International Journal of Global Optimization and Its Application
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New Product Development Framework based on University-Community Engagement: Case Study of Thailand OTOP Development for Elderly Consumer
Get PDFoai:ojs2.journal.srnintellectual.com:article/8This research project is one of the University-community engagement projects to study and initiate One Tambon One Product (OTOP) development in the three provinces of Chiang Mai, Lumphun and Lampang. This collaborative product development led to three new and innovative products for OTOP. This research defined and selected the elderly consumer groups from three northern provinces of Chiang Mai, Lumphun, Lampang. This study uses a survey and focus group discussion to identify the buying attitude of 1,275 elderly consumers toward the OTOP product. The quantitative analysis and the AHP technique were applied to identify the group of OTOP products selected for development. The potential top products were identified from the surveys. Then the value creation technique from local culture was employed to innovate the new products. This research developed a framework consisting of the three strategic stages of development. The cross-collaboration team are the primary enabler. The OTOP cooperative ecosystem was tested and found that this ecosystem can reciprocally benefit all the staff, including help configuring the organisation’s context and its entrepreneurship
Succession Planning Best Practices for Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review Approach
Get PDFDeveloping potential candidates for organizational sustainability and business continuity is a priority in any organization. Every organization is facing or will face challenges for the immediate future successor with the right people. Top management can create surroundings that allow leadership development with the help of internal succession planning. Succession planning is an enterprise approach that has gained a lot of interest in all organizations because of excessive demand for holding knowledge and the shortage of skilled workforce. The study was done by using the standard systematic literature review method. The current study focuses on providing a comprehensive review of best succession planning practices followed by all organizations. The major purpose is to describe the standard best practices of succession planning in any organization. This study will provide enough evidence to use succession planning as an instrument in the organisation\u27s recruitment process, employee retention strategies, and future top management development within the organizatio
Critical Risk Factors of Joint Venture Projects in the Oil and Gas Industry between Malaysia and Thailand
Get PDFOil and Gas (O&G) industry is one of the riskiest, most dynamic and challenging industries and plays a vital role in every nation’s economy. Like any other major industry, O&G is exposed to a host of both predictable and unpredictable risks. Joint venture projects (JVP) are often regarded as risky businesses as there is a high failure rate among them because of the complexities involved. This paper aims to identify the critical risk factors (CRFs) of JVPs for O&G between Malaysia and Thailand. Via systematic literature review (SLR) the risk factors for O&G and JVPs around the globe are identified and a set of questions relating to them designed and used in a pilot study. A total of 15 respondents from different background experiences working in O&G JVPs were requested to answer the designed questionnaire during the pilot study. The data collected involves 170 respondents currently working or have worked in O&G JVPs. The relative importance index (RII) for each risk factor’s (RF) value was quantified and the RFs ranked based on the value. A RII value exceeding 60% is considered to have agreement and of importance to the respondents. The RII value can be used as an indicator to rank the RFs from the most to the least critical. The CRF categories determined in this study are environmental, cultural and social, and organisation. Under environmental, the main CRFs are losses due to fluctuations in exchange rates/interest rates. For cultural and social, the main CRFs are problems associated with cultural differences and cooperation. Organisational issues are related to organisational fit, incompetent project management team, difficulty in finding and keeping skilled workers, and low worker productivity
Developing the Conceptual Model of Sustainable Industrial Performance in the Hospitality Industry
Get PDFThe increasing number of tourist destinations in the world has led to an increase in the number of tourists and their supporting industries, such as the hotel industry. This increase should not have a negative impact on the natural environment and people who live near tourist destinations. Sustainable Industrial Performance (SIP) is one indicator to find out whether industrial development has an impact and becomes a benchmark for industry sustainability in the natural and social environment. Sustainable Industrial Performance (SIP) is measured from three (3) factors, namely economy, natural environment, and socio-culture. Pro-Environment Behavior (PEB) is one indicator of initiatives and efforts made by people who work in the sector/industry to continue to maintain the sustainability of the surrounding environmental conditions. Green Marketing Mix (GMM) is a variable commonly used by marketing people in marketing a product, be it goods or services. Green Marketing Mix (GMM) provides characteristics about the importance of creating goods or services with green principles. This research is expected to be one of the green practice concept models, namely activities to create and manage industries with the concept of sustainable business, namely the benefits of sustainable (economic) business, sustainability for the natural environment, and sustainable for the social environment of the hospitality industr
Designing the Assembly Capability Assessment Model for Thai Wooden Furniture
Get PDFThere are many aspects to consider the good assembly model for Thai wooden furniture. The main idea is the assembly can be made in difference ways. As a result, the easy to assemble means the efficiency to produce. The way how to make an assembly need to be considers. The assembly assessment model is evaluated from the assembly’s method, the assembly’s point, the assembly’s direction, the assembly’s difficulty and the assembly’s motion and time. All these assembly criteria needed to be set to make the assembly easier. Also, part’s size and weight and part’s direction can affect the result of the assembly. With these assembly criteria, Thai’s wooden furniture experts are choosing to select sub-criteria and compare all sub-criteria. Then, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to calculate the weight of each sub-criterion. With the weight of all sub-criteria when the assessors evaluate the way the assembly makes, the overall score is calculated. The higher overall score means a good assembly model. The second idea is because the assembly can be adjustable and changeable, therefore the assembly’s sequence needed to be considered. The sequence assessment model is developed to calculate the assembly time. The sequence assessment model will use assembly relationship chart and AND/OR graph to set up all the assembly sequence from the beginning to the finished furniture. The smaller assembly time shows the good assembly
