Plant layout and pick-and-place strategies for improving performances in secondary packaging plants of food products

Packaging Technology and Science

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 339-354

  Comba, Lorenzo ^a   Belforte, Gustavo ^b   Gay, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

food industry; packaging plants; robotics

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; COUNTER-CURRENT FLOW; DISCRETE EVENTS SIMULATION; FOOD INDUSTRIES; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; PACKAGING PLANT; RELATIVE MOVEMENT; SECONDARY PACKAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BELT CONVEYORS; FOOD PRODUCTS; PLANT LAYOUT; ROBOTICS;

PACKAGING;

EID: 84884989005     PISSN: 08943214     EISSN: 10991522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pts.1984     Document Type: Article

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