Pub Date : 2012-04-07DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226033
M. Daud, I. R. Endut, H. S. Jaafar
Freight movement by truck is the common mode in freight distribution due to its flexibility and cheap prices. However, the importance of freight movement by trucks is often not fully understood. This paper thus seeks examines the factors threatening freight movement by trucks that influence the delivery effectiveness. The prescription in this paper is based on the syntheses of critical analyses of the quantitative data (70 industrial responses) received from the haulage companies and review of extant literature. The findings establish that poor road condition access to port, congestion access to port and inconsistency of fuel price are the major factors that influence the effectiveness of freight movement.
{"title":"Analysis of factors threatening the success of freight movement in Malaysia","authors":"M. Daud, I. R. Endut, H. S. Jaafar","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226033","url":null,"abstract":"Freight movement by truck is the common mode in freight distribution due to its flexibility and cheap prices. However, the importance of freight movement by trucks is often not fully understood. This paper thus seeks examines the factors threatening freight movement by trucks that influence the delivery effectiveness. The prescription in this paper is based on the syntheses of critical analyses of the quantitative data (70 industrial responses) received from the haulage companies and review of extant literature. The findings establish that poor road condition access to port, congestion access to port and inconsistency of fuel price are the major factors that influence the effectiveness of freight movement.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121794585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-04-07DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226050
G. Mortezaei
During the past three decades, the rapid pace of globalisation and economic restructuring has resulted in South-East Asian city-regions receiving the unanticipated urbanisation pressures. In order to control and decrease the impact of urbanisation pressures on city living, the government in Singapore has advocated growth management approaches giving particular interest to urban sustainability. Since, many researchers claimed of the social and environmental beneficial effects of high density compact city living, such as social equity. This paper aims to obtain the dwellers' perception desirability of the Singapore Compact City residing and probe the potential cost and benefits of compact development, which may be delivered by social and spatial aspects of the compactness to inspect the validity of assertions that the compact city promotes social equity. Research outcomes indicated that although compactness concept is associated with some negative impacts, it seems to be positive for some aspects of social fairness and this model was desirable, and accepted by the majority of dwellers who reside in the city centre.
{"title":"Assessing social equity factors and dwellers' desirability perception of compact city centre residing","authors":"G. Mortezaei","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226050","url":null,"abstract":"During the past three decades, the rapid pace of globalisation and economic restructuring has resulted in South-East Asian city-regions receiving the unanticipated urbanisation pressures. In order to control and decrease the impact of urbanisation pressures on city living, the government in Singapore has advocated growth management approaches giving particular interest to urban sustainability. Since, many researchers claimed of the social and environmental beneficial effects of high density compact city living, such as social equity. This paper aims to obtain the dwellers' perception desirability of the Singapore Compact City residing and probe the potential cost and benefits of compact development, which may be delivered by social and spatial aspects of the compactness to inspect the validity of assertions that the compact city promotes social equity. Research outcomes indicated that although compactness concept is associated with some negative impacts, it seems to be positive for some aspects of social fairness and this model was desirable, and accepted by the majority of dwellers who reside in the city centre.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125394791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-04-07DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226083
Osama Mahmoud Yassenn, M. Hafez, I. R. Endut, Bahardin Bin Baharom, M. Y. Wahab
Overloaded vehicles may cause excessive wearing and damages to pavements, roads and bridges. They also threaten the road safety and contribute to several fatal accidents, thus the governments around the world have implemented axle load limitations. This paper investigates the overloading level at the southern part of North-South Expressway in Malaysia. The data were gathered from three survey stations located along the southern part of North-South Expressway for a period of one year. It was found that overloaded axles form a considerable percentage of the total volume. It has been recommended that enforcement level of axle load limitations along the southern part of North-South Expressway should be increased.
