Abdul Talib Bon

Quality measurement in lean manufacturing

Nowadays, many of the industrial companies use the most popular programs Lean Six Sigma in their production, management, and others especially in manufacturing company. Lean Six Sigma is an organizational philosophy of applying relentless efforts to drive waste out of the organization at every level and improve product quality to the level of only 3.4 defects per million opportunities and both lean manufacturing and six sigma work towards meeting customers needs by delivering products without defects. This is an effective approach to determine where improvement necessary. This paper is about evaluating the effectiveness of using the Lean Six Sigma in manufacturing industries and researcher are focus to only one company, beside improve productivity and optimize quality. Data of the implementation were compared using the control chart and the level of effectiveness can be measured either it is effective or not in reducing the defects in manufacturing industry. This study resulting the effective of Lean Six Sigma in manufacturing industry and show how it works by the implementation and improvement.

Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in automotive industry

Nowadays, consumers expect manufacturers to provide excellent quality, reliable delivery and competitive pricing. This demands that the manufacturers machines and processes are highly reliable. In order to possess highly reliable machines to make sure smooth manufacturing process, many organizations have implemented Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) as the enabling tool to maximize the effectiveness of equipment by setting and maintaining the optimum relationship between people and their machines. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is used as a measure when evaluating the result of TPM. This paper intends to find out the difference between before and after the TPM implementation to OEE result. Comparison between before and after the implementation of TPM is carried out to see the difference that TPM can bring to an organization. Elements that constitute the OEE equation will be analyzed in order to identify which one that affects OEE result. After identifying, improvement will be made on that element so that OEE result will be improved ultimately. The approach used in this paper is experimental and the instruments used to collect data are observation and interview. Microsoft Excel is used to analyze data obtained and calculate OEE. Hence, TPM is a useful tool in helping firm to achieve optimal manufacturing process. By being able to achieve this level of maintenance, an organization will be able to reap competitive advantages brought by TPM, thus, producing quality products that manage to satisfy customers and subsequently generating greater profits.

Implementation of Lean manufacturing for productivity improvement in Malaysia

In Malaysia, Lean manufacturing is a unified system that entailed with a set of philosophies, rules, guidelines, tools and techniques which imposed to eliminate significant waste in all business processes for continuous improvement. However, limited studies and publication about lean manufacturing implementation have been done in Malaysia. A single case study method was applied in this study to explore the key success factors and process of lean implementation. Primary data (interview) was collected from related field experts and the results gained was further analyzed by using Nvivo 10 software. Further discussion was made with the assistance of secondary sources. Moreover, two types of lean assessment tools, value stream mapping and gap analysis were applied to assess the current manufacturing system of the selected company for the purpose to enable to present a positive lean measurement of the selected company to support the identified objectives.

Total Productive Maintenance in automotive industry: Issues and effectiveness

Nowadays, consumers expect manufacturers to provide excellent quality, reliable delivery and competitive pricing. This demands that the manufacturers machines and processes are highly reliable. In order to possess highly reliable machines to make sure smooth manufacturing process, many organizations have implemented Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) as the enabling tool to maximize the effectiveness of equipment. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is used as a measure when evaluating the result of TPM. This paper has found out the difference between before and after the TPM implementation to OEE result. Comparison between before and after the implementation of TPM was carried out to see the difference that TPM can bring to an organization. Elements that constitute the OEE equation have been analyzed and indentified which one that affected OEE result. After identifying, improvement has been made on that element so that OEE result would be improved ultimately. Microsoft Excel was used to analyze data obtained and calculate OEE. Hence, TPM is a useful tool in helping firm to achieve optimal manufacturing process. By being able to achieve this level of maintenance, an organization will be able to reap competitive advantages brought by TPM, thus, producing quality products that manage to satisfy customers and subsequently generating greater profits.

Review relationship TPM as mediator between TQM and business performance

In today’s highly competitive market, the demand for quality is the single most critical factor for companies to survive in the ever-expanding global marketplace. Total Quality Management (TQM) has been developed as a result of intense global competition. Most of the previous works show that TQM has significant relationship with business performance. However, the examining of moderators is less given in previous work, which mediators are known generally as general tools and techniques without specific focus on types of improvement. The purpose of this paper is to propose relationship between TQM practices and business performance with mediators effect of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) based on extensive review of the literature. The main contribution of this paper is to identify the relationships among TQM, TPM practices and business performance as a conceptual model. This proposed conceptual model will help the academicians and industry players to have better understanding on the relationship between the practices.

