Veronica Loh

Co-Founder & Head, Operations · Managing Director & Chief Sustainability Officer

ISO 14064 Lead Auditor & Greenhouse Gas Lead Verifier, QMS ISO Internal Auditor, HACCP Internal Auditor

Twenty-six years turning multidisciplinary engineering delivery into measurable cost and sustainability outcomes.

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Veronica Loh is a co-founder and Head of Operations at Praxora Lab, and Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer of Orion Five Engineering, a Singapore engineering practice built around systems integration. She brings twenty-six years managing business operations in Singapore and across the region, spanning logistics, food technology research and development, mechanisation of manufacturing processes, and the digitalisation of manufacturing and logistics operations.

Over the past decade she has led several multidisciplinary, integrated projects for both government bodies and private sector organisations, helping them cut cost and meet strategic objectives through customised IoT, ERP and robotics work delivered by a multidisciplinary engineering team.

She has taken part in two National Day Parades as part of the Small and Medium Enterprise contingent, and holds two NDP Silver Awards for her contribution.

Run at Praxora Lab

Workshops facilitated by Veronica Loh

AI & Robotics on the Factory Floor
A 3.5-hour course scoping an AI or robotics pilot for a real shop-floor or warehouse process, against an EDG-eligible business case.
Governance Meets Delivery: AI for Business Owners
A one-day integrated programme, with Terence Kok, that checks a scoped delivery pilot against a governance checklist for the same process.

Areas of expertise

Multidisciplinary engineering delivery

Leading integrated IoT, ERP and robotics projects for government and private sector clients, coordinating across disciplines to cut cost and meet strategic objectives.
Manufacturing and logistics digitalisation

Two decades spanning mechanisation and digitalisation of manufacturing and logistics operations, and food technology research and development.
Sustainability and compliance systems

ISO 14064 greenhouse gas verification, food safety management systems (FSSC 22000 / ISO 22000:2018) and quality management auditing.

Recent writing

Insights from Veronica Loh

Why the AI layer has to sit outside the safety-rated control loop
A machine's safety function runs on a certified, bounded response time. A model's inference time is neither certified nor bounded. Most of what gets called an AI integration challenge on the plant floor is really that mismatch, misdiagnosed as a data or model problem.
Robotics ROI on the SME floor: where it's real, and where it's oversold
A cobot handles the four-thousandth repetition exactly like the first. That is the entire case for buying one, and it stops being the case the moment the task changes more often than the cycle repeats.
The Scope 3 number your customer needs is sitting in your OT data
From the 2026 financial year, Singapore's largest listed companies must disclose Scope 3 emissions, and a supplier with no activity-based data to offer becomes the industry-average estimate their customer is stuck reporting.
Your WMS and your ERP probably don't agree with each other
A warehouse management system rarely closes the gap it was bought to close. The gap usually sits at the handoff into the ERP, where someone still reconciles the two systems by hand, and that reconciliation step is where the real cost of a warehouse project sits.

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Orion Five case studies

Named clients, delivered work

Pharmaceutical packaging client · 2026

Machine-learning quality control for pill packs

A machine-learning vision system trained on roughly 6,000 samples to inspect pill packs for foreign objects and double or empty pouches, with automatic barcode-based routing of failures and a full traceability log of every pack and rejected pouch.
Government Agency · 2025

RFID asset and inventory management, with self-service kiosk

An RFID-based asset and inventory system replacing manual paperwork and physical searches, with a self-service kiosk that maps a user's body or item dimensions to the correct rack or shelving location and a real-time dashboard of stock on hold.

A clear understanding of warehouse operations complexity, translated into a technically coherent, user-centric design. Completed to specification, on schedule, and met every requirement in our scope. Programme Lead, Logistics and Public-Sector Client, 2025
HAAR · 2025 to 2026

AI diagnostic and e-commerce platform for scalp longevity

A full diagnose-treat-maintain platform for a scalp longevity brand: an AI-customised diagnostic engine decodes a customer's scalp biological signature, an adaptive treatment system tailors care, and an integrated e-commerce shop with a persistent cart and admin dashboard keeps the relationship going.
Raymang Eggs Pte Ltd · 2024

Robotic carton removal line for egg distribution

An Enterprise Development Grant-funded robotics line that replaced manual carton unboxing for imported egg shipments end to end, lifting operational efficiency by over 1,000 percent and cutting the process's dependence on manual labour.

Engaged as consultant and solution provider for our egg unpacking automation project, covering gap assessment, mechanisation design, and Enterprise Development Grant proposal support, through to project management of design, development, and commissioning. The objectives of the project were completed and met. Director, Poultry Processing Client, 2022

Delivered through Orion Five Engineering, the practice Veronica Loh leads. 7 more, including work for named government and private-sector clients, are documented on the Orion Five site linked above.

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