Mechanisation and Automation in Dairy Technology

This volume covers the main sectors of dairy technology, their basic science and manufacture, their mechanization and automation, and their quality control. An opening chapter considers the basic principles of automation - such as objectives, levels and tasks of automation systems; operation and programing of control systems; interactions between automation process control, quality control and management; use of automation in HACCP applications; and designing a process line. The chapters dealing with the individual sectors of the dairy industry examine the special problems which have been, and remain to be, solved in conversion from manual to mechanized operations, and show how the principles of automation can then be applied or adapted to make the mechanized process interactive within its component parts. The volume ends with a chapter on plant maintenance, cleaning and waste management.