1. The meaning of using innovation and technology in production

The meaning of using innovation and technology in production

Innovation and technology can be used to improve human capability in production. They help solve problems and creatively satisfy humans’ needs by applying knowledge with technological process to create things, appliances, and methods to improve the quality of life. Innovation and technology can be further explained as follows.

1) Innovation refers to new ideas, practices, or inventions that never exist before or refers to things that are modified or developed.

2) Technology means things that are developed by man to help them work or solve any problems; for examples, tools, equipments, machines, materials, or even other intangible things such as systems or processes used to achieve the target. Technology must cover the following aspects.

(1) Workforce is an important resource which includes the entrepreneur and externally hired workforce.

(2) Tool and equipment, including other materials

(3) Technique and method such as knowledge from self-studying

(4) Place which includes field, farm, mountain, river, sea, and business enterprise

2. Benefit and Impact of Technology

Benefit and Impact of Technology

The benefits and impacts of using of technology in daily life can be summarized as follows.

1) Benefits and impacts of technology toward education. Students are able to learn from home using method such as a distant learning through internet from both domestic and international sources, as well as study and in conducting a research for endless information from internet and learning from different media such as radio, television, video, and computer. However, using technology in education sometimes reduces interpersonal interaction between the teacher and student since it lessens the roles of teacher.

2) Benefits and impacts of technology toward environment. Technology takes vital roles in improving soil, water, and air quality, as well as recycling wastes using certain technological processes; on the other hands, technology may pollute the environment since man sometimes misuses the technology, caring only about his own benefits without considering the negative impacts that may occur from using such technology.

3) Benefits and impacts of technology toward society. Technology and society are correlated. Technology makes the world smaller since the convenience to transfer information makes businesses move faster which also results in a faster economic growth. However, an advance in technology may create unemployment since machines are used to replace workforces. Adaptation for those who do not know how to use new technologies is also an issue which may cause the misuse of such technology.

4) Benefits and impacts of toward health. Due to the fact that technology aims to create facilities for human, especially in health aspect, exercise machine, television and other entertaining sources to enhance both physical and mental health can be widely seen. Furthermore, technology creates an advance in curing. Medical information published in the internet allows doctors throughout the world to work together. However, computer technology has a negative impact toward children in the sense that it makes them lack of focus on studying and exercising and put too much attention in playing computer games, become aggressive, unrest, strain, and cause myopia.

In summary, technology will be very useful if it is correctly and suitably applied but it will create significant impacts if one does not know what he is doing or overuses it.

3. Technological Process in Production

Technological Process in Production

Technological process is the process in solving problems by carefully using initiatives and creativities to effectively create products that benefit and satisfy individuals’ needs.

The basic principle of technological process to design the product can be outlined in the figure below.

4. Using Strategy to Improve Product and Quality

Using Strategy to Improve Product and Quality

Technology plays a key role in everyone’s life nowadays. Technology has been utilized in the activities of all sectors, from industrial, agricultural, to service sectors since using of technology will improve production efficiency, helping work faster, gain more product quantity, gain better quality, use less time, and reduce cost of labor. This seems to be more important particularly in industrial or agricultural sectors in which the degree of competition is very high. Those who are the pioneers in using technology will witness success before competitors. Moreover, while developing strategies, one will have to examine the strength and weakness of his own business activity, and make a comparison between those of competitors to further adjust the strategy.

When the weakness is spotted, technology can be used to fulfill such weakness, its help to improve efficiency and product quality. Some examples in applying technology strategically to improve product output and quality are given below.

Example 1

In the past, rice harvesting in a large field required a large number of workforces. The use of technology such as harvesting machines in the process can greatly reduce the number of workforce and time spent in harvesting and especially if there is a high competition in the business, agriculturists will have to adjust their strategies using technology in the process in order to harvest more rice while spend less time and able to sell rice before competitors.

Example 2

In a chili sauce factory where the vegetable washed, chili and spice ground, ingredient mixed, and packaging processes requires workforces to do so, the output is not so good as expected; for examples, vegetables are dirty, poor mixture, output quality and quantity are not good according to the expected standard, too many workforces required, too costly, and too much time spent which result is the loss of business opportunity. The factory, therefore, adjust its business strategy by utilizing production technologies such as vegetable washing machine, grinding machine, mixing and packing machine, all of which helps improve productivity, reducing time spent and cost and let the business be better competing with other competitors.

5. Using Creatively Technology

Using Creatively Technology

The principles in using creatively technology are outlined below.

1) Before making a decision to select technology that will be used, the entrepreneur is recommended to study and compare the characteristics of technologies in terms of quality, appearance, material used, convenience in using, and value.

2) Using the product development technology to satisfy individual’s need, the entrepreneur has to study and review whether such technology can benefit or harm the society and environment, since the technology will have certain effects toward society or environment.

3) Try to select and utilize the technology that creatively and positively affects to the society and environment.