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Integration of Robotic Automation in Manufacturing: Benefits and Challenges for Quality Assurance

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Robots have helped revolutionize manufacturing processes by lending an assisting hand to humans. Robots have proven to be more effective and efficient than humans, even though humans still possess the mental prowess to help them function. Robots assist in activities like assembling, carrying heavy objects, performing strenuous tasks, welding mechanical parts, and quality inspection. Robots have several advantages over humans like being more accurate, cost effective, faster, and reliable. Nevertheless, robots still have their downsides like being too costly to implement and technically complex, especially for small businesses. This research paper comprehensively assesses the integration of robotic automation in manufacturing, focusing specifically on its benefits and challenges for quality assurance. Quality assurance is an essential component of the manufacturing process, as without it the process is never complete, manufacturing industries adhere to specific standards for their products to avoid causing harm to the end consumer in the long run, hence the relevance of robotic automation in this process. Robots are very relevant in the aspect of quality assurance, as they possess special devices which help in inspecting products during and after production. Through a thorough review of articles on this subject matter from reliable databases, this article discusses in details and suggests better ways of integrating robots in industries for more effective quality assurance.

Quality Control and Quality Assurance of The BPK’s Audit of Regional Government Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2022 (Case Study at AKN VI)

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The Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK) is a state institution mandated to audit management and accountability of state finances. One of the objects of Audit’s BPK is the Financial Statements of Regional Government (LKPD). Directorate General of Audit VI (AKN VI) BPK conducts an audit of the LKPD. In 2023, AKN VI has conducted an audit of the LKPD for Fiscal Year 2022. The audit is carried out by the BPK Regional Offices (Work Unit under AKN VI) which is located in each province in eastern Indonesia. To guarantee state financial audits’ quality in this case the audit of LKPD, BPK carries out quality control and assurance. The purpose of this study is ascertain how the process of quality control and assurance of the audits produced by BPK Regional Offices in AKN VI. A qualitative method was taken in this research to explain the process of quality assurance and quality control the results of the review in the form of suggestions submitted by the AKN VI reviewer on the LKPD audit results. The result is that quality control and assurance are established and implemented by BPK for the results of the audit, and with quality assurance in the form of a review of LKPD audit opinion by AKN VI, it can provide suggestions for improvement to keep up the quality of LKPD audit results.

Risk Mitigation Strategy and Efficiency Improvement of PT Gasses Logistic Transportation using Six Sigma DMAIC Method

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PT Gasses Logistic is one of the companies that operates in the downstream oil and gas industry that focuses on providing logistic services and other support. From oil, gasses, to lubricant, together with their partnership, PT Gasses Logistic are responsible of transporting those goods to their consumers across Indonesia. Also, PT Gasses Logistic is the subsidiary/child company from one of the biggest state-owned enterprises in Indonesia. The core business of PT Gasses Logistic is transportation, that is why every type of problem in transportation needed to be solved quickly.
Through this research, it is identified 4 problems by using Pareto Chart. The problems are work & traffic accident, losses while loading & unloading operation, risk in damaging MESRAN MIN 40, and risk in damaging RORED EPA MIN 90. Those problems will be evaluated with risk management framework and analyse further using Six Sigma DMAIC method. Risk management framework will be used to identify the risk rating for each risk, which will be used when planning the mitigation strategies. Six Sigma DMAIC method will identified what is the problem, how it the performance regarding the process related to the problem, what is the root causes, how to improve it, and how to control it.
After using the risk management framework and Six Sigma DMAIC method, it is found that the root causes of the problems, which is identified by using fishbone diagram tools, is People and Machine. The author then provided the risk mitigation strategies solution of improvement, the implementation plan, and how to control it. With this research, the author hopes that it will help reducing/mitigating any losses received by PT Gasses Logistic incurred by those problems.