This is a case in one mid scale industry who produced kind of acoustic music instruments. The viewed topic is improvement processes for drilling of one part that called top-board, made of wood. It is found that these drilling are doing by hand work manually and caused consequences in time duration and holes positioning that needs template jig. In such improvement program there was one diploma student who followed the Industrial Internship Program in such company that is involved and had to participate into the development small team. Qualitatively, the action steps are formulate the problem in existing operation, analyze its data, and define possible recommendation or solution. A multi spindle boring system then created, designed, manufactured and implemented. Using this equipment, its cutting time could be reduced down to 0.19 min from 0.83 min per piece previously, and theoretically the labor productivity became 38 pcs/man.hour from 27 pcs/man.hour. From other point of view; it is proven that the Industrial Internship Program is beneficial to all involved entities; the educational institution, the students, and the host company where the interns assigned to.

Keywords

Process improvement, student internship, manufacturing