1. Standards are essential for a strong manufacturing process and must be applied correctly. Standards can come from external sources like suppliers or internal sources like production data. All manufacturing activities should be standardized through documents like standard operating procedures and work instructions. 2. An effective control system is necessary to ensure standards are followed. The control system should be designed to replace human auditors with technology where possible. Data collection is also important for the control system. 3. Developing employees is the third key factor in maintaining a strong manufacturing process long-term. Employees should be treated as partners through training and loyalty-building rather than subordinates. Their feedback can help improve the manufacturing process over time.

1. The Build of Manufacture’s Strength
To build a strong manucturing, there are 3 main factor, which I identified while I worked
at manufacture for this 5 years.
1. Standards
2. Control system
3. Development of employees
We will briefly discuss each of those,
1. Standards
Standard is a noun which has a meaning as: (www.dictionary.com)
(a). “something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of
comparison; an approved model.”
(b). “an object that is regarded as the usual or most common size or form of its kind.”
(c). “a rule or principle that is used as a basis for judgement.”
(d). “an average of normal requirement, quality, quantity, level, grade,etc.”
(source:www.dictionary.com)
Standard is a basis, rule, a normal requirement. We must to apply basis correctly, if the
basis is correct, the rest is 90% correct too.
A manufacture can have a standard from 2 main resources,
A. External resources
for an example: (1) from a machine maker, (2) from the material’s supplier (3) from
consultant/ an expert, (4) from customer/buyer
B. Internal Resources
For an example: (1) production data, (2)experience/trial and error, (3)internal
improvement/new standard
All the activities in manufacture must to be standardized. Standards come as as
document, visual signs, accessable to all entities.
Most common form of the standards is SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) which can
be diversified into many advanced form. Surely the basic document is a flow process
chart. We can’t go to SOP without first making a flow process chart.
An example of flow process chart of simple process of cooking instant noodle shown
below

2. Picture 01. Simple flow process chart of cooking instant noodle
Flow process chart is done, next we had to detailed it to a SOP, each process of the flow
must have it’s detailed SOP, the most detail document next to SOP is Work Instructions
Boil Water detailed as below:
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Picture 02. Detailed SOP of Boil water
Boil water
Cook noodle
Apply
seasonings
Insert a water
to a pan
Put a pan in a
stove
Light the stove
Boil water

3. Each activites of boil water, detailed to Work Instruction, example as follow
Picture 03. Work Instruction of “insert water to a pan” job
Further document can be made as a corollary of it, for an example:
- Technical specification of material and equipments used at process (water, volume, pan,
measuring cup, etc)
- Blanko/form of QC, Checklist etc.
That’s all a brief about manufacturing standard, next we will have a brief discussion
about,
2. Control System
Control system is a necessity, Have no control system at your factory is the same as
you let the car runs without anyone drive it.
Men are designed to subject to a rule, that’s need an auditor which ensure the rule
are adhered. An auditor refers not only a person, but can also, and must to be a system
A great control is a system not depend on person. If a technology could replace a person
doing a control, then control must to be done by technology, not a person.
Insert water to a pan
- Prepare a standard measuring cup
- Prepare a standard pure water
- Prepare a standard pan
- pour a water into a measuring cup with a
assigned volume
- pour the water into pan
Make sure standard volume of water
Insert a water to a pan using a measuring cup

4. If the control activity is mandated to a person, then put a right person in system to
control the activity. Even an auditor need anyone else to control him.
Record of data is a necessity. Data told you no lies, data is a perfect evidence, and a life
of control system.
Build a control system, also talk about structur of organization. It must to be clearly, who
report to whom, who controlled by whom/what
Control system have a wide forms, it can be as simply as checklist sheet, or a very
sophisticated control dashbord system using a software.
Strongly recommended, to have a simple control system as long as it effective. Just keep
it simple.
3. Development of employees
The last factor to be maintained as well as 2 earlier factors is the development of
employees. The developed employees keep the manufacture on it’s inclined path.
There’s no big and succesful manufacture have a longlasting life without accomplish
this. Watch your employees, develop them, and hold them. They would give a feedback
to manufacture, as go together with the increased loyalty.
We must substancially look our employees as a work partners rather than a subordinates.
Treat them as a human, not a slaves
Pungging, July 22nd ,2016
Felix Budi J