Quality Control to Reduce Defects in Amlodipine and Salbutamol Pharmaceutical Products: A Geography Case Study on Indonesia Pharmaceutical Industry

Abstract

In the current era of globalization, where the pharmaceutical industry is required to be able to compete
with the pharmaceutical industry both at home and abroad to fight for market share and be able to
meet the drug needs for consumers, namely by increasing the fulfillment of the need for quality drugs.
The quality of the products produced by a company is determined based on certain sizes and
characteristics. Even though the production process has been carried out well, in reality, errors are still
found and there are errors where the quality of the products produced does not comply with standards,
or in other words, the resulting product is damaged or the product is defective. This study aims to
determine the factors that cause defective products and know how to control quality so as to reduce
the number of defective products in each stage of the production process. The analytical method used
is descriptive analysis through Pareto diagrams, causal diagrams, and control charts u. The results showed
that the production in October exceeded the control limit and several factors that caused defective
products included humans, materials, machines, and methods.