BUKU ABSTRAK - Universiti Putra Malaysia

Safety-based Flight Scheduler and Management System
Dr. Rodziah Atan
Masrah Azrifah Azmi Murad, Mohd. Yazid Md. Saman, Bahram Zarrin and Ahmad Shahi Soozei
Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia,
43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
+603-8946 6574; rodziah@fsktm.upm.edu.my
Keywords: Flight scheduler, safety-based system
Koye Kacang Powder Forming Machine
Dr. Rosnah Shamsudin
Muhammad Redzuan Shah Ismail and Khalina Abdan
Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia,
43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
+603-8946 6366; rosnahs@eng.upm.edu.my
Keywords: Koye @ putu kacang, Malay traditional food, powder forming
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Science, Technology & Engineering
Scheduler and management system that aimed to be invented as a hardware-embedded system to support
scheduling, estimation and dynamic environmental safety caution alerting for flight trips from one destination to
another. An intelligent agent that is able to produce decision options for unusual situations (dynamic environment,
such as sudden weather changes) will be applied to the application to coupe with real-time safety precautions. It
should come in a form of hardware and software together in one hardware device to increase the portability of the
system. It is a plug-and-play scheduler and management system, which required no installation and minimises
utilisation of CPU space.
Koye Kacang Powder Forming Machine is designed to produce the Koye Kacang biscuit. Koye Kacang or
Putu Kacang biscuit is a mixture of green bean, sugar and some water. This machine is simple, practical, more
hygienic, saves cost of production and labour energy. The machine is developed to overcome the labour cost
and efficiency problems encountered by Koye Kacang producers. The machine comprises three main processing
parts which are the feeding unit, compression unit and knocking unit. The main components of the machine are
pneumatic pusher, feeder tank, horizontal guide plate, pneumatic compressor, presser plate, moulding plate, side
plate, connecting steel, conveyor belt, sliding plate, and collecting tank. The dimension of the machine is 1570mm
(length) × 1800mm (height) × 668mm (width) and has a capacity of approximately 15kg/hr. The mixture of the
powdery dough is being placed inside the feeder tank; pneumatic pusher will then push the feeder tank forward
along the guiding rail for subsequent filling process. The Koye Kacang dough mixture then fills the moulding
plate below the guiding rail via gravitational force. After the filling process has been done, pneumatic compressor
will push the presser head downward for the compression process on the filled dough. Later, pneumatic lifter will
rotate the moulding block downward, causing compressed dough to be knocked out from the moulding plate. This
machine showed 100% efficiency in feeding process at full capacity. For the compression and knocking process,
the efficiency of the process was 87.5%. The total efficiency of the whole machine was 91.67%. Based on the high
performance of the machine, it is certainly capable to assist Koye Kacang producers to reduce the labour cost and
time of processing, thus increasing the productivity considerably.