Transformational Steam Infusion Processing for Resilient and Sustainable Food Manufacturing Businesses

critical evaluation for adoption of food safety systems in the turkish dairy and meat processing businesses

the adoption of food safety systems (fsss) is of major significance in the food industry, and that approach is especially of more promience in dairy and meat processing firms. in this study the aim was to introduce the factors affecting the probability of adoption of fsss in the dairy and the meat processing plants in aydin, western turkey. it was observed that ten out of twenty-eight dairy bus...

Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity: Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System

A New Paradigm Shift for Manufacturing Businesses

Cloud Manufacturing is emerging as a new manufacturing paradigm which is believed to change the way industries and enterprises do their businesses, in that dynamically scalable and virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. It can transform the traditional manufacturing business model, help it align product innovation with business strategy, and create intelligent factor...

Logistics Options for Re-distributed Manufacturing in Resilient Sustainable Cities – a Pilot Study

Urban resilience has been defined as the capacity of (amongst others) communities and businesses to survive, adapt, and grow when faced with stresses and shocks. Redistributed Manufacturing (RdM) exploits technologies, systems and strategies to change the economics and organisation of manufacturing (in particular location and scale). A series of studies are being undertaken, in the city of Bris...

Sustainable harvest: managing plasticity for resilient crops

Maintaining crop production to feed a growing world population is a major challenge for this period of rapid global climate change. No consistent conceptual or experimental framework for crop plants integrates information at the levels of genome regulation, metabolism, physiology and response to growing environment. An important role for plasticity in plants is assisting in homeostasis in respo...