Evaluating The Effectiveness of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Program in Texas Instruments Malaysia

Today, the economic environment surrounding corporations becomes severe, and total elimination of waste is required for the survival of the corporation. Therefore, wastes generated due to the failure shutdown of facilities that have been built with huge investment and wastes such as defective products should be absolutely eliminated. Requirements for product quality become stringent, and not even one defective product would be allowed. Quality assured delivery of total quantity is now taken for granted. Thus in order for organization to remain competitive, reduce production cost, and meeting stringent product quality requirements, Total Productive Maintenance (rPM) was introduced and has been recognized as necessary for organization survival. The purpose of this research is to determine the effectiveness of the TPM program in TIM. Specifically, this study aimed: • To understand the TPM program. • To determine the effectiveness of TPM in achieving the organization operation productivity, operation cost and product quality. • To determine the constraints and issues during TPM fan-out plant wide in TIM. • To discuss the managerial implications of the results. • To provide information regarding the implementation of TPM program that may be useful to other research purposes regarding implementing TPM program. Based on this study, it can be concluded that, TIM has achieved the objectives through the implementation of TPM program. With better equipment performance and productivity, the cost of operation and costs per unit in TIM could be reduced. With the lower cost of operation, this will improved the ability for TIM to compete in the industry. The implementation of TPM program in TIM helped TIM achieved a lot of tangible and intangible benefits, where this benefits increased the organization image and status in the industry

Technocoat Group (M) Sdn Bhd Go Or Not To Go

At around 7.30 pm. Mr Freddie Yan, Managing Director of Technocoat Group (M) Sdn Bhd (TGSB) was still in his office. Like usual, he sank into deep thought, but this time is different. "I need to make up my mind before next Friday," he told himself. Mr C. S. Gan, Executive Director, the owner of Box Matel Sdn Bhd had just called him again, he wanted to find out the decision on the expansion project of TGSB into the India market. Mr. Freddie Yan sat at his high back chair and look at the report prepared by his International Business Manager, Mr S. S. Leong. Regarding the alternative ways to penetration into India market. He recalled the responses of other directors and senior managers in the directors meeting few days ago. Mr K. H. Wong, Senior Technical Manager had high lighted that the company is expanding too fast for the existing man power. Especially skilled technical staff could not cope with the expansion. Mr. Eddy Ong had mentioned that, the administrating process and operation system was not functioned properly, only the accounting and finance system are good order as done by appointed accountant finn. Mr. Freddie Yan ponder upon the internal problems that been listed down by Mr. Ong, 20% rejection rate, delay in production, delivery problem, high expenses, conflict between head office and branches Mr. Freddie Yan was informed in the meeting that the problems occur since TGSB established its two overseas projects in Indonesia and Thailand about 1 year ago. TGSB had entered Indonesian market without any proper planning, and there were only slim profit return from Thailand's investment. These return from those investments are not up to the expectation of Mr. Freddie Van

Patterns of Social Alignment : A Case Study of Hakka Association in Singapore

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ISP responsibility - principle, reality or pipe dream?

The unauthorised sharing of copyright-protected works over peer-to-peer (\u27P2P\u27) networks is widely regarded by the music and movie industries (\u27rights holders\u27) as the single biggest threat to their respective business models. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (\u27IFPI\u27), at least 80 per cent of all Internet traffic comprises the transfer of copyright works on P2P networks.1 Independent research suggests that in Australia, 18 per cent of the population engage in illegal downloading of music files.2 In the face of this digital revolution, rights holders have explored a range of models, including both legislative and non-legislative initiatives, to persuade Internet service providers (\u27ISPs\u27) to take steps to prevent P2P file sharing. This paper explores several proposals that have been put forward by rights holders, each of which asks the key intermediary in the digital world, the ISP, to play a proactive role in the fight against piracy

Organelle Transcriptomes in Plants

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Modeling the dynamics of bivalent histone modifications

Epigenetic modifications to histones may promote either activation or repression of the transcription of nearby genes. Recent experimental studies show that the promoters of many lineage-control genes in stem cells have "bivalent domains" in which the nucleosomes contain both active (H3K4me3) and repressive (H3K27me3) marks. It is generally agreed that bivalent domains play an important role in stem cell differentiation, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here we formulate a mathematical model to investigate the dynamic properties of histone modification patterns. We then illustrate that our modeling framework can be used to capture key features of experimentally observed combinatorial chromatin states.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figure

