Packaging meat for lockers: Wrapping time cut 42% in pilot time-and-motion study of practices of frozen food locker operators

Davis, L; Marks, R

Packaging meat for lockers: Wrapping time cut 42% in pilot time-and-motion study of practices of frozen food locker operators

Authors

Louis E. Davis
Richard A. Marks

Authors Affiliations

Louis E. Davis is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; A. Richard Alarhs is Industrial Engineer, Engineering Research, University of California, Berkeley.

Publication Information

Hilgardia 6(7):6-6. DOI:10.3733/ca.v006n07p6. July 1952.

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Abstract

The following report is based upon a survey undertaken at the request of Division 01 Food Technology, University of California College of Agriculture.

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