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Method for calculating the lifetime of unit metal packages
Author(s) -
Kolek Jan
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
packaging technology and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1099-1522
pISSN - 0894-3214
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1522(199905/06)12:3<105::aid-pts458>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , reliability engineering , product (mathematics) , quality (philosophy) , computer science , interval (graph theory) , process engineering , engineering , mathematics , power (physics) , philosophy , physics , geometry , epistemology , quantum mechanics , combinatorics
The technical characteristics of packages, determined by corresponding standards and technical requirements, are verified by package reliability. The reliability of a package is defined as an ability to protect the quality of the product in a package to a suitable level, in a definite condition, under the influence of various factors and for a definite time interval. The best index of the reliability of food packages is the maximal time from packing to the consumption of a product when the conditions of preservation and storage as well as the preparation of food for consumption are taken into account. Any change in the parameters characterizing a product/package/environment system can affect this time; thus, results of the investigation on randomly chosen samples and the analysis of these results can be taken as a basis for the estimation of the technical characteristics of packages. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.