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- This paper presents the results of empirical research conducted during March to September 2009. The study focused on the influence of virtual research and development (R&D) teams within Malaysian manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is better understanding of the application of collaborative technologies in business, to find the effective factors ...Published in 2012.
- At present, the existing literature shows that the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams for new product development are still ambiguous. To address this problem, a research design was developed, which includes detailed literature review, preliminary model and field survey. From literature review, the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams are identified and these factors are ...Published in 2012.
- The performance of a Wells turbine with various non-uniform tip clearances was investigated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The investigation was performed on numerical models of a NACA0020 blade profile under steady flow conditions. The performance of turbines with uniform and non-uniform tip clearances was compared. The results were also compared with experimental results in literature. It was ...
- This paper presents the development of an onboard system of a small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) helicopter. Both the hardware and software parts of the system have been developed. In the hardware part, several components are carefully selected or custom made for five separate systems including PC/104 computer system, sensor system, telemetry system, power system and bypass circuit ...
- Problem statement: Although, literature proves the importance of the technology role in the effectiveness of virtual Research and Development (R&D) teams for new product development. However, the factors that make technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. The manager of virtual R&D teams for new product development does not know which ...Published in 2011.
- This paper presents the results of empirical research conducted during March to September 2009. The study focused on the influence of virtual research and development (R&D) teams within Malaysian manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is better understanding of the application of collaborative technologies in business, to find the effective factors ...Published in 2011.
- The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have high potential for the growth of SMEs. Due to the fast-growing complexity of ...Published in 2011.
- Literature proves the importance of the role of information technology in increasing the effectiveness of virtual R&D teams’ communication for new product development. However, the factors that make information technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. Managers of virtual R&D teams for new product development do not know “which type of ...Published in 2011.
- Knowledge workers (KW) play an important role in the effectiveness of virtual R&D teams for new product development. A large amount of KW literature focuses at the individual level and less attention paid on virtual R&D teams with dispersed knowledge workers. From KW point of view, the factors that required for effective virtual teams are unclear. ...Published in 2011.
- Introduction: With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve the competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities ...Published in 2011.
- Introduction: Collaboration is becoming increasingly important in creating the knowledge that makes business more competitive. Virtual teams are growing in popularity [1] and many organizations have responded to their dynamic environments by introducing virtual teams. Additionally, the rapid development of new communication technologies such as the Internet has accelerated this trend so that today, most of the larger organization employs ...Published in 2011.
- This paper presents an investigation on the performance of a Wells turbine for wave energy conversion using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The investigation was performed on numerical models of a NACA0020 blade profile with various uniform tip clearances under steady flow conditions. The main objective of this investigation is to compare computational and experimental results, particularly for the cases of ...
- Journal: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics - JACIII, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 55-62, 2010
- Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in generating employment and supporting trade, they face numerous challenges, the prominent among them are the need to respond to fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Towards that end, research and development (R&D) ...Published in 2010.
- The Center for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM) of University Malaya going to take part in the World Solar Challenge (WSC) 2009. It is a biannual solar powered car race over 3021 km from Darwin to Adelaide. The aim of this project is to build a system for monitoring performance of the solar vehicle during testing and race, a data ...Published in 2010.
- , Hani-kurniati Lelana, Hideki Aoyama, Raja Ariffin Raja Ghazilla, Julirose Gonzales, Novita Sakundarini, Sugoro B. SutonoSurface roughness is an important parameter for ensuring that the dimension of geometry is within the permitted tolerance. The ideal surface roughness is determined by the feed rate and the geometry of the tool. However, several uncontrollable factors including work material factors, tool angle, and machine tool vibration, may also influence surface roughness. The objective of this study was to ...
- One of the factors that contribute to the enhancement of the effectiveness of a Virtual Environment (VE) is the capacity for visual short term memory (VSTM) or memory span. This paper describes an investigation of the memory span of Malaysian population for virtual environment design. Experiments were conducted where number, letters, word, and object or pictures were presented to test ...
- Designing a reliable flight control for an autonomous helicopter requires a high performance dynamics model. This paper studies the recurrent neural network nonlinear model identification of a small scale helicopter. We have selected a Nonlinear AutoRegressive with eXogenous Inputs SeriesParallel (NARXSP) network model which identifies the dynamics model of an unmanned aerial helicopter from real flight data. The identification process ...
