From Dunkin Donuts

Salam.... 

I think today I have some time to update you on things happening here. 

For me, my life full of busy office works. Acap and Faizol still on 

the production line, but this time acap went on to move into the night 

shift on 7pm until 3 am. Faradila is in SOGO while Roshaida and 

Noramyra still in KL SENTRAL. 

Boys; 

Acap- Apparently due to lack of manpower in the night shift, acap was 

transfered to the shift till today. Acap also held responsible over 

the Low G.I bakery products research in which uses low G.I flour mix 

consisting of low protein flour added with seeds of sunflower (as far 

as I know). I'll let him use my motorbike as Faizol and I are using 

car so that we do not have any transport problems. Things are well 

here for acap I think. 

Faizol-He's good at production line now. I think he'd settled down and 

worked well. Sometimes when I got busy with office job, he actually 

helped me out counting the throw aways. 

Me: Me? Ordinary busy life in the office with new outlets opening at 

TBS (Bandar Tasik Selatan) and other three at Malacca. I also been 

given the job to make projection, sales sheets, HALAL documentation, 

stocks for entire Malaysia and Singapore outlets. and throw away 

analysis. Today is one of the busiest day here, people scrambled in 

and out looking for stocks here and there, HALAL documentation needs 

to be submitted by today, all to be done today. I managed to do some 

of it and the latter will be taken care tomorrow. 

Girls: 

Myra: I seem to know that myra was not well yesterday. Hope she's okay 

now. She rotated the shift with Kak da at KL Sentral. DD KL SENTRAL is 

located as opposed to the KFC in the second floor. Whenever I have 

free time, I'll visit KL SENTRAL too. 

Kak Da: Its about weeks I never heard of her. I hope she's okay. 

Perhaps she's busy handling outlets operations (big difference from 

here, difference challenges too). 

Faradila: I always saw her name on the throw away bags. Hahaha^^

throw away means donat yang tidak habis, dibungkus dan dipulangkan kepada
factory untuk dikira. Throw away berperanan penting untuk saya membuat
projections, by mean prediction untuk donut yang akan dihantar ke
outlet-outlet pada masa hadapan. Jika throw away count adalah tinggi, saya
akan kurangkan jumlah donat keseluruhan yang akan diberi kepada outlet yang
berkenaan. Optimum 10-15% throw away adalah yang terbaik.

Ajinomoto by Nor Syakira

Assalamualaikum and hi !
 
Firstly, we’re deeply sorry for the late story from Ajinamoto.
Actually, kitaorang kind of busy here (ok tipu), pura-pura busy.
Hehe.. There’s thousand of things that we would like to share to you
on what we’ve been go through, in about two months doing an internship
at Aji.
 
We’ve been placed at Production department, where at here people
called it P2 or Tencho. In P2, it was divided into several sections,
producing a different raw materials and products. We’ve been exposed
on how Special Standard Operation (SOP) works, the quality system
applied, their safety, quality and environmental concern, man power
management, the theory behind the operation, and many more.
Observation and understanding of industrial scale machine was done,
rather than lab scale machine. At Aji, there’s a huge, seriously very
huge spray dryer. There’s a stairs, that connect all the spray dryer
components, and if you’re gayat, its better awal-awal give up jangan
naik. Hehe...
 
But, one important thing that you have to bear in your mind, tak kisah
lah, time internship ke, time kerja nanti ke, BE NICE to people around
you. Talkative also. Tapi, its kind of difficult maybe, lagi-lagi, all
of sudden we have to be friends with people yang tak baya kita. You
all know right? Yeah, its seriously mula-mula, I feels like malu-malu,
susah nak masuk, feels like I have to always respect them, but, you
know what, they all ok la. If we know them, sometimes they all pun
huha huha jugak. But, the best things being a practical student, I can
talk or friendly maybe to all worker levels. It doesn’t mean when
you’re not a practical student, you can’t be friendly to all people.
But, uhh I don’t know how to say it lah. Its means, we have more time,
to berdiskusi or borak-borak maybe,hehe... For example, when we’re
enters a production area, we talked, learned and asked to the
operators and supervisors regarding to the operation procedure. Then,
we discussed the theory behind the operation with the executive and
manager of that production/section. So, all I can say is, people at
Aji has help me a lot in learning and experiencing a new things.
 
At Aji, we’re more focusing on observation and learn their operation
in producing their products. There’s a HVP production, then from
liquid HVP, they change it into HVP powder form by spray dryer.
There’s a fluidized bed dryer, pasteurization, and many more things
yang ada kat Aji, but not in our study. So, it better to selak-selak
balik our Food Engineering, Principle of Food Processing, Unit
Operation in Food Processing subject, when you are placed in
production department.
 
