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This study is to identify the awareness of public towards maintenance in their vehicle. The maintenance discuss in this study are narrowed and focused on two type of maintenance strategy particularly preventive maintenance. Maintaining vehicle have been an issue in Malaysia where we can see accidents happening in every seasonal in transportation sector. The lack of awareness towards maintenance may also lead to breakdown and malfunction. Therefore, the question comes whether the public has the awareness in maintaining their automobile, thus, this study will identify the public awareness in corrective and preventive maintenance towards personal Drivers. The study has been carried out at University of Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) and focuses on the Drivers age from early 20s to late 40s to identify their awareness or understanding towards maintenance. The study has been conducted with quantitative method and analyzed using statistical tools by cross tabulation. Studies on awareness in maintenance of vehicle have not been carrying out on individuals/users. Averagely, the respondents score a mean of 0.6475 which means that the respondents have more Yes answered in their sets of awareness questions. The study also concluded that experience and education on the respondents has the difference in affecting their awareness.
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Ngadiman, Y., Nor Aziati, A.H., Bon, A.T., Ahmad, M.F., Rasi, R.Z.R.M., Hock, M.Y.S. (2015). Identification of Public Awareness in Preventive Maintenance for Personal Automobile. In: Gen, M., Kim, K., Huang, X., Hiroshi, Y. (eds) Industrial Engineering, Management Science and Applications 2015. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 349. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47200-2_111
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