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Novel Ghost Fleet

Novel fiksi Ghost Fleet adalah karya dari pengamat politik dan kebijakan ternama asal Amerika Serikat, Peter Warren Singer dan August Cole. Judul asli novel tersebut adalah Ghost Fleet: a Novel of The Next World War. Terbit pertama kali di Amerika Serikat pada 2015 lalu dengan lebih dari 400 halaman. Novel ini menjadi perhatian serius bagi petinggi militer Amerika Serikat. Pensiunan Laksamana James G Stavridis menyebut buku ini sebagai blue print untuk memahami peperangan di masa depan. Stavridis, yang kini menjabat sebagai dekan di fakultas Hubungan Internasional Tufts University, mewajibkan pimpinan militer untuk membaca novel tersebut. Singer menggambarkan situasi perang modern ketika pesawat tanpa awak (drone) mendominasi angkatan udara kedua belah pihak. Perang juga melanda sistem informasi tingkat tinggi, dan cakupannya bukan hanya peretasan situs internet, melainkan satelit yang memantau bagian permukaan bumi. Singer juga menceritakan China yang mengalami kemajuan p...

The Application of Six Sigma in Process Control of Raw Water Quality on Pharmaceutical Industry at Indonesia

Abstract Quality is one of the important keys in the pharmaceutical industry in order to face and win the competition. Instability in the water treatment process causes the water quality does not comply with quality standards. This study aimed to evaluate the water treatment process in the pharmaceutical industry, to investigate the cause of the case out of specification (OOS) and propose improvements through application of six sigma method. The object of this research done on some parameters of water generated in the water treatment process, such as pH, conductivity and total plate count. Stages of procedures performed in this study included analysis of data normality, control chart analysis and determine the process capability. Minitab software also used to assist in the calculation and analysis. The results showed the improvement process provide a significant change with the increase in the average an index of Capability Process around 1.07 and decrease the possibility of producin...