- Journal: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics - JACIII, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 46-54, 2010
- Neural networks have been widely used for many applications. One of the applications is forecasting. Many studies have proven that neural networks can provide good accuracy on forecasting future data with over than 80% accuracy. In this study, neural network is used to predict bearing defects. Two learning tasks, function approximation and pattern recognition, were used for detection and monitoring ...Journal: International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology - INT J ADV MANUF TECHNOL, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 289-296, 2010
- The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have a high potential for SMEs growth. Due to the fast growing complexity of the ...Published in 2010.
- In this paper, we present our more than two years research experiences on virtual R&D teams in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and draws conclusions, giving special attention to the structure of virtual teams required to support education-industry collaboration. We report the relevant results of an online survey study. The online questionnaire was emailed by using ...
- Designing reliable flight control for an autonomous helicopter requires a high performance dynamics model. In this paper, a nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous inputs (NLARX) model is selected as the mathematical structure for identifying and controlling the flight of a small-scale helicopter. A neural network learning algorithm is combined with the NLARX model to identify the dynamic component of the ...
- In this paper, a new approach to identify the parameters of robot manipulator dynamics is presented. The approach is based on exciting the robot manipulator with multiple identification trajectories that pass through the operating point with specific speeds and accelerations. The position, velocity and acceleration of the robot joints along with the corresponding torque at the operating point are recorded. ...Conference: International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision - ICARCV, pp. 144-148, 2010
- A study was conducted to investigate the effect of load on upper limb muscles and brain activities in light assembly task. The task was conducted at two levels of load (Low and high). Surface electromyography (EMG) was used to measure upper limb muscle activities of twenty subjects. Electroencephalography (EEG) was simultaneously recorded with EMG to record brain activities from Fz, ...Published in 2010.
- A study was conducted to investigate the effect of load on upper limb muscles and brain activities in light assembly task. The task was conducted at two levels of load (Low and high). Surface electromyography (EMG) was used to measure upper limb muscle activities of twenty subjects. Electroencephalography (EEG) was simultaneously recorded with EMG to record brain activities from Fz, ...Published in 2010.
- Virtual teams give many advantages to organizations, including increased knowledge sharing and improve organizational performance. Virtual teams have altered the expectations and boundaries of knowledge worker’s interactions and make a new opportunity to develop the business. In this paper, we present summary results of an online survey. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple random sampling method to ...Published in 2010.
- The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have a high potential for SMEs growth. Due to the fast growing complexity of the ...Published in 2010.
- This paper presents the results of empirical research conducted during March to September 2009. The study focused on the influence of virtual research and development (R&D) teams within Malaysian manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is better understanding of the application of collaborative technologies in business, to find the effective factors ...Published in 2010.
- At present, the existing literature shows that the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams for new product development are still ambiguous. To address this problem, a research design was developed, which includes detailed literature review, preliminary model and field survey. From literature review, the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams are identified and these factors are ...Published in 2010.
- Published in 2010.
- Published in 2010.
- Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as an engine for economic growth all over the world and especially for developing countries. During the past decade, new product development (NPD) has increasingly been recognized as a critical factor in ensuring the continued survival of SMEs. On the other hand, the rapid rate of market and technological changes has accelerated in ...Published in 2010.
- Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as an engine for economic growth all over the world and especially for developing countries. During the past decade, new product development (NPD) has increasingly been recognized as a critical factor in ensuring the continued survival of SMEs. On the other hand, the rapid rate of market and technological changes has accelerated in ...Published in 2010.
- This paper explores potential advantages of using virtual teams for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a comprehensive review on various aspects of virtual teams. Based on the standing of the pertinent literatures, attempt has been made to study the aspects by online survey method in Iran and Malaysia. In both countries, SMEs play an important role in their ...Published in 2010.
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the operations of SMEs. However, literature shows there has not been a ...Published in 2010.
- Increasingly competitive global markets and accelerating technological changes have increased the need for people to contact via electronic medium to have daily updates, the people those who could not able to meet face to face every day. Those who contact via electronic medium i.e. Virtual Team, are having number of benefit but to achieve these potential benefits, however, leaders ...Published in 2010.
