Applying Appropriate Technology of Production Process to Improve Lollipop Candy Quality
Musthofa Lutfi1, Retno Astuti 2, Rudianto 3, Siti Asmaul Mustaniroh 2
Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Brawijaya, Malang, 65145, Indonesia
Abstract
In Bandulan Village of Malang, there are 20 units of candy producers that can be developed as SMEs business clustering by local government. “Dharma Daksa” is one of the candy producer which have five variant of the lollypop candy products i.e. rainbow swirl, marble, Tootsie roll pop, spiral type with multi-color and butterfly shape. This SMEs have a capacity to process 50 kg of sugar and 10 glucose to produce 250 pack of respective of that five candy shape in one day and employed 12 worker. There are 20 candy in each pack. Dharma Daksa have an omzet of 8,750,000 rupiahs in one month depicts that it is potential business sector to be developed. The critical point in this production process is the cutting the threaded dough and dough molding to make final shape. The cutting of the dough is carried out on a hot aluminum table, using scissors or knife so that the mass tends to vary. Hence, it will impact to the uniform size of the candy. This program try to improve of the SMEs performance by applying appropriate technology in both process replacing knife with mechanically dough cutting and final product molding. This program hope the production process have either increase efficiency or reduce products defect.
Keywords: SME, candy, mechanical knife, mulding
Topic: Sosical Economic and Community Development