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However, the impact of semi-automation to the production of “otak-otak” remained unclear, thus require the investigation. Through the use of statistical process control, the performance of the manual and semi-automated production process was determined. The integration approached of using ARENA and experimental data was successfully simulates the real production situation. The impact of the implementation of the semi-automated production system was determined and found positively improved the total production performance. This new process has satisfied the minimum requirement of the recommended process capability ratio. Numbers of production issues associated with manual production were determined including the inconsistent utilisation of operator, long value-added time, long product waiting as well as the quality issue of weight inconsistency. 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