Workshop Owners Research Articles

An Inclusive and Effective End-of-Life Vehicle Recycling System in India: Balancing Economy and Ecology from Grave to Cradle

End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs) in India are often recycled by car breaking yards operating in the informal sector. In the absence of well-established, state-of-the-art ELV mechanisms, their work – ensures crucial recycling of ELVs. Multiple qualitative analysis methods, such as desk study, literature review, and field visits, are utilized. Our study shows the following: car breaking yards frequently work in an inefficient manner causing environmental hazards and health risks; the replacement policy adopted during vehicle servicing by Original Equipment Manufacturers and Authorized Dealers results in inefficient material use; Informal actors such as Private workshop owners and Reconditioning shops enable significant savings in material and costs, partly by substituting capital and energy with labour. We propose an inclusive 3R (reuse, recondition, and recycle) framework, which integrates various informal actors involved in ELV recycling. This sustainability-oriented framework ensures that the components and materials circulate in a closed loop.

Informal and Reliable: Bolivian Immigrants in Korean Sewing Workshops in the Argentine Garment Industry*

At the beginning of Korean migration to Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s, most Korean immigrants in Argentina were intensively involved in garment sewing and knitting jobs, working as employees at or owners of Korean workshops subcontracted by Jewish manufacturers. However, due to the substantial upward mobility of the Korean business community, eventually Korean workshop owners, out of necessity, started recruiting workers from outside of their co‐ethnic networks. Based on ethnographic research in Argentina, this study aims to explore why and how Korean employers have created labor relationships exclusively with Bolivian immigrants in their workshops in the Argentine garment industry with a particular focus on informality. For Korean workshop owners who are managing their businesses extremely informally, it is strategic to turn to the group they feel is most trustworthy. Bolivian seamstresses prefer to work for Korean workshop owners as Korean employers are deemed more dependable, pay on time and in full, and provide relatively better working conditions in comparison to Bolivian employers. This research further proves that it is particularly crucial for linkages of bounded solidarity and tacit trust to be established among all actors involved when employment and business practices are managed in a highly informal environment.

Occupational Accident Analysis in CV. Purnama Workshop Using HAZOP (Hazard and Operability) Method

CV. Purnama’s workshop is a welding workshop with appropriate technology. The workshop covers an area of 600 m2 , with a total of seven workers. The workshop manufactures a cracker-making machine, a cutting machine, a dough mixer, etc. A preliminary study on the manufacturing process of the workshop conducted in 2014 reported a work accident in which the workers’ feet were exposed to iron. Also, in 2019, workers fell into a boiler-machine pulley, which hit the head of one of the workers. Thus, this study aims to determine the risks and hazards involved in the work process at the Purnama workshop. This study used a qualitative research method and collected data through observation in each machine-building process and interviews with all workshop employees and workshop owners. The results of this study highlighted that the process of making a chopping machine had six hazards, while that of a dough mixer had five. The levels of hazards in the processes of making a chopping machine and a dough mixer were “high” at 58% and 56%, respectively. It is concluded that since a higher level of danger was found in each machine-building process in the workshop, risk control is necessary to avoid work accidents or occupational diseases. The workshop owners and workers are recommended to apply K3 in the workplace.
 Keywords: HAZOP, risk assessment, work accidents

EXPLORATION OF TAX COMPLIANCE DETERMINATION ON MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE

The background of this research is the contribution of tax revenue from the Small Micro and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector which is still less than the national tax revenue although the amount of tax revenue from the UMKM sector continues to grow. This condition occurs after the government issued special tax rates for MSMEs through Government Regulation Number 46 of 2013 and most recently amended through Government Regulation Number 23 of 2018. The sources of this research are the MSMEs taxpayers in Tegal City, Tegal Regency, and Brebes Regency which consist of industry players, store building owners, food stall owners, transportation service actors, workshop owners, gold shop owners, and fishing tool shop owners. This research was made using a qualitative research design with a qualitative descriptive approach. The conclusion obtained from this research is that MSMEs tax compliance is influenced by the determinants of the modernization of the taxation system (e-System), the financial condition of taxpayers, financial records, service from tax officers, the level of tax awareness, transparency of information on the use of tax results, the level of understanding of taxpayers. Taxes, tax systems, tax sanctions, and annual tax return forms. The theoretical benefit of this research is that it can be used as a reference in the development of further research, increasing knowledge about the theory related to tax compliance and the factors that affect the level of compliance of MSMEs in carrying out their tax obligations. The practical benefit of this research is that it can provide input for the Government to design regulations that can be understood by all levels of society and supported by simple and applicable instruments. As well as being able to contribute to MSMEs so that they can participate in national development through fulfilling honest and open tax obligations

