OLAP Approach in Searching Manufacturing Industries in West Sumatera

The manufacturing industry is a business that uses machines, tools and workers in the process of converting raw materials into finished goods that can be sold. The manufacturing industry has an important role in the Indonesian economy. The industry contributed a large income to the country. In West Sumatra, there are many manufacturing industries that are growing and developing both on a medium scale and large scale which are spread throughout the cities and districts. So that it makes it difficult for the Department of Industry of West Sumatra Province to collect data on the existence of Manufacturing industries. To solve this problem, approach of Online Analitycal Processing (OLAP) is used to search data in a hierarchical manner. OLAP is designed using fact tables and several dimension tables. OLAP will provide the number of industries as a measure . This research can help the people of West Sumatra to find out about the local manufacturing industry and what products the industry produces. In the end, local industrial products will be favored by many local people and increase the income of the province of West Sumatra.