WHAT’S UP PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS€¦ · Event report by Pn. Halisa from Kuala Lumpur. 26 November 2019: MEPN conducted a Working Group 1 session on Tal-ent Development Project : Visualisation

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 27 Nov: Executive Strategic Ses-sion Part 2 at Hilton PJ

MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT 28 Nov : Strategic Session at the Saujana Hotel.

ICT 27 Nov Executive Strate-gic Session (ESS) at Sher-aton Petaling Jaya Hotel

PRIVATE HEALTHCARE 25 Nov: Discussion on the suggestion to improve housemanship doctors

RETAIL AND F&B 23 Nov: National Franchise Expo in Kota Kinabalu, Sa-bah.

AGRO-FOOD 22 Nov: Farm visit at Tree-grow Plantation Sdn Bhd, Cameron Highland

CHEMICAL 22 Nov: Workshop on De-velopment of Vaccine In-dustry

ELECRTICAL & ELECTRONIC 19 Nov: IIoT Plugfest Training in Sarawak

TOURISM 16 Nov : Green Tourism Practices - Island Tour in Sabah

WHAT’S UP PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS ?! ISSUE NO. 4 | 15– 30 NOVEMBER 2019 | VOLUME 1

DRIVING PRODUCTIVITY OF THE NATION

From the Editor’s Desk There have been more than 30 months since the Government launched the

Malaysian Productivity Blueprint (MPB) on 8 May 2017. With 2019 ending

soon, it is time we took stock on how we have achieved vis-à-vis the targets

and expectations stated in the MPB. Of course, with the dynamic challeng-

ing global economic scenario, Malaysia will always have to be versatile and

adjust accordingly so that we do not lose steam on our economic develop-

ment – that must now be sustainable, and ensure every Malaysian enjoys a

standard of living that befits a 62 years old nation. As for productivity mat-

ters, we have the targets set out for us to achieve as depicted in the dia-

gram above. We are also guided by five national productivity thrusts; name-

ly, talent, technology, industry structure, business environment and produc-

tivity mindset (as per the diagram on back page). The two diagrams provide

us with much food for introspection and retrospection! Till the next issue,

happy referencing.

TOURISM PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (TPN)

Event report by Pn Hafizah from Sabah 16 November 2019: Green Tourism Practices - Island Tour: site visit to Lato-Lato Resort, Salakan Island & Bohey Dulang Island. The main objectives of the visit were to solicit feedbacks from the local tourism industry players on the problems and challenges facing the tourism mar-ket in Semporna.The event was led by YBhg. Dato' Abdul Latif Bin Haji Abu Seman, Director-General of MPC.

PRIVATE HEALTHCARE PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (PHPN)

Event report En Jayadi from Kuala Lumpur. 16 November 2019: PHPN organized an event called cpdUnlimited Talk with Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia, PAM Centre, Bang-sar. The talk was on PHPN initiative on Improving Ap-proval Process Construction of Private Hospital in Ma-laysia & Private Healthcare Consultants Preparedness


Event report by Pn Hafizah from Sabah. 16 November 2019: This is a Green Tourism Practices Engagement Session with Semporna tourism industry players. A total of 20 Semporna tourism industry players attended the session to share views, opinions & suggest solutions on the need to embrace Green Tourism Practices (GTP). The session was chaired by YBhg. Dato' Abdul Latif Bin Haji Abu Seman, Director-General of MPC.

CHEMICAL PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (CPN)

Event report by En Fazre from Selangor. 18 November 2019: CPN went on a site visit to Cropmate Fertiliser Sdn Bhd at Telok Gong for Initiative Working Group 4 on Specialty fertiliser pilot application to potential Fertiliser SMEs


Event report by Cik Sofea from Selangor. 19 November 2019: PHPN held a meeting to discuss on Kajian Penam-bahbaikan Penyediaan Technical Design Refer-ence for Disaster Preparedness In Setting Up New High-rise Private Hospital at Hilton Petaling Jaya.

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (EEPN)

Event report by Pn Lee Wan Wei from Penang. 19 November 2019: This was EEPN Key Strategy 1: IC Design Curriculum Enhancement Workshop 2/2019 at Vistana Penang. Par-ticipants were from the Ministry Of Education (MOE), Ma-laysia’s national Applied Research and Development Centre (MIMOS) , University Malaya (UM), University Tecnology Malaysia (UTM), University Putra Malaysia (UPM), University Teknologi Mara (UITM), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Universiti Sains Malay-sia (USM), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP), Intel, Cy-press, Oppstar and Infinecs


Event report by Pn Lee Wan Wei from Sarawak. 19 November 2019: EEPN under initiative KS3 held the IIoT Plugfest Training from 19-21 November 2019 at MPC Sa-rawak. 24 companies comprising 48 participants participated in the event. In the afternoon, the EEPN team went on a site visit to Taiyu Yuden Sa-rawak.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (PSPN)

Event report by Pn Shahidah from MPC HQ. 20 November 2019: PSPN held a collaboration meeting with Private Healthcare Productivity Nexus (PHPN) on List of Ar-chitects in Designing Hospitals in Malaysia. Members of meeting were from Persatuan Arkitek Malaysia (PAM), Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) and Ca-wangan Kawalan Amalan Perubatan Swasta (CKAPS) of Ministry of Health (MOH).