Challenges Encountering Crafts Owners of Hattaba after 25th of January Egyptian Uprisings: An Analytical Review

This study aimed to investigate risks and challenges that confront crafts owners in Hattaba and analyze the public, private and NGOs interventions regarding such challenges after 25th of January Egyptian Uprisings. In designing the data collection tools, in-depth interviews were conducted with fourteen (14) artisans and workshop owners in Hattaba, added to Focus Groups Discussions (FGDs) conducted with a group of the youth (8) working within the area aiming at identifying their risks and vulnerabilities and their views about the appropriate ways to resolve their problems. The actual implementation of the research study started in December 8 2018 and ended in February 4 2018. The study showed that industries and handicrafts suffered from a vacuum in making clear and consistent policies, rules and regulations regarding their duties and rights leading craftsmen to be more confused and disappointed towards their sustainability of working on traditional industries. In addition, there was a problem of marketing the products of the craftsmen in confronting imported handicrafts from China and India, cheaper in prices and better in quality. Moreover, crafts owners must access to accurate data and statistics enabling developmental agencies to cooperate with them. The partnership between the public sector, private sector, and NGOs is, also, required for organizing and developing local artisans and handicrafts. The study sets recommendations as it will be better for the Egyptian government to 1-Ratify international complaints' mechanism. 2-Activate the article (78) of the 2014 Egyptian constitution. 3-Establish national centers of studies and research for improving local handicrafts.

Determination of Safe Level of Benzene Concentration in Mechanics Workshop “X” Tembalang Semarang

Vehicles are used in community in a large number and being repaired in motorbike repair shops. The repaired motorbike at the workshop has the potential to provide benzene exposure to the mechanic, so the mechanic was also at risk of experiencing health problems due to benzene exposure. This study aimed to determine the safe concentration of benzene in Workshop X Tembalang, Semarang. This study was a descriptive research. The population in this study were mechanics at Locations 1 and 2, totally 18 people. The results of this study were quantitatively analyzed to determine the safe concentration of benzene for workers obtained from the benzene concentrations in the workplace, worker height, worker weight, rats weight, worker respiration rate, length of work, worker body surface area, mice body surface area, highest dose of toxin without effect on experimental animals (NOAEL), Km factor in animals (Animal Km), Km factors in workers (Human Km), and safe limit dose for workers (RfC). The measurement of benzene concentration at Location 1 was 0.28 ppm and Location 2 was 0.19 ppm, which means that the benzene concentration was still below the Threshold Value according to Minister of Manpower Regulation Number 13 in 2011 amounting to 0.5 ppm. This research showed that the safe limit value was 0.023 ppm. Based on the minimum risk level, the concentration of benzene everyday that can cause acute effects was 0.009 ppm and that can cause chronic effects was 0.003 ppm. These standards indicate that the concentration of benzene in the workshop has the potential to have a negative impact on the health of workers. Recommendations to workshop owners and mechanics are to periodically monitor benzene levels in the air, use personal protective equipment by all mechanics and if needed the workshop owner can conduct a health check-up for all mechanics.

