• Food Packaging Materials for Irradiation 

      Arvanitoyannis, I. S.; Tsarouhas, P. (2010)
      Irradiation of packaging materials-in most cases, plastic-generally leads to the formation of free radicals and ions, which eventually result either in cross-linking or in chain scission. The latter leads to the release ...
    • Implementation of total productive maintenance in food industry: A case study 

      Tsarouhas, P. (2007)
      Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to adopt the total productive maintenance (TPM) in the food industry and especially in bakery products. The paper aims to develop a methodology for increasing production rate, improving ...
    • Irradiation Applications in Vegetables and Fruits: A Review 

      Arvanitoyannis, I. S.; Stratakos, A. C.; Tsarouhas, P. (2009)
      There is an increasing trend both in advanced countries and many developing countries to centrally process fresh fruits and vegetables, properly packaged, for distribution and marketing. Irradiation technology proved to ...
    • Performance evaluation of an automatic transfer line with WIP scrapping during long failures 

      Liberopoulos, G.; Kozanidis, G.; Tsarouhas, P. (2007)
      We develop a model of a failure-prone, bufferless, paced, automatic transfer line in which material flows through a number of workstations in series, receiving continuous processing along each workstation. When a workstation ...
    • Reliability analysis of an automated pizza production line 

      Liberopoulos, G.; Tsarouhas, P. (2005)
      We present a statistical analysis of failure data of an automated pizza production line covering a period of four years. The analysis includes the computation of the most important descriptive statistics of the failure ...
    • Systems analysis speeds up Chipita's, food-processing line 

      Liberopoulos, G.; Tsarouhas, P. (2002)
      Chipita International, Inc., one of Greece's largest manufacturers of bakery products and snacks, makes croissants on seven specialized processing lines in Lamia, Greece. A rise in the demand for croissants over the past ...