Rosnah Mohd. Yusuff

• Universiti Putra Malaysia

A comparative study was conducted between IBS construction and conventional wet construction to compare performances in terms of time, cost, quality and utilization of manpower. Four low-rise building projects which adopted IBS and conventional methods of construction were selected for case studies. The findings suggest that construction using inte...

In recent decades, environmental issues have become one of the main concerns of governments and societies. Manufacturing companies are looking for environmental-oriented operations to minimise landfills and maximise environmental and economic profit. Reverse logistics (RL) as one of the manufacturing methods is applying different types of approache...

The increasing elderly population and their specific needs have challenged communication technology developers regarding the usability of their devices. The aim of this study was to design a usability assessment method and assess the usability of communication devices in elderly Malaysians. This cross-sectional study was conducted on elderly Malays...

Reverse logistics (RL) is one of the manufacturing methods to recover used products, decrease wastes and landfills. However, recovered products are competing with new products and companies implementing RL face many challenges. Therefore, the identification of critical success factors (CSF) in RL implementation may help to facilitate its practices...

Companies are trying to increase their market share due to globalization in recent years. Various types of products and customers faced different challenges for companies to achieve market share. Hence, to accomplish this goal, successful companies have to concentrate on the efficiency and effectiveness of their activities. Supply chain involves al...

Background: The objective of this study was to determine the Heart Rate and Oxygen Consumption of the elderly whilst frying. Methodology: In 2010, a total of 31 subjects (11 males and 20 females) from Sg. Merab, Selangor were participated in this study. They were aged between 60 to 83 years with a mean age of 67.06 years. They were asked to perform...

Background: Ergonomics standards play an important role in product and system design as it can improve their usability; provide comfort and safety for the users. The number of musculoskeletal diseases has increased in recent years in Malaysia. However, the awareness and importance of ergonomics in Malaysia is still very low among the industries. Ma...

The generation of a comparatively large amount of potentially infectious and hazardous wastes has increased in healthcare services. Worldwide inappropriate healthcare waste management practices can have a direct and indirect effect of health hazards. This article summarizes a literature review into healthcare waste and presents basic information on...

Ergonomics is generally to design for human use and optimizing the working and living conditions. The comfort, safety and ease of use of systems, products and machines require the principles of ergonomics to be incorporated into the design. Anthropometry is a part of ergonomics which deals with the measurement of body dimensions, its capability and...

The growing problem of work related back injuries has contributed to the rising cost of health care, human suffering and loss of productivity. In Malaysia, back pain injury awareness is still low, but the number of casualties as a result of back pain is increasing. In this study, the physiological aspects of stoop lifting posture on heart rate for...

As in many decision problems, project manager selection is very complex in real life. Although many studies have investigated this problem, however, dependency of criteria has not been considered in the majority of the reviewed studies. The main objective of this study is to evaluate a candidate by developing a model based on fuzzy integrals for ra...

Manufacturing companies strive to be competitive through the use of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT). AMT implementation is not simple with many barriers to its success, especially for smaller companies. These issues limit the access of small medium enterprises (SMEs) to the full benefits of the technology. This study is aimed to identify...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review in the various publications on the concept of Reverse Logistics (RL) and the related areas within the period 1998-2012. The content analysis approach has been opted to collect the relevant information from different books, journals, and conferences. A broad review of literature in RL fr...

Supplier selection is one of the most critical activities of purchasing management in supply chain. Supplier selection is a complex problem involving qualitative and quantitative multi-criteria. A trade-off between these tangible and intangible factors is essential in selecting the best supplier. The work incorporates AHP in choosing the best suppl...

Global competition has made manufacturing enhancement saturated. Manufacturers have to find new ways of increasing their competitiveness. A company's capability to conduct design determines the success of innovative products as a main determinant of profit attainment, especially in the technological industry. Design capability (DC) is defined as th...

Environmental issues and governmental regulations have pushed companies to be more environmentally conscious and socially responsible. Sustainable production plays an important role in the global markets and companies practicing sustainable manufacturing processes for protecting the environment can increase their competitiveness. Reverse logistics...

Sea fishing is a dangerous and risky occupation. Fisherman often faced hazardous conditions while at work. It has been reported that majority of hospitalized injuries among commercial fishermen are caused by machinery. Working on wet, slippery surface, handling heavy equipment, cables and ropes are familiar situations which are further aggravated b...

