Medical Supplies Vending Machine

Vending machine assessment methodology. A systematic review.

The nutritional quality of food and beverage products sold in vending machines has been implicated as a contributing factor to the development of an obesogenic food environment. How comprehensive, reliable, and valid are the current assessment tools for vending machines to support or refute these claims? A systematic review was conducted to summarize, compare, and evaluate the current methodolo...

Machine vision system for a reverse vending machine

FSA Vending Machine Operation Charged Illegal

The vending machines in your d o r m , in the campus center, pod ium, and tunnels are and have been opera ted in violation of the S ta t e University con t rac t with SUNY-A's Facul ty S tudent Associat ion. According t o New York State Audi tors , Article 3 of the contract be tween State University and FSA provides tha t " F S A may operate vending machines . This does not mean that FSA may su...

Rapid Distribution of Medical Supplies

Some important issues in the design of an efficient pharmaceutical supply chain involve deciding where to place the warehouses/inventories and how to route distribution vehicles. Solving appropriate facility location and vehicle routing problems can ensure the design of a logistic network capable of rapid distribution of medical supplies. In particular, both these problems must be solved in coo...

Applying Fondue to Specify a Drink Vending Machine

The purpose of the paper is to present our approach for specifying system behavior during analysis, part of the Fondue software development method. The approach is exemplified on a case study, a Drink Vending Machine (DVM). It is based on Operation Schemas and a Protocol Model. The Protocol Model describes the temporal ordering of the system operations by an UML protocol statemachine. An Operat...