Outputs (5)

Modelling the material flow and web tension in the vertical form-fill-seal packaging process (2011)
Journal Article

Vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) machines are widely used to form bags for packaging products such as confectionary and snack food. One critical component of the machine is the forming shoulder, which needs to manipulate, without damage, the packaging... Read More about Modelling the material flow and web tension in the vertical form-fill-seal packaging process.

Capturing constraint evolution: A technique to preserve and handle design knowledge (2011)
Journal Article

Product development can be considered as the evolutionary and iterative process of recognition, formulation and satisfaction of constraints. These become the rationale driving the design to the final specifications, with the evolution of constraints... Read More about Capturing constraint evolution: A technique to preserve and handle design knowledge.

The implementation of a direct search approach for the resolution of complex and changing rule-based problems (2011)
Journal Article

During the evolution of constraint modeling approaches, they have increased in their ability to resolve more and more complex problems. They all rely upon their ability to define the design problem by a set of constraint rules, which are true when th... Read More about The implementation of a direct search approach for the resolution of complex and changing rule-based problems.

Contrasting opportunities for mass customization in food manufacture and food processes (2011)
Book Chapter

Design for changeover (DFC): Enabling flexible and highly responsive manufacturing (2011)
Book Chapter

A highly flexible manufacturing capability is central to the paradigm of mass customisation. In turn the role of rapid, high quality changeovers is crucial to this capability, whereby production can be switched with minimal penalty across a full (and... Read More about Design for changeover (DFC): Enabling flexible and highly responsive manufacturing.