Understanding Analysis of Production Cost Calculation, Determining Sell Price, and Financial Literation of Industrial Businesses Continuity in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) in City of Pekanbaru

A micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) becomes a special attention of the government to increase Indonesian economic sector. The development of MSME and creative economy will create a new economic resource and support regional economic development to provide a job, and MSME has high economic resilience too. In a practice, some problems often occur in cost-production calculation, the determining of sell price, and financial literacy that cause an error in calculating profit, so a business actor is wrong in analyzing the financial condition of the MSME. That condition encourages low business growth and even bankruptcy of MSME due to not being able to compete or experiencing acute Financial Distress. The development of the number of small sub-district industries in Pekanbaru City has decreased significantly by 53%. The number of small industries in 2016 amounted to 117 decreased to 54 units in 2017. Such a situation makes it necessary to pay special attention to understanding the calculation of production costs, determining selling prices and financial literacy among MSME sector players.The research method conducted here is a Qualitative method using a case study strategy in analyzing and applying it. The result of this study shows the lack of understanding of welding workshop owners related to the calculation of production costs, determining the selling price and financial literacy will have an impact on business continuity. This error – in analyzing costs and selling prices – causes it to be one of the factors of loss or inability to reach the break-even point of production, resulting in a loss and the inability of the company to remain competitive. Keywords : Production Costs, Selling Prices, Financial Literacy, Business Continuity DOI: 10.7176/RJFA/11-6-09 Publication date: March 31 st 2020

Sistem Informasi Geografi (SIG) Pencarian Lokasi Tambal Ban dengan Pemanfaatan Teknologi GPS

The occurrence of a tire leak in the middle of a trip can often be caused by many things, such as being hit by a sharp object, the age of the tire is too old, leaking in the former patches, or it can be caused by others. These factors make vehicle users panic and think to immediately find the nearest tire repair location. Almost everyone has a smartphone where there is a Google Map application by utilizing GPS technology so as not to get lost when driving, with GPS technology can be estimated the distance between one location and another. The purpose of this study is to produce a GIS mobile application that provides a tire patch location search feature with information, so that it is expected to be useful for vehicle users if they experience a tire accident or erupt on the road. The workshop information that is presented is the opening / closing time of the workshop, there are nitrogen added facilities or not, tubeless tire patches, can repair motorcycle tire patches or can also tire the car and the contact of the workshop owner, so you can directly contact the nearest tire patch. The results of testing the user's response to the use of the application indicate that the application is useful.

Electronic Marketing of traditional crafts in Egypt

Crafts and traditional industries are one of the most important economic activities that connect between the history and habits on the area where they exist. All along the history Egypt has been famous for heritage arts and their crafts men who achieved wonderful results in many crafts such as patchwork, arabisc, pottery, jewels, and handmade carpets. Thus preserving the Egyptian heritage and crafts is one of the main aims of the study, therefore, the study sheds light on the most important traditional crafts in Egypt and highlights the main obstacles that face such crafts. Aims of the study are achieved through carrying out some interviews with those interested in this field. Also, questionnaires were distributed to a sample of workshop owners and factories in Cairo and Giza to know how they use electronic marketing of crafts, and their suggestions to promote this sector. The results of the study indicate that using internet helps provide tourism service with high quality through saving time and effort. The study recommends the necessity of training workers and giving them some skills through training courses that qualify them to use such devices.

Analisis Deskriptif Service Marketing Mix Bengkel Roda Dua Suzuki Magetan

In general, small-beginner workshops only apply traditional marketing and run as simple as possible. Problems arise as a result of the management of the marketing management of the workshop owner who is unable to answer the demands of the customer, causing loss of customers. The formulation of the problem in this study is how the integrated marketing services of the Suzuki Magetan workshop? this research is expected to be able to develop knowledge in the field of marketing communications, especially integrated marketing services, as well as providing knowledge to business startups to be used as a reference and help increase the number of customers. Customer is an asset that determines the company's growth and development. This type of research is qualitative descriptive, because it examines the integrated service marketing of a service company and uses qualitative descriptive research methods. Data collection techniques are complete participatory observation, unstructured interviews and documentation to obtain supplementary data. The purpose of this research are to improve the ability of researchers in the field of marketing communication, to be a means for researchers to publish the results of research in national scientific journals, initiating research road maps for researchers.

