Asian Social Science April, 2008 3 Human Factor on Automotive Component Manufacturing in Malaysia Abdul Talib Bon (Corresponding author) Department Informatique – Laboratorie L3i, Pole Sciences et Technologie Universite de La Rochelle, 17042 La Rochelle, Cedex 1, France Tel: +60 12 7665756 E-mail: talibon@gmail.com Jean Marc Ogier Department Informatique – Laboratorie L3i, Pole Sciences et Technologie Universite de La Rochelle, 17042 La Rochelle, Cedex 1, France Tel: +33 05 46 45 82 15 E-mail: jean-marc.ogier@univ-lr.fr Ahmad Mahir Razali School of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 86000 Bangi, Malaysia Tel: +60 17 8886805 E-mail: mahir@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my Abstract The purpose of this study is to identify and describe the perceptions of experts on the characteristics of beltline moulding quality success factor. This study was done through questionnaire and interview with 14 experts in the roll forming process. From this study we found; first, the experts placed attributes such as salary satisfaction, training and skill requirement and workplace environment. Second, the study look at correlations between the independent variables which is we found five positive or negative significant whereby quality improvement awareness have strong positive significant (p-value = 0.001) with quality of beltline moulding for local automotive. From the study understanding what the experts want in their essential and satisfactory may enhance the probability of getting the high quality in beltline moulding product. Keywords: Experts, Roll forming process, Beltline moulding, Interview 1. Introduction A few research problems are usability and man-machine interface are among the pressing issues we are facing today in dependable systems. The Production process of dependable systems, from requirements specification to implementation, requires continuous interactions between the activities at the different stages with the validation and verification of each step. Challenging issues in validation of complex systems are design integration, composition, re-use and usability. To produce goods and services requires resources. We call these the factor inputs available in the production process. Economic resources are scarce relative to the infinite needs and wants of people and businesses operating in the economy. It is important to use these resources efficiently in order to maximise the output that can be produced from them. Labour is the human input into the production process. Human factors gave the dependability of a system is heavily influenced by the dependability of the man-machine interaction. It is necessary to introduce “human in the loop” as a design pre-requisite. Continuous interaction between user and system, as a consequence of two aspects of a new generation of interacting systems: ubiquity and invisibility. Human behaviour is more unpredictable than any conventional fault model. Is it better to adopt a defensive strategy that constrains what the user can do to perturb the operations or should one design around all foreseeable situations? It is difficult to constrain users to adopt a simplified behaviour that characterizes a state of technological awareness. There is a need for the systems to adapt to users, to be aware of their operating context, and to be able to take autonomous decisions to some extent. Human dependency on the correct behaviour of systems in many (if not all) aspects of everyday life has a growing impact. In safety critical systems, it is important to extend formal techniques to explicitly consider human factors within