Judul: Optimasi Penentuan Lokasi dan Analisis Tata Letak Industri Buah Kering (Dried Fruit) di PT Great Giant Pineapple Lampung Tengah.
Abstrak: The opportunity of dried fruit market in Europe in average is about 45% from global import volume. These opportunities were caused by inexpediency of Europe’s climate for tropical crops and as tropical country, Indonesia had opportunity to export commodities like mango, papaya, pineapple, guava, and ginger. The result objective were determining of optimum location, location factors, production capacity, and dried fruit industry’s layout analysis. Methods of this research are location candidates determining, questionnaire distributing, production capacity determining, transportation load total calculating (load distance model method), location alternatives evaluation (composite performance index and bayes method), and department layout analysis in dried fruit industry. Industry’s capacity are about 1,596 ton/year (product) or 9,493 ton/year (raw material). Factors to choose location include raw material cost, clean water access availability, waste water acces availability, and salary cost. Choosen location was Kediri Regency. Need area width were 4,790.60 m2.
Keyword: bayes method, composite performance index, dried fruit, department layout, load distance model

Judul: The  position  of  competitiveness  and  the  factors  which  affect the Indonesian fruits export  in the world and the destination countries
Abstrak: Keberhasilan dayasaing ekspor buah Indonesia di negara tujuan ditentukan oleh keunggulan komparatif dan kompetitif serta faktor lainnya. Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) dan Export Product Dynamic (EPD) digunakan untuk menganalisis posisi dayasaing ekspor buah-buahan Indonesia. Pada penelitian ini digunakan analisis data panel gravity model untuk menganalisis faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi aliran volume ekspor buah-buahan Indonesia (mangga, manggis, rambutan, pisang, dan melon). Pada metode Export Product Dynamic (EPD) dan Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) menunjukkan bahwa buah yang memiliki keunggulan komparatif dan kompetitif tertinggi di negara tujuan dan dunia adalah buah manggis, mangga, dan jambu. Ekspor buah Indonesia yang kehilangan kesempatan dalam bersaing di negara tujuan adalah stroberi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa faktor yang memengaruhi aliran ekspor buah Indonesia ke negara tujuan meliputi harga ekspor, populasi, jarak ekonomi, GDP riil dan per kapita, nilai tukar riil, indeks harga konsumen Indonesia, dan variabel dummy krisis yang terjadi di Eropa., The success of competitiveness of Indonesian fruits export in the destination countries is determined by comparative and competitive advantage and other factors. Revealed Comparative Advatege (RCA) and Export Product Dynamic (EPD) are used in this research to analyze the position of competitiveness of Indonesian fruits export. This research also uses panel gravity model to analyze the factors which affect the export volume of Indonesia fruits (mango, mangosteen, rambutan, banana, and melon). The results from EPD and RCA method show that fruits which have the highest comparative and competitive advantage in destination countries and the world are mangoesteen, mango, and guava. Indonesian fruits which its export experiences a lost opportunity for competing in the destination countries is strawberry. The results of this research shows that the factors which influence the export of Indonesian fruits the destination conutries are export price, population, economic distance, real GDP and GDP per capita, real exchange rate, Indonesian consumer price index, and dummy variable of crisis which happened in Europe.
Keyword: Dayasaing, EPD, gravity model, RCA

Judul: Hydroxyapatite-Chitosan Composite Coating on Stainless Steel 316 to Improve Corrosion Resistance
Abstrak: Metals that were used in bone implantation should have good corrosion resistance that were not easily corroded when implanted into the body. Metal corrosion resistance of stainless steel 316 can be enhanced through the metal coating by hydroxyapatite-chitosan composite with composition ratio of hydroxyapatite (gram) and chitosan 3% (mL) 0.2:0, 0.2:0.1, 0.2:0.5, 0.2:1.0, and 0.2:1.5. Besides improving the corrosion resistance of metal, the presence of chitosan also maintain the position of hydroxyapatite on metal surfaces. Corrosion resistance increases with increasing amount of chitosan added and the best composition of hydroxyapatite-chitosan composite was 0.2:1.0.
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