Design of digital hanging scales for oil palm plantation

Indonesia produces about 44% of world´s palm oil. This is supported by the palm plantation area owned by Indonesia reached 9.2 million hectares, or twice as large as Malaysian palm oil. With large oil palm area, controlling process will be difficult to do and causing the chance of weighing data manipulation which make a loss for stakeholders of oil palm plantations. To minimize the chances of weighing data manipulation, this research aims to generate design of digital scale according to the needs of stakeholders in the oil palm plantations. Based on consumer requirement, this research has generated several concepts are combined with morphological chart. By using weighted criteria, a design of digital scale has selected from several concepts. This study also complements the selected concept by the architecture design, which aims to describe the physical and functions of the components of the product and also the relationship between the components. The final design makes the digital scale capable to send weighing data and location using GSM module, which can minimize the possibility of weighing data manipulation.