Besides, we have to work on our APS project, on how to improve
packaging time in production. But, maybe next time, we’ll tell you
more about this. And one more things that very very very important is,
we do really miss you all, friends and all the lecturers in Unisza,
especially all i <3 foodtech group members, hehe... 
Keep in touch dear!

Bumi HIjau by Raz Zarinda

Assalamualaikum w.b.t and greetings to everyone...

First of all, alhamdulilLAH, I am glad to hear an exciting experiences from everyone.

Myself, Raz Zarinda was placed in Bumi Hijau Food Industries sdn. Bhd in Tampoi,  Johor Baharu. For your information, I am the only practical students here. So you all can imagine how i am as a lone ranger faced the life here alone. So, the biggest thing that I learned here is how to survive.

The products here includes chilli sauce, tomato sauce, oyster sauce, black pepper sauce, sweet soy sauce, salty soy sauce and another minor products.

Here, I do not feel that I am a food technology student as I was exposed to many departments here. They including :

-      Purchasing and planning department

-      Processing department

-      Store department

-      Packaging and production department

-      Quality control department

There is a lot of thing to de shared regarding these varieties of department. I have experienced many post here, multi-tasking as well as QA, QC, FOOD TECHNOLOGIES, STOREMAN, PURCHASER, CLERK, CLEANER, ACTOR and the most ‘exciting’ one is an OPERATOR.

Among those departments, let me share the job scope of quality control department as I was always attached and back-up to this department even I was in other department. Here, there is only one QA in this company which is Miss Isya, my beloved industrial supervisor.

In quality control department, I was supervised to

-undergoes food analysis ( viscosity, TTS, acidity )

-making research and development (R&D)

-monitoring pest control

-product return using Goods Return Notes

-update HALAL certification as well as COA ( Certificate of Analysis)

-raw material specification

-finished good specification

This is what I have done in just one of those department. So you all can imagine how many task overall.

However, I am so thankful to ALLAH for everything and I will accept everything with all of my heart. Many things I have learned here. So don’t worry, be happy. Values that must we have includes courage, motivated, humble, respectful, sociable as well as ‘redha’.

~’’Mayhappen that you hate a thing which is good for you, and that you love a thing which is bad for you. ALLAH knows and you do not know "Qs AlBaqarah (2): 216~

~’’On no soul doth ALLAH place a burden greater than it can bear.’’ Qs AlBaqarah (2): 286~

I would like to pen off now. Thank you for reading and sorry for my miskakes.

Regards,

Raz Zarinda Mohd Rashid

Zara Foodstuff by Siti Balqis

Assalamualaikum…
 
Sorry for the late news from Zara Foodstuff Industries Sdn Bhd. I had
been here about 7 weeks and placed at QA department with a student
industrial practical from UPM.
 
For information, Zara Foodstuff Industries Sdn Bhd was established
from 1987 at Larkin, Johor Bahru. Food products of this company had
name below Cap Kipas Udang brand. There are 4 products, namely Soya
sauce, chili sauce, tomato sauce and Sri Kaya (coconut bread spread).
In this company, giving jobs opportunities to 300-400 employees
included office, fermentation, processing, and production.
 
In QA department, there are QA Manager and three QA officer. One of
the QA officer, En Azizol bin Salim that also our senior as my
supervisor as long I’ve been here. The QA officers helped and give me
guideline during in period of practical.
The training modules developed by QA department:
1. Introduction to QA department, quality control plan and process approaches
2. On job training
i. Soya Sauce
ii. Tomato/ Chili Sauce and Sri Kaya
iii. Production
iv. Fermentation
 
With the training modules, it helped me to understand scope, duties,
and person in charge in the company regarding the overall processing,
incoming material and end product.


The Zara Foodstuff’s products not only market in our country, it also
export to other countries like Singapore, Brunei, United Kingdom and
Australia. For each country, there are different codes for each
product. So at the 1st week, I had to remember codes for each
product.
 
For soya sauce, chili sauce, tomato sauce and Sri Kaya product, I had
learned each process activity based on the process flow and quality
control plan. There are daily in process quality control activity that
has to do for soya sauce, chili sauce and tomato sauce.
 
In fermentation area, I had learned from soy bean until it formed as
‘Koji’. ‘Koji’ fermented in fiberglass about 2- 3 month. I got chance
to look the ‘Koji’ by climb with stair because the height of
fiberglass about 2 feet. Leader of fermentation, Encik Rizal
explained about process of ferment soy bean from 1st method until get
the ‘ Moromi’. Workers at this fermentation area also help me to
understand about the process of fermentation. Inoculum needed to
ferment the soy bean usually made by QA officer, Encik Azizol. He
explain how to make the inoculum and I had did the starter with my
practical mate. In processing making the inoculum, precaution step
applied due to handling with Aspergillus oryzae that may will give
infection to human and the inoculum may not in good condition. Some of
equipment that used is autoclave and laminar flow. Even made the
inoculum takes time, but I really excited because it’s an important
ingredient in fermentation.
 
