Purpose This paper aims to examine and analyze the effects of government policy, quality of human resources and professional institutions on workforce competitiveness using welding technology variable as a mediating variable. Design/methodology/approach This study used quantitative research by using partial least square – structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze the collected data. Findings Based on the results of the analysis, it was noted that there was a significant influence between government policy, quality of human resources and professional institutions on welding technology. The coefficients are characterized by a positive direct relationship, which means that the higher the quality of government policy and human resources professionals variables, the higher the value of the institute of welding technology. Social implications This study recommends that government should create policies that have benefits to competitiveness of Indonesian workforce. Implications from this study support government to use the model to determine and initiate policies in the field of welding as well as establish clear and standardized operating standards and recruitment process (government apparatus) that can accommodate the competitiveness of welding workers in Indonesia. Originality/value The originality of this paper is that the participatory approach was adopted in this study using PLS-SEM. In addition, this study was one of the first studies to carry out research at the BNSP office, BLK-Bandung-Jakarta, Makassar, B4T and dismiss the Ministry of Manpower and the Ministry of Industry in Jakarta, Indonesia, where there was no research in this location. Previous studies conducted research in various case studies.

This paper has an objective to apply PDCA methodology as a way to improve the quality of production processes in the beverage industry. As part of it, a prior analysis has been done and found the highest breakdown was in the conditioning area of the bottle making production. It has been proofed by the secondary data which showedthe average breakdown in the conditioning area of the bottle making production was about 40% from July to September 2019. A preliminary brainstorming involved a manager and a supervisor of the production department to identify the possible causes of the problem. From brainstorming, there were several potential causes of the breakdown problem have been identified using the cause and effect analysis. They were categorised from machine, man and method factors. For machine factors the potential causes came from the faulty conditioning capacitors, the cable of power condition was short, semi-finished bottle burns in conditioning and low of reliability of conditioning sensors. Meanwhile, from the man factor the potential causes came from the lack of skill from operators in centering the conditioning of the collect. Therefore, from the method factor, the cause was because lack of method with relation to the centering conditioning of the collect. The next stage of this research will apply PDCA methodology to overcome the problem and improve the quality of processes in this company.