Saturday, June 9, 2012
Obstacles to developing local expertise
It is very sad to see the factories which in the past 2 decades were hiring assembly and frontline operators in the semiconductor has lately been given permision to hire for engineering nd maintainence positions! Many years ago, in 1983, I brought my university mate who has a degree in Phyics for interview for process engineer. He was turned down due to his red IC! and was given a run around to get a work permit from Labour ministry. Today, we have so many local engineering graduates, yet, I see the semiconductor companies hiring Filipino technicians and engineers! Why? Who allowed this to happen? Those days we had manangement trainee, engineering trainee scheme to train local graduates into process engineers and production executives. The Human Resources depts take n easy way by dealing with agents of foreign workers recruitment companies!
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Reducing the Drug Menance.
Every now and then, we read of people being sentenced to death! Most of the cases we read usually involves a courier who was caught, not the manufacturer or the whole chain behind this incident! Why? With all the years of fighting the drug menance, is it so difficult to identify the sources,people, kingpins behind this? Are we devoting our resources to catching the couriers or the preventing such thing from happening in the first place?
Currently mostly who are caught are people who are flying in. So why can't we request all airlines coming to Malaysia to put up, 1. A big banner at their sales offices Drugs means Death in Malaysia and pictures and writes up of cases caught. 2. To attach a leaflet to the ticket containing the same info in the local language of the passengers. I guess such simpleactions alone will create great awareness on the dangers of couriering drugs to Malaysia.
What are the authorities doing to prevent drugs coming into Malaysia? Have any bigtimers in overseas caught incooperation with the foreign nations?
Currently mostly who are caught are people who are flying in. So why can't we request all airlines coming to Malaysia to put up, 1. A big banner at their sales offices Drugs means Death in Malaysia and pictures and writes up of cases caught. 2. To attach a leaflet to the ticket containing the same info in the local language of the passengers. I guess such simpleactions alone will create great awareness on the dangers of couriering drugs to Malaysia.
What are the authorities doing to prevent drugs coming into Malaysia? Have any bigtimers in overseas caught incooperation with the foreign nations?
Reducing accidents!
We read daily of so many road accidents, burnt cars, buses not able brake at hill roads etc. What is being done to improve the situation? With vehicle ownership increasing, there is a need to inculculate safety awareness to all involved. How can we do that?
One simple step is to educate everyone, including our authorities responsible as well, on a simple methodology, used in Space missions and now extensively applied in automotive manufacturing and other areas, what is known as FMEA. It stands for Failure Modes & Effects Analysis. It is a straight forward methodology utilizing past experience and imagination of team members who are from different areas of expertise to identify all possible modes of failures that could occur in a process and the effects of failures to the customers and subsequent processes. And brainstorming all the possible causes for the failures to occur and putting in place controls either to prevent the causes from occuring or detect the failures before damage is done. This simple methodology was developed during the late 50s in the space missions of Nasa. And now, for all automotive component manufacturers must perform an FMEA on all process and regularly review it to reduce the risk probabilities of failure occurences.
I believe if all drivers, RMIV officials are put through on FMEA and have the completed FMEA posted on lorry/bus drivers office/restrooms etc, there will be a big improvement in accidents!
Lately, we read reports of cars catching fire! Who is following up on the causes? The insurance companies? The car manufacturers? The owners? The Authorities? And what steps have been taken to eliminate cars/vehicles from burning? This is where doing an FMEA and implementing the controls arising from it will go a long way in reducing such unwanted incidents!
One simple step is to educate everyone, including our authorities responsible as well, on a simple methodology, used in Space missions and now extensively applied in automotive manufacturing and other areas, what is known as FMEA. It stands for Failure Modes & Effects Analysis. It is a straight forward methodology utilizing past experience and imagination of team members who are from different areas of expertise to identify all possible modes of failures that could occur in a process and the effects of failures to the customers and subsequent processes. And brainstorming all the possible causes for the failures to occur and putting in place controls either to prevent the causes from occuring or detect the failures before damage is done. This simple methodology was developed during the late 50s in the space missions of Nasa. And now, for all automotive component manufacturers must perform an FMEA on all process and regularly review it to reduce the risk probabilities of failure occurences.
I believe if all drivers, RMIV officials are put through on FMEA and have the completed FMEA posted on lorry/bus drivers office/restrooms etc, there will be a big improvement in accidents!
Lately, we read reports of cars catching fire! Who is following up on the causes? The insurance companies? The car manufacturers? The owners? The Authorities? And what steps have been taken to eliminate cars/vehicles from burning? This is where doing an FMEA and implementing the controls arising from it will go a long way in reducing such unwanted incidents!
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