DATA COLLECTION FOR CAR DRIVER’S COMFORTABLE POSTURAL ANGLES USING PICTURE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE

DATA COLLECTION FOR CAR DRIVER’S COMFORTABLE POSTURAL ANGLES USING PICTURE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE D. Mohamad, B. M. Deros, D. A. Wahab, A. R. Ismail and D. D. I. Daruis Abstract: Driver’s posture is one of the most important factors to be considered in car seat design because consumers nowadays prefers to choose a car that is perceived as comfortable and safe. There are many ergonomics measurement tools that have been developed for tasks, equipments and environmental analysis including driver’s posture study. The measurement method for...

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VIBRATION TRANSMISSIBILITY OF VARIOUS SEAT OCCUPANTS’ BODY PARTS – A FIELD TEST

VIBRATION TRANSMISSIBILITY OF VARIOUS SEAT OCCUPANTS’ BODY PARTS – A FIELD TEST D. D. I. Daruis, M. J. M. Nor, B. M. Deros, and M. Hosseini Fouladi Abstract: Vibration transmissibility from seat to various parts of the body of a number of seat occupants was investigated. The study was carried out in the field using a Malaysian made compact car. Vibration from two types of road and three different vehicle speeds for each road were studied. The effects of three head and back conditions namely head and back supports, back and no head supports...

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Modeling of Environmental Factors Towards Workers’ Productivity For Automotive Assembly Line

Modeling of Environmental Factors Towards Workers’ Productivity For Automotive Assembly Line Ahmad Rasdan Ismail, Mohd Hanifiah Mohd Haniff, Baba Md. Deros, Nor Kamilah Makhta and Zafir Khan Mohd Makhbul Abstract: The objective of this study is to determine the effects of humidity and of air temperature on the operators’ productivity and performance in the Malaysian automotive industry. One automotive components assembly factory was chosen as the sources of subjects of the study. The subjects were the workers in the assembly section...

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Optimizing Humidity Level to Enhance Worker Performance in Automotive Industry

Optimizing Humidity Level to Enhance Worker Performance in Automotive Industry Ahmad Rasdan Ismail, Mohd Yusri Mohd Yusof, Baba Md Deros,Mat Rebi Abdul Rani and Muhamad Mat Noor Abstract: The production of automotive parts is an important part of Malaysia’s economy. The main work involved in producing automotive part is the manual assembly process which dependent on manpower capability.  Thus the quality of the product heavily depends on the worker’s comfort under the working conditions. Humidity is an environmental factor that has a significant...

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Organisational Change Management Framework for Lean Manufacturing Implementation

Organisational Change Management Framework for Lean Manufacturing Implementation Norani Nordin, Baba Md Deros, Dzuraidah Abdul Wahab and Mohd Nizam Ab. Rahman Abstract: Lean manufacturing system has been widely applied in manufacturing companies worldwide. However, the low rate of success towards the lean transformation in many countries has given a cause of concern. Many literatures had pointed out that the main reason is due to the failure in managing the change process during lean manufacturing transformation. This paper attempts to...

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EPC 2011 REGIONAL ENGINEERING POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

A STUDY OF PRE-DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION IN MALAYSIAN MANUFACTURING SMEs  N.H.Abu, B.Md.Deros, D.Abd.Wahab, M.N.Ab.Rahman and N.Nordin   Abstract: Pre-development is an important driver for a successful implementation of a new product development (NPD) project. While large-scale organizations have adopted an efficient pre-development implementation, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have not received adequate attention from the research community for their pre-development implementation. Therefore, this paper identifies...

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A Case Study on Peer Review and Lecturer Evaluations in an Academic Setting

A Case Study on Peer Review and Lecturer Evaluations in an Academic Setting Nor Kamaliana Khamis, Abu Bakar Sulong and Baba Md Deros Abstract: Students can enhance their soft skills and learning experience through the use of group projects. However, evaluating group project performance has become very challenging. This paper presents the concept of group management in measuring individual performance in group projects in an academic setting. Individual performances in similar courses were also compared based on two consecutive semesters...

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Journal of Occupational Safety and Health

Journal of Occupational Safety and Health June 2012, Vol. 9, No. 1 ISSN 1675-5456 PP13199/12/2012(032005) Fulltext P...

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Organisational Change Management Framework for Lean Manufacturing Implementation

Organisational Change Management Framework for Lean Manufacturing Implementation  Baba Md Deros, Norani Nordin, Dzuraidah Abdul Wahab and Mohd Nizam Ab.Rahman Abstract: Lean manufacturing systems have been widely applied inused by manufacturing companies worldwide. However, low rate of success towards lean transformation in many countries in making the transition to lean manufacturing had created a cause of concern. Many literatures publications had pointed out the main reasons for under performance is primarily due to the failure...