Studies on anthropometry in Malaysia have been conducted by many researchers but mostly focused on specific groups of people. The objective of this study to develop anthropometric database for Malaysian workers. In this study, 23 static anthropometric dimensions of 1134 Malaysian workers comprising of 863 males and 261 females from 10 industrial se...

Malaysia has abundant potentials of renewable energy resources in bio-power, solar PV systems and small-scale hydropower. Feed in Tariff mechanism has been applied since 2011 in Malaysia to expand utilization of renewable energy for electricity generation. In this study a comprehensive system dynamics model is developed to simulate the impacts of a...

A mathematical model forlot streaming problem with preventive maintenance was proposed. A mixed-integer linear model for multiple-product lot streaming problems was also developed. Mixed-integer programming formulation was presented which will enable the user to identify optimal sublot sizes and sequences simultaneously. Two situations were conside...

An ambulance is designed through the modification of an existing standard vehicle body. By converting, renovating and equipping a standard vehicle body with a patient stretcher, paramedic seats, nearside seats, and related medical equipment, the vehicle becomes an ambulance. Therefore, the requirements and layout of the ambulance interior are const...

The revised NIOSH Lifting Equation developed in 1991 is an ergonomic intervention assessment tool that used to calculate the recommended weight limit (RWL) for lifting tasks and to identify the hazardous lifting tasks. But this equation application is limited to those conditions for which it was designed and the different populations have different...

The increasing demand for outpatient services has led to overcrowded clinics, long waiting times for patients, and extended staff working hours in outpatient clinics. Simulation tools have been used to ameliorate deficiencies in the appointment system, resource allocation, and patient flow management that are the root causes of these problems. Inte...

Nowadays the key to survive in business is not only to know well about your product, but is also to know well how to deal with various circumstances by improving the decision making procedures and not just base the hope of company’s profitability on huge sales. That’s what is happening specifically with petrochemical and polymer companies recently....

Most organizations prefer to outsource the activities which are not cost-efficient. With regard to the huge amount of expenditure in this area, proper selection of the desirable suppliers becomes significant. Previous studies indicated that the criteria of supplier selection might not be always independent, and this fact implies the existence of in...

Aggregate production planning (APP) is considered as mid-term decision planning. The purpose of multi - period APP is to set up overall production levels for each product category to meet fluctuating or uncertain demand in the near future and to set up decisions and policies on the subject of hiring, lay-offs, overtime, backorder, subcontracting, f...

In this paper a novel evolutionary-based approach is utilised for efficiently solving the NP-hard problem of scheduling numerous common-due-date jobs on a single machine. Minimising the sum of earliness and tardiness penalties for all jobs is considered as the target function. The performance of the proposed approach is examined through a computati...

Sustainable development has been taken into more account by businesses, and governments during the last decade. The rapid rise of population, resource depletion, and the concerns due to global warming and CO2 emission, have enforced stakeholder to more precisely contemplate the role of innovation in sustainability. The so called sustainable transit...

Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) has attracted considerable attention from practitioners and scholars during the last decade due to the substantial attention given by different entities and parties such as customer, government, society, and environmentalist. In the current approaches, the roles and integration of sustainability which invo...

This paper discusses the strategies for integrating Quality, Environmental, Safety and Health Management Systems based on survey and case studies results. Questionnaires were distributed to 87 companies that certified with both ISO9001 and ISO14001. Meanwhile, three case studies were conducted at the manufacturing companies that have integrated sev...

This study tries to compare quality awards; which are known as one of the research interests in quality management sector. In the first part we focused on Malaysian quality award, aim to introduce it as one of the successful quality awards systems. Than in the next phase of the paper we try to review the joint points and differences of the quality...

Abstract: Previous studies show that traditional scoring system in EFQM model is not robust and is suffering a problem causing deviation in assessing the performance of an organization. This study aims to establish a realistic scoring system and accurate using one of the MCDM methods. AHP method is used in order to consider the effect of interactio...

Studies showed that the scoring system of the EFQM has got some problems that can cause a deviation from the correct assess performance of organization. One of the reasons of this deviation could be due to the scoring approach of EFQM questionnaire. This study is to investigate relationship of each question of the questionnaire with TQM criteria an...

Qualified Personnel Selection is one of the organization's success factors. Due to the importance and complexity of the problem, analytical methods are required. Different methods in personnel selection are already done in literatures. However, in these methods, the dependency of criteria is ignored. In this paper, a new model is sug-gested for per...

Qualified Personnel Selection is one of the organization's success factors. Due to the importance and complexity of the problem, analytical methods are required. Different methods in personnel selection are already done in literatures. However, in these methods, the dependency of criteria is ignored. In this paper, a new model is sug-gested for per...

