Japan is one of the most advanced countries in manufacturing technology, and lasers have played an important role in the advancement of manufacturing technology in a variety of industrial fields. The contribution of laser materials processing to Japanese industry is significant for both macroprocessing and microprocessing. The present paper describes the recent trend and topics of industrial ap...

S ince 1993, the beef industry has spent more than $30 million on beef safety research, outreach and education through The Beef Checkoff. Including private industry efforts, collectively, the industry spends more than $550 million annually on improving beef safety. Much of the research has focused on addressing foodborne pathogens at the harvest and processing level. However, researchers, indus...

hot-melt extrusion is one of the most widely applied processing technologies in the plastic, rubber and food industry. today this technology has found its place in the array of pharmaceutical manufacturing operations. melt extrusion process are currently applied in the pharmaceutical field for the manufacture of a variety of dosage forms and formulations such as granules, pellets, tablets, supp...

INTRODUCTION The workers in the dough processing industry are a population exposed to psychosocial risk factors due to the conditions in the workplace; therefore, they are likely to suffer from one of the consequences of chronic stress to which a worker is exposed daily: burnout syndrome. OBJETIVE The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between psychosocial factors and the burno...

In this paper, we compare the competitiveness between clustered and dispersed Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesian food processing industry. This study was driven by the important role of SMEs in Indonesian food processing industry for helping low income people access the low price foods. Furthermore, as Indonesian Government implements policy that support clustered SMEs, it could be e...

Membrane distillation (MD) and osmotic distillation (OD) are emerging athermal processing techniques of great interest in agro-food production where the most part of products is sensitive to thermal treatments. With respect to conventional methods, MD and OD are competitive alternatives, able to work in an environmental-friendly and cost-efficient way, for preserving the nutritional and sensori...

This paper presents the development of a model based decision support system with a case study on solving the supplier selection problem in a chemical processing industry. For the evaluation and selection of supplier, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and grey relational analysis (GRA) were used. The intention of the study is to propose an appropriate platform for process industries in ...

To enter new markets and remain competitive in the existing markets, companies need to shift their focus from traditional means and ways to some innovative approaches. Though the paper industry in India has improved remarkably on its technological and environmental issues, yet it shows a low rate of innovation. The present paper attempts to review the industry in the perspecti...