Deficient maintenance management can severely affect competitiveness of an organization by reducing throughput, increasing inventory, and leading to poor performance. Applying Overall Equipment Effectiveness, this research study, has evaluated maintenance management performance in Malaysian palm oil mills, highlighted how it helps to identify the factors causing poor performance and demonstrates how to improve and perpetuate companys productivity, profits, and sustainability by adopting world class maintenance strategies such as Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). The research exalts...
Deficient maintenance management can severely affect competitiveness of an organization by reducing throughput, increasing inventory, and leading to p...
In industrialized countries manufacturing firms are facing significant change resulting from mass customization, shortening product life cycles, increasing technological change, and the entry of international competitors into their markets as witnessed by the automotive and electronics industries. Survival of the companies depends on their ability to compete through ingenious and innovative products and processes. This book construes the process of impelling and managing innovation at an automotive metal stamping plant in Canada, during the 2008-2009 financial crises in North America. The...
In industrialized countries manufacturing firms are facing significant change resulting from mass customization, shortening product life cycles, incre...
Mohtar Shahimi Ariffin Ahmad Shabudin Baluch Nazim
Malaysian poultry industry comprises of two categories of producers, namely commercial farms and conventional farms. Commercial farms carry out business with an integrator according to a contract, while conventional farms belong to independent businesspersons. The contract has developed into a form of socio-economic relationship because of certain historical aspects that can be viewed as being part of the larger industrialization process and the related vertical integration of agricultural development. This book discusses the concepts, theories and supply chain practices that influence...
Malaysian poultry industry comprises of two categories of producers, namely commercial farms and conventional farms. Commercial farms carry out busine...
Ariffin Ahmad Shabudin Baluch Nazim Mohtar Shahimi
With regard to contract farming in poultry industry the economic links between companies and those in the farming industry have increased exceptionally in the last two decades. This research study focuses on the effect of Integrator Involvement and Grower Involvement, in the production of broilers by contract in Malaysia and determines how integrator involvement and grower involvement, regulated by management skills, impacts business performance. The study explores the relationship between Integrator and grower involvement and business performance by answering the following four research...
With regard to contract farming in poultry industry the economic links between companies and those in the farming industry have increased exceptionall...
