The Effectiveness of Training Programmes As Perceived by Support Staff in Universiti Utara Malaysia

The research project has been designed with the primary aim of establishing the effectiveness of the training programmes as perceived by employees who have undergone training. More specifically, it seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of training programme for the support staff in UUM. This study examines the extent of effectiveness of the training programmes with respect to reaction, learning and behaviour outcomes. The survey investigates whether the effectiveness level vary according to trainee's personal characteristics (age, educational level, working experience and number of years of service at current job). A study sample of hundred and thirty six (136) was drawn from the support staff (administration) of Universiti Utara Malaysia. A hundred and six (106)support staff responded to the survey. Data were collected using self-administrated questionnaires personally distributed by the researcher. Completed questionnaires were picked up three weeks from the date the questionnaires were distributed

Case study of lean manufacturing application in a die casting manufacturing company

The case study of lean manufacturing aims to study the application of lean manufacturing in a die casting manufacturing company located in Pulau Penang, Malaysia. This case study describes mainly about the important concepts and applications of lean manufacturing which could gradually help the company in increasing the profit by studying and analyzing their current manufacturing process and company culture. Many approaches of lean manufacturing are studied in this project which includes: 5S housekeeping, Kaizen, and Takt Time. Besides, the lean tools mentioned, quality tool such as the House of Quality is being used as an analysis tool to continuously improve the product quality. In short, the existing lean culture in the company is studied and analyzed, with recommendations written at the end of this paper

The use of Taguchi method in the design of plastic injection mould for reducing warpage

Plastic injection moulding is one of the most important polymer processing operations in the plastic industry today. However, lack of skill in mould making and injection moulding machine control will lead to defective plastic product. Warpage is one type of defect that usually appears in products with thickness less than 1 mm. This project is going to fabricate a mould that produced a thin plate with dimension 120 mm × 50 mm × 1 mm. The thin plate will be used for warpage testing. In mould fabrication, the mould base that purchase will be machined and assembled. After that, the mould is fixed on the injection moulding machine. The machine setting should be made to produce the product. Then, the product will be used for testing on the effective factors in warpage problem by applying the experimental design of Taguchi method. From the results, it shows that the most effective factor on the warpage is melt temperature. The filling time only slightly influenced on the warpage. The optimum parameters that can minimize the warpage defect are melt temperature (240 °C), filling time (0.5 s), packing pressure (90%) and packing time (0.6 s)