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

Tsarouhas, Panagiotis; Arvanitoyannis, Ioannis S.; Ampatzis, Zafiris D.

doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2009.06.011

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“…However, this information is not available in the open literature. Statistical studies performed on other food production processes, such as bread, beer, fruit in syrup and fruit juice (Tsarouhas et al, 2009;Tsarouhas & Arvanitoyannis, 2010a,b, 2011, have shown that the management of production processes can be significantly improved, and the processes themselves even redesigned. Unfortunately, no studies on the operation of distillation units in the spirits industry have been reported in the literature.…”

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The lack of reproducibility of different distillation techniques and its impact on pear spirit composition

García-Llobodanin

Roca

López

et al. 2011

Int J of Food Sci Tech

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We analysed the impact of operation variability on the composition of pear spirits obtained with a Charentais alembic and a packed distillation column. Lack of reproducibility significantly affected the spirits' compositions, with batch distillation columns more difficult to operate reproducibly vs. traditional alembics. The composition of column distilled spirits differed more in esters, such as ethyl octanoate, ethyl decanoate and ethyl palmitate. In turn, alembic spirit compositions differed more in acetaldehyde and acetal. Moreover, column distilled spirits contained four times more esters, 20% more higher alcohols, 40% less acetaldehyde and 10% less methanol than alembic spirits. Spirits distilled with a rectification column were more concentrated in ethanol than alembic distilled spirits, although both distillation systems recovered the same amount of ethanol in the heart fraction.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The lack of reproducibility of different distillation techniques and its impact on pear spirit composition

García-Llobodanin

Roca

López

et al. 2011

Int J of Food Sci Tech

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“… Adapted from Liberopoulos & Tsarouhas, 2005; Tsarouhas et al ., 2009a,b,c; Tsarouhas & Arvanitoyannis, 2010a,b, 2011; Tsarouhas, 2011;. …”

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Reliability, availability and maintainability analysis in food production lines: a review

Tsarouhas¹

2012

Int J of Food Sci Tech

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Summary The scope of this study is to review reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) analysis in the food industry and aims to identify the critical points of the production systems that should be improved by the operational performance and the maintenance effectiveness. RAM is an engineering tool that addresses operations and safety issues of production lines and aims to identify areas within the system or process where significant improvement can be achieved. Food production lines consist of several machines supplied with a common transfer mechanism and control system that have different failure modes. When a random failure occurs, the failed machine stops and forces most of the line upstream of the failure to operate without processing, whereas the material (raw, intermediate or end‐product) of the line downstream may have to be scrapped because of quality deterioration during the stoppage. The negative failure impact is the drop of line reliability and production rate.

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“…As mentioned, available methods for the covariate analysis on reliability can be broadly classified in two main groups: parametric model (Roy et al 2001;Barabady and Kumar 2008;Elevli et al 2008;Tsarouhas et al 2009) and non-(or semi-) parametric model (Marshall and Olkin 2007;Schemper 1992;Ansell and Philips 1997;Kumar 1995;Kleinbaum and Klein 2005;Lloyd and Line 1999). In the situation in which there is no statistical or experimental evidence about the appropriate distribution shapes for reliability (e.g.…”

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Reliability and maintainability performance under Arctic conditions

Barabadi

Markeset

2011

Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag

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Operational environments may have a considerable influence on the reliability performance and maintainability performance of an item. In the Arctic region with harsh climate condition, sensitive environment and remote location, these influences are more critical. To achieve effective reliability and maintainability analysis and management, all technical challenges and influence factors must be identified. Then, based on the way that these factors influence the failure mechanisms, maintenance processes and other support activities, appropriate statistical approaches must be selected to quantify their effects. The first part of this paper reviews the technical challenges for the offshore oil and gas industry from the reliability and maintainability performance perspective in the Arctic region. The second part of this paper reviews the available appropriate statistical approach for reliability and maintainability performance analysis under Arctic conditions.

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

Cited by 24 publications

References 12 publications

The lack of reproducibility of different distillation techniques and its impact on pear spirit composition

The lack of reproducibility of different distillation techniques and its impact on pear spirit composition

Reliability, availability and maintainability analysis in food production lines: a review

Reliability and maintainability performance under Arctic conditions

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