Improving Quality of Small and Medium Entreprises Products (SMEs) through Training Product Legality on Science and Technology Program for Entrepreneurship at Muhammadiyah University of Sidoarjo

Wiwik Sulistiyowati,Nihlatul Qudus Sn,Ida Agustina Saidi

doi:10.21070/picecrs.v1i2.1437

Abstract

The legality of a product is the most important thing to measure the quality indicator of a product. Through Science and Technology for Entrepreneurship Program, SMEs disabled participants are given socialization about the importance of product legality e.g. Household Food Industry (PIRT), brand, logo and halal. The purpose of this activity is to improve the quality of SME products through product legality training. The method used is quantitatif method with experiment approach. For training method used PALS (Participatory Action Learning Center) methods. The PALS method approach emphasizes on the transformation of existing activities cultivated in the changes towards the improvement of the conditions of SMEs. Stages of the PALS method approach are the awareness stage, the process of capturing product quality and accompaniment. The result is that there is an increasing number of business actors who take care of PIRT, logos and brands. It can be seen from the significance value of paired t-test results, this is at pretest condition (before taking product legality training) and posttest when tenant has attended product legality training. With a significance value of 0.000 smaller than the critical value of 0.005, then Ho (initial hypothesis) is processed, so that there are significant differences of tenant who have followed the product legality training to improve the ability of tenant in preparing documents of PIRT, brand and logo for his business

Highlights

To answer the challenge of higher education that produces high quality graduates who can answer the challenges of work, Muhammadiyah University of Sidoarjo (UMSIDA) is one of the Universities located in Sidoarjo Regency in the implementation of teaching and learning process to give entrepreneurship courses to make students able to be empowered and creating a business
There are many business opportunities that can be developed by students around the campus, because the UMSIDA campus is close to the public hospital, where many consumers will use the products they sell
Research and Higher Education which is coordinated by Institute of Research and Community Service to do some activities which followed by tenant (Science and Technology program participants for Entrepreneurship) consisting of students, alumni, small and medium business actors in Sidoarjo

Summary

INTRODUCTION

To answer the challenge of higher education that produces high quality graduates who can answer the challenges of work, Muhammadiyah University of Sidoarjo (UMSIDA) is one of the Universities located in Sidoarjo Regency in the implementation of teaching and learning process to give entrepreneurship courses to make students able to be empowered and creating a business. Research and Higher Education which is coordinated by Institute of Research and Community Service to do some activities which followed by tenant (Science and Technology program participants for Entrepreneurship) consisting of students, alumni, small and medium business actors in Sidoarjo. One of the activities undertaken is the training of product legality It aims to improve the quality of products produced by SMEs to be competitive and sold in a wider market. Through Science and Technology for Entrepreneurship Program, SMEs participants are given socialization about the importance of product legality e.g. Household Food. The purpose of this activity is to improve the quality of SME products through product legality training.

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