International Journal of Global Optimization and Its Application
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Remodeling the Traditional Fashion Industry in the Era of Industry 4.0
Get PDFThis study examines the influence of Industry 4.0 on the global garment design business and investigates methods for transforming conventional industrial procedures. The report utilizes the opinions of experts, academics, and industry professionals to identify obstacles in the traditional clothing sector. It suggests ways for businesses to use innovative technology and gain a competitive advantage. The method includes a complete literature review of relevant studies over the past 20 years, focusing on how new technologies related to Industry 4.0 are used in the garment industry. The Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, and cloud computing are included. The report also looks at what is being done to help the garment industry deal with problems as it moves to Industry 4.0. The results show that Industry 4.0 technologies have the potential to improve production efficiency, lower costs, make customers happier, boost sales, update employees\u27 skill sets, and make the company more competitive. The study makes several recommendations for apparel companies to modernize their operations, such as leveraging digitalization to facilitate rapid response in the supply chain, utilizing personalization and innovative design to enhance products, and meeting shifting consumer demands through customization
Customer Relationship Management: A Literature Review Approach
Get PDFThis paper reviews the literature of CRM definitions in order to highlight the impact and the confusion around definitions of CRM. It is emerging the new perspectives in Customer relationship Management. It addresses some issues in the literature review, which constitutes a significant difficulty in the CRM adopting process. The numerous CRM definitions, the advancement in technology and customer knowledge emerging new perspectives in CRM. Content Analysis is carried out to summarize the most features of CRM definitions in Marketing, Relationship Marketing, Management, and Information Systems within ten different classifications which shows the diverging aspects of CRM definitions. A voluminous literature review has been accumulated and categorized into ten categories. The CRM definitions and categories are reviewed and listed in chronological order in Appendix-A. The paper introduces several fresh perspectives for the diversity of CRM definitions and shows CRM as a comprehensive, integrated framework around all aspects of the organization as well as customers’ lifestyles. The list of CRM definitions could provide a great help for academics as well as practitioners in the field of CRM
Comparison in the Final Examination Questions Paper by Means of Difficulty and Discrimination Indices
Get PDFExamination is one of the important elements in measuring the student achievement and to determine whether the course learning outcome is achieved or not. The best exam paper is the paper that can evaluate the students’ achievement and thus satisfy the course learning outcome. The purpose of this study is to compare the examination papers and identify whether the course learning outcome is achieved or not based on the performance of students in the examinations. The sample is stratified according to year 1 until 4 and according to the program. The students are selected from three academic years 2015/2016, 2016/2017 and 2017/2018. The data is obtained from the marks of their mid-semester and final exams. Difficulty and discrimination indices is evaluated for each item in the exam paper. The research findings found that the ideal question for the mid-semester exam is from the session 2017/2018 with difficulty and discrimination indices range from 0.4 to 0.8. While the ideal question for final semester exam is from session 2016/2017 with difficulty index in range 0.4-0.6 and higher discrimination index as compared to other sessions. As a result, the student performance for 2017/2018 session has increased significantly in the overall assessment with 13.0% obtained grade A compared to 11.1% in 2016/2017 and only 4.9% in 2015/2016. The failure rate has also reduced at only 11.4% in 2017/2018 compared to 32.1% in 2015/2016 and 11.9% in 2016/2017
Modelling Association between Production Practices and Business Performance of Northern Thailand OTOP Using Ordinal Logistic Regression
Get PDFThis study presents the model representing the association of the operational management practices of the OTOP producer to the business performance and revenue growth. This study used ordinal logistic regression to analyse the collected business performance data of 101 OTOP producers located in three northern provinces of Thailand. The production and operation management practices and their levels of adoption on the Production and Stock Management, Technology and Innovation adoption, Cost and Data and IT management assessed during the site visits were statistically modelled and tested for association with business performance. The ordinal logistic regression with nominal explanatory variables was used to identify the association between the OTOP business performance measured with the revenue growth and those production and operation practices. This analysis considers the different contexts of the different OTOP product groups. The association model was demonstrated in terms of the odd ratios and event probability of gaining higher revenue growth
The Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on the Real Economic Growth in Indonesia
Get PDFThis study empirically examines and analyzes the impact of several macroeconomic indicators on economic growth, namely the extent to which the variables of poverty, human development index (HDI), foreign direct (FDI) and domestic investments (DMI) affect gross regional domestic product (GRDP) at constant prices in 2010 according to expenditure in Indonesia. By using panel data regression and data sourced from 32 provinces throughout Indonesia, the results show that poverty has a negative but not significant effect, FDI has a positive and significant effect, and HDI has a positive and significant effect. On the other hand, Domestic Investment has a positive but not significant effect on GRDP. In an effort to increase the value of GRDP, HDI, and investment (FDI and HDI) that can reduce poverty, the government, the private sector, and the community play an active role in cooperating in planning and implementing effective and efficient strategic program activities, including maintaining social security stability and politics, sustainable reform in all sectors by encouraging the use of domestic products, empowering elements of society including Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, facilitating various vocational skills training for productive workers and drafting investment-friendly licensing governance regulations. The development of human resources must accompany economic development to reduce the negative impact of economic growth
Identifying the Shipyard Waste: An Application of the Lean Manufacturing Approach