{"title":"Axle overloading at the southern part of the North-South Expressway in Malaysia","authors":"Osama Mahmoud Yassenn, M. Hafez, I. R. Endut, Bahardin Bin Baharom, M. Y. Wahab","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226083","url":null,"abstract":"Overloaded vehicles may cause excessive wearing and damages to pavements, roads and bridges. They also threaten the road safety and contribute to several fatal accidents, thus the governments around the world have implemented axle load limitations. This paper investigates the overloading level at the southern part of North-South Expressway in Malaysia. The data were gathered from three survey stations located along the southern part of North-South Expressway for a period of one year. It was found that overloaded axles form a considerable percentage of the total volume. It has been recommended that enforcement level of axle load limitations along the southern part of North-South Expressway should be increased.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121010349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-04-07DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226045
Zamiyad Dar
This paper is about the case study, design and implementation results of the application of a flywheel energy storage system on a large scale industrial level. This will focus on the necessity of smooth uninterruptible power especially for continuous process industries in South Asia. It will include the design for integration of 2.5 MVA flywheel based uninterruptable power supply units with a combination of a distributed generation system and a state grid power system. The operation scheme of this system will also be described. We will also depict the results of the application based on real time data for one year. The economic impacts of the installation for a continuous process extrusion plant are also described. Moreover the overall effect of this integrated power system on the operation and carbon footprint of continuous process plants in Pakistan will also be discussed.
{"title":"Large scale integration of a flywheel energy storage system with a distributed generation system and its economical & environmental impacts on industries in Pakistan","authors":"Zamiyad Dar","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226045","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is about the case study, design and implementation results of the application of a flywheel energy storage system on a large scale industrial level. This will focus on the necessity of smooth uninterruptible power especially for continuous process industries in South Asia. It will include the design for integration of 2.5 MVA flywheel based uninterruptable power supply units with a combination of a distributed generation system and a state grid power system. The operation scheme of this system will also be described. We will also depict the results of the application based on real time data for one year. The economic impacts of the installation for a continuous process extrusion plant are also described. Moreover the overall effect of this integrated power system on the operation and carbon footprint of continuous process plants in Pakistan will also be discussed.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132257959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-04-07DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226044
A. Liaghat, F. Rassaei
Due to binary nature of halftone images it is often difficult to process them without causing keen degradation compared to grayscale images. Therefore, it gives the purpose to develop many algorithms to reconstruct grayscale images from their corresponding halftones which is called inverse halftoning. A fast and computation-free technique to accomplish inverse halftoning is the Look-Up Table (LUT) method that leads to obtain images with admissible quality. In this paper a novel technique is introduced in an attempt to improve the LUT approach proposed by Murat's and Vaidaynatan by using pattern labeling. By means of simulation, we show the efficiency of this technique. Also, by calculating average PSNR, we compare its competency with some other known techniques. Furthermore, we discuss about the complexity of implementing this technique in this paper.
{"title":"A novel algorithm for inverse halftoning using LUT approach and pattern labeling","authors":"A. Liaghat, F. Rassaei","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226044","url":null,"abstract":"Due to binary nature of halftone images it is often difficult to process them without causing keen degradation compared to grayscale images. Therefore, it gives the purpose to develop many algorithms to reconstruct grayscale images from their corresponding halftones which is called inverse halftoning. A fast and computation-free technique to accomplish inverse halftoning is the Look-Up Table (LUT) method that leads to obtain images with admissible quality. In this paper a novel technique is introduced in an attempt to improve the LUT approach proposed by Murat's and Vaidaynatan by using pattern labeling. By means of simulation, we show the efficiency of this technique. Also, by calculating average PSNR, we compare its competency with some other known techniques. Furthermore, we discuss about the complexity of implementing this technique in this paper.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115883897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-04-07DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226097
N. E. Kordi, I. R. Endut, M. Y. Wahab, B. Baharom
A huge amount of money is continuously spent on road maintenance due to pavement failures. The rapid deterioration of pavements is influenced by a fraternity of factors; however, traffic volume of heavy vehicles as one of the principal factors becomes a center for critical analysis. This study examines the claim by the Pan Malaysia Lorry Owners Association (PMLOA) that heavy vehicles do not pose any risk to other road users or damage roads. The current study investigates the performance of flexible pavements at identified stations that have traffic volume data. The data are from 16-hour traffic volume at these stations taken twice a year for seven years by the Highway Planning Unit (HPU) using manual counting and are used to investigate the relationship between volume of heavy vehicles and the damages that occur. The data acquired are analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to establish the seriousness and the major types of damages that are sustained on the roads, such as edge drop-offs at the moderate mode. This study is based on work in progress (WIP) of a Master's Degree in Malaysia. The findings of this study which are based on critical literature review and results from the quantitative data analyzed confirm that heavy vehicles are contributory, but not fully responsible for the damage on the roads in Malaysia.
