Identify and analyze the implementation of industrial automation usage in industrial sector. case study:Motosikal dan Enjin Nasional Sdn Bhd (MODENAS)
Abstract
The usage and implementation of current technology are the critical factor to the organization to adapting with the business environment. Implementation of automation systems in manufacturing process can be a choice for the useful benefits that can receive in many business industries. To implement it, that’s needed to identify and analyze very carefully to maximizing the systems to make valuable benefits and satisfaction both to the company and customers. Lead time, cycle time, production capacity, direct and indirect worker, and reject rate factor are the issues that can affected and also need to consider for the top management to make right decision to implementing automation systems in their manufacturing process. This research was used exploratory research and qualitative method by used interview in Motosikal and Enjin Nasional Sdn.Bhd (MODENAS). The information received during the interview, and another sources are used to identify and analyze the implementation of automation usage in industrial sectors.
Acknowledgement
I would like to express profound gratitude to my supervisor, Prof. Madya Dr. Zulkifli bin Mohamed Udin for his invaluable support, encouragement, supervision and useful suggestions throughout this research work. Her moral support and continuous guidance enabled me to complete my work successfully. Moreover, I am also highly thankful to my project paper lecturer Puan Mastora Mustafar for their valuable lecture whose help and guide me to understand about research knowledge throughout this study.
I am grateful for the cooperation of Motosikal and Enjin Nasional Sdn Bhd (MODENAS) by allowing mo to make industrial visited and interview. I really appreciate to Mr. Sazari B. Mohamad as a KAIZEN coordinator in MODENAS Company for their time and lovely cooperation that was given me a lot of information and answer all my questions without hesitation during the interview to complete this research.
I am as ever, especially indebted to my parents, my brothers, and Julita Endah Prasetyaningsih for their love and support throughout my life. I am also wish to thank to my group interview member Izy, Ita, Hanim, Kang, and Luqman for the chance to went with them for interview in MODENAS Company. I’m also would like wish to thanks to my best friends in Indonesia for the biggest support and courage to make me still have the spirit to finished this research.
CHAPTER 1
RESEARCH BACKGROUND
1.0 Introduction
In today’s business worlds, corporation or organization must be able to react to the changing of market needs rapidly, effectively and responsively. Only corporation that have ability to adapt with today changing which is very fast will be able to compete with another competitors in terms of business related. Moreover, in the current highly competitive business environment, the industry is challenged by the demand for productivity, quality, safety, and environmental protection. Tight profit margins and networked manufacturing emphasize the need for integration and global optimization of production facilities.
Nowadays, the technology has been rapidly changing and developing in the industrial sector. The usage and implementation of current technology are the critical factor to the organization to adapting with the business environment. In the industrial sector especially in manufacturing process, the effectively and efficiency of the process can affect many things in that process such as lead time, cycle time, direct and indirect worker, production capacity, and reject rate (possibility of zero defects)
In the manufacturing process, the more importance is how to optimizing it and how to improve productivity and competitiveness in the past. To improving the manufacturing process, the top management in the corporation needs to identify and analyze for making an innovation and continuous improvement in the manufacturing process to making sure the process is run effectively and efficiently and also can give more profit to the organization.
There is a lot of industrial products are becoming more complex and have higher added value than before. At the same time, the number of product variations increases and their lifetime gets shorter. As a result, a lot of industries need to focus on the high and current technology. And also operate the manufacturing process in the with lower labor costs. As a result, the industrial automation systems can be an option to fulfill the industries that need to focus in adapted in fast changing business environment, the needs of high technology, and concentrates how to minimizes and reduces labor costs, received high product quality, and also make the manufacturing and production process run effectively and efficiently to achieved the highest customer satisfaction.
Furthermore, industrial automation is one of the system that have been implementing and using in manufacturing process to changing the traditional system (manual method/system) in manufacturing process. Before I’m more deeply explaining about identify and analyze the implementation of Industrial automation usage in the industrial sector. I would like to give explanation about what is industrial automation, why we need to identify and analyze the implementation of industrial automation usage in the industrial sector, and also what is the result that we can find after we analyze and identify the company or organization whose implementing industrial automation systems, after that how a company or organization made decision to using and implementing industrial automation rather than using traditional or manual production system.
What is automation? According to Dictionary, R. H. (2009), automation is the technique, method, or system of operating or controlling a process by highly automatic means, as by electronic devices, is reducing human intervention to a minimum. And than, according to Mikell. P. Groover (1987), automation is a technology concerned with the application of mechanical, electronic, and computer based systems to operate and control production. Based on Wikipedia (2009), the definition of industrial automation in the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provided human operators with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly reduces the need for human sensory and mental requirements as well. Processes and systems can also be automated. Moreover, according to IDC engineering (2008), the industrial automation is a discipline that includes knowledge and expertise from various branch of engineering including electrical, electronics, chemical, mechanical, communications, and more recently computer and software engineering. Automation and control by its very nature demands a cross fertilization of these faculties. Based on that definition, industrial automation is one of the systems that greatly reduces the need for labor and used more automation in the manufacturing process to make effectively and efficiency in the industrial sector.
In addition, why we need to identify and analyze the implementation of Industrial Automation Usage in the Industrial sector? Identifying and analyzing the implementation of industrial automation is the important things that top management need to consider it. Implementation of automation in the industrial need to consider because there is a lot of things that need to consider such as how many number of workers in the plant (direct and indirect worker), how is the relation with cycle time and lead time in the production process, how many production output (increasing or decreasing if using or not using automation in industrial), and than how reject rate can be reduced if using or not using automation in production the process. Moreover, the implementation of using automation in the industrial process need to consider what I was written before, and than how is automation can give benefit if we are using it industrial process.
And than, Identify and analyze the implementation of Industrial automation usage in the Industrial sector can give some valuable information before the company top management make a decision for using automation in the production process or not using it. With good identify and analyze it can help the top management to make a good and accurate decision before implement automation in production process.
On the other hand, there is any controversial factor in implementing industrial automation such as unemployment factor, environment factor and human replacement factor. It is commonly thought that automation implies unemployment due to the fact that a machine replaces the work of a human being in part or completely. This factor can be controversial because the usage of industrial automation can be replaced a human chance to being employed. Another controversial factor is environment; this is because the costs of automation to the environment are different depending on the technology, product or engine automated. There are automated engines that consume more energy resources from the Earth in comparison with previous engines and those that do the opposite too. The last controversial factor is Human being replacement, In the future there is a possibility that the Artificial intelligence could replace and improve a human brain and the robots would become not only fully automated but also fully autonomous from the human beings
On this factor, making big issues in the implementing industrial automation in the industrial sector. As a result, a top management needs to identify and analyze the usage of industrial automation before making a decision to implementing it.
On this paper, I’m trying to identify and analyze the implementation of industrial automation usage in the Industrial sector. Case study: Motosikal and Enjin Nasional Sdn.Bhd (MODENAS).
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