Participatory Quality Improvement and Work Ergonomics for a Micro Coffee Shop: The Warkop SYIR Community Engagement Case in Indonesia
Abstract
Objective: To document a participatory industrial-engineering intervention that addresses inconsistent coffee preparation, raw-material control, operator discomfort, and weak customer-feedback routines at Warkop SYIR, a micro coffee shop in Watampone, Indonesia.
Methods: The 2026 community-engagement program was organized around a process diagnosis, jointly specified brewing and hygiene procedures, a low-cost ergonomic workstation redesign, operator coaching, and a Plan–Do–Check–Act review mechanism. Methods for assessing service time, first-pass product conformity, SOP adherence, stock traceability, and customer perception were formulated.
Results: The documented diagnostic basis identified four interconnected operational deficiencies and produced a structured intervention package comprising recipe cards, checklists, zoning rules, and monitoring instruments. To illustrate evaluation, an explicitly synthetic 40-order-per-phase scenario yields a modeled service-time change from 6.31 to 4.70 min per order; it is not an observed outcome.
Conclusion: Integrating quality standardization, task-level ergonomics, and feedback offers a feasible low-investment improvement framework. Verified field measurements remain necessary before claiming quantitative effectiveness.
How to Cite This Article
Nurhayati Rauf, Muhammad Dahlan, Muhammad Akbar AS, Regina Ramadhania PP Ahmad Padhil, Nurfaiqah (2026). Participatory Quality Improvement and Work Ergonomics for a Micro Coffee Shop: The Warkop SYIR Community Engagement Case in Indonesia . International Journal of Future Engineering Innovations (IJFEI), 3(6), 88-93.