Manufacturing and Migration in Eurasia

This article investigates the social foundations of apparel manufacturing in Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon interviews and a survey of Bishkek-based workshop owners, a bottom-up analysis finds that many are family businesses that started producing clothing after the country’s independence in 1991. I discuss here how they acquired the capital and knowledge necessary for this business, and how they mobilised a variety of migration-related experiences and relationships—often related to bazaar work—to compete in the sector. The findings contribute to a growing literature on how migration can facilitate family-based manufacturing in the post-Soviet region, although not without significant costs and challenges.

PELAKSANAAN PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM MEREK UNTUK PENGUSAHA KERAJINAN SULAMAN KARAWO DI GORONTALO

the use of Trademarks and the importance of legal protection Trademarks for karawo entrepreneurs vary and also depend on their type or field of business, whether: workshop owners or batik production houses, shop owners or karawo showrooms, or owners of both. However, the average respondent stated that the main factor to attract consumers is the quality and motif or karaoke design. The average respondent also does not want to imitate the trademark of another employer, and understands that registration of the trademark rights can strengthen the protection of the use of his trademark. There does not appear to be a problem in relation to the use of Trademarks for batik products. Because there is almost no Brand dispute case among kerajanian businessmen karawo. Then, the wishes of the karawo entrepreneurs to use and register a Collective Brand are varied, but on average respondents consider that the karawo products they produce have regional characteristics.

PEMODELAN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMEN SERVICE KENDARAAN BERBASIS WEB PADA BENGKEL MOTOR SEKOLAH KEJURUAN

ncreasing the number of vehicles in our country into fertile fields to increase revenue for workshop owners. The increase is also a job opportunity for outomotiv vocational students to get jobs. Implementation of knowledge management into a solution to improve the quality of human resources, especially the graduates smk. Knowledge management is an attempt to increase knowledge useful in the organization. Knowledge management is not only an arrangement of knowledge, but rather the management of an organization with a particular focus on knowledge. Implementation of knowledge management with a web-based system, is expected to be a solution of the needs of the flow of knowledge that is not hindered by time and place limits. The methodology used is contingency factor analysis to get the knowledge management system model. The resulting knowledge management system model supports the Socialization, Externalization, Combination, Internalization (SECI) process. Knowledge management system was developed as a means of knowledge sharing at the workshop of Vocational High School Vocational School.

Design and Development of Plastic Filament Extruder for 3D Printing

<p>3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down successive layers of material. It is mechanized method whereby 3D objects are quickly made on a reasonably sized machine connected to a computer containing blueprints for the object. As 3D printing is growing fast and giving a boost to product development, the factories doing 3D printing need to continuously meet the printing requirements and maintain an adequate amount of inventory of the filament. As the manufactures have to buy these filaments from various vendors, the cost of 3D printing increases. To overcome the problem faced by the manufacturers, small workshop owners, the need of 3D filament making machine arises. This project focuses on designing and fabricating a portable fused deposition 3D printer filament making machine with cheap and easily available components to draw 1.75 mm diameter ABS filament.</p>

Identifikasi Pengetahuan Manajemen Peralatan dan Prosedur Kerja di Bengkel Mobil di Kabupaten Banyuwangi

Management has important role in automotive workshop. Small scale workshops usually have a lack ofbusiness knowledge. This activity is aimed to identify tool and working procedure management knowledge in automotiveworkshops in Banyuwangi district. The identification is done by direct survey and interview to 3 workshop owners. Theresult shows that workshops have not applied business management properly. The workshops need practical managementknowledge which easy to apply for the business

Labour control regimes and resistance of workers: A field study on Denizli textile workers

Parallel to the capitalist development processes, the nature and varieties of control regimes have been changed. The control has been sometimes conducted directly, sometimes indirectly. But the common point of each control mechanism is the complexity of different practices of management and what workers do with these practices. In the first years of capitalism, labour control regimes are generally simple and direct. Together with Taylorism, it has gained technical importance and now become more hegemonic. The aim of this study is to examine the labour control regimes and resistances of workers to these regimes through a case study. For this purpose, in-depth interviews were conducted with a total of 45 workers, one factory owner, one general manager, two department managers, two chiefs, one foreman, three subcontractor workshop owners in Denizli textile. The results show that workers develop very limited resistance, and the working conditions determine the resistance strategies of workers. Keywords: Labour control regimes, resistance of workers, Turkey.

