SYNOPSIS

This course is for managers, planners, researchers, and lecturers in the Agricultural and Food Industry and also for others in operations management. The course will discuss and evaluate ways to systematically explain and analyze processes; describe the various work measurement techniques; identify metrics for process evaluation; describe Pareto charts, cause-and-effect diagrams and process simulation; and, create better processes using benchmarking, and identifying keys for effective process management. The course will also define the major activities associated with defining, organizing, planning, monitoring, and controlling projects; identifying the sequence of critical activities that determines the duration of a project; and defining the options available to alleviate resource problems. In decision analysis the break-even analysis will be explained using both the graphics and algebraic approaches and participants will be explained on how to construct the payoff table and to identify the maximin, maximax, laplace, minimax regret and expected value decision rules and to describe how to draw and analyze a decision tree.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Associate Professor Dr. Johari Endan
Ir. Dr. Johari graduated with a Ph.D in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA in 1990. He has a B.S and M.S in Agricultural Engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (1976, 1978) and a Diploma in Agriculture (Malaya) in 1973.
He is currently Associate Professor at UPM where he had served for more than 30 years. He teaches Agricultural Process Engineering and several other Process Engineering and Engineering Design Courses, and Operations Management at the Graduate School of Management UPM. Ir. Dr. Johari had four years private sector working experience with Kelanamas Industries Berhad, and Tunas Selatan Consortium Sdn. Bhd., where he was involved in the proposal to build the hospital in Sungai Buloh which is now completed and operational. Dr. Johari was the Managing Director of the University Business Centre for 5 years where he initiated, monitored and help improved on several privatisation projects in UPM. Earlier on, he was the Deputy Dean of the Engineering Faculty who headed the first curriculum review and accreditation exercise for 5 engineering programs. Ir. Dr. Johari is active in consultancy work related to Controlled-Environment Engineering and had successfully designed several Plant Growth Chambers. He was also group        leader in the Design of an all-Malaysian first Hyperbaric Chamber and is currently doing a research project in High Pressure Processing (HPP) of Food.