- This paper explores potential advantages and barriers of virtual teams toward making an interrelation between small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) with a comprehensive review on different aspects of virtual teams in SMEs based on authentic and reputed publications. The purpose of the state-of-the-art literature review is to provide an overview of what is known about the ...Published in 2010.
- Published in 2010.
- Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development, which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities. It is necessary for them to put together different capabilities and services with the ...Published in 2009.
- The effect of job organization factors on job satisfaction was examined in two automotive industries in Malaysia. The information was collected from 170 male subjects with the mean age and work experience of 26.8±5.3 years and 6.5±4.9 years, respectively. The results showed that the job satisfaction was significantly related to job organization factors. The potential applications ...Journal: International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics - INT J IND ERGONOMIC, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-6, 2009
- In the competitive market , virtual teams represent a growing response to the need for fasting time-to- market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Virtual teams enable organizations to pool the talents and expertise of employees and non-employees by eliminating time and space barriers . Nowadays, companies are heavily investing in virtual team to enhance their performance ...Published in 2009.
- New interaction tools such as internet allow companies to gain valuable input from research and development (R&D) engineers via virtual teams. Consequently, engineers also get more expertise in diminutive timeframes. Virtual R&D teams present the key impetus to the technology acquisition process. The present knowledge-economy era is characterized by short product life-cycles. Virtual R&...Published in 2009.
- This paper explores potential advantages and barriers of virtual teams toward making an interrelation between small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) with a comprehensive review on different aspects of virtual teams in SMEs based on authentic and reputed publications. The purpose of the state-of-the-art literature review is to provide an overview of what is known about the ...Published in 2009.
- Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is system that established a direct connection between the human brain and computer thus providing an additional communication channel. Nowadays, they are used in a broad filed of application. In the current application, a SSVEP is used to control a robotic hand through a BCI system. This paper present the preliminary results from two subjects which ...
- A study was conducted to investigate the effect of light assembly task on upper limb muscles (biceps brachii and upper trapezius) and brain activities. The task was conducted in two levels of time pressure (No time-stress and time-stress levels). Each task was done for one hour experiment. Surface electromyography (SEMG) measured upper limb muscle activities from six subjects. ...
- A study was conducted to investigate the effect of upper limb muscles during repetitive task consisted of three hand-arm directions: 30°, 90°, and 150°. The aims of this study were to investigate muscle activity during repetitive task, to compare muscle activity between genders and to determine the correlation between muscles and time. Biceps brachii, anterior deltoid, and upper trapezius ...
- Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive environment it is necessary for the enterprises to put together different capabilities and services with the goal. It is widely accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web services technology, ...Published in 2009.
- The Information area has revolutionized the workplace. Douglas Kruse, a professor of human resources and the director of the program for disability research at Rutgers University, states that 7% of employed persons with disabilities work 20 hours or more a week from home. While some modern countries have established “virtual teams”, which are said to be comprised of people who ...Published in 2009.
- Effect of work design factors which emphasis on job characteristics, environmental and organization factors on job satisfaction were examined in two manufacturing companies in Malaysia. One hundred and seventy male subjects with the mean age of 26.8 years and mean work experience of 6.5 years were involved. The potential applications of these methods developed namely questionnaire design, data ...
- In today’s dynamic marketplace, manufacturing companies are under strong pressure to introduce new products for long-term survival with their competitors. Nevertheless, every company cannot cope up progressively or immediately with the market requirements due to knowledge dynamics being experienced in the competitive milieu. Increased competition and reduced product life cycles put force upon companies to develop new products faster. ...Published in 2009.
- Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities. It is necessary for them to put together different capabilities and services with the goal, ...Published in 2009.
- New interaction tools such as internet allows companies to gain valuable input from research and development (R&D) engineers via virtual teams. Consequently engineers also get more expertise in diminutive timeframes. Virtual R&D teams present the key impetus to the technology acquisition process. The present knowledge-economy era is characterized by short product life-cycles. Virtual R&...Published in 2009.
- Published in 2009.
- Published in 2009.
