Applied research towards industry 4.0: Opportunities for SMEs

I Zambon, G Egidi, F Rinaldi, S Cividino - Processes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Industry 4.0 designates the recent digital revolution in the industrial sector, evolving from the
comprehensive networking and automation of all the productive areas. Equipment …

Effect of postharvest treatments of mechanically harvested'Manzanilla'table olives on product quality

I Zipori, A Fishman, ZBB Zelas, Y Subbotin… - Postharvest Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract'Manzanilla', today's main table olive cultivar, is traditionally harvested manually.
However, manual harvesting is becoming less economically feasible due to increasing labor …

Hand arm vibration generated by a rotary pick-up for table olives harvesting

R Deboli, A Calvo, F Gambella, C Preti… - Agricultural …, 2014 - cigrjournal.org
The manual harvest of olives is one of the most expensive operations in the table olives
production, but the use of the electric hand-guided machines triples the productivity. The …

Green olive browning differ between cultivars

S Goldental-Cohen, I Biton, Y Many… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Currently, table olives, unlike oil olives, are harvested manually. Shortage of manpower and
increasing labor costs are the main incentives to mechanizing the harvesting of table olives …

Effect of the mechanical harvest of drupes on the quality characteristics of green fermented table olives

A Martorana, A Alfonzo, L Settanni… - Journal of the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Because of damage caused by mechanical harvesting, the drupes for table
olive production are traditionally hand harvested. Until now, no data have been available on …

Experiments on the mechanical harvesting of litchi and its effects on litchi storage

W Wang, H Lu, C Mo, Z Yang… - Transactions of the …, 2017 - elibrary.asabe.org
This article presents a fruiting branch shaker designed for litchi (Sonn.) harvesting and field
testing results of the mechanical shaker with abscission chemical treatment. During the …

Bruising susceptibility of Manzanilla de Sevilla table olive cultivar under regulated deficit irrigation

L Casanova, M Corell, MP Suárez, P Rallo… - Agricultural Water …, 2017 - Elsevier
The olive tree (Olea europaea L.) is a Mediterranean tree adapted to drought conditions and
traditionally rainfed. For irrigated olive groves, there is extensive knowledge about the …

Combined use of nitrogen and coatings to improve the quality of mechanically harvested Manzanilla olives

E Ramírez, AH Sánchez, C Romero, M Brenes - Food Chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
The combined effect of an edible coating and a nitrogen atmosphere on the quality of
Manzanilla olives mechanically harvested and processed as Spanish-style green olives was …

[HTML][HTML] Development and evaluation of low-damage maize snap** mechanism based on deformation energy conversion

Z Zhang, A Geng - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Reducing ear damage is the key to improving the quality of maize harvests. In order to
reduce the impact and damage of the ear caused by the ear snap** mechanism, this …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of facilitated harvesting and fruit cooling on extra virgin olive oil quality

F Corti, A Parenti, L Cecchi, N Mulinacci… - LA RIVISTA ITALIANA …, 2022 - flore.unifi.it
A full factorial design evaluated the combined effects of harvesting method (manual vs
facilitated), storage temperature (25 C vs 6.5 C) and their interaction, aiming to understand if …