A case study of investigating reliability and maintainability in a Greek juice bottling medium size enterprise (MSE)

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 479-488

  Tsarouhas, Panagiotis H ^a   Arvanitoyannis, Ioannis S ^b   Ampatzis, Zafiris D ^a  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Field failure repair data; Juice production line; Maintainability models; Performance evaluation; Quality; Reliability models

Indexed keywords

FIELD FAILURE-REPAIR DATA; JUICE PRODUCTION LINE; MAINTAINABILITY MODELS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; QUALITY; RELIABILITY MODELS;

MACHINE DESIGN; MACHINERY; MAINTAINABILITY; MARINE RISERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; REPAIR; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 68349127358     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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