349. Respirable Paper Dust Exposures at a Mail Processing Facility

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Konopinski
Keyword(s):  
Processing Facility ◽  
Mail Processing

scholarly journals No More Sweat or Tears

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (07) ◽  
pp. 47-49
Author(s):  
Paul Sharke
Keyword(s):  
Laser Light ◽  
Automated Guided Vehicles ◽  
Controlled Environment ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Postal Service ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Confidence Factor ◽  
Processing Facility ◽  
Mail Processing ◽  
Project Personnel

This article focuses on the fact that automated guided vehicles are making inroads on safety and the bottom line. More sense prevails in the controlled environment of a U.S. Postal Service processing facility in Fort Myers. There, at least, pedestrians are granted their rightful way. The heavily automated facility is a test case for the post office’s experiment in integrated mail processing. The automated guided vehicles (AGV) move pallets and wheeled containers between the sorting equipment and the loading dock. For the Fort Myers AGV project, personnel installed a grid of reflectors in the building. The vehicles, bouncing laser light off these reflectors, triangulate their x-y coordinates and their headings. A confidence factor helps the vehicle place either more faith or less in its knowing where it is, thereby accounting, say, for variations in a scan off a dirty reflector.

scholarly journals Microbiome-based environmental monitoring of a dairy processing facility highlights the challenges associated with low microbial-load samples

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aoife J. McHugh ◽  
Min Yap ◽  
Fiona Crispie ◽  
Conor Feehily ◽  
Colin Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Illumina Sequencing ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Accurate Identification ◽  
Processing Facility ◽  
High Concentrations ◽  
Sequencing Platforms

AbstractEfficient and accurate identification of microorganisms throughout the food chain can potentially allow the identification of sources of contamination and the timely implementation of control measures. High throughput DNA sequencing represents a potential means through which microbial monitoring can be enhanced. While Illumina sequencing platforms are most typically used, newer portable platforms, such as the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) MinION, offer the potential for rapid analysis of food chain microbiomes. Initial assessment of the ability of rapid MinION-based sequencing to identify microbes within a simple mock metagenomic mixture is performed. Subsequently, we compare the performance of both ONT and Illumina sequencing for environmental monitoring of an active food processing facility. Overall, ONT MinION sequencing provides accurate classification to species level, comparable to Illumina-derived outputs. However, while the MinION-based approach provides a means of easy library preparations and portability, the high concentrations of DNA needed is a limiting factor.

scholarly journals Defining Event Reporting In The Cell Processing Facility (CPF)

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. S189-S190
Author(s):  
M. Merchant ◽  
M. Kletzel ◽  
T. Shook ◽  
M. Villa ◽  
R. Meagher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Event Reporting ◽  
Cell Processing ◽  
Processing Facility
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