The Integrated Academic Information System Support for Education 3.0 in Higher Education Institution: Lecturer Perspective

Education 3.0 has been implemented in many higher education institutions (HEIs). Education 3.0 has been directed the institution toward better educational experience. But on the other hands, the implementation of Education 3.0 also caused some problems. Previous research has found administrative problem experienced by the lecturer. This research explores deeper from the lecturer and suggested the solution from lecturer perspective, combined with information technology capabilities owned by the HEIs. The research used a case study as the method and conducted a qualitative research with a semi-structured interview. The interview analysis has found that the increase of the administrative processes is caused by online and offline administrative activities. The online activities are from e-learning and the offline activities are from traditional learning (face-to-face). The administrative processes also involved the academic information system (AIS). Simplified all of the administrative processes are more preferred. To overcome the problems, integrating the AIS and e-learning become necessary. This research suggests transforming the existing AIS into an integrated AIS and hopes the solution can simplify the administration process.

Hidden Markov Model and Forward-Backward Algorithm in Crude Oil Price Forecasting

In light of the importance of crude oil to the worlds economy, it is not surprising that economists have devoted great efforts towards developing methods to forecast price and volatility levels. Crude oil is an important energy commodity to mankind. Several causes have made crude oil prices to be volatile such as economic, political and social. Hence, forecasting the crude oil prices is essential to avoid unforeseen circumstances towards economic activity. In this study, daily crude oil prices data was obtained from WTI dated 2nd January to 29th May 2015. We used Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Forward-Backward Algorithm to forecasting the crude oil prices. In this study, the analyses were done using Maple software. Based on the study, we concluded that model (0 3 0) is able to produce accurate forecast based on a description of history patterns in crude oil prices.

Identification of Public Awareness in Preventive Maintenance for Personal Automobile

This study is to identify the awareness of public towards maintenance in their vehicle. The maintenance discuss in this study are narrowed and focused on two type of maintenance strategy particularly preventive maintenance. Maintaining vehicle have been an issue in Malaysia where we can see accidents happening in every seasonal in transportation sector. The lack of awareness towards maintenance may also lead to breakdown and malfunction. Therefore, the question comes whether the public has the awareness in maintaining their automobile, thus, this study will identify the public awareness in corrective and preventive maintenance towards personal Drivers. The study has been carried out at University of Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) and focuses on the Drivers age from early 20s to late 40s to identify their awareness or understanding towards maintenance. The study has been conducted with quantitative method and analyzed using statistical tools by cross tabulation. Studies on awareness in maintenance of vehicle have not been carrying out on individuals/users. Averagely, the respondents score a mean of 0.6475 which means that the respondents have more Yes answered in their sets of awareness questions. The study also concluded that experience and education on the respondents has the difference in affecting their awareness.

Exploring the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) towards SMEs Organizational Performance: Case Study of Southern Malaysia Furniture Manufacturers

Environmental issues associated with industrial activities such as gas emissions and toxic chemicals waste caused the nature imbalance effects. Therefore, ISO14001 standard was introduced and employed globally. Previous studies related to ISO 14001 in Malaysia are focused at high technologies and construction sectors. Thus, this research aims to determine the correlation between ISO 14001 orientation factor and environmental management capability (EMC) of suppliers towards SMEs organizational performance. The surveys were distributed to various ISO 14001 certified furniture manufacturing companies registered under Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers in southern region of Malaysia. The data were collected among 70 respondents at the managerial and production level. Efficient production and EMC of suppliers’ factors are significantly correlated to organizational performance. Thus, companies are recommended to employed green supply chain practices and eco-efficiency production processes. This quantitative case study is important to SMEs in the specific area in order to provide knowledge on the impact of ISO14001 into production and operation.

Modelling in Manufacturing Industry: Parameters Selection Using Regression Analysis

The manufacturing industries are forced to meet the demand of the end users in many different aspects especially to reduce the number of defects. Since then, the manufacturers have adopted many strategies in order to achieve zero defect end products. Therefore, this research is an early attempt to present a proper method for manufacturers to achieve their goal starting from parameters selection and then optimization to control the belt line moulding production process. We apply regression analysis to make parameters selection and then used the best variables selected to optimize or in this case to minimize defects in belt line moulding process. The findings from this study will serve as a useful evidence and applicability of the proposed methodology