The effect of knowledge transfer and manufacturing capabilities among local manufacturers in northern region of Malaysia

Due to uncertain of current economic situation, manufacturers must revise their ways to survive in their business.Manufacturing capability assumes that firms are more effective than their rivals at deploying resources.It is suggested that better performing firms are more likely to address multiple manufacturing capabilities simultaneously.In developing countries, manufacturing capabilities is a new concept. There is lack of awareness on the importance of upstream manufacturing capabilities such as product development and design.Through the email survey, a total of 89 companies representing various industries had responded. The hypotheses involved were tested using correlation and regression techniques.The results of the study support all the hypotheses.This paper provides an analysis on the relationship between knowledge transfer and manufacturing capabilities among local manufacturers in Malaysian Northern Region.

Exploring the influence of trust and perceived system quality on continuance intention toward e-filing system of Malaysian e-government service. A literature review

In the current globalization arena, organizations are competing each others to survive in this era. At the same time government of each countries facing challenges and keep on finding the better ways to provide the better government services to the their stakeholders.Moreover, as the citizens become more internet savvy and have experienced of good quality of electronic services (e-services) from private sectors; this caused citizens' to expect the same high standards of e-services from government agencies in the delivery of public services.For that governments in each countries including Malaysia have been spent huge amount of money for the development of electronic government (e-government) and specifically in e-filing system to ease the government services.Thus, at this vein continuance intention towards e-government services deems to be important as ineffective usage of e-government service after initial adoption caused undesirable cost and waste of development of particular e-government service

The influence of perceived system quality and perceived information quality towards continuance intention of tax e-filing system in Malaysia

In the current globalization arena, government of each countries facing challenges and keep on finding the better ways to provide the better government services to the their stakeholders.For that governments in each countries including Malaysia have been spent huge amount of money for the development of electronic government (e-government) and specifically in e-filing system to ease the government services.At this vein, investigation on factors that influences continuance intention is important because ineffective usage of e-government service after initial adoption caused undesirable cost and waste of development of particular e-government service. Most of the prior studies focused more on individuals' adoption intention of e-government services, however, there are limited empirical studies that focused on continuance intention which is about what happens beyond the initial adoption stage in e-government studies and particularly in e-filing context in Malaysia.Thus given the paucity of research on continuance intention, this study attempts to examine the influence of perceived system quality and perceived information quality towards continuance intention of tax e-filing system using a review of literature

Factors that contribute in successful implementing of modularity product: Study of manufacturing firm in Malaysia

Today’s business environment is becoming more turbulent as the rate of change accelerates and new technologies allow information to spread globally almost instantly. Organizations are finding themselves pulled into a vortex of complexity and increased customer demand. Generally, modularity is the important factor in running and developing business.Hence, this research is aimed to identifying the relationships between factors that to make sure the companies can survive among companies across industries in the Malaysia.Those identified factors are customer demand, manufacturing flexibility, cost, and supply chain.Through the mail survey, a total of 150 respondent representing from the manufacturing firms responded.The hypotheses involved were tested using correlation and regression techniques.The multiple regression analysis indicates that there are significant relationships among the factors on each criterion to modularity except cost.It is believed that results of this study will be beneficial for shareholders and directors of companies to apply these modularity concepts. This study investigate the significant relationship of independent variables on overall manufacturing capabilities, the results of this study indicate that customer demand, manufacturing flexibility and supply chain is a significant contributor in achieving product modularity process. Based on the results, it support the hypothesis that the customer demand, manufacturing flexibility and supply chain is essential in product modularity process

Prosedur Kerja Dalam Pengurusan Kualiti Menyeluruh

The aim of this study is to prepare a working procedure in an examination activities. This procedure is build up based on the needs and its important from the feedback received from 95 Polytechnic lecturers involved in the questionaire which was carried earlier. From the feedback received earlier, current problem identified related to the working procedure with the examination and this study present a guide based on IS0 9000 working procedure and standard operating procedure in project management. Working procedure consists of many element its activities such as cost factor, time factor, quality factor and human resources management. Its function is to complete a certain development project such product output, building project, building aircraft or research project on medicine such as application of drug on certain sickness. Working procedur is a choice for upgrading quality assurance which relates many department involved and a lot of manpower with different level of skills. It also acts as a routine inspection for on going project activities and will take early action in case any delay in part of the project activities. The application of Total Quality management in all level of activities to ensure that the end result which is to satisfy the customer needs and expectations which is the owner of the project

Factor that Contributes to the Success of Green Technology Implementation in Malaysian Public Universities

Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between technology and green technology implementation. Besides that, the author also determines the effect of government support as moderator to the relationship between technology and green technology implementation. The respondents for this study are three hundred and eighty-four (384) staff from Malaysian Public Universities in northern region. The primary data (using questionnaire) then were analysed using Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS) by referring to Pearson Correlation, Hierarchical regression and Simple Slope analysis. The finding from Pearson Correlation shows that technology has a positive relationship with green technology implementation. Hierarchical Regression and Simple Slope analysis confirmed that government support moderates the relationship between technology and green technology implementation. Keywords green technology implementation, public university, moderator, hierarchical regression, government support, green supply chai

Virtual integration as a predictor for product innovation: A preliminary insight

The intense competition in manufacturing industry has forced manufacturing firms to switch their product development approach from traditional to concurrent engineering in order to stay competitive in term of product differentiation and innovation. In order to support concurrent engineering practice, both internal and external participants contributing to product development should be located into close proximity; therefore physical integration of team becomes the key enabler of concurrent engineering. However, as the paradigm has been shifted from adopting “centralized integrated product development”, physical integration is no longer efficient and should be replaced by virtual integration. This conceptual paper intends to explore ways in which virtual integration of internal and external constituents would contribute to product innovation. Concurrent engineering represents the internal constituents, while external constituent is reflected by customer involvement. Based on past literatures in the related field, some prepositions are generated to highlight the implications of virtual integration on product innovation

Identifying factors that impact organization integration on new product development performance: Study the moderating effect of virtuality

Today’s business environment is becoming more turbulent as the rate of change accelerates and new technologies allow information to spread globally almost instantly. Organizations are finding themselves pulled into a vortex of complexity and increased customer demand.Managers are facing even more challengers, and many firms have recently adopted a strategic approach to new product development to create and maintain a competitive advantage.Generally, new product is the important factor in running and developing business.Hence, this research is aimed to identifying the relationships between factors that to make sure the companies can survive among companies across industries in the Malaysia.Those identified factors are concurrent engineering, customer Involvement, Supplier Involvement, integration between NPD teams and overall integration , virtuality, NPD Performance, Product Innovation, Product Quality.Through the mail survey, a total of 120 respondent representing from the manufacturing firms responded.The hypotheses involved were tested using correlation and regression techniques.The multiple regression analysis is use to indicates any significant relationships among the factors on each criterion to new product development.It is believed that results of this study will be beneficial for share holders and directors of companies to apply these new product development concepts.Results shows that OI is positively affecting new product performance (R2=0.004, F=0.463, p>0.05).The insertion of virtuality has increased the R-square to 0.107 and F=0.6990 and p<0.01.This result suggests that OI and virtuality give a significant effect to new product performance for 10.7 percent.The insertion of virtuality in the equation also give a significant changes to the model (R2 change=0.103, F change=13.468, p<0.01).Result shows that internal and external integration significantly explained 29.1 percent of new product development (R2=0.291, F=15.870, p<0.01).Two independent variables are significantly predict new product development, that are concurrent engineering (B=0.321, t=2.420, p<0.01) and customer involvement (B=0.360, t=3.020, p<0.01).Insertion of organization integration as a mediating variable shows that overall model significantly explained new product performance for 29.6 percent (R2=0.296, F=12.096, p<0.01)

Value Management (VM): A Strategic Approach for Improving Energy Efficiency

Value Management (VM) is a multi-disciplinary process, consist of team oriented, structured, analytical process and systematic analysis of function, to seeks best value in the project process and meet the clients needs. While the important of Energy Efficiency (EE) in buildings is a must nowadays because of energy consumption rising very high and this situation occurs not only in developed countries but also in developing countries such as Malaysia. In fact, there is demand towards building with energy efficiency features at this time, however most of the current buildings types are still being constructed with conventional designs thus contribute to inefficient of energy consumption during the operation stage of the building. Based on the relevant literatures, VM has provides an efficient and effective delivery system to fulfil the objectives and clients requirements. Therefore, this paper presents the concept and the application of VM approach and potential to improve energy efficiency within pre-construction process and contribute to better optimize the energy consumption in a building by seeking the best value energy efficiency through the design and construction process

Analyzing the impact knowledge identification, cycle time, segmenting customers of product design in accelerating customer acceptance

New product development (NPD) are deliberately essential to meet customer demand and customer acceptance. It be able to keep up or expand market share, sales and income and consequently the aggressiveness of an organization.The market success of a product is largely depends on clearly identifying customer needs and providing a product for the same at reasonable cost to the customer. The ability to develop new products and to improve the existing one governs the growth and market share.NPD has been highlighted as a leading driver for revenue, profit and market share growth. A typical issue faced by the products offering firms is to comprehend the way of customer requirement, interpret them accurately and classify them to decide the configuration that will satisfy maximum requirements with minimal cost.This research aim to analyze cycle time, impact of product related features, number of task and task time, segmenting customer and knowledge identification toward product design. Limitation are company do not review their product development activities and time constraints due to the limited time. Multiple regression indicates all relationship between the variable towards product design supported