Judul: Model Penilaian Cepat (Rapid Asessment) Kinerja Industri Kelapa sawit
Abstrak: Palm oil is one of the commodity that has relatively high economically values in the world. Since 1990, supply and demand for palm oil relatively increased. The world palm oil production growth of the world during this two decades has reached 7.3% per years. This production growth is influenced by Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil production that contributed around 80% of the world production. ndonesian palm oil production could have been influenced by several factors, such as the palm oil factory production capacity or the production process performances. Self asessment from the palm oil plant need for determined the improvement strategy process performance. The purpose of this study is to developed aplicative software that could be used for assesing the palm oil industrial performance in a relatively rapid time.
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Judul: Model Development in Performance Assesment of Stearic cid Industry from Palm Oil
Abstrak: Oleochemical supply to China, especially from Indonesia and Malaysia is very big, about 500 000 ton a year, 90% of the supply is stearic acid (Cham & Purwoko). The other stearic acid importir country are Europe Union and United States of America. This sector is a big opportunity for agroindustry company, especially export oriented industry. The hard competition in this sector pushes every industry do some continuous improvement, so that the output of product has competitive quality. Continuous improvement can be realized when the companies evaluate their performances. The evaluation process needs enormous resource which is the main problem for industry in Indonesia, esspecially oleochemical industry. The performance assesment system is developed by designing an assesment model, using system approach. The object of observation in this performance assesment, i.e. man, market, money, machine, material, method, market, management & environment. The assesment interval is based on expert justification, technical standard and literature study. The model will give assesment from each criterias and conclude the assesment through simple weighting from some criterias quantitatively and qualitatively. The result of research is performance assesment model of stearic acid industry which implemented into application program called SPIAS 1.0. The program has verified base on company annual report and the result has shown that PT. X has ‘average’ performance. Hopefully this program can help company to do self rapid assesment more efficient, so the company could do some continuous 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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