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Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing for Baking Industry

Lead Participant: RAKUSEN'S LIMITED

Abstract

This project addresses very specific technological challenges resulting from transforming a traditional food manufacturer, still producing on machinery more than hundred-years-old, to a sustainable, optimised, and efficient enterprise fully utilising digital technologies, including _Big Data, Industrial Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence_, underpinned by _Food Science_, to minimise its carbon footprint, maximise its capacity without compromising on its 'traditional' concept.

The project will transform the business to become a sustainable, optimised, and efficient enterprise in full control of all manufacturing processes, product consistency, supply chains, and operating costs to help the company realise new market opportunities as a result of increased production capacity.

Lead Participant

Project Cost

Grant Offer

RAKUSEN'S LIMITED £811,286 £ 237,383
 

Participant

SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY £155,375 £ 155,375
E.B.BRADSHAW & SONS,LIMITED £33,840 £ 12,226
R.K.L. LIMITED
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD £205,184 £ 205,184

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