TY  - THES
N1  - A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering).
ID  - library_repository1212
UR  - https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1212/
A1  - Narayanaswamy Venkataraman , 
Y1  - 2018///
N2  - Semiconductors are made of a solid crystalline material, usually silicone, formed into a simple
diode or many integrated circuits. Semiconductor industries, which consumes large amounts of
chemical and energy and large volumes of water, falls under the high hazard installation category
in Singapore. Sustainability index computation and eventually benchmarking has not been
studied for any privately listed companies in Singapore and in particular not studied for
semiconductor manufacturing plants in Singapore. The objective of the study will be to
determine the broad based parameters on sustainability indicators, determine the relationship
between various parameters of sustainability, develop weightage factor for each parameters and
develop a working model that will compute sustainability indices for semiconductor
manufacturing environment in Singapore. Survey questionnaire was used and analysis of survey
was done using known tools such as SPSS. Analytical hierarchy Process was used for computing
weightage for the various parameters of sustainability. Based on the various models on
sustainability, the proposed model involves four major constructs namely, management,
employee wellbeing, resources and compliance. In the model chosen for this study,
Sustainability index (SI) is a function of organization?s wellbeing, (W), Resources (R),
Compliance (C), and possession of a management system (M). Being a versatile decision
making tool, Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) model was used to determine the weightage for
each functional element. A simplified formula was computed for this study, which is
SI = (0.375*Wellbeing+ 0.25*Compliance+ 0.25*Resource+ 0.125*Management)/5. SI for the
two companies were deduced from the survey and substituting these values in the equation for
SI, SI for company A was computed as 80% and for company B it was computed as 85%. This
meant SI for company B was better than that of company A and that company B is less riskier
than company A A working model thus was formed for sustainability indexing for
semiconductor manufacturing plants in Singapore, which can be extended to other manufacturing
plants in Singapore and region. Further the study can be improved by incorporating other
parameters such as economics. (Abstract by Author)
PB  - Open University Malaysia
KW  - Sustainability Index
KW  -  Resource
KW  -  Compliance
KW  -  Management
KW  -  Wellbeing
KW  -  PhD Engineering
M1  - phd
TI  - Development of a Multidisciplinary Approach to Compute Sustainability Indices for Semiconductor Manufacturing Plant - a Singapore Perspective
AV  - restricted
ER  -