{"title":"The relationship between traffic volume of heavy vehicles and the performance of Malaysian federal roads route one (FT01) in Selangor: A case study","authors":"N. E. Kordi, I. R. Endut, M. Y. Wahab, B. Baharom","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226097","url":null,"abstract":"A huge amount of money is continuously spent on road maintenance due to pavement failures. The rapid deterioration of pavements is influenced by a fraternity of factors; however, traffic volume of heavy vehicles as one of the principal factors becomes a center for critical analysis. This study examines the claim by the Pan Malaysia Lorry Owners Association (PMLOA) that heavy vehicles do not pose any risk to other road users or damage roads. The current study investigates the performance of flexible pavements at identified stations that have traffic volume data. The data are from 16-hour traffic volume at these stations taken twice a year for seven years by the Highway Planning Unit (HPU) using manual counting and are used to investigate the relationship between volume of heavy vehicles and the damages that occur. The data acquired are analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to establish the seriousness and the major types of damages that are sustained on the roads, such as edge drop-offs at the moderate mode. This study is based on work in progress (WIP) of a Master's Degree in Malaysia. The findings of this study which are based on critical literature review and results from the quantitative data analyzed confirm that heavy vehicles are contributory, but not fully responsible for the damage on the roads in Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124464164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-04-07DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226072
O. Hilmi, M. Yulis
The main purpose of this research is to identify the most influenced injection moulding parameter to satisfy polycarbonate part qualities by using Design of Experiment (DOE) of Taguchi method. The part qualities selected in this research were warpage, shrinkage and ultimate tensile strength. Through this experiment, four most significant process parameters were chosen: melt temperature, injection pressure, packing pressure and injection time, base on previous research findings. By using Taguchi orthogonal array L9 (34), the signal to noise (S/N) ratio and analysis of variance (ANOVA) had been done. It was found that the most significant process parameter which posses the lowest value of defects (warpage and shrinkage) and optimum value of mechanical property (ultimate tensile strength) was injection time. In order to validate the experimental result, confirmation test has been done based on the set of best combination process parameters determined from S/N ratio. As the result, warpage and ultimate tensile strength were improved about 36.73% and 2.71% respectively, while for minimum shrinkage produce by the best combination parameters was 0.006598. As a conclusion, Taguchi method was recognized as the effective methods to be used to optimise the parameter setting and to predict and solve the quality problems that occur in injection moulded parts.
本研究的主要目的是利用田口法的试验设计(Design of Experiment, DOE)找出对聚碳酸酯零件质量影响最大的注射成型参数。本研究选取的零件质量是翘曲、收缩率和极限抗拉强度。通过实验，在前人研究成果的基础上，选择了熔体温度、注射压力、填充压力和注射时间四个最重要的工艺参数。采用田口正交阵列L9(34)进行信噪比(S/N)和方差分析(ANOVA)。结果表明，注射时间是具有最小缺陷(翘曲和收缩)和最佳力学性能(极限抗拉强度)的最重要工艺参数。为了验证实验结果，根据信噪比确定的最佳组合工艺参数集进行了验证试验。结果表明，最佳组合参数可使材料的翘曲强度和极限拉伸强度分别提高36.73%和2.71%，其最小收缩率为0.006598。结果表明，田口法是一种有效的方法，可用于优化注塑件的参数设置，预测和解决注塑件的质量问题。
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Pub Date : 2012-04-07DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226061
N. Yahaya, Rugayah Hashim, Nurhasanah Ismail
The Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) is one of the largest enforcement agencies in Malaysia. In keeping the security of the country, the service of the police force is very important and undeniable; hence, the objective of this study is to investigate the level of job satisfaction among technical and operational personnel in the Communication Division of the RMP. The findings showed that 23.8% of the respondents are very satisfied with their job and 13.8% indicated extreme satisfaction as a law enforcement officer. Even though the overall result for these two variables is average, certain matters on advancement and salary increment were commonly indicated by the respondents for the top management to consider. The issues for advancement are about opportunities for promotion and better career prospects where an individual's salary is indicative of the value of being part of the police workforce.