Artisans and Aristocrats in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

This article considers relationships between artisans and aristocrats on estates and elsewhere in Scotland during the long nineteenth century. It argues that the Scottish aristocracy, and women in particular, were distinctly preoccupied with the craft economy through schemes to promote employment but also due to attachments to ‘romanticised’ local and Celtic identities. Building in part on government initiatives and aristocratic office-holding as public officials and presidents of learned societies, but also sustained through personal interest and emotional investments, the craft economy and individual entrepreneurs were supported and encouraged. Patronage of and participation in public exhibitions of craftwork forms one strand of discussion and the role of hand-made objects in public gift-giving forms another. Tourism, which estates encouraged, sustained many areas of craft production with south-west Scotland and the highland counties providing examples. Widows who ran estates were involved in the development of artisan skills among local women, a convention that was further developed at the end of the century by the Home Industries movement, but also supported male artisans. Aristocrats, men and women, commonly engaged in craft practice as a form of escapist leisure that connected them to the land, to a sense of the past and to a small group of easily identified and sympathetic workers living on their estates. Artisans and workshop owners, particularly in rural areas, engage creatively in a patronage regime where elites held the upper hand and the impact on the craft economy of aristocratic support in its various forms was meaningful.

Broadway North: craft in Canadian creative industry production

This article considers how the autonomy and occupational identities of craft workers are shaped by the organisation of production in culture industry workshops that fabricate theatrical display environments. Representation of craft autonomy in the literature on creative labour is sparse and tends to overlook the fact that craft autonomy is different in some respects from artistic autonomy. Drawing on qualitative semi-structured interviews with craft workers, designers and culture industry workshop owners and managers, this study examines the digitalisation and industrialisation of theatre production work. The article contributes to an understanding of craft autonomy as collective, part of a community of practice in a context in which experiential and practice-based knowledge is mediated by digital fabrication tools and the structural conditions of the work.

Minding the Minders: Overseeing the Brokerage System in Qing China

The Qing dynasty’s predilection for using extra-bureaucratic groups to govern the empire is well known. Yet the interests of these groups and those of dynastic officials did not always coincide, and officials often lacked the resources to resolve conflicts when they arose. This article explores how these limitations were overcome in the case of one extra-bureaucratic group, brokers. Lacking other means, officials forged a relationship with merchants, workshop owners, and others hurt by brokers’ illegal behavior. As people with a stake in established society and well-ordered markets, these stakeholders petitioned officials to notify them promptly when brokers acted abusively. They requested that the officials issue prohibitions and allow their carving on stelae. The stelae erected strategically in local communities extended the reach of the dynasty, demonstrated popular support for the dynasty, and frequently authorized the stakeholders to report future abuses. While it certainly did not eliminate all abuses, this relationship prevented brokers from dominating local markets and competing with the dynasty for economic surplus.

Efficiency, factor intensity and return to scale in Indian automobile workshops

This study was conducted using survey data with an objective to understand the determinants of technical efficiency, factor intensity and return to scale in the four-wheeler automobile workshops in India. A random sampling technique was employed to select 372 cross-sectional sample workshops from four states of India. Data collection was done through structured pre-tested questionnaire. The sample workshops were further categorised into two groups, namely exclusive workshops and general workshops. Descriptive statistics, Cobb-Douglas production function and translog production function were used to analyse the data. The study revealed decreasing return to scale in the four-wheeler automobile workshops. The sample workshops were found to be capital intensive but the general workshops (who service all models of four wheelers from all manufacturers) were labour intensive. The significant determinants of technical efficiency of the workshops were engineering education and experience of the workshop owner, technical trainings undergone by the workshop owner, and period of existence of the workshop.