Defect Analysis to Improve Quality in Traditional Shipbuilding Processes
Get PDFAs one of the livelihoods of the Indonesian people, the sea has many benefits, such as fish, marine plant cultivation, and others. Most Indonesian live in the coastal area and work as fishermen. Its existence and role are very important in coastal development, especially fisheries. This study aims to investigate logic tree analysis to solve defects in traditional shipbuilding. It is envisaged that such implementation shall improve the quality of ships produced. Traditional ships are currently experiencing a significant demand proportionally to the increase in the number of fishermen utilizing traditional ships. However, shipbuilders experienced many obstacles during the manufacturing process. Therefore, the quality of the ships produced was different from the ship owners\u27 standards or demands. For solving this problem, initial identification processes should be conducted to determine any potential defects that may affect the quality of the ships. Defects that pose a high risk to the quality of the ship were resolved using a logic tree analysis to obtain recommendations for improvements. The result shows that four risks of damage have been identified that affect the quality of the traditional ships produced: the selection of the quality of raw materials, imperfect wooden joints, easily corroded steel bolts, and poor installation of additional equipment
Analysing the Quality of Traditional Shipbuilding Production Processes through Integration of Ergonomics and Lean Six Sigma in West Aceh, Indonesia
Get PDFThis study analyses the quality process using the integration of ergonomic and lean six sigma in the DMAIC cycle at CV. Wahana Karya shipyard. The ergonomic uses RULA tools while lean six sigma uses SIPOC diagram tools, current stream mapping, DPOM, Pareto diagrams, cause, and effect diagrams and FMEA. The improvement stage is recommendations for improvement through the highest RPN in the FMEA analysis and recommendations for improving ergonomics from work posture. The control stage is the supervision of the recommended improvements. The result indicates that there are 7 work postures that cause a decrease in quality where one of the risks of high work postures is in wood cutting activities with recommendations for improvement, namely designing ergonomic wood forming and cutting tools, on lean six sigma, recommendations for improving process quality are obtained based on analysis of FMEA tools for installing Advanced hull boards are tenuous hull boards with an RPN value of 384 with recommendations for improvement, namely replacing a new clamp press tool that is easy to install. Meanwhile, in the process of installing the ivory with an advanced level, which is not according to the size of the RPN 336 value, the recommendation for improvement is to make clear and written SOPs and work guidelines
Clustering Production and Operational Practices of SME Using Correspondence Analysis: A Case Study of Northern OTOP Thailand
Get PDFThis study aims to identify the actual conditions of the current operational practices of the One Tambon One Product (OTOP) and the actual sales and income. This research summarizes and classifies the existing practices concerning different groups of OTOP products and presents empirical evidence on how and what practices correspond to the actual business performance. This research adopted correspondence analysis as a data analysis and visualization tool to summarize and present if clusters or relationships exist among categorical variables of OTOP groups, operation practices and their revenue performances. The results can then be used to define the right set of operations on the OTOP group for the Thai government to develop a supporting policy
Predictive Data Mining Approaches for Diabetes Mellitus Type II Disease
Get PDFDiabetes is among the major public health problem especially in developing countries which cause by abnormal insulin secretion in human body. It is a common disease that can led to several health complications and mortality. In Malaysia, most of the cases are categorized as Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Type II. Patients with diabetes increases from year to year due to unhealthy lifestyles e.g. smoking, overweight and hypertension. Therefore, this study meant to identify the influential factors that may contribute to DM Type II by comparing the performance of different data mining approaches. Between April 2017 and November 2018, 684 patients from a public clinic participated in this retrospective cross-sectional study. Four predictive models involved in the study are Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Naïve Bayes, and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The error measures (Average Squared Error and Misclassification Rate) with ROC Index are used to evaluate the performance of the models. Results show that the performance of Logistic Regression-Stepwise outperformed to other predictive models with classification accurateness of 73% and able to predict positive outcome (Y=1) correctly by 90%. The significant inputs that affect DM Type II prediction (Y=1) are Hypertension and Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) given the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of model is 0.424. The importance of study may be able to contribute in improving the strategies and planning on diabetes diseases in Malaysia
Antimicrobial Activity Test of Black Tea Ethanol Extract (Camellia sinensis) against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Get PDFA study about the antimicrobial activity test of black tea ethanol extract (Camellia sinensis) against Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been carried out. The black tea leaves are sourced from Sidamanik Plantation, North Sumatra. The dried black tea leaf extract was obtained by maceration technique in which black tea leaves were macerated for 24 hours. Then, the macerate was concentrated to obtain a thick extract and make sure that the ethanol had evaporated. After that, the concentrated extract was made with a variation of 5%, 10% and 15%. The antimicrobial activity test used was the disc method, where distilled water was used as a negative blank. The results obtained for average SD for blank with diameter 6 mm, 5%, 10% and 15% extracts were 6 ± 0,00; 7,75 ± 0,35; 9,05 ± 0,07 and 9,95 ± 0,07 mm with the inhibition diameter 0 mm; 1,75 ± 0,35; 2,05 ±0,07 and 3,95 ± 0,07 mm. The conclusion of this study is that the concentration of the extract is straightly proportional to its inhibitory power, namely the higher the concentration of black tea ethanol extract, the higher its inhibitory activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, so it can be used as an antibacterial agent for Pseudomonas aeruginosa