Processing area divided into three parts, soya sauce, chili/tomato
sauce and Sri Kaya. Biggest part of processing area is processing main
product that is soya sauce. For each step of processing, I had chance
to look the workers did the soya sauce. For each step, the sample will
analyse by QAO, but now the sample check by my practical and I to make
sure the soy sauce follow specification that fixed by QA department.
For soya sauce:
Refractometer : Brixᵒ
pH meter : pH and temperature
Baume hydrometer: Specific gravity
Salinometer : Salinity
 
For 1st week, it difficult to me to differentiate sweet soya sauce and
salty soya sauce by not tasted the soya sauce. But, now I already know
to differentiate both of them and familiar with the taste soya sauce
 
I had learned making the chili and tomato sauce by leader of chili
sauce and tomato sauce, Encik Salleh. There are two types of grinder
that used to grind the ingredients used. Sample of chili and tomato
sauces also have to check before and after cooking process. I also had
to taste the sample for every batch of sauce. So, I can know either
the sauce acceptable with the specification. For chili sauce and
tomato sauce:
 
Refractometer : Brixᵒ
Consistometer : Consistencsy
Viscometer : Viscosity
pH meter : pH
 
Sri Kaya ( Cocunut bread spread) used steam-jacketed barrel to cook.
The product also has to check after cooking process like sauce. For
Sri Kaya:
Refractometer : Brixᵒ
Taste, texture and colour.
 
InsyaAllah, next update, I will share to you all about production,
others experience and project that given by my supervisor.

Working Life Short Story

Working Life Short Story

Disclaimer: This short story is merely creation for life enhancement and has no relation with any individual (live or dead). If the story coincidence with any individual’s experience, it is just a coincidence.

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Story 1:

SME 1

Individual A: Eh…teruklah kerja kat sini…gaji dah lah sikit, kerja bertimbun tak habis2.

Individual B: Apa boleh buat, kita ini orang bawahan je…bukan macam orang atasan. Rilek je kerja, duduk dalam ofis, mengarah orang buat kerja dan tunggu gaji masuk…

Individual A: Pandai je mereka mengarah-arah orang buat kerja, bukan kerja kita pun dia suruh kita buat. Jawatan kita QC exec, patutnya buat kerja QC je la, sekarang kita kena buat jugak kerja check stock, membersihkan “makmal” dan pejabat, pantau pekerja processing buat kerja dan nak pulak result analisis cepat. Dia ingat kita ni Superman ke Wonder Woman!

Individual B: Eh…masa rehat dah tamat, baik masuk kerja sekarang. Kalau tak, kena marah pulak nanti.

*Dua bulan kemudian, syarikat tersebut bankrup disebabkan strategi pemasaran yang lemah dan produk makanan yang tidak diminati pelanggan, iaitu Kerepek Ubi Kentang Perisa Cili Padi bercampur Wasabi. Dua orang pekerja tersebut kemudian bekerja di syarikat lain.

Moral of the story:

Orang atasan mungkin mendapat pulangan yang lumayan sekiranya strategi pemasaran yang betul dan idea produk mereka bersesuaian dengan kehendak pengguna. Akan tetapi, orang atasan juga yang akan menanggung kerugian yang banyak sekiranya apa yang dirancang tidak mencapai hasil yang dikehendaki. Kita mungkin lihat mereka duduk je, tetapi otak mereka tengah buat kerja (risau sales yang teruk, bagaimana nak menaikkan sales, tak dapat logo halal lagi, bagaimana nak improve produk yang sedia ada, atau nak tambah produk baru, dan lain-lain).

Madura from Siti Hajar Sahidi & Siti Nur Mohd Hanafi)

Assalamualaikum and greetings everyone... 

This is the first post from us (Siti Hajar Sahidi & Siti Nur Mohd 

Hanafi) at Madura Industry. Madura Industry is a company that produce 

the product carbonated drinks. 

On our 1st day, we were introduced to 

our supervisor which is a R&D officer. For the first week, we were 

given task which is to develop HACCP manual for the company. This 

company already got GMP so they want us to help them get HACCP. We are 

supposed to present our work about the HACCP but due to other works 

that were given to us; the presentation was postponed to unknown date. 

On this week also, we were showed by our supervisor how R&D department 

do their work. We learnt how they do samples of drinks according to 

the formulation and the variances that they want to observed. 

For the 2nd week, we were told to do some formulation of their new 

product (Sparkling) according to the formulations that were given to 

us. The samples that were done were kept at different condition. We 

had to check the Brix value, salt level and pH for every sample that 

we did and observed the changes that occurred to the samples every 

week. 

