UPH Industrial Engineering Team Wins 3rd Place on IECA: IMAGINATION 2015

UPH Team (left-right) Timothy Henry, Sharah Saputra, Gloria FJ Kartikasari

On 8-11 June 2015, UPH sent 1 team to compete in the first Industrial Engineering competition held by HMTI Unika Atma Jaya. The competition is IECA : IMAGINATION 2015 the tagline of this event is ?Improve Your Manufacturing Knowledge Through Industrial Competition?.

There are 20 teams from various universities who competed in this event. The competition was divided to 3 stages, the first two were the elimination stages and the last one was the final. The first stage was a written test consisting of two parts, essay and multiple choices. The materials of this test come from the whole Industrial Engineering discipline. By the end of the test, 5 teams were eliminated, and the remaining 15 teams were ranked based on the score. The team from UPH managed to get the second position, while the first position was taken by the team from ITB.

The second stage was a business simulation game. The teams were given capital, the amount of which was based on the rank from the previous stage. Thus, UPH team had an advantage in this stage. The game requires one member from each team to run to a station, and answer a question taken randomly to get the advantageous choice. By then end of the game, 5 finalists were chosen, but the final rank was not given out by the committee. The team from UPH managed to get into the final stage, along with the team from Unika Atma Jaya, Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Parahyangan, and Universitas Diponegoro.

The final stage was a visit to a warehouse of PT. Premier Vespa, which is the distributor of Vespa motorcycle in the region. The problem that they had to solve was about the layout of the warehouse. The teams were given 10 minutes interview with the factory management and about 1,5 hours to had a look around the facility. After that, the teams were given one laptop to make the paper and presentation in less than 4 hours.  The next day, was the presentation day. After the presentation, the winners were announced and the team from UPH managed to get the 3rd place. While the 2nd and 1st place were taken by Universitas Parahyangan and Universitas Indonesia, respectively.