Lean Manufacturing System (LMS) implementations in Malaysia's automotive industry has not been extensive in its expected reach, as extensive inquiries revealed it being adopted as a "pick-and-choose" system for certain processes or only upon determined levels within the industry. Current implementation strategy does not permit the industry to gain total benefits from the system itself. Undeniably, a few significant factors are being given less significance in multiple stages of LMS' execution. Employee involvement and employee empowerment have been identified as part of these contributing factors in a successful implementation of LMS in an organization. However, important criterion with its contributing aspects of these factors is not given the necessary attention, translating into a lamer impact upon companies embarking on a LMS deployment. This paper examines the impact of these two factors in the implementation of a lean manufacturing system towards achieving the organizational performances in the automotive industry. A questionnaire-survey was administered to gauge the impact of these two factors in an implementation process of a lean manufacturing system and later analyzing the effect towards their organizational performances. Data from 204 automotive parts manufacturers were gathered and analyzed. The correlation between the influencing factors, 5 lean activities and 6 organizational performances were measured. The results gained suggest that the integration between employee involvement and employee empowerment will be a valuable critical organizational capability impacting organizational performances towards the successful implementation of LMS in the Malaysian automotive industry.

Lean manufacturing strategy (LMS) is an acknowledged system that has the capability to realign and effectively focus operational objectives towards achieving higher profitability through improvements by eliminating unneeded or wasteful factors of manufacturing. Implementations of lean within the automotive industry in Malaysia is not far-reaching as expected and is currently being adopted as a pick-and choose system and only applied in certain stages rather than a total systems approach. Thus, not enabling these organizations to fully explore and exploit the systems effectiveness. Even the effective implementation of a single lean tool such as just-in-time can result in significant performance improvements for a firm in question, taking LMS as a total approach reinforces its multiple tools together and the joint value of these complementary LMS tools are significantly greater than the sum of their individual values. Pertinent to this inability to be effective, is the discovery of barriers hindering full adoption of the LMS, this paper attempts to mention and discuss to some extent two of the most crucial elements that persists in its implementation.

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Green and sustainable engineering business models have become a major topic across industries due to concerns regarding environmental issues and the decline of natural resources. Remanufacturing is showing promise as a preferable solution in terms of environmental, societal, and economic factors compared to alternatives such as repairing, reconditioning, and recycling. By considering the nature of the closed cycle loop system, this paper proposes the idea of a transitional agenda into remanufacturing. However, different countries should employ different approaches to such a transition in order to appropriately account for and integrate diverse stakeholders, perspectives, and preferences. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to evaluate prioritized elements and sub-elements in the development of a transitional decision-making framework (TDMF) in the Malaysian automotive industry by applying the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Aggregation of individual and group judgement is done for prioritised elements and their sub-elements, which are then ranked accordingly using element weights based on the acceptance of individual and group consistency index values.

The aim of this study is to identify the anthropometric differences among Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian, and analyse the compatibility of the anthropometric data with the selected Boeing 737 cockpit layout. The data of 16 anthropometric dimension for Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian adults were analyzed, arranged according to percentiles (5th, 50th and 95th)and compared. The result of comparative analysis between anthropometric data with the selected cockpit layout dimensions showed that the 95th percentile of anthropometric dimensionsof the Indonesian adult is compatible with the Boeing 737 cockpit layout. The results of this study could be used as references by the aircraft manufacturer to increase the effectiveness of the cockpit design in the future especially in considering the anthropometric data of ASEAN population

Abstract: Passenger vehicles crashes with Under-ride rear end of heavy vehicles result in fatal injuries due to sliding of passenger car beneath heavy trucks frames. This is related to an improper structure design of rear under-ride protection device (RUPD) that is mounted to the rear of the heavy vehicles. The design of effective RUPD must be taken into consideration during the design stage of truck chassis frame. There are two types of analyses used to investigate the performance of trucks RUPDs such as experimental tests and numerical analysis or simulation. This review aims to discuss the available research methods on the performance of RUPDs during car to heavy truck rear impact, and record their lack and potential areas. Moreover various crash velocities will be discussed for the car-to-heavy truck rear impact tests, as well as different scales of car frontal crash tests are included. Furthermore energy absorption capability of different truck RUPDs designs will be presented in this paper.

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