Malaysia is currently moving towards a developed nation by the year 2020, in order to realize this goal
the country should act from now in order to strengthen existing industries. The involvement of
manufacturing industry is highly contributed to economic resources. Automotive industry is one of the
most important and strategic industries in Malaysian manufacturing sector 1-4. According to Hashim et
al.5
the development of the automotive industry in Malaysia began more than 27 years ago and
automotive sector at Malaysia began with the importation of vehicles progressed to which the assembly
operations and the development of the automotive component industry. Progressive development in this
industry such as management, engineering, technology, maintenance equipment and others was
strongly influenced by Japanese automotive companies.