Event report by Cik Ilina from Subang. 22 November 2019: CPN held a Workshop on Development of Vac-cine Industry to Address Malaysia's Prepared-ness for Pandemics from 21 - 22 November 2019 at Hotel Saujana, Subang


Event report by Pn. Hafizah from Kuala Lumpur. 21 November 2019 En Zahid Ismail, Deputy Director-General, Malay-sia Productivity Corporation (MPC) and En Uzaidi Udanis, Champion for Tourism Productivity Nex-us (TPN) attended the recording session for Agenda Awani that discussed on the Guidelines for Short Term Rental Accommodation.

MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (MEPN)

Event report by En. Abdul Rahman from MPC HQ. 21 November 2019: MEPN held a Working Group 3 Discussion to finalize questions for Machinery and Equipment industry val-ue chain repository.

AGRO-FOOD PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (AFPN)

Event report by Cik Nadia from Pahang. 21 November 2019 AFPN went for a farm visit to Treegrow Plantation Sdn Bhd, Cameron Highland on Digitilization Project. They also held a meeting on SISMARP Project with Croplife and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).

ICT PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (ICTPN)

Event report by Cik Anis Umairah from MPC HQ. 22 November 2019: ICTPN held a discussion with potential Focus Group Leader, Mr. Shaifubahrim Saleh on ICTPN 1.0 initia-tive to raise awareness of available incentives to en-sure proper utilization and adoption of ICT.


Event report by En Abdul Rahman from MPC HQ. 22 November 2019: MEPN held a Working Group 2 Meeting on Interven-tion Program through identified IPS using MPC Productivity Tool (ePGM). Based on the ePGM results, the IPS will propose suggestions to improve participat-ing company’s productivity.

RETAIL AND FOOD & BEVERAGES PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (RFBPN)

Event report by Pn Hanisah from Kota Kinabalu. 23 November 2019: RFBPN attended the National Franchise Expo in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. The programme organised by the Malaysian Franchise Association (MFA) and officiated by Dr.Alauddin Bin Sidal, Timbalan Ketua Setiausaha (TKSU) Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri Dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna (KPDNHEP) . Mr.Deric Yeo, Champion RFBPN also attended the programme.

AGRO-FOOD PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (AFPN)

Event report by Cik Nadia from Sabah. 25 November 2019 AFPN held a discussion with Mr Ken of SSTC at The Klagan Regency Kota Kinabalu . This discussion was on the potential collaboration of AFPN projects in Sabah. The team also dis-cussed with Dr James Allin of Universiti Ma-laysia Sabah (UMS) on the development of Agrofood Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA).


Event report En Fazre from Kuala Lumpur. 25 November 2019: CPN attended a meeting on Chemical Mentoring Export Program with Mr. Jai Shankar, Director of MATRADE . Members of the meeting agreed to select high potential SMEs based on Export Readiness Assessment Test (ERAT) for the men-toring programme.


Event report by Pn. Halisa from Kuala Lumpur. 26 November 2019: MEPN conducted a Working Group 1 session on Tal-ent Development Project : Visualisation on Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). This project com-prised of six days training. The first one was held on 25-27 November while the second training will be held on 3-5 December 2019. Eight Machinery and Equip-ment companies were involved in this training.


Event report by Cik Sofea from Kuala Lumpur. 26 November 2019: PHPN held a discussion on the suggestion to im-prove the placement of housemanship doctors to Dato' Mohd Shafiq Bin Abdullah, Timbalan Ketua Setiausaha (Pengurusan) , Ministry of Health (MOH).


Event report by Cik Azirah from Kuala Lumpur. 25 November 2019. EEPN attended a Pre-Council Meeting: Technical Working Group on Employing Workers chaired by YBhg. Dato' Amir, Ketua Setiausaha Ministry of Human Resources (MOHR) The meeting was co-chaired by YBhg. Dato' Seri Wong Siew Hai. A total of 15 persons comprised of JTKSM, ILMIA, MOHA, MITI, DOSM and secretariat team attended the meeting. The agenda discussed were: 1) View on foreign workers by government & industry; 2) Key statistics of foreign workers; 3) The implication of foreign workers to the country; 4) 4 Pillars of Holistic Approach to resolve foreign workers issues; - Improve the transparent process for application and approval for documented foreign workers (online application). - Management of undocumented foreign workers; - Encourage and incentivize companies to improve productivity via technology & automation; and - Effective enforcement.


