Layered cake also known as kek lapis is very synonym to Sarawak and very famous souvenir to tourist who travels to Sarawak. The exclusive savour and colourful layered design attribute has secure its constant demand all the year especially during festive seasons. The products are not only catered for Sarawak but also exported to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. The industry contributes almost RM 3 million a year to the entrepreneurs. However, the tedious traditional process is unable to cope with the demand. Manual process is highly dependent on labours and the labours skills has direct influence on the quality of cakes produced. The development follows systematic engineering design process. Concept of sectional base mechanism has been chosen for the machine. The automatic machine has includes all basic processes namely filling of mixture to the baking tray, baking, layered, pressing and cooling. The proposed model is expected to produce 216 moulds per day, which is 430% improvement from the current production rate (50 moulds). Estimated manufacturing cost is about RM 37,000 only.

This paper describes the development of cutting temperature measurement of end mill tool by using infrared radiation technique approach. Compared to conventional thermocouple technique, infrared radiation technique is an advance method of measuring temperature which featured high accuracy, high response rate, wide range of temperature scale detection and almost compatible with all materials used in the manufacturing industry. We measures the emission of infrared radiation from the source, which is cutting edge of tool by using photocells that contains InAs and InSb photovoltaic detectors. Photocells converts the infrared radiation to a voltage signal and then recorded by oscilloscope followed with a calibration with its corresponding temperature. This paper discussed about the calibration method, cutting experiment setup, the limit of infrared radiation level detected by photocells, signal correction of output signal, and relations of peak signal formation with rotation of end mill tool. The developed pyrometer is also capable to profile the cutting tool’s rotation based on the movements of infrared radiation’s emission at cutting tool’s edge. The conclusion was that the measurement of cutting temperature of high speed machining by using infrared radiation technique is possible. The developed pyrometer are capable to detect temperature changes at a span of 0.01 ms.