Entrepreneurial Inclination Among Business Students: a Malaysian Study

Entrepreneurship has been the fundamental topics of discussion among the politicians, economists, and academics. Business creation is especially critical in developing countries to stimulate economic growth. The present study attempts to examine entrepreneurial inclination among students who are a potential source of entrepreneurs. The fi ndings of the present research study indicate that majority of our business students are not entrepreneurial-inclined. They do not seem to possess strong entrepreneurial characteristics and entrepreneurial skills, and they are not keen in starting a new business. The roles of higher institutes of education and the government in promoting entrepreneurship are discussed

A comparison of stuttering behavior and fluency improvement in english-mandarin bilinguals who stutter

Despite the number of bilinguals and speakers of English and Mandarin worldwide, up till now there have been no investigations of stuttering in any of the Chinese languages, or in bilinguals who speak both English and Mandarin. Hence, it is not known whether stuttering behavior in Mandarin mimics that in English, or whether speech restructuring techniques such as Prolonged Speech produce the same fluency outcomes in Mandarin speakers as they do for English speakers. Research into stuttering in bilinguals is available but far from adequate. Although the limited extant studies show that bilinguals who stutter (BWS) may stutter either the same or differently across languages, and that treatment effects in one language can automatically carry over to the other language, it is unclear whether these findings are influenced by factors such as language dominance or language structure. These issues need to be clarified because speech language pathologists (SLPs) who work with bilinguals often do not speak the dominant language of their clients. Thus, the language of assessment and treatment becomes an important clinical consideration. The aim of this thesis was to investigate (a) whether the severity and type of stuttering was different in English and Mandarin in English-Mandarin bilingual adults, (b) whether this difference was influenced by language dominance, (c) whether stuttering reductions in English generalized to Mandarin following treatment in English only, and (d) whether treatment generalization was influenced by language dominance. To achieve these aims, a way of establishing the dominant language in bilinguals was a necessary first step. The first part of this thesis reviews the disorder of stuttering and the treatment for adults who stutter, the differences between English and Chinese languages, and stuttering in bilinguals. Part Two of this thesis describes the development of a tool for determining language dominance in a multilingual Asian population such as that found in Singapore. This study reviews the complex issues involved in assessing language dominance. It presents the rationale for and description of a self-report classification tool for identifying the dominant language in English-Mandarin bilingual Singaporeans. The decision regarding language dominance was based on a predetermined set of criteria using self-report questionnaire data on language proficiency, frequency of language use, and domain of language use. The tool was administered to 168 English-Mandarin bilingual participants, and the self-report data were validated against the results of a discriminant analysis. The discriminant analysis revealed a reliable three-way classification into English-dominant, Mandarin-dominant, and balanced bilinguals. Scores on a single word receptive vocabulary test supported these dominance classifications. Part Three of this thesis contains two studies investigating stuttering in BWS. The second study of this thesis examined the influence of language dominance on the manifestation of stuttering in English-Mandarin BWS. Results are presented for 30 English-Mandarin BWS who were divided according to their bilingual classification group: 15 English-dominant, four Mandarin-dominant, and 11 balanced bilinguals. All participants underwent comprehensive speech evaluations in both languages. The English-dominant and Mandarin-dominant BWS were found to exhibit greater stuttering in their less dominant language, whereas the balanced bilinguals evidenced similar levels of stuttering in both languages. An analysis of the types of stutter using the Lidcombe Behavioral Data Language showed no significant differences between English and Mandarin for all bilingual groups. In the third study of this thesis, the influence of language dominance on the generalization of stuttering reductions from English to Mandarin was investigated. Results are provided for seven English-dominant, three Mandarin-dominant, and four balanced bilinguals who underwent a Smooth Speech intensive program in English only. A comparison of stuttering between their pretreatment scores and three posttreatment interval scores indicated that the degree of fluency transfer from the treated to the untreated language was disproportionate. English-dominant and Mandarin-dominant participants showed greater fluency improvement in their dominant language even if this language was not directly treated. In the final chapter, Part Four, a hypothesis is provided to explain the findings of this thesis. A discussion of the limitations of the thesis and suggestions for future research are also presented. The chapter concludes with a summary of the main contributions that this thesis makes to the field of stuttering in bilinguals