Metis Automation took part in a two-day advanced manufacturing Hack and Pitch event. This was facilitated by InnovateUK, to propose potential solutions to three key packaging challenges raised by Unilever.

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Unilever Pitch Challenge
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Metis Automation took part in a two-day
advanced manufacturing Hack and Pitch
event. This was facilitated by InnovateUK,
to propose potential solutions to three key
packaging challenges raised by Unilever.
The Challenge
In a joint pitch withWhistonbrook
Technologies, Metis Automation won a
challenge to measure packaging
resilience throughout the supply chain.
Judges commended the joint pitch as
innovating and an ideal example of what
Hack & Pitch events aim to achieve.
Notably, a collaboration between
companies with the complementary
expertise to deliver outstanding solutions
to their customers.
Unilever has invested in a state of the art
Advanced Manufacturing Centre at their
Port Sunlight base on the Wirral. The
centre houses a pilot plant for the testing
of new products and packaging
developments. The consumer giant is
consequently appealing to the sensor
community for novel approaches to
optimise their use of the facility.
In this challenge, Unilever aims to find
new ways to quantify how well optimised a
package design is, as well as how
smoothly it runs in the supply chain, the
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forces it is exposed to and opportunities to
enhance and improve it. Furthermore,
Unilever is aiming to develop a way of
measuring the impact on packaging as it
is transported, sorted, labelled, filled and
capped.
Martin Griffiths, Technical Director at
Metis Automation said “Hack and Pitch
events are an excellent way to propose
innovative solutions to a diverse range of
manufacturing challenges. We are
pleased to have been awarded this win
and look forward to exploring the
challenge further.”
Metis Automation and Whistonbrook will
work with Unilever to further define a
solution to this challenge in 2018.

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