Event report by Pn Shahidah from Kuala Lumpur. 26 November 2019: PSPN attended a discussion with the Malaysia Institute of Accountancy (MIA) regarding the outcome on Com-munity of Practice (CoP) for Small Medium Practitioner (SMP) of the Accountancy Fraternity. The last CoP work-shop for this year will be held on 12 December 2019.


Event report by Cik Azirah from Sabah. 26 November 2019: EEPN held the Sabah Industry4WRD Seminar at Sabah Skills & Technology Centre.

AGRO-FOOD PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (AFPN) AND DMO

Event report by Dr Shaik Roslinah Bux from Kuala Lumpur. 26 November 2019: At the invitation of Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), DMO represented by Dr. Bux as well as two AFPN officers, Cik Nurfariha Ahmad and Cik Nurul Nadia Abdul Patah, attended the Hong Kong Business Matching meetings cum Seminar.The MPC team had value-adding discussions with two agro-tech start-ups: Farmacy HK Limited on smart in-door mobile farm and Farm66 on urban farming technology.


Event report by Cik Ilina from Kuala Lumpur. 27 November 2019: CPN collaborated with Bioeconomy Corporation at Mena-ra Atlan for the Initiative Working Group 4 : Seminar on Developing The Bioplastics Industry SMEs in Malaysia. This was a collaboration program between Malaysian Bio-economy Development Corporation and Chemical Produc-tivity Nexus in promoting eco-friendly and high-value add products (Bioplastic/Bioresin)


Event report by Pn Shahidah from Selangor. 27 November 2019: PSPN held the Part 2 Executive Strategic Ses-sion at Hilton Petaling Jaya. Representatives for this event were from six different subsectors; namely, architecture, advertising, accountancy, engineering, legal and management consultan-

ICT PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS (ICTPN)

Event report by Cik Anis from Selangor. 27 November 2019: ICTPN held the Executive Strategic Session (ESS) at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel.


Event report by Pn. Nurul Alia from Kuala Lumpur, 27 November 2019 MEPN attended a Sectorial Training Committee (STC): Electrical, Electronic & Machinery Equipment Meeting 5/2019 . The meeting involved presentation and endorse-ment of M&E Industrial Skills Framework. The members of the meeting included representatives from Ministry Of Edu-cation (MOE) and the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM).


Event report by En. Akmal from Kuala Lumpur. 27 November 2019: Interview session with RFBPN Champion Mr Deric Yeo on Going Extra Miles in Delivering Services : Retail and F&B Subsector. The interview focused on : 1) The current level of services offered by our frontline

staff in retail and F&B; 2) Initiatives to improve the frontline services; 3) Countries that our Retail and F&B players should

benchmark in delivering high service quality; and 4) The current practices used to assess customers satis-

faction.

TOURISM PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS

Event report by Pn Hafizah from Putrajaya. 27 November 2019: TPN held an official launch of the Malaysia Tourism Excellence (MaTEx) Business Certification Programme. The launch is re-lated to initiative 2 (T2) : Establish a certification / accreditation programme for tourist sites to boost tourist volume and im-prove service delivery. TPN has developed five (5) standards for five categories: Travel Agencies, Adventure Tourism, MICE & Event Venue, Event Management, Product & Site Operator. A total of 112 companies have been certified with MaTEx Busi-ness Certification. They are : Travel Agencies (27), Adventure Tourism (38), MICE & Event Venue (11), Event Management (14) as well as Product & Site Operator (22). The launch was graced by : Guest of Honour, YB Datuk Mohamaddin Bin Ketapi, Minis-

ter of Tourism, Arts and Culture; YBhg. Dato' Abdul Latif Hj. Abu Seman, Director-General,

MPC; YBrs. Encik Zahid Ismail, Deputy Director-General; and YBrs. Encik Uzaidi Udanis, Champion of TPN.


Event report by En. Abdul Rahman from Selangor 28 November 2019: MEPN held its Strategic Session at the Saujana Ho-tel. The event was to discuss on the work progress of each work group and propose future plans.


Event report by En. Abdul Rahman from Kuala Lumpur. 29 November 2019: MEPN organised the Working Group 1 meeting with DF Automation & Robotics Sdn Bhd and UM-Industry Innovation Centre to set up Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) Lab in University of Malaya.


Event report by Pn Hanisah from Johor. 28 November 2019: RFBPN participated in the International Strategic network through exporters’ microsite at MPC Southern Region Office (SRO).

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WHAT’S UP PRODUCTIVITY NEXUS€¦ · Event report by Pn. Halisa from Kuala Lumpur. 26 November 2019: MEPN conducted a Working Group 1 session on Tal-ent Development Project : Visualisation