The objective of this article is an evaluation and assessment efficiency of the poultry meat farm as a case study with the new method. As it is clear poultry farm industry is one of the most important sub-sectors in comparison to other ones. The purpose of this study is the prediction and assessment efficiency of poultry farms as decision making un...

Most manufacturing firms have been forced to embark on advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) projects. Though firms have reported the benefits attained through AMT implementation, only modest benefits are reported and many have failed. Lack of fit between technology and organisation has been identified as caused of these failures. A theoretical-b...

As in many decision problems, project manager selection is very complex in real life. Although many studies have investigated this problem, however, dependency of criteria has not been considered in the majority of the reviewed studies. The main objective of this study is to evaluate a candidate by developing a model based on fuzzy integrals for ra...

Technology progress is a cause of industrial hazardous wastes increasing in the whole world . Management of hazardous waste is a significant issue due to the imposed risk on environment and human life. This risk can be a result of location of undesirable facilities and also routing hazardous waste. In this paper a biobjective mixed integer programi...

There is a symbiotic relationship between the automaker and the suppliers. Proton is the first automotive company in Malaysia to strengthen product development (PD) activities to penetrate global markets. Vendors’ participation determines the final product and vendors’ design capabilities (DC) have been identified as part of the automakers’ competi...

In a progressively turbulent and competitive business environment, numerous organizations adopt the total quality management (TQM) approach to endeavor for business excellence; in this sense total quality management (TQM) and excellence frameworks play vital roles in organizational successes and sustainable business. Thousands of firms beyond the g...

This paper presents the results of a survey of factors influencing the construction costs of Industrialised Building System (IBS) projects in Malaysia. The aim of the study was to evaluate and rank a range of factors that Malaysian IBS stakeholders regard as important, with the key identified factors being those associated with the main project cha...

A comparative study was conducted between IBS construction and conventional wet construction to compare performances in terms of time, cost, quality and utilization of manpower. Four low-rise building projects which adopted IBS and conventional methods of construction were selected for case studies. The findings suggest that construction using inte...

Throughout history, enterprises have paid attention to maximizing the benefits of their forward supply chain as opposed to worrying about things beyond their products’ life spans. But as technology advances exponentially, the obsolescence rate of products has been increasing, calling into question the traditional cradle-to-grave supply chains. Afte...

In increasingly competitive business environ-ments, business excellence models play crucial roles in organizational successes. Numerous or-ganizations implement business excellence mod-els to obtain business excellence. To monitor the progress towards business excellence, thousands of organizations across the world use business ex-cellence framewor...

Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) adoption can be complex, costly, and risky. Companies need to assess and evaluate their current conditions with that of AMT requirements to identify the gaps and predict their performance. Such an approach will facilitate companies not only in their investment decisions, but on the actions needed to improve p...

An important phase of human resource management is personnel selection, which is concerned with identifying an individual from a pool of candidates suitable for a vacant position. As with many decision problems, personnel selection problem is very complex in real life. Some of the techniques in decision making are multi criteria decision making (MC...

Purpose An increasingly important factor that influences purchasing decisions is that of environmental protection, particularly associated with climate change. This is particularly important as far as the purchase of consumer durables is concerned because of the energy that they consume; energy efficiency is one route towards minimizing environment...

As part of a comprehensive research, a structural model was conducted with experienced practitioners to identify the hierarchical structure for selecting project manager in MAPNA Company. Similar to many decision making problems, the choice of project managers in real life is very complicated. Although a good number of researches have examined thes...

For manufacturing companies, to gain competitive advantage in the global market is not always a simple matter of just purchasing and installing new technologies. New technologies require careful planning and persistent efforts to integrate operating and organizational systems to support these operations. It is more important for small- and medium-s...

By implementing Fuzzy Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method for selecting project manager in MAPNA Company a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) method was conducted in this paper as part of an extensive research. Project manager selection is another tough and complex issue among decision making problems. In order to use a systematic method, a f...

This paper is in format of LTE (letter to the editor) and discusses the confirmatory bias of structural equation modeling (SEM). The concern of the paper is avoiding common mistakes in SEM research publications.

In today’s competitive world lean manufacturing has become an important “role model” for two groups: academics and practitioners. Many organizations around the world have attempted to implement it but the lack of a clear understanding of the main attributes to leanness, lean performance and its measurement contribute to the failure of lean practice...

