Blambangan Foodpackers Indonesia company limited is a company engaged in manufacturing with its primary products sardines. Application of HACCP in the company has been conducted in order to maintain consumer trust and produce a quality product in accordance with the guidelines applicable quality standards. This study aims to determine how the implementations of quality control in terms of the H...

This paper represents a detailed assessment on raw material waste generation of a semi-automated powder filling and packing process by applying certain quality tools such as Pareto Analysis and Fishbone Diagram. The aim of this study is to identify the sources or categories of raw material waste and analyse its underlying causes. Waste generation is an unavoidable incident in any production pro...

A recent trend in the layout design of unit load warehouses is the application of layouts without conventional parallel pick aisles and straight middle aisles. Two examples for such designs are flyingV and fishbone designs for single and dual command operations. In this study, we consider the same layout types under the case of multiple-item pick lists and show that, for both layout types, the ...

A 35-year-old woman presented with a history of vague epigastric pain which lasted for one day. She had no other gastrointestinal symptoms and had an unremarkable past history and physical examination. An ultrasound scan abdomen showed a 3×3.5 cm mass in the left lobe of liver. A CT scan showed an abnormal hypodense lesion with mild enhancement in the arterial phase, with a central calcificatio...

A modeling method for representing belt object deformation is proposed. Deformation of belt objects such as film circuit boards or flexible circuit boards must be estimated for automatic manipulation and assembly. In this paper, we assume that deformation of an inextensible belt object can be described by the shape of its central axis in a longitudinal direction called “the spine line” and line...

A nosocomial outbreak of Serratia marcescens in respiratory samples predominantly from patients in a surgical intensive care unit is reported. Most of these patients were cardiac surgical patients. Initially, a vigorous but inconclusive investigation was implemented on the basis of standardized (according the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) steps of outbreak investigation. Then, ...

BACKGROUND Foreign body ingestion complicated by perforation of the digestive tract is a well-known occurrence. Contrary to this, perforation by fishbones has most often been described in South East Asian populations, and has the unusual characteristic of often being paucisymptomatic until secondary complications occur. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 56 year-old man of asian origin...

A 65-year-old diabetic woman presented to our clinic with a 10-day history of spasmodic lower abdominal pain, which eventually localized to the left iliac fossa. It was associated with low-grade fever for 3 days. Abdominal examination showed localized tenderness, guarding, and increased temperature. A tender, firm, non-mobile mass was palpated in the same region. Laboratory studies revealed leu...