InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Creativity is really needed to face the change, to increase the sustainable efficiency, and productivity. Creativity makes someone do improvisation and innovation.
Unfortunately, many thought, improvisation and innovation have something to do with ‘wow’. But many also saw the weakness of one improvisation/innovation rather than trying to implement it well.
Some companies give rewards to the employees who improvise and innovate through the ‘continuous improvement’ program. The reward is not too important to improvisation but to share for GOODNESS with all the heart.
By this short article, the writer wants to share “how to improvise and innovate” in the SCAMPER method. The writer got it when studying in Prasetiya Mulya some time ago.
SCAMPER stands for:
S = substitute
C = combine
A = adaption
M = modify
P = put......
E = eli....
R = re-arrange atau re-use
This article continues the previous one which is Inovasi di Perkebunan Kelapa Sawit, Tak Perlu Wah Tapi Produksi Melimpah.
The writer would start with Adaptation.
ADAPTION
Adaption is the effort to think and adapt the ideas to solve the issue of process.
The writer gave simple sample in a process to smooth leaf (sample) that has been dried up (in an oven) before it is sent to the laboratory so that the ‘hara’ or ingredients are analyzed to get the right fertilizer recommendation.
The planters and the agronomists must have understood that the fertilizer and fertilization is a most expensive cost in nursing palm oil plantation.
Recommendation of fertilization is got from some process. one of them is LSU.
For the fertilizer and fertilization have the most expensive cost, so every process should be done well based on the standard operational procedure and should be zero error.
The sources of error in LSU are:
- Determination of block of sample
- Determination of trees of sample
- Determination of midrib of sample
- Taking the sample
- Preparation of sample
- Laboratory
- Data input
- Interpretation of data.
This time, we discuss about the preparation of wrong sample in a part of work. It is how to smooth the sample that has been heat up for 12 hours within maximal temperature, 80 degree Celsius.
The sample is smoothed like powder within a grinder (for example: foss tecator cyclotec sample mill) that might be hundreds of million rupiah. If one sample spends about 8 minutes to smooth, and every 3 samples spends 15 to 20 minutes to rest (the tool could not operate if it is hot), so it for 4.500 samples, it would spend 100 days of work while the target should be 40 days of work.
In the condition, we adapt the juice smoother with blender. It is more cheaper than the speed of more days to work. The target is accomplished, and easy, right?
MODIFY
Some creativity through modification could be done according to the condition and needs in the field. Modification starts from the expensive cost up to the cheap cost. Here are the simple samples:
Management of drainage
The long dry season in 2014 and 2015 had made serious water deficit in palm oil plantation, namely in the regions having history of drought. For example, in Central Kalimantan Province.
The fact showed that water deficit in 2014 and 2015 was that palm oil plantation should be planted by the river side so that it would be resistant to the drought. In 2016 when many plantations had minor FFB production, the plantations next to the river side were positive in FFB production.
In the lower areas, the trench of the drainage could be modified so it would not be in flood when it is in rainy season but could collect the water that is useful in the drought. The small river in palm oil plantation should be dug and wider to collect the rain drops.
The making of stop block in the lower areas in hilly topography.
It is an obligation to make reservoir. The four are the samples of modification to anticipate the drought. There are lots to do based on the condition of environment.
Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB)
This topic was once written by Muhammad Ramadan Pohan, who has his patent to modify this and it was written in Majalah Infosawit, July 2017.
Starting from the needs of wide rickshaw to transport EFB, the volume of rickshaw should be modified three times than the regular rickshaw. The modification could increase the output so it could increase the income of the workers. From the experience, the cart is modified.
Oven manual
The progress of technology forces the filing system to be simpler. Of course, in the office, there must be old filing cabinet that could be modified to be oven manual.
The oven functions to the transition process before it is in the automatic oven (such as, memmert). Some planters in the plantation may have good experiences in this modification.
Those are some common modification and innovation in palm oil plantation. It should be great or ‘wow’ but the creativity should be useful and give the positive to the planters’ work in the field.
Source: Majalah InfoSAWIT, October 2017