Scheduling problems involving both earliness and tardiness costs became more important in recent years. This kind of problems include both earliness and tardiness penalties and tries to reduce them. In this study a case study from real world is investigated. Since the machine is bottle neck in the production line and all jobs have a common restrict...

In order to evaluate the green suppliers, both qualitative and quantitative elements must be considered. Hence, green supplier selection is a kind of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) issue. This paper has been written in the field of GSCM and decision making. In this paper it is tried to provide a survey of the literature on MCDM applicatio...

Nowadays a wide range of operational and research activities in different fields of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) consist of decision making problems. Decision making is the main element in the spatial analysis in geographic studies and skills related to the success of the planning process. This paper has been written in the field of GIS and...

The quality of the raw material and supplied product from suppliers plays a critical role in the quality of the final product. It has become the norm that vehicle manufacturers require their suppliers to measure product quality and service with a product audit method. Measuring quality of product is emphasised by QS9000 VDA6.5 and ISO/TS16949. From...

Competition dynamically pushes manufacturing ahead. Consequently, design capabilities identified as strategic weapon that offers tremendous opportunities. However, design capabilities development is a stringent challenge to an organization especially in high technology base like automotive. In Malaysia, especially vendors has limited capabilities c...

This paper deals with the supplier selection process when the criteria of selection are not independent. The primary aim is to illustrate that ignoring the interdependencies among these criteria leads to an unrealistic decision. Since supplier selection is a multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) process, the general structures of the relative me...

In increasingly competitive business environments, business excellence models play crucial roles in organizational successes. Numerous organizations implement business excellence models to obtain business excellence. To monitor the progress towards business excellence, thousands of organizations across the world use business excellence frameworks....

In dealing with global markets and international standards the organizations require the use of engineering methods of new management. Lean manufacturing is one of the management philosophies, as a systematic approach regarding to eliminating waste in the production process by using all assets of a company. The aim of study was to identify the chal...

Personnel selection determines the input quality of personnel, which therefore plays a decisive role in human resource management. Personnel selection problem has been studied extensively. Selecting the best personnel among many alternatives is a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. MCDM and group decision making (GDM) methods have become...

There are a few popular business excellence models that provide standard criteria against which an organization can measure its performances. European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) is the most popular one. The organizational self-assessment process is an admissible system in the area of Total Quality Management (TQM). Most specialists co...

Lean manufacturing is an integrated socio-technical system. Its main objectives are to eliminate waste and reduce the variability of suppliers, customers, and internal resources and processes. A "lean" roadmap guides the transition from an existing operation to one that fully implements a "lean" philosophy and its best practices. In this study a co...

To monitor the progress towards business excellence, thousands of organizations across the world use self-assessment on a regular basis. There are a few popular business excellence models that provide standard criteria against which an organization can measure its performances. European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) is the most popular o...

In a growingly competitive business environment, numerous organizations adopt the total quality management (TQM) approach, to struggle for business excellence. To monitor the progress towards business excellence, thousands of organizations across the world use self-assessment on a regular basis. There are a few popular business excellence models, t...

After twenty five years in operation, Proton, the first automotive company in Malaysia has to strengthen new product development (PD) activities to penetrate global markets. Vendors' participation determines the final product and suppliers design capabilities (DC) has been identified as part of the automakers' competitive advantage. However, Proton...

The index Cpmk is a well-known loss-based process capability index. It can reveal more information about the location of the process mean compared with other classic process capability indices. This index is also more sensitive than other capability indices to any deviations from process mean. When there are some uncertainties in observations, fuzz...

This paper proposes an integrated model and a modified solution method for solving supply chain network design problems under uncertainty. The stochastic supply chain network design model is provided as a two-stage stochastic program where the two stages in the decision-making process correspond to the strategic and tactical decisions. The uncertai...

This paper introduces a method for evaluating material and product quality. The method is developed based on the normal distribution. For quantitative variable, the method divides the tolerance zones to 3 parts according to normal distribution ±3 and assigns different scores to tolerance region. For qualitative variables, the method take decision b...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current level of best manufacturing practices in Malaysian ISO 9000 certified small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a survey on 270 ISO 9000 certified manufacturing SMEs. Based on an extensive search of literature on performance requirements, e...

Ahstract- Simulation of time-based and sensor-based traffic light control system at four-way intersection using Arena simulation software was studied. Introduction of sensors in traffic light system has been developed to reduce waiting time of vehicles at intersection. Simulation with Arena is done to observe if the improvement of sensor-based syst...

