SESSION NOTES

Inside
Automation

Session one is done. The hour in nine slides: what was covered, the five live demo screens, three ways to work together, and every question the room asked.

Thursday 17 September 2026, 9:00pm MYT One hour, live on Google Meet

SESSION ONE · 17 SEPTEMBER 2026 · DONE

Inside
Automation

How does AI actually get into a plant that is already running?

Dean Lai. Chemical engineer by training. Ten years automating plants. Founder, TGE Innovations.

THE HOUR IN THREE LINES

What was covered.

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What automation actually is

Sense, decide, act. Your air-con and a whole plant run the same loop, one of them at a thousand times the scale.

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How the money in it works

AI is the tool. The value is the bridge from OT to IT that turns data a plant already has into a work order someone acts on.

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Where the opportunity sits

Labour, energy and regulation keep pushing demand. Count the plants you can walk properly, not the size of the market.

FIVE BRIDGES, DEPLOYED · TAP ONE TO OPEN ITS LIVE DEMO

Five problems. Five bridges.

These are the real screens. Illustrative data, no client. Each one opens inside this page.

04 · HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

Which one are you?

YOU HAVE A MACHINE · OWNER · MAINTENANCE · PRODUCTION

Send me the machine that hurt this year.

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HOW IT WORKS

Detection points go on it, and I read the data for you.

02
WHAT YOU GET

A written read of that machine at day 30 and day 90.

Send me the machine →
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AI-Ready Plant Playbook

YOU HAVE CUSTOMERS · INTEGRATOR · VENDOR · CONSULTANT

Bring the plant. I bring the bridge.

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HOW IT WORKS

We split the job, and your name stays on it with your client.

02
WHAT YOU GET

A solution you can sell tomorrow without building it.

Let’s partner →
TAKE AWAY, FREE
The ACA Playbook (fund it)The Guard Playbook (comply)

YOU HAVE TIME · ENGINEER · STUDENT · THE CURIOUS

Learn to build the bridge yourself.

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HOW IT WORKS

Four weeks: PLC, data out, one model, one work order.

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WHAT YOU GET

One machine talking by week four, and a seat on the bench for the jobs above.

Join the next sharing →
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The Engineer’s AI PlaybookThe PA Playbook

WHAT THE ROOM ASKED · TAP A QUESTION

Nine questions. Straight answers.

OLD KIT, NO SMART SENSOR?

Yes. It needs a signal, not smart equipment: a small controller reads the machine and feeds the bridge.

DOES THE AI ACT, OR ONLY ADVISE?

It can act, but every client wants a person to approve each action, so today a human signs off.

CAN IT REPLACE SCADA?

No. SCADA keeps control; the AI layer runs alongside it and tells the operator what to do better.

REDUNDANCY ON EVERY SENSOR?

Only if the AI takes the action. Then fortify the sensors and prove the data first.

HOW ACCURATE IS IT?

Two independent models are compared, and a subject matter expert makes the final call.

DOES IT HELP PROCESS AND QUALITY?

Yes. Linking vibration to process data let one client's engineers bring their reject rate down.

ANY HANDLING UNIT?

Yes. It started on a compressor, and air handling units are an easier case.

WHY NOT OFF THE SHELF?

It is built around your line, with thresholds that move with the data instead of sitting fixed.

TOO MUCH DATA FOR ONE BRIDGE?

It is sized to the data and built in layers, so only what matters moves up.

NEXT ONLINE SHARING · FREE · LIVE ON GOOGLE MEET

AI agents I built to run TGE

Thursday 1 October 2026, 9:00pm MYT

One hour. The agents that run my company day to day, and where I still do the work myself.

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The session in nine slides. Arrows or keyboard to move. Slide 3 opens the real demo screens; slide 4 asks which one you are and takes you to your page.

WHAT WAS COVERED

The hour in three lines

The first live sharing by Dean Lai, industrial automation engineer in Malaysia and founder of TGE Innovations Sdn Bhd. One hour on Google Meet, 17 September 2026. What was said, in three lines.

01What automation actually is

Sense, decide, act. Your air-con and a whole plant run the same loop, one of them at a thousand times the scale.

02How the money in it works

AI is the tool. The value is the bridge from OT to IT that turns data a plant already has into a work order someone acts on.

03Where the opportunity sits

Labour, energy and regulation keep pushing demand. Count the plants you can walk properly, not the size of the market.

04 · HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

What do you have?

A machine, customers, or time. Each one is a different way to work with me, and each starts with something you send.

  1. You have a machineOwner · maintenance · production. Detection points go on it, and I read the data for you. You get: A written read of that machine at day 30 and day 90.
    Send me the machine →AI-Ready Plant Playbook
  2. You have customersIntegrator · vendor · consultant. We split the job, and your name stays on it with your client. You get: A solution you can sell tomorrow without building it.
    Let’s partner →The ACA Playbook (fund it)The Guard Playbook (comply)
  3. You have timeEngineer · student · the curious. Four weeks: PLC, data out, one model, one work order. You get: One machine talking by week four, and a seat on the bench for the jobs above.
    Join the next sharing →The Engineer’s AI PlaybookThe PA Playbook

NEXT ONLINE SHARING · FREE · LIVE ON GOOGLE MEET

AI agents I built to run TGE

Thursday 1 October 2026, 9:00pm MYT

One hour. The agents that run my company day to day, and where I still do the work myself. Written notes go to everyone who registers.

Save my seat → See every session