4. Переведите данные предложения на английский язык.

1. Автоматизация различных отраслей пищевой промышленности имеет первостепенное значение. 2. Автоматизированные системы управления технического обслуживания быстро становятся актуальной проблемой сегодня. 3. Система управления представляет руководителям всю информацию, которая повышает их способность в принятии решений. 4. Компьютеры выполняют разнообразные функции: такие, как анализ качества продукта, его сортировку и упаковку. 5. Компьютеры исключительно полезны для розлива, укупорки, упаковки (обертывания), этикетирования и кодирования продукции. 6. Комплексы средств обеспечения включают планирование производства, контроль качества и техническое обслуживание (эксплуатацию оборудования). 7. Автоматизация способствует интеграции всей деятельности предприятия и повышению его производительности, а также качества продукции.

5. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. What kind of processes and operations do food processing plants employ? 2. What is the benefit of the structural approach of the plant management? 3. What purpose is the electronic equipment used for? 4. What functions do computers perform? 5. What food industries are computers applied in? 6. What operations are they extremely helpful for? 7. What can you say about automatic support systems? 8. Why are computerized maintenance management systems becoming the order of the day?

6. Перечислите по-английски:

а) автоматизированные отрасли пищевой промышленности;

б) автоматизированные процессы и операции.

Text B₁ “21^ST CENTURY FOOD PLANT”

1. Прочитайте текст и перечислите основные параметры, характеризу-ющие пищевые предприятия 21-го века.

2. Расскажите о составляющих рабочей силы.

3. Назовите отличительные черты потока продукции.

4. Выскажите свое мнение о реальности создания подобных пищевых предприятий.

Notes

1. utilities – коммунальные услуги (службы)

2. timing – нормирование времени; хронометрирование

3. inventory – запас, резерв

What will the food plant of the future look like? What will it feature? How will it differ from present day plants?

First of all, food plants will become more regionally oriented, that is they will serve a regional not national market. Secondly, a food plant will produce only a limited number of products. Such plant should be located as near as possible to the source of raw materials. It will be situated outside a municipality on a site served by a road network for truck transportation.

Its services and utilities¹ will be dealt with in a more sophisticated fashion. Water, after use, will be purified and reused. Power will come from either a hydrogen fuel cell or small atomic – powered unit, refueled every eight years. The waste and the heat generated by waste treatment will be re-cycled for energy and to produce animal feeds.

The future food plant should not be very big. Its site will be smaller for two reasons. One, the labour force will be far smaller than today. And second, there will be no provisions made for expansion. Food plants will be dedicated to a region, and will not be enlarged to add more distribution or production capacity.

The labour force of the future will have four components. These are microprocessors, minicomputers, robots, and lasers. On the plant floor, microprocessors will actuate (приводить в действие) almost all the individual processing operations: measuring, timing², raising and lowering pressure, and so on. As to minicomputers, they will control a number of microprocessors. They also will store information on raw and finished product inventory³, packaging materials, fuel and other forms of energy, product cost, and labour expenses.

By the way, labour expenses will be quite small because robots will perform a number of operations which now require human labour. These machines can be programmed to carry out almost any function that human do now.

An integral part of the future food plant will be lasers. They will do the chopping, cutting, pealing, and slicing.

One more thing of interest is the product flow. Product will take a straight-through flow path, which will reduce bottlenecks (узкие места) and speed up product movement. As packaging materials, containers and pallets (поддоны) are needed for the final stages of processing, they will be moved from storage areas directly to their respective points of use. Very little material will be held in inventory³.

Another technological feature to be mentioned is that atomic energy and hydrogen fuel cells will find the way into a food plant being an ideal replacement for today’s energy sources.

On the basis of all the opportunities mentioned above it should be noted that the future food plant will be able to operate 20 hours a day, making eight-hour shifts (рабочие смены) a thing of the past.