Quantitative analysis for peach production line management

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-35

  Tsarouhas, Panagiotis H ^a   Arvanitoyannis, Ioannis S ^b  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Operation management; Peach production line; Performance evaluation; Quality; Reliability and maintainability models

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; CRITICAL MACHINE; CURRENT SITUATION; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; FAILURE DATA; HAZARD RATE MODEL; LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; MAINTENANCE STAFF; MEAN TIME TO FAILURE; OPERATION MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRODUCTION LINE; QUALITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPAIR RATE; SHORT TERM;

MAINTAINABILITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; REPAIR; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 79953065203     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2010.11.029     Document Type: Article

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