Yogurt production line: reliability analysis

Production and Manufacturing Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-23

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

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

operations management; performance evaluation; quality; reliability models; yogurt production line

Indexed keywords

DAIRY PRODUCTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; PRODUCTION LINE; RELIABILITY MODEL; SERIAL CORRELATION TEST; TIME BETWEEN FAILURES;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84932180136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21693277.2014.881268     Document Type: Article

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