On the 3rd week, we were ordered to go to the production area to help 

the process of making S. Salak from fruit to finish good. At the same 

time, we also enter the syrup blending room and inspect every 

ingredient that was going to be weight. We also went to filling room 

where carbonated drinks were filled and help out over there. From this 

week, we had to rotate our work with the other practical students. 

For the 4th week, we were asked to do stability test by taking 7 

bottles of sparkling finished good from the processing area and placed 

them at different conditions. The stability test were done for S. 

Pomegranate 8/3/12, S. Guava 5/3/12 and S. Guava 6/3/12. On this week, 

we also had to remove the pineapple skin due to lack of production 

workers to make pineapple juice which is used to make S. Pineapple. We 

also need to do some checking on the salt level, Brix reading and pH 

of sparkling finished good. 

The 5th week was not too busy as we only had to make 3 formulation of 

isotonic and each formulation need to be triplicate. Daily observation 

was made for each and every sample of the isotonic. Then we had to do 

documentation of GMP for GT Bioscience, sub-factory of Madura which 

produce cosmetic products. 

On the 6th week, we learnt how to use a manual autoclave which we 

guessed not being used by other factory anymore to sanitize the 

apparatus that we want to use for microbe test. We also learnt how to 

do microbe test by using Sim Plate which looked like the agar plate 

but not using the agar. We transfer the heavy autoclave from the R&D 

lad at Madura to the IPQC lab at GT bioscience and vice versa. In this 

week also, we learnt to do microbe test by using RIDA count sheet 

which looks like Petri film. 

For the 7th week, we went to GT Bioscience to record the results of 

our microbe test on the production product. We also study about new 

analysis test and do some short notes on the procedures. Then Siti Nur 

was asked to go to GT Bioscience to help our supervisor do formulation 

for cosmetic cream, product of GT bioscience. On this week also Hajar 

went to R&D lab to do pectin analysis while Siti Nur still not done 

with the cosmetic product. The works at GT bioscience continue until 

night. On Sunday of this week, Siti Nur still had to go to GT 

Bioscience to continue on the production of the cosmetic cream while 

Hajar continue on pectin test for other sample (basically S. Guava and 

its juice). On this week also, we did the microbe test using the Sim 

Plate for Total Plate Count (TPC). We also did the colour simulation 

for the sparkling product to get the same colour as the real 

production products (S. Pomegranate, S. Guava and S. Salak). Plus, we 

had to make formulation of sparkling by using the colour simulation 

that we did earlier. 

World Prominence by Nurul Hasanah

Salam to everyone.


First of all, we are very sorry because we does not updated
our story for the past few weeks in World Pominence. This is because we are
having a good time doing practical until forgot to update what we have doing
there..hehe..Actually, for the past few weeks, we learnt too many new things
that we only can get from experience not from attending classes. 
 
The first one was, we experienced how it is not easy to
control a machine. Specifically the machine to produce bottled drinking water. In
drinking water production site, there were three types of machine that we
already familiar with. The first one was the linear rinser auto machine. Those machine
can rinsed 13 bottles at a time. Sometime, if we do not adjusted the nozzle
that used to rinsed the bottles, or the bottles are not enough to be rinsed, we
may get wet because the water splash on us. Secondly was the auto filler
machine. This machine may fill eight bottles at a time before it was capped by
using air cap, the tool that tightens the bottles cap. Then, the third machine
in this area was label shrink packager machine where it functions to shrink the
bottle label so that it fit nicely on the bottles. After those process
completed, the bottled water was then packed within box.
 
Besides that, as MIHAS just around the corner, we are busy
in helping team management to produce their new product which where Papaya
Chilli Sauce and ‘Mee Bandung’ paste. We had help Mr. Jamal to produce both
product from preparing the raw materials, cooking and also packing. For Papaya
sauce, it was filled into the glass bottle while it is hot where the bottles was
first sterilized and straight away cap. When those bottled sauces getting cool,
they were then labeled and seal manually. For Bandung paste, when it was completely
cooked, it then packed also while it still hot and then sealed. Besides this
two product, they also having other new products which were Sudee Tomyam and Sudee Multifunction Seasoning. All this product will be introduced officially
to people during MIHAS. Last but not least, there was other new product that
will be developed soon which was based on ‘Masak Asam Pedas’ and yellow
noodles. Hopefully, we are still there when they develop those two new
products. 
 
I think, that’s all from us for the time being. We will
update our new story further. Last but not least, don’t forget to visit MIHAS
on 7th April, Saturday as it will be open to public. Don’t forget to
come to our booth as we will be there to experienced how to meet people at big
exhibition like MIHAS and also to help the team to promote the new product.


Love to see you guys there!!!