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In the institution of vocational education, students skill competencies should be gained by practical program in its workshop, therefore a product media is needed. In manufacturing field, job shop is the interesting type of work for the students due to its variety challenges, machine layout advantages for variety requirements and its appropriateness with practical competency aim. In usual way these product media are initiated from structured exercise goods and research result as internal project, but with an industrial collaboration concept it could be combined with the needs from external customer with good order handling arrangement by management. Since job shop had the fluctuation consequence due to variety process required, developing practical program with Batch Product could widening students practical product spectrum. Regarding the characteristic differences between Job Shop, Batch and Research Project related with competency that students should get, creating batch and project assembly area separately from job shop caused better time schedule and order handling properness. This combination is buffering media work that keep the education operation is running, encourages the student practical product to gain comprehensive activities in each area and more focus handling of all involved parties to each kind of jobs. Moreover, the QCD requirement of such products are reached easier.

In ‘Bandung State Polytechnic for Manufacturing’ (POLMAN) Bandung as a vocational education institution, Production Base Education (PBE) is already implemented for years. Through this concept students are doing practical jobs that inquired by real customer from industries, with the Quality-Cost-Delivery (QCD) necessity as well. The student practical program schedule is made structurally, combined with theory and other needed contents according the planned competency for each study program in 3 years (6 semesters). Therefore, so far 2 weeks for practical and 1 week theory alternately is arranged and ran well. Students will then learn all about process and transformation of raw material to product included assembly, but they seem not enough experienced in Operation Management and integrating the related manufacture activities. There are feedbacks that POLMAN graduates have adequate capability in technical matters like designing, machining, fabrication etc. but few skills in managing could still be improved. In 321 program idea, students will get the first 3 semesters for basic matters needed, the next 2 semesters in integrated continually project program and the last 1 semester for finalization and the additional enrichment items. With this program, students will more concern and get better understanding in project handling comprehensively, integrating all related planning, relevancies among one process to others in order handling and manufacture activities, and be realized in controlling the milestone of supply chain component entities like vendor, logistic, production, sales and customer. The consequences in market and project matter preparation of course has to be highly anticipated.

Indonesia has a lot of potential flood disaster places with clean water problems faced. Various solution programs always initiated by Government, companies CSR, and people sporadical actions to provide clean water; with their advantages and disadvantages respectively. One solution is easy to operate for instance, but didn't provide adequate capacity, whereas the other had ideal performance but more costly. This situation inspired to develop a water treatment machine that could be an alternative favor. There are many methods could be choosed; whether in simple, middle or high technology, depends on water source input and output result quality. MSWT, Mobile Surface Water Treatment, is an idea for raw water in flood area, basically made for 1m3 per hour. This water treatment design adopted from combined existing technologies and related literatures. Using common ideas, the highlight is how to make such modular process put in compact design elegantly, and would be equipped with mobile feature due to make easier in operational. Through prototype level experiment trials, the machine is capable for producing clean water that suitable for sanitation and cooking/drinking purposes although using contaminated water input source. From the investment point of view, such machine could be also treated as an asset that will be used from time to time when needed, instead of made for project approach only.