Hygienic design is an engineering approach focusing on the development of food processing systems and equipment in compliance with hygienic requirements such as food contact compatibility, easy cleaning, and special maintenance needs. Currently, hygienic design knowledge is fragmented and a method to list and collect this knowledge in a structured database is missing. The paper aims at providing a knowledge-based (KB) system to collect hygienic design rules and to exploit these rules in the development of food processing machines and equipment. The KB system is based on a specific ontology that has been used to collect 78 hygienic design rules from different sources. The rules repository can be considered a backbone for the subsequent development of a CAD-based tool for an automatic search and detection of non-compliant design features early in the development of food processing systems. The KB system is used to validate the compliance of fish stick production equipment, starting from the CAD model and the analysis of the geometrical features. Results highlight how the adoption of the KB system at an early stage of the design anticipates hygienic design issues, avoiding several design reviews when these products are defined. Future developments aim at widening the rules repository and creating an automatic tool to perform the feature analysis directly in the CAD environment.
CAD-Based Hygienic Design for the Development of Food Processing Systems / Musiari, F.; Moroni, F.; Pirondi, A.; Favi, C.. - (2023), pp. 627-634. (Intervento presentato al convegno Production Processes and Product Evolution in the Age of Disruption - Proceedings of the 9th Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production Conference CARV2023 and the 11th World Mass Customization and Personalization Conference MCPC2023 tenutosi a ita nel 2023) [10.1007/978-3-031-34821-1_68].
CAD-Based Hygienic Design for the Development of Food Processing Systems
Musiari F.
;Moroni F.;Pirondi A.;Favi C.
2023-01-01
Abstract
Hygienic design is an engineering approach focusing on the development of food processing systems and equipment in compliance with hygienic requirements such as food contact compatibility, easy cleaning, and special maintenance needs. Currently, hygienic design knowledge is fragmented and a method to list and collect this knowledge in a structured database is missing. The paper aims at providing a knowledge-based (KB) system to collect hygienic design rules and to exploit these rules in the development of food processing machines and equipment. The KB system is based on a specific ontology that has been used to collect 78 hygienic design rules from different sources. The rules repository can be considered a backbone for the subsequent development of a CAD-based tool for an automatic search and detection of non-compliant design features early in the development of food processing systems. The KB system is used to validate the compliance of fish stick production equipment, starting from the CAD model and the analysis of the geometrical features. Results highlight how the adoption of the KB system at an early stage of the design anticipates hygienic design issues, avoiding several design reviews when these products are defined. Future developments aim at widening the rules repository and creating an automatic tool to perform the feature analysis directly in the CAD environment.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
