To enable the students to analyse and understand industrial food production chains and the interdependence of the parts of these. The focus is on understanding of the interactions between quality and safety as well as process design and production planning on a basic level.

• Analyse an industrial production chain and identify safety, quality and planning issues.
• Apply process analysis to overview a production chain from raw material to consumer.
• Identify interactions between product quality, food safety and process operations.
• Access and qualify information from various sources.
• Validate solutions to practical problems using quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Plan a project and analyse a task as well as breaking the task into phases
• Write (as group-work) a technical report suitable for decision making in a company.
• Make a concise oral presentation of a technical matter.

The course pertains to analysis and understanding of basic interactions along food processing chains. The interactions concern quality, safety and production planning all of which must be considered as integral in order to make proper production planning and design. Problem analysis and solution in teams is central in the course which will be build around study cases that exemplify a wide range of common issues in various steps associated to food production. Separate elements on process technology, food quality, food safety, challenges for the food industry and production planning as well as project management, communication and presentation techniques are included. If possible, a study visit to an important actor in the chain will be arranged.

Kurset er obligatorisk på kandidatuddannelsen i Fødevareteknologi

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