{"title":"Job satisfaction among the technical and operational personnel of the Royal Malaysia Police Communication Division","authors":"N. Yahaya, Rugayah Hashim, Nurhasanah Ismail","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226061","url":null,"abstract":"The Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) is one of the largest enforcement agencies in Malaysia. In keeping the security of the country, the service of the police force is very important and undeniable; hence, the objective of this study is to investigate the level of job satisfaction among technical and operational personnel in the Communication Division of the RMP. The findings showed that 23.8% of the respondents are very satisfied with their job and 13.8% indicated extreme satisfaction as a law enforcement officer. Even though the overall result for these two variables is average, certain matters on advancement and salary increment were commonly indicated by the respondents for the top management to consider. The issues for advancement are about opportunities for promotion and better career prospects where an individual's salary is indicative of the value of being part of the police workforce.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126777250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-04-07DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226071
S. Krishnan, T. Nagarajan, A. Rani, T. Rao
The novel contribution of this paper is the application of natural fiber (Silk) as a braided sleeve for the PAM. A simple artificial muscle with internal core of silicon rubber netted by hand woven natural fiber (Silk) was fabricated. A suitable experiment was conducted to collect the displacement data which were produced by Silicon Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (SPAM) with various compressed air pressures. The advantages using Silk as braided sleeves are: it is naturally available with higher stiffness than that of steel and nylon. The movement of this actuator is soft which is similar to the human muscle; hence it is preferred for usage in bio medical engineering application and prosthetics devices.
{"title":"Silk Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (SPAM) construction for bio-medical engineering application","authors":"S. Krishnan, T. Nagarajan, A. Rani, T. Rao","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226071","url":null,"abstract":"The novel contribution of this paper is the application of natural fiber (Silk) as a braided sleeve for the PAM. A simple artificial muscle with internal core of silicon rubber netted by hand woven natural fiber (Silk) was fabricated. A suitable experiment was conducted to collect the displacement data which were produced by Silicon Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (SPAM) with various compressed air pressures. The advantages using Silk as braided sleeves are: it is naturally available with higher stiffness than that of steel and nylon. The movement of this actuator is soft which is similar to the human muscle; hence it is preferred for usage in bio medical engineering application and prosthetics devices.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114290374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-04-07DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226069
T. Thoedtida, T. Kanyaprin, R. Thanyalak, K. Nunticha
It is important to assess sustainability of research activities carried out in a university. The result can be used as information for university administrators to develop a policy for preventing pollution and hazards generated from research activities. The objective of the paper is to present an application of a Sustainability Index model. The proposed model is used to assess the sustainable university regarding research activities. The important weight of sustainability is analyzed by using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP). FAHP emphasizes fuzzy theory and pairwise matrix comparison theory. This model is applied to a case of study of research projects in Thailand. At first, research activities are broken down and sources of sustainability are identified. The data were collected regarding research project lifecycle. Then, major sustainable initiatives are identified. The important weight of sustainability for each research activities is analyzed. The Sustainability Index is created from important weight of sustainability magnitude. Fuzzy numbers are used to cope with uncertainties associated with the data collected by questionnaires distributed to researchers.
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