Among middle east non-oil paramount issues one can refer to pistachio production and its processing industry; Base on this fact, this study attempted to identify the major influences in enhancing success of Middle-East small and medium pistachio processing enterprises, according to their entrepreneur's strategic perception (ESP) and their entrepren...

Decision making is explained as a process through which, the solution for a problem is selected. Lack of perfect information evidently leads to uncertainty. Decision makers' opinion are expressed through words of natural language through a process of fuzzy multi attribute group decision making problem and aggregates the performance rating with resp...

Considering the role of industry in the economy, especially the developed countries and countries with automobile (automotive industry) seems to be necessary to develop technology development strategy. In this paper a model by choosing appropriate technology development strategy to how good we are. (So review existing models and evaluate their stre...

In an increasingly competitive business environment, many organizations have adopted the strategic planning approach in an attempt to achieve excellence in business. Implementation of appropriate strategies plays an important role for organizations' success. Balanced scorecard is an appropriate tool used for designing operational strategies. Howeve...

Looking at the past history we find that the first phenomenon of technology transfer was taught by people who were traveling to another community and bring their technology, they move. After theindustrialization, transfer of knowledge from individuals to maintain their importance. However, now the situation for developing countries is controversial...

In a growingly competitive business environment, numerous organizations adopt the total quality management (TQM) approach, to struggle for business excellence. To monitor the progress towards business excellence, thousands of organizations across the world use self-assessment on a regular basis. There are a few popular business excellence models, t...

To monitor the progress towards business excellence, thousands of organizations across the world use self-assessment on a regular basis. There are a few popular business excellence models that provide standard criteria against which an organization can measure its performances. European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) is the most popular o...

Process capability indices (PCIs) are appropriate tools to measure the inherent capability of a process, but most of them do not consider the losses of a process, while in today's competitive business environment, it is becoming more and more important for companies to evaluate and minimise their losses. This paper presents a review of loss-based P...

Appraisal of employee performance is among the most controversial management practices. Although many organisations have implemented formal procedures for evaluating their employees, the level of dissatisfaction with this process among both managers and employees has remained high. In this paper, the personnel performance evaluation is seen as a gr...

This paper discusses the relationship between Lean Manufacturing environments and Safety Management Systems. The creation of a Lean environment in a workplace requires employee motivation and good management. All the different levels of an organization need to put forth their best efforts on a day-to-day basis and work together toward achieving imp...

This paper discusses the relationship between Performance Measurement Systems in Supply Chain Management and Lean Manufacturing. Nowadays, companies regard Lean Manufacturing as a role model for optimizing production and survival in a globally competitive market. Supply Chain Management is a key element of Lean Manufacturing that covers strategic,...

Supply chain (SC) involves all activities meeting the customers demand and transferring material through downstream into upstream of chain for fulfilling the demands. To achieve supply chain objectives, organizations should control the activities for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness. Performance measurement is a set of metrics that a man...

Selection of qualified personnel is a key success factor for an organization. The complexity and importance of the problem call for analytical methods rather than intuitive decisions. In literature, there are various methods regarding personnel selection. This paper considers a real application of personnel selection with using the opinion of exper...

Supply chain (SC) involves all activities meeting the customers demand and transferring material through downstream into upstream of chain for fulfilling the demands. To achieve supply chain objectives, organizations should control the activities for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness. Performance measurement is a set of metrics that a man...

Selecting personnel are an important problem, yet often difficult task. It is complicated because of more than one dimension. This study considers a real application of personnel selection with using the opinion of experts by one of the group decision making model, it is called ELECTRE method. This study has applied seven criteria that they are qua...

This study reviews an extensive body of literature to investigate the factors effective on performance of companies implementing Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT). The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive viewpoint of issues related to successful AMT implementation and offer some directions to managers and investigators to make...

The rapid change in science and technology bring in widespread changes in many different areas has challenged organizations managers. Hence to survive and compete in dynamic and unpredictable situations, they have to revise their policies directed and their leadership styles in the proper directions. One of these innovative instruments is knowledge...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of body part symptoms and sources of injury/discomfort among workers in a car tyre service centre. Questionnaire survey and interview session were used to identify the level of body discomfort areas and sources of injury or discomfort. From questionnaire survey findings, 12 of respondents...

Economy project often becomes one of the strong selecting points to attract contractors. However, economy projects sometimes mislead contractors to select. Therefore, it is crucial for contractors to mark projects comparison before deciding to select a smart one. A contractor usually compares some criteria of project but they not enough. The criter...