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SCM Implementation in Malaysian Food and Automotive Industries: an Empirical Study

SCM Implementation in Malaysian Food and Automotive Industries: an Empirical Study Malihe Manzouri, Mohd Nizam Ab Rahman, Harlina Wasilan, Baba Md. Deros and Haslina Arshad Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to empirically compare the implementation of supply chain management (SCM) in the automotive and food industries in Malaysia. A questionnaire was used to identify the perceived problems and attitudes towards SCM. The questionnaire was distributed to 600 food and automotive organisations in Malaysia. A total of 62 usable...

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Top Management’s Role in Benchmarking Implementation in the Palm Oil Processing Industry

Top Management’s Role in Benchmarking Implementation in the Palm Oil Processing Industry Fatimah Mahmud, Baba Md Deros, Dzuraidah Abdul Wahab and Mohd Nizam Ab Rahman Abstract: To remain competitive, cost effective and sustainable market share in the world market place for edible oil, millers in the palm oil processing industry needs to focus on the process for extracting high quality and high palm oil yield from fresh fruit bunch economically. Benchmarking technique can be used to identify and investigate palm oil processing...

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Fatigue factors among regional pilots in Malaysia

Fatigue factors among regional pilots in Malaysia Baba Md Deros, Dian Darina Indah Daruis and Nuhmandeen Bahurudeen Abstract: Fatigue among pilots and aircrew has been acknowledged as a human factor safety issue since commercial aviation started. The first objective of this study is to investigate the promoting and interfering factors that are involved in pilots’ sleep patterns. Meanwhile, the second objective of this study is to understand pilots’ duty hours and delay factors that eventually lead to fatigue. The findings from the...

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A Study on Benchmarking Technique Understanding and Knowledge in Malaysia Palm Oil Milling Industry

A Study on Benchmarking Technique Understanding and Knowledge in Malaysia Palm Oil Milling Industry Norashikin Rahman, Baba Md.Deros and Mohd. Nizam Ab Rahman Abstract: Benchmarking is a tool that can lead to broad improvements to an organization. It has been implemented in various industries such as manufacturing and services. The objective of this study is to identify the level of understanding and knowledge on benchmarking in palm oil milling industry. A survey instrument, tested for reliability and validity by experts and practitioner...

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A Study on the Difference Between Radical Innovation and Incremental Improvement in Pre-Development Practices of NPD Projects

A Study on the Difference Between Radical Innovation and Incremental Improvement in Pre-Development Practices of NPD Projects Noor Hidayah Abu, Baba Md Deros, Dzuraidah Abd Wahab, Mohd Nizam Ab Rahman and Norani Nordina Abstract: This paper presents an exploratory study of pre-development practices in Malaysian food and beverage manufacturing SMEs. A questionnaire survey is used to explore the difference in pre-development implementation practices between radical and incremental new product development (NPD) projects. The survey...

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The Pre-Development Process Implementation of Product Innovation: A Malaysian Food and Beverage Manufacturing SMEs Survey

The Pre-Development Process Implementation of Product Innovation: A Malaysian Food and Beverage Manufacturing SMEs Survey Noor Hidayah Abu, Baba Md Deros, Dzuraidah Abd Wahab, Mohd Nizam Ab Rahman and Mohd Fitri Mansor Abstract: The pre-development phase is an important driver of new product development (NPD) project success. SMEs have not received adequate attention from researcher for their pre-development process compared large-scale organizations. The main objective of this research is to identify the practice of pre-development...

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A Survey on the Barriers of Benchmarking Implementation in Malaysia Oil Palm Industry

A Survey on the Barriers of Benchmarking Implementation in Malaysia Oil Palm Industry Fatimah Mahmud, Baba Md Deros, Dzuraidah Abdul Wahab and Mohd Nizam Ab Rahman Abstract: Malaysia is the largest producer and exporter of palm oil. Nevertheless, Malaysia may soon lose its position if there are lacks of initiatives to sustain it. Benchmarking can be used to stimulate process improvement by determining best practices across oil palm organizations through understanding critical success factors which enabled higher performance in leading...

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Benchmarking Technique in Lean Manufacturing (5s) Practice

Benchmarking Technique in Lean Manufacturing (5s) Practice Baba Mohd Deros, Tan Jun and Mohd Nizam Abd Rahman Abstract: In today’s competitive market, low cost production and high quality product could assists manufacturers to win new and maintain their existing customers thus gain bigger market share. Manufacturing cost is one of the key dominant factors towards achieving business success. As such, manufacturing firms are struggling to produce product with lowest manufacturing cost while at the same time maintaining their product...