Get PDFShipyard is a specialised facility equipped with various tools to support the process of building, repairing and maintaining ships. There are several types of variant ships, such as military ships, tourist boats, cargo ships and passenger ships. Apart from being a place for shipbuilding, shipyards are utilised to conduct several activities, such as ship design, equipment installation, plate installation, feasibility tests and classifications. There are many production activities and flows that allow for potential waste problems that impact labour usage, product quality, costs, and production time. This research aims to identify waste in shipbuilding production lines through a lean manufacturing approach. The lean manufacturing approach is one of the ways in shipyards to observe the level of waste in the production process to reduce unnecessary activities in the production process, which can increase production efficiency and effectiveness. This study approach begins with identifying waste in the production line through mapping on each line so that activities with no added value are identified. On the basis of the results of identification using the waste assessment model (WAM) method, which consists of a waste relationship matrix (WRM) and a waste assessment questionnaire (WAQ), waste is obtained, namely inventory (27,20%), overproduction (20.24%), defective products (20.04%), motion (12.47%), transportation (9.23%), waiting time (7.46%) and process (3.37%
Environmental Management System and Pro-Environmental Behavior in Realizing Sustainable Industry Performance: Mediating Role of Green Marketing Management
Get PDFGrowth in the number of tourist destinations encourages the number of tourists and other fields that support it. The hotel industry that is increasing in number in an area will impact the environment, both the natural, social and economic environment. We analyze the influence of Green Marketing Management as a mediator of the Environmental Management System and Pro-Environmental Behavior to achieve Sustainable Industry Performance in the hospitality industry. This study was conducted with 135 respondents with the position of manager or general manager. There are 17 hypotheses built on indicators of 4 main parameters. The analysis uses Smart-PLS to examine the relationship between the dimensions tested. The results of this study are: (1) Environmental Management System and Pro-Environmental Behavior have a significant and positive influence on the Green Marketing Mix; (2) Only the Green Marketing Mix has a significant and positive influence on Economic Sustainability; (3) Only the Green Marketing Mix has a significant and positive influence on Environmental Sustainability; (4) The Environmental Management System and Green Marketing Mix have a significant and positive influence on Social Sustainability, with the strongest influence being given by the Green Marketing Mix (which has the greatest path coefficient); (5) The effect of Pro-Environmental Behavior on Sustainability is entirely dependent on mediation relationships through the Green Marketing Mix
Evaluation of Fundamental Instructional Design Skill: The Quality of PPG Program In-Service Teachers
Get PDFProgram Pensiswazahan Guru (PPG) is a targeted degree program catered for those in-service teachers mention above. PPG is conducted using a distance learning mod and the duration is 4 years. In-service teachers will attend the courses during the weekend and only five times face-to-face meetings with the lecturers. However, there is no comprehensive research has been conducted towards PPG students’ mastery skills in fundamental instructional design. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the fundamental instructional design skill level among PPG students and to determine the differences in fundamental instructional design skills among three groups of PPG students (Primary School, Secondary School, and Vocational College). This study employed a tracer study survey as the research design by using a set of questionnaires on the Needham Model-based instructional design skill assessment sheet. A total number of 276 respondents were involved in this study. The collected data will be analysed by using descriptive statistics and the One-Way ANOVA Test. Results show that most of the in-service teachers tend to have high scores in fundamental instructional design skills, namely orientation, idea generation, idea restructuring, application of the idea, and reflection. Vocational college teachers were champions in all four phases of instructional design skills except the reflection phase. The reflection phase was championed by teachers from primary school. Meanwhile, secondary school teachers tend to achieve middle level across all instructional design skills. In conclusion, the PPG programme conducted by the university can enhance the in-service teacher’s instructional design skills
Clinical Overview of Ureum Levels in Type II Diabetes Mellitus Patients Infected by COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFPneumonia caused by Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) first appeared in Wuhan. Diabetes mellitus becomes one of the main risk factors for a person infected with the Covid-19 virus because it is susceptible to infection. Chronic complications in the form of diabetic nephropathy caused by diabetes can also increase the severity and mortality in diabetic patients infected with the Covid-19 virus. This study aims to determine the clinical overview of ureum levels in Covid-19-infected diabetes mellitus patients treated at Efarina Pangkalan Kerinci Hospital. This study was conducted from July to September 2021 at the Laboratory of Efarina Pangkalan Kerinci Hospital. This type of research is descriptive analytics. This examination uses a light intensity measurement method using an autoanalizer with a sample of 30 samples taken at random. The results of the examination of ureum levels in Diabetic Mellitus patients infected with the Covid-19 pandemic at Efarina Pangkalan Kerinci Hospital obtained results that increased by 13 samples (43%) and normal ureum levels by as many as 17 samples (57%). For this reason, patients are advised to conduct regular health checks, eat healthy foods and comply with the 5M health protocol to prevent the transmission of the Covid-19 virus
Extended AHP Approach with Latent Factor and Stratum in Prioritizing and Positioning of OTOP Thailand’s Program for Elderly Market
Get PDFWe proposed a modified AHP technique to prioritize and position the OTOP product for the elderly consumer market. This research developed and extended the methodology proposed by R. Suttipong to account for both latent and stratum factors. The product preferences defined as the latent factor are included in the model. This paper applied the AHP with the latent factor of product preferences inserted into the calculation. The prioritized weights are computed overall and at each stratum classified by gender. This stratum has been statistically found significant by S. Phanphet based on the large survey result of product preference and affects the latent factor of the preferences. This proposed method leads to new findings on the implementation plan to promote the OTOP product among different sectors attributed to the latent factor. This newly proposed analysis technique was used to set the strategic action plan for product development for each gender group for the northern Thailand OTOP development program. This proposed technique can justify and prioritize the group of OTOP for efficient product development