Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOIT20230209007
- Term of Validity
- 9 February 2023 - 8 February 2025
- Company's Country
- Italy
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- An Italian young company, established as knowledge-intensive start-up, has developed a new generation of X-ray inspection system that can ensure a high quality and efficient food production. The company is looking for packaged food manufacturers interested in the innovative system use in their production lines, to ensure the absence of contaminants or foreign bodies in their products. The proposed collaboration type is commercial agreement with technical assistance.
- Full Description
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Food safety constitutes a worldwide public health concern: in packaged food foreign bodies such as plastics, insects and other materials are frequently found, causing health risks for consumers, damage to the image of producers, environmental problems due to the need to eliminate entire production lots.
The Italian company was founded with the aim to to achieve a zero-defect target in the quality control industry, using a cutting-edge technology.
The innovative X-ray inspection system allows a high level quality control: it inspects each product in a few milliseconds directly in the production line, automatically discarding those that do not comply, thanks to an Artificial Intelligence-AI software able to decree in real time any possible defect.
The company can support food producers in co-designing and developing the inspection system that meets all manufacturing and structural needs, to achieve the most stringent quality control objectives. In the testing phase the AI has to be trained with large datasets based on all the defect parameters that can occur in the specific industrial plant, in order to deliver a highly performing and automated system which can be integrated at every stage of the production line.
The Italian company is interested in finding food producers willing to transform quality control activities into automated and highly reliable routines, minimizing false alarms, waste and product non-conformities.
The collaboration offered to food manufacturers is established within a Commercial agreement with technical assistance. - Advantages and Innovations
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The innovative X-ray inspection system can detects every type of contaminants, like plastic, wood, dust, glass, organic, animals, identifying low-density foreign bodies and characterising the material composition.
The main advantages include:
- consumer health: the intake of plastics or glass, for example, can generate complications, such as perforation of tissues of the mouth, tongue, throat, stomach and intestine;
- costs reduction: product recalls or withdrawals from the production lines generate huge net losses for the manufacturers;
- brand reputation: a single case of food contamination calls into question the reliability of the producer involved;
- environmental impact: the withdrawal of an entire production lot generates high quantity waste, energy and water loss.
The technology developer is able to support the system installation at the food production facilities and offer on-site and remote assistance: a fast emergency service in case of extraordinary or urgent problems is always guaranteed.
The installed system is not a static technology: the company development plans can ensure that each inspection system remains an innovative and frequently updated solution, to guarantee the highest level of industrial quality control. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- IPR status
- IPR granted
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The partners sought are food producers interested in the X-ray inspection system adoption in their production lines.
The potential partners will collaborate in defining all manufacturing needs and co-designing the inspection system. - Type and Size of Partner
- Big company
- SME <=10
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 08002003 - Safe production methods
- 09003 - Electronic measurement systems
- 08001005 - Food Technology
- Market keywords
- 08002003 - Process control equipment and systems
- 08002007 - Other industrial automation
- Sector Groups Involved
- Agri-Food
- Targeted countries
- All countries