Judul: Design of intelligent decision support system model for sugar factory performance improvement analysis
Abstrak: Main problems faced by sugar factories in Indonesia are low productivity and efficiency. These two aspects became the most important factors in improving sugar factory performance. Performance improvement consist of performance measurement, performance objectives, and improvement priorities setting. Since analysis of performance improvement research in sugar factories Indonesia were very limited, more research in this area are required. The purpose of this research was to design an intelligent decision support system model for sugar factory performance improvement analysis. Aspects of performance being studied were strategic performance, operational performance, and tactical performance. Objects of research are small, medium and large scale sugar factories under PTPN X. Model and prototype of performance improvement analysis resulted from this study consist of five sub-models: classification, performance measurement, best performance selection, best practice analysis, and setting performance improvement priority. To verify and validate the model, we use performance data from sugar factories during 2008 and confirmation from experts. The implementation of model results indicate that: 1) intelligence decision support system model for the analysis of the performance improvement of the sugar factory is an integrated model to achieve the objective analysis of the performance improvement in terms of determining the performance, performance targets, and priorities for performance improvement; 2) model can be used to measure strategic performance, operational performance, and especially on the tactical performance of the internal process perspective of the sugar factory; 3) output of the model selection of the best performance set as the a minimum target performance can improve the performance of strategic and operational performance of the sugar factory; and 4) model can be used to determine the priority of the sugar factory improvements and suggestions for improvement.
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Judul: Productivity improvement strategy for supporting national cane-sugar industrial cluster policy
Abstrak: Indonesian cane-sugar industry face several serious problems indicated by increasing of sugar imported amount of 1.27 million ton in the year 2006 compared with 1.49 million ton in 2007. If such condition continued, Indonesian sugar factories sustainability, esspecially those in BUMN affiliation will be threated. This research was aimed to formulate the strategy for productivity improvement of national cane-sugar industry. The stages of this research consisted of national cane-sugar factories performance evaluation, problem identification and strategy formulation on cane-sugar industrial productivity improvement. The methods used were institutional analysis and Interpretive Structural Modelling, Policy Analysis Matrix, Objective Matrix, Porter’s Diamond Model and SWOT-AHP. Survey, interviews and data collection for productivity measurement were conducted at four cane sugar factories, i.e. Gunung Madu, Bungamayang, Kebon Agung and Pesantren Baru cane sugar factories which represented national cane sugar industry. The results showed that natioan cane sugar industry productivity improvement can be reached through intensification of sugar cane cultivation through implementation of Good Agricultural Practises (GAP), improvement of factories efficiency through implementation of Good Manufacturing Practises (GMP), and sincronizing of government policy and regulation on national cane-sugar industral productivity improvement.
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Judul: Psittacosis Sebagai Zoonosis Penting Yang Berasal Dari Burung
Abstrak: Psittacosis atau ornithosis adalah penyakit menular dari burung kepada manusia. Agens penyebab psittacosis termasuk ke dalam virus psittacosis-lymphogranuloma venereum group yang disebut Chlamydia psittaci. C. psittaci hanya dapat berkembang biak di dalam jaringan hidup tetapi peka terhadap antibiotik. Penyebaran penyakit ini sangat luas, terdapat hampir di seluruh dunia. Di Indonesia penyakit ini belum pernah di diagnosa, tetapi mengingat terdapat demikian banyaknya jenis burung maka diperkirakan psittacosis ini sudah ada. Kasus pada manusia pertamakali ditemukan oleh Ritter pada tahun 1879, di Eropa. Waktu itu dikenal sebagai pneumotyphus. Chlamydia psittaci tidak hanya sebagai penyebab infeksi pada burung, juga bisa menyebabkan infeksi pada mamalia diantaranya sapi, kerbau, kambing, domba, babi dan kucing. Pada kucing dikenal sebagai feline pneumonitis. Pada domba atau kambing mengakibatkan enzootic abortion. Pada burung, kalkun merupakan unggas paling rentan diikuti oleh burung psittacine dan burung lain di luar famili psittacidae. Virulensinyapun berbeda-beda. Yang berasal dari kalkun bervirulensi tinggi, sedangkan yang berasal dari burung merpati bisa bervirulensi tinggi bisa juga bervirulensi rendah. Penularan terjadi melalui kontak langsung maupun ti- dak langsung. Penularan melalui telur tidak terjadi. Umumnya penyakit ini memperlihatkan gejala klinis berupa deman, lesu, lemah, anorexia, kurus, diarrhea ber- warna kekuningan, discharge dari mata dan hidung, conjunc- tivitis. Gejala khas pada kalkun adalah istirahat dengan sternum sebagai dasarnya, karena adanya tekanan dari bagian perut yang sakit. Sedangkan pada manusia memperlihatkan adanya demam, kadang-kadang merasa dingin, lesu, sakit kepala yang hebat, sakit pada bagian belakang badan dan photophobia…dst
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