FMEA Approach to Analysis Crude Palm Oil Quality Parameters

Abstract

Palm oil companies are an important part of development in all countries, including in Indonesia. The development of the oil palm plantation business in Indonesia has experienced significantly progress. This condition can be seen from many companies set up the Palm Oil Factory (PKS) and the increasing variety of products can be produced from palm oil so that it can increase the selling value of the product. There are many problems faced by the palm oil industry in producing a product, one of them which is a quality problem. In the Crude Palm Oil (CPO) production process, it is known that the products produced are not in CPO quality standards. Products are not in this standard result in decreasing product quality and causing major problems for the company. Therefore, it is carried out to overcome problems above, an analysis is carried out by identifying the causes of the decline in the quality of CPO. Based on the results of the study, the highest RPN value of 280 was obtained with the cause of failure, namely the quality of raw materials is not good and is a type of failure which is the top priority for immediate improvement. The recommendation improvement can be done to prevent disability to carry out careful inspection of raw materials.