- In today’s dynamic marketplace, companies are under strong pressure to introduce new products for long-term survival with their competitors. Besides, every company cannot cope up progressively or immediately with the market requirements due to knowledge dynamics being experienced in competitive milieu. Increased competition and reduced product life cycles put force upon companies to develop new products faster. In response ...Published in 2009.
- Published in 2009.
- Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in generating employment and supporting trade, they face numerous challenges, the prominent among them are the need to respond to fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Towards that end, research and development (R & D) ...Published in 2009.
- Published in 2009.
- New product development (NPD) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) virtual team has not been systematically investigated in developing countries. Literatures have shown no significant differences between traditional NPD and virtual NPD in general. New product development especially for SMEs virtual team are somewhat lacking in the literature and constitute a research gap. This paper aims to bridge this ...Published in 2009.
- This research presents a fuzzy controller technique in navigation with obstacle avoidance for a general pur- pose mobile robot in a given global environment with image processing technique using Open Source Com- puter Vision (OpenCV) library on Visual C++. Fuzzy Logic is used to control the navigation of the robot towards the goal while avoiding obstacles along the way by ...Journal: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics - JACIII, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 336-341, 2008
- Integration is the essence of current research and development (R&D) activity in many organizations. Integration can be established in various ways depending on the type, size and intricacy in organizational functions and products. Nevertheless, research and development (R&D) has become an inevitable function in most manufacturing companies in order to develop their own product niches for ...Published in 2008.
- Journal: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics - JACIII, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 342-347, 2008
- National and global collaboration in research and development (R&D) is becoming increasingly important in creating the knowledge that makes research and business more competitive. Multinational enterprises have increased their research and development (R&D) investment in different countries. These multiple sites encourage the development of more ideas, due to the varied international backgrounds in global networks and ...Published in 2008.
- The internationalization of R&D network is a recent phenomenon. In this knowledge based environment, the driving forces for this phenomenon are digitization, the internet, and high-speed data networks that are keys to address many of the operational issues from design to logistics and distribution. From the other direction to surviving in the highly competitive industry, requires strategies ...Published in 2008.
- Purpose - The literature on the topic has evolved exponentially since eight years ago. Relaying on a review of studies published in recent years, this article proposes and discusses a framework which incorporates a set of virtual teams involved in a new product development initiative. Design/methodology/approach A range of academic and practitioner literature related to virtual teams and virtual ...Published in 2008.
- Published in 2008.
- Published in 2008.
- Published in 2008.
- Published in 2008.
- In a global and technology oriented world the requirements that products and services have to fulfill are increasing and are getting more complicated. Research and development (R&D) is becoming increasingly important in creating the knowledge that makes research and business more competitive. Companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently. In order to meet ...Published in 2008.
- The globalization of Research and Development (R&D) is not a recent phenomenon. Since the1960s, for various reasons, companies have been performing some kind of R&D activities outside their home countries. The pressure of globalization competition force producers to continuously innovate and upgrade the quality of existing products. The mega trends like globalization and high demand fluctuation ...Published in 2008.
- It’s a widely accepted that innovation is better achieved by working in team. Virtual teams are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes. Virtual collaborative working environments are able to enhance the enterprises competitiveness. ICT has brought about significant changes in organizations and produced important benefits, including in the areas of innovation which is recognized as a prime source of national ...Published in 2008.
- Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities. It is necessary for them to put together different capabilities and services with the goal, ...Published in 2008.
- Published in 2008.
- In the competitive market, virtual teams represent a growing response to the need for fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Virtual teams enable organizations to pool the talents and expertise of employees and non-employees by eliminating time and space barriers. Nowadays, companies are heavily investing in virtual team to enhance their performance ...Published in 2008.
- Research and development functions are fundamental drivers of value creation in technology-based Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) seemingly successful R&D is a function of innovation processes and R&D networks. There is a perceived lack of understanding regarding the importance of SMEs and their need to continuously enhance their technological capabilities for the purpose of establishing ...Published in 2008.
- Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities. It is necessary for them to put together different capabilities and services with the goal, ...Published in 2008.
