Sustainability Best Practices (COPE-BEST 2021), by Prof Ir. Ts. Dr. Zainuddin Abdul Manan.

From now till 11 June 2021, register and learn from how UTM Sustainable Energy Management Initiative leds to savings of over 6 million USD within 8 years and became the winner of ASEAN Energy Award in 2012. 

Registration is limited to 90 participants only. Register here at: https://www.myiem.org.my/events/eventregistration.aspx?id=17230

Learn more about COPE-BEST 2021 here: https://optimalsystems.my/cope-best

 

Webinar Speaker: Prof. Ts. Ir. Dr. Zainuddin Abdul Manan
FASc, PEng, CEng, Technologist, FIChemE, CEM, REEM

Prof Ir. Ts. Dr. Zainuddin Abdul Manan FASc, PEng, CEng, Technologist, FIChemE, CEM, REEM is a professor of chemical engineering and the Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He began his career as an engineer in PETRONAS and Hume Industries and has been an academic leader, educator, researcher, consultant and professional coach for over 25 years.

Zain is a UK/EU chartered engineer, a Fellow IChemE (UK), Fellow Academy of Science Malaysia, a professional engineer (PEng), a professional technologist, a certified energy manager, a registered electrical energy manager and a certified trainer for ASEAN energy managers. Zain has been a coach of professionals from over 500 organisations and delivered over 400 invited talks in professional courses, conferences and seminars worldwide. Zain is currently the chair of the EECA (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act) Thermal Energy Drafting committee under the Malaysian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. He founded and spearheaded the UTM Sustainable Energy Management initiative that led UTM to achieve over USD 6 million energy savings between 2011 and 2018, and to win the ASEAN Energy Award in 2012.

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This article is published on June 6, 2021 by Optimal Systems Engineering

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Prof Ir Dr Zainuddin Abdul Manan appointed as Fellow for Academy of Science Malaysia

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April 25, 2021

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About The ASM’s New Fellows for This Year 

The Academy of Science Malaysia (ASM) recently appointed their new fellow of ASM for this year. ASM appointed the eminent scientists in Malaysia who have made outstanding contributions to science, engineering and technology, both nationally and internationally. New ASM fellows were appointed with the abbreviation FASc after their name.

Prof Ir. Ts. Dr Zainuddin Abd Manan was selected as one of the New Fellows of ASM from University Teknologi Malaysia in the field of Engineering Science from the 50 individuals who were appointed from among the country’s eminent scientists, engineers and technologists. The professor is someone who has made a significant contribution and outstanding achievements in his career. For his contribution, the Professor was appointed as a New Fellow of ASM. This award is given as a high appreciation for the best scientific minds from the Government of Malaysia.

The ASM Fellowship consists of distinguished scientists, engineers, technologists and social scientists that have made exceptional contributions in their fields. Individuals with merit, possessing high integrity demonstrating utmost decorum at all times with essential characteristics of an ambassador of ASM at the national and international level are nominated each year. Fellowship is awarded based on a stringent selection process in eight disciplines.

It’s a recognition for an eminent scientist in Malaysia, which is recognised by ASM. The award is even higher than Top Research Scientist Malaysia. Quite hard and stringent the application process. This year from UTM, only 3 professors were selected. For their contributions in the field of careers, this is the best moment to the researchers for being elected as New Fellow of ASM. Besides, being an eminent scientist, they have to show contribution to society. These award emphasized outstanding achievements in their respective careers.

This article is published on April 25, 2021 by Optimal Systems Engineering

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The Women As The Emerging Power Of The 21st Century

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April 8, 2021

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The Young Muslim Women Summit was made to highlight Women as a force that emerges in the 21st century by forming a blueprint of desirable improvement objectives and making it a guide to strengthen the ability to work despite the many problems and difficulties faced by young women in the 21st century. The highest point of this is to help young women with more unique positions in their jobs and tackle the issues into impact and extend it into strengthening. There is a huge number of young women scientists in their separate fields notwithstanding the numerous troubles they confront and build up each other’s dynamism and enthusiasm in their lives. This is a new opportunity and prospect for young women scientists to benefit from their guidance to build balanced empowerment and build a better post-COVID world by making it with more knowledge for progress and innovation.

Great words were shared from effective guests like Professor Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi, Research Fellow of Process Systems Engineering Centre (PROSPECT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Co-founder of Optimal Systems Engineering Sdn Bhd. During this conference, Professors have shared the important part of succeeding in a career by overcoming the challenges they face to succeed in a career path. Other guests were also invited as Maha Akeel who is the Director of Social and Family Affairs at the Jeddah-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Somaya Faruqi who is the team leader of the Afghan Robotics Development Team. Sarah Qureshi is best known as a Pakistani Aerospace Engineer and CEO of Aero Engineer Craft, the first private aviation company in Pakistan that focuses on environment-friendly aircraft engines, Mona Diab is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science, George Washington University, and Facebook AI Research Scientist.

They became the best role models to young women in their respective fields. The strength of women in a highly competitive world in the post-COVID period and developing their own capabilities and believing in their own abilities are the most effective words for the success of all the young women that have been emphasized by the guests.

This article is published on April 8, 2021 by Optimal Systems Engineering

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Expert Talks on Careers In STEM

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March 30, 2021

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About The Sharing Insights On Success In Chemical Engineering 

Prof Ir Ts Dr Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi is who inspired others and succeeded through their respective fields. She specializes in chemical engineering and built it to achieve more sustainable outcomes by finding ways to make exceptional contributions in her field despite the many challenges and showed that she is successful in STEM.

Many awards and successes have been achieved by her. The achievement is inspiration for all women. The number of women in the technical and engineering sectors is still low at 30% compared to 70 per cent of public high-list female graduates in Sarawak. This becomes an inspiration to the achievements of others.

Prof Ir Ts Dr Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi has been involved in 80 research projects worth (RM7.54 Million), 17 industry-based projects for various companies and government agencies and has trained engineers from more than 200 companies in the field of sustainable engineering design and management. She has more than 250 publications with H-index 33 (Scopus). Scival Spotlight Elsevier 2014 has placed it in ninth place among the list of global experts under the efficiency of “heat exchanger, installation and design” and in fifth place under the efficiency of “optimization, cost and water”.

Throughout her journey of success, she has won numerous international and national awards and was listed as the 100 Asian Scientist in 2017 and the Asia Rising Scientist in 2020 by AsianScientist.com for her extensive contributions in her field. Professor Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi uses her engineering prowess. As a process engineer, Professor Sharifah helps companies optimize their operations and achieve minimum waste with maximum profit. By doing so, companies can use their resources efficiently – for their benefit and that of the world.

Professor Sharifah has emphasized that thermal energy recovery is published from various angles and transforms knowledge into software products. This is software that can be used by every engineer by incorporating all the technical knowledge to reduce the thermal energy resources which can benefit more people. Optimal Systems Engineering is here to commercialize software, professional knowledge training courses and teach industry and engineers how to reduce energy resources. The problem that needs to be solved is minimizing waste and emissions to wealth for future generations and making it more useful.

This article is published on March 30, 2021 by Optimal Systems Engineering

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