This research aims to study the important factors that affect the decision making in the manufacturing process development of industrial factories according to the Industry 4.0 concept and to create decision models. The model developed from applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to this group of experts focuses on the most strategy and organization factors accounted for 28.3 percent followed by the smart factory accounted for 17.8 percent smart products accounted for 16.3 percent smart operations accounted for 13.1 percent employees accounted for 12.5 percent and the data-driven services accounted for 11.9 percent by the model test results with 3 factories. In conclusion this model can decide the way to improve the production process of industrial plants according to the Industry 4.0 concept that is suitable for the context and limitations of each industrial plant can be used for all types of industrial plants and will directly benefit the decision makers of industrial plants to improve the production process and develop into smart factory based on the Industry 4.0 concept.

This objective of this research is to study the development of the pararubber tapping knife in order to determine the optimum of the edge and oblique angle and to compare the efficiency of the electrical motor and Je-Bong knife. The product was manufactured by iron steel carbon S45C and AISI 5160 with 75-90 degree edge knife and 0-45 degrees oblique angle. The results can be concluded that the optimum condition of the edge knife oblique knife and the cutting force were 75 degree 45 degree and 3.51-51.42 N respectively. It was found that the cutting force was straightly increased form 0-51.42 N and then gradually decreased. The energy consumption of timber cutting was 0.00370 J/mm3. The quality of the rubber tap using electrical motor was 72.07% which was higher than 2.8 of Je-Bong knife. As the results this product shows the average of rubber timber which is 2.22 mm. in 22.51 s.

The tungsten carbide powder which recycled from the scarps of cemented tungsten carbide produces the purity of 99%. Using this tungsten carbide powder to manufacture a cutting tool and test its properties are the main objective of this work. Based on the standard SNMG 120408 the cutting tool with the dimension of 12.7x12.7x4.76 is fabricated. With the 100 hours of Ball milling grinding Cobalt mixing and sintering at 1430 °C the experimental result is impressive. At 15% of mixedcobalt the cutting tool with the hardness of 2031.6 HV be able to cut S45C steel in the feed rate of 0.2 meters per revolution and 45 m/min in the cutting speed. Besides that it provides the depth of cut of 0.25 mm and when it reaches the cutting distance of 4200 mm the surface roughness is 3.65 μm. In comparison with the cutting tool made of imported tungsten carbide powder which has a hardness of 1254 HV it turned out that our cutting tool has the equivalent quality in terms of hardness and wear resistance. Hence this work is considered to be a material development and a tungsten carbide cutting tool manufacture those would be the vital base to lead us to a commercial production.

This study developed the cemented tungsten carbide by steadily sintering at 1430 °C for one hour. The tungsten carbide structure is a long shape. Its grain size has a difference between width and length and there are high distribution of sizes and shapes. In comparison with the work piece which has the similar size of grain structure the milling duration of tungsten carbide is less even though the condition of WC-Co is the same (95% WC – 5% Co). When the sintering of 1400 °C with the identical milling duration is performed. It turned out that both grain structures of the tungsten carbide and the work piece are similar and their grain sizes are slightly different. However when the grain structures are almost the same and sphericity is increased the hardness and wear resistance will also be improved. Therefore the size of grain structure between 1.00 – 3.00 μm with the milling duration of 100 hours will provide a work piece that has a wear resistance according to international standard

This study aims to development of production process of hard metal by tungsten carbide powder with the particle sized of 0.1 - 0.35 µm. This carbide powder were made of recycling cemented carbide tool scraps so it is mixed with Ta = 2.82 % Mo = 0.45 % Nb = 1.22 % Ti = 4.56 % Zr = 0.37 % The shape of the carbide powder are roughly round due to ball milling for 300 hours. It was mixing cobalt 10 % and Paraffin wax 2 % which is found the work piece that running through the process of sintering with a temperature of 1400 °c and 1430 °c have the hardness of 1368.5 and 1346.3 HV respectively. In one hour of holding time process the work piece with 1430 °c of the sintering causes less wear. After the test of turning operation it can be concluded that the tungsten carbide cutting tool provides the equivalent quality as a standard cutting tool.