- Worms constitute a major source of Internet delay. A new worm is capable of replicating itself to vulnerable systems in a very short time, and infecting thousands of computers across the Internet before human response. A new worm floods the internet and halts most Internet related services, which spoils Internet economy. Therefore, detecting new worms is considered crucial and should ...Conference: International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering - CISSE, pp. 79-84, 2007
- Natural gas is an alternative to gasoline as a fuel for automotive engines. The combustion of natural gas produces mainly water and CO2 and significantly less CO and UHC emissions. In many cases, CNG vehicles generate fewer exhaust and greenhouse gas emissions than their gasoline or diesel-powered counterparts. While it is clean burning and in plentiful supply with a ...
- Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present a generic model on using the total productive maintenance (TPM) concept in conjunction with ecology oriented manufacturing (EOM) and 5S focusing on their joint strengths in attaining organizational goals in furtherance to the equipment maintenance objectives. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic implementation-framework coupled with the standard tools, techniques and practices ...
- Data and model of grip strength is crucial in designing hand tools. Hand tools design that properly fit the user will help reduce carpal tunnel syndrome and cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) in tasks that involve gripping in manual handling. The primary objective of this study is to obtain grip strength data and develop models to predict of grip strength of ...Journal: International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics - INT J IND ERGONOMIC, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 807-816, 2005
- Applications of systems like total quality management (TQM), total productive maintenance (TPM) and just-in-time (JIT) have been studied mainly in large industries with little attention being paid to small and medium industries (SMIs) in developing countries. This paper discusses the state of implementation of TPM in SMIs and the effects of lack of productive maintenance. The main hypothesis ...
- This paper describes the initial development of a computer based Rapid Prototyping Design Advice System. The system is intended to assist the designer or project manager, particularly those in small and medium sized companies, in planning the prototyping stage of product development. It provides the user with an efficient and user friendly development aid which uses information obtained from the ...
- Published in 1994.
- This paper presents a new approach to using neural networks in process control. In this approach the network is used to obtain a mapping of a process inputs to its outputs. Control parameters of a conventional controller such as a PI controller is extracted from this mapping. Simulation examples of a water bath temperature system and miniature industrial furnace system ...
- Journal: Robotics and Computer-integrated Manufacturing - ROBOT COMPUT-INTEGR MANUF, vol. 5, no. 2-3, pp. 183-189, 1989
- Barkawi Sahari, Yusoff Ali, Fakhru' l-Razi Ahmadun, Shahrir Abdullah, Masjuki Hj, Ishak Aris, Muhamad Adlan Abdullah, Fauzy Ahmad, V. Chelliah, , T. G. Chuah, Norman MariunThe research and development of automotive vehicle has always been influenced by the availability and the form of fuel. The oil reserves are depleting by the day. This will affect the automotive designs, research and development. particularly, the engine and transmission, fuel storage and the vehicle body. For passenger car, either an alternative fuel need to be sought and utilised ...
- The selection process of a suitable machine tool among the increased number of alternatives has been an important issue for manufacturing companies for years. This is because the improper selection of a machine tool may cause many problems that will affect the overall performance. In this paper, a decision support system (DSS) is presented to select the best alternative machine ...
- The purpose of the present research was to build a simple model for cutting tool wear monitoring during the machining process. In addition, by this model a prediction of cutting tool wear for a variety of different cutting speeds and feed rates should be possible. Therefore, the vibration was measured by an accelerometer, and cutting force was measured by a ...
- In this paper, a new approach to predict cutting tool wear using Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) Neural Network in the turning operation is presented. The input features were derived from the measurement of cutting forces and accelerometer signal during machining process. Four input features were applied to the Learning Vector Quantization Neural Network to predict a wear state of light, ...
- In respond to new market requirements and competitive positioning of manufacturing companies and in order to provide cost effective, high performance products, there is a need for reconfigurable manufacturing systems with a view of introducing new manufacturing technologies. However one of the problems faced is how to select the alternative machines that are consistent with manufacturing goals. In this paper ...
- Sepaktakraw is a traditional game played at international level in Asia. The game is played by using various parts of the body except the hands. Most notably the head is very often used. But unlike soccer, no study has been done on injuries caused by contact between the ball and the head. The balls are typically made of plastic. Recently ...
- In the game of sepaktakraw the players often use the head to control the ball at high speeds. Recently a new type of ball was introduced which is still made of plastic but impregnated with rubber. The reason for this is to reduce the impact of the ball on the head. However it was found that the new ball was ...
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