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A framework for organisational change management in lean manufacturing implementation

A framework for organisational change management in lean manufacturing implementation Nordin, N., Md Deros, B., Wahab, D.A. and Ab. Rahman, M.N. Abstract: Lean manufacturing system has been widely applied in manufacturing companies worldwide. However, the low success rate of lean transformations in many countries has given a cause for concern. Much of the literature had pointed out that the main reasonis due to the failure in managing the change process during a lean manufacturing transformation. This paper presents a thorough literature...

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A Study of Indoor Air Quality Issues for Non-Industrial Work Place

A Study of Indoor Air Quality Issues for Non-Industrial Work Place Baba Md Deros, Siti Hamimah Ismail, Nor Kamaliana Khamis, Mohd Yusri Yusof and Ahmad Rasdan Ismail Abstract: In non-industrial sector, two major issues that led to fungal growth, outbreak of disease like SARS and H1N1 are lack of research and health regulations. This study has three main objectives: to identify major complaints; to verify these complaints; and to determine their effects towards employees’ productivity. It focused on related legal requirement,...

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Lean Manufacturing Perceptions and Actual Practice among Malaysian SME’s in Automotive Industry

Lean Manufacturing Perceptions and Actual Practice among Malaysian SME’s in Automotive Industry A.N.M. Rose, B. Md. Deros and M.N. Ab. Rahman Abstract: Stiff business challenges and product competition faced by automotive component manufacturers has forced them to look into lean manufacturing (LM). Presently there are more than 100 LM practices. However, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are not able to implement all LM practices due to financial, expertise and skill constraints. Therefore, in this study the authors investigated...

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Biomechanical analysis on instep kicking: Comparison of football shoe design

Biomechanical analysis on instep kicking: Comparison of football shoe design Ahmad Rasdan Ismail, Zahari Taha, Baba Md. Deros and Isa Halim Abstract: The design of shoe plays a vital role to improve the performance of football players in kicking action. The objective of this study is to quantify the velocity and force generated by different shoe designs during instep kicking. Six amateur football players from different field positions participated as subjects in this study. The experimental work was carried out using high speed cameras...

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Manufacturing Performance in Green Supply Chain Management

Manufacturing Performance in Green Supply Chain Management Wan Hasrulnizzam Wan Mahmood, Mohd Nizam Ab Rahman, Baba Md Deros, Kamruzaman Jusoff, Adi Saptari, Zuhriah Ebrahim, Al Amin Mohamed Sultan, Mohd Hadzley Abu Bakar, Sivarao Subramonian and Zanariah Jano Abstract: The purpose of the study is to examine the influence of manufacturing performance on green supply chain management amongst Malaysian companies. A conceptual model is proposed and is subjected to an empirical verification with the use of a survey of manufacturing companies in...

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Multi-regression modeling for springback effect on automotive body in white stamped parts

Multi-regression modeling for springback effect on automotive body in white stamped parts Nagur Aziz Kamal Bashah, Norhamidi Muhamad, Baba Md Deros, Ahmad Zakaria, Shaharum Ashari, Achmed Mobin and Mohd Safuan Mohd Abdul Lazat  Abstract: The use of high strength steel (HSS) materials in automotive body in white (BIW) stamped parts has increased the occurrence of springback after the forming process. Although HSS exhibits superior strength, weight reduction, and crash energy, it strongly influences springback impact on the sustainable...

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Philosophy of Taguchi Approach and Method in Design of Experiment

Philosophy of Taguchi Approach and Method in Design of Experiment Jaharah A. Ghani Haris Jamaluddin, Mohd Nizam Ab. Rahman and Baba Md. Deros Abstract: In recent market and global requirements, the desires to provide higher level of quality in products and services for increasing market shares continues competitively among the manufacturers to ensure customer satisfaction will return with consistent orders. The important of product and process optimization has caused manufacturers focus greater attention to design optimization in order to stay...

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Effect of Temperature, Humidity and Illuminance Towards Worker’s Performance in Automotive Industry

Effect of Temperature, Humidity and Illuminance Towards Worker’s Performance in Automotive Industry  Mohd Yusri Mohd Yusof, Baba Md. Deros* and Ahmad Rasdan Ismail Abstract: Working environmental conditions in automotive industry are very challenging to the human workers. Meanwhile, products quality is very much dependent on workers’ health, safety and comfort in their working environment. Environmental factors, such as temperature, illuminance and humidity levels have significant effect on workers’ performance at the production...

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4th International Conference on Noise, Vibration and Comfort (NVC 2012)

International Conference on Noise, Vibration and Comfort 2012 Understanding the effect of discomfort level towards motorcycle riders among teenagers : a preliminary study Author: Nor Kamaliana Khamis, Baba Md Deros and Mohd Zaki Nuawi Fulltext P...

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Curriculum Vitae

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