Experts from Radboud University and HAI join forces to help one of the world’s leading French Fries producers Lamb Weston to improve sustainability. Artifical Intelligence and the HAI Cloud Platform are at the heart of this project. This project is part of a 4-year Innovation Program under the name EBI (Engineering Business Intelligence), lead by the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology (ISPT).
An award winning project with successful use of Artificial Intelligence in the food industry. More and more manufacturers discover how they can improve their production processes with the smart use of factory data. A practical example aimed at improving yield and quality in the industrial production of cheese.
Bettinehoeve and Emmi Nutritional Solutions (ENS) have expeditiously tackled the digitization of quality control in their factories in The Netherlands. The factories process raw goat’s milk into cheese, powder, protein concentrate and fresh milk.
They use the HAI Platform as a Service (SAAS) in the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
HAI experts have crafted a robust Manufacturing Insights tool designed for advanced statistical process monitoring and predictive modeling. The AI model that optimizes quality, yield and energy consumption is an award-winning project.
The AI tool has been seamlessly integrated into the daily operator routine.
In the Dutch Lamb Weston French Fries Plant of Oosterbierum data-driven production is no longer a theoretical concept.
The HAI Cloud Platform provides intelligent factory dashboards and can even deliver AI-based applications: “This helps us to quickly see if we are operating WELL and also to understand WHY”.
The brand-new dairy factory of E-Piim in Estonia has produced its very first Cheddar cheese, and HAI was part of the action.
Randel Veerits, Plant Director: “We discovered that HAI’s software is used by most major dairy producers as an information system for their factories. Their hands-on experience has proven very valuable, also during the startup.”
Gartner, one of the world’s leading IT advisory firms, is clear about it: Embrace the Cloud, they say, even for business-critical applications. The benefits outweigh the drawbacks. This aligns with the trend of a growing number of factories using the cloud to process operational factory data in real-time, just like the new hai-app platform from HAI on the MS Azure Cloud.
Alexander Daehne, Manufacturing Industry Lead EMEA at SAS, presented the winning SAS Hackaton project by Team HAI-Notilyze during the 2023 SAS Innovate on Tour event in June in Amsterdam.
The project shows how data science can help food manufacturers improve yield and quality, while reducing costs and food waste.
HAI, together with data science specialist Notilyze, won the SAS Hackathon competition of 2023 in the Manufacturing category.
The winning case is a smart model that focuses on further optimizing the industrial production of cheese.
For the data analysis, a whopping two years’ worth of historical data from hai-app, HAI’s cloud platform, was utilized.
Industry can save 20-30% on energy consumption. This represents savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
How? Simply by working smarter!
The collaboration between energy-IO and HAI gives manufacturers detailed insight into their energy consumption in relation to all relevant information from the production process.