List of Articles Mohamad Ikbar Abdul Wahab

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  1 - The impact of work from home on productivity among manufacturing industry workers during MCO
  Mohd Amran Mohd Daril Nur Syairah Dazreena Nor ‘Azman Mohamad Ikbar Abdul Wahab Khairanum Subari Nohman Khan Sobia Irum
  10.22094/joie.2023.1973928.2020
  Thousands of people had significant health problems as the COVID-19 virus swept over the country which is increasing the fatality rate. The only way to stop the epidemic from spreading was for affected countries to halt all civil and eco-nomic operations for an extended More

  Thousands of people had significant health problems as the COVID-19 virus swept over the country which is increasing the fatality rate. The only way to stop the epidemic from spreading was for affected countries to halt all civil and eco-nomic operations for an extended period. As a result, some governments have imposed a global lockdown, which is still in effect. In this scenario, all business activity in all industries is halted. For numerous industries, the shutdown has a variety of ramifications. The aviation, hospitality, restaurant, and manufacturing industries, for example, have all shut down and will take years to recover. To tackle the current scenario, businesses are attempting to manage offices and administrative jobs using the "Work from Home" (WFH) paradigm. Businesses are attempting to withstand the storm. Furthermore, the factors that affects the productivity of work from home had been identified. Productivity has been largely determined by occupant self-reports. These are more subjective in nature and more prone to bias than satisfaction ratings, as respondents are asked to make an estimate based on their own emotions Manuscript profile
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  2 - Critical success factors for implementation of quality improvement initiative
  Mohamad Ikbar Abdul Wahab Faris Hakim Mazlan Mohd Amran Mohd Daril Khairanum Subari Mazlan Awang Khairul Anuar Mohd Ali Nohman Khan
  10.22094/joie.2023.1973933.2021
  As time evolves, the demand of the markets becomes much more dynamic and for meeting client’s expectations and have the edge over others, changes in existent processes are compulsory. Thus, Improvement Initiative (IMI) provides guidelines in achieving organization More

  As time evolves, the demand of the markets becomes much more dynamic and for meeting client’s expectations and have the edge over others, changes in existent processes are compulsory. Thus, Improvement Initiative (IMI) provides guidelines in achieving organizational goals which is to optimize profit and enhance the productivity. However, several cases have been reported with low rate of success of the IMI’s practice in which they have failed to achieve the intended improvement result and one of the factors is lack of awareness of the IMI’s Critical Success Factors (CSF). The process to identify the CSFs of an IMI is significant as it allows organizations to focus their effort to make sure they are ready and qualified when implementing the respective IMI and prevent improvement failures in the future. In addition, lack of reference regarding the reference model of comprehensive CSFs for an IMI from existing literatures allow a new study to bridge this research gap. Therefore, this paper sets out the findings of reviewing and gathering latest critical success factors and thus developing a reference model that incorporate lists of CSFs for each IMI with their attributes. This study incorporated Positivism as the research perspective and adopted quantitative research method to meet the objectives. Via extensive systematic literature review (SLR) procedures, a total of 72 publications were used to extract information needed which later enable the conceptual model development for IMI selection of comprehensive critical success factors as a reference support for decision makers. To ensure generalization of the model, the quantitative research method was adopted with a total of 137 respondents’ feedback of survey were gathered from various organizations. The reflective-formative hierarchical model was then developed and analyzed using structural equation modelling (SEM) via Smart PLS software to test the model of CSFs for IMI. As the final result, six out of nine CSFs with 39 attributes were considered as critical factors when choosing the most suitable IMI to be adopted in an organization. As a conclusion, this research provides organizational readiness when starting to deploy IMI by providing comprehensive critical success factors as a reference point to aid and prepare practitioners that will lead to the failure of improvement in their business. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Types of welding process and relationship with defective rate in structural fabrication for oil & gas project
  Mohd Amran Mohd Daril Abd. Rahim Sidek Mohamad Ikbar Abdul Wahab Khairanum Subari Sobia Irum Nohman Khan
  10.22094/joie.2023.1973923.2019
  This research sought to identify the best welding processes with the lowest de-fective rate. It is important to select the most appropriate welding process for a certain condition, such as welding, taking into consideration technical and eco-nomic viability. This study More

  This research sought to identify the best welding processes with the lowest de-fective rate. It is important to select the most appropriate welding process for a certain condition, such as welding, taking into consideration technical and eco-nomic viability. This study will help the key person in the organisation make the right decision on the selection welding process. The existence of many welding processes on the market, each with their own sets of advantages and disad-vantages, makes determining the optimal welding process for a given situation challenging. As a result, selecting which welding process would provide the best welding quality at the lowest cost is critical to the success of any company's mar-ket strategy. There are three (3) variables that will be further investigated, which are: weld-ing process (WP), defective rate (DR), and types of welding defect (WD). This study will analyse welder data from the welding department in MMHE, Pasir Gudang, Johor. The software that is going to be used is Minitab and SPSS. The re-search methodology starts with data collection, data screening, description analy-sis, inferential statistical analysis, independent sample t-test, correlation analysis, and regression analysis. The result of the analysis shows that there is a correlation between WP versus DR and WP versus WD, but it is a weak correlation. The re-sults also show that SAW is the best welding process and contributes almost no defects. The SAW process is the right choice for fabricators to use in the structural fabrication industry. However, due to time constraints, probably the cost factor of SAW process is slightly higher than other welding processes not discussed in this study Manuscript profile
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  4 - The barriers and critical success factor for implementing lean manufacturing at SMEs
  Mohd Amran Mohd Daril Shazlen Farhana Mohamad Fadeli Mohamad Ikbar Abdul Wahab Khairanum Subari Latipah Nordin Muhammad Imran Queshi
  10.22094/joie.2023.1973882.2018
  Small Medium Enterprise (SME) gives a big pressure on the management of their assets. Lack of expertise and awareness will become the major obstacles in achieving a better business strategy. Lean principles are applied in manufacturing and service industries extensively More

  Small Medium Enterprise (SME) gives a big pressure on the management of their assets. Lack of expertise and awareness will become the major obstacles in achieving a better business strategy. Lean principles are applied in manufacturing and service industries extensively, but its success application in industry has been poor. The main objective of this study is to identify the Barrier for implementation of Lean Manufacturing (LM) at SMEs and to determine the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Implementation of Lean Manufacturing (LM) at SMEs. The data was collected using questionnaire and all the data was analyzed by using SPSS. There are 208 respondents involved in this study and the questionnaire is accepted with Cronbach’s Alpha more than 0.7. From the new conceptual model created after KMO and Bartlett’s Test, the researchers show there is one construct eliminated for both CSFs and Barriers. This study found that the construct for the Barrier for implementation of Lean Manufacturing at SMEs were related to resources, management, knowledge and financial. The construct for the CSFs for Implementation of Lean Manufacturing at SMEs were related to responsibility & leadership, supplier, people management and resource. The proposed model from this study will only be suitable for SMEs in Pasir Gudang Industrial area. Manuscript profile