ETP Food for Life Technology Roadmap

Lisbeth Munksgaard

Aalborg University and ETP Food for Life

Industrial Technologies 2010, Brussels September 7-9

Content

The Food & Drink Sector

The Food for Life Research Priorities

Priorities Regarding Manufacturing Technologies

Food & Drink Sector

Largest manufacturing sector in EU in terms

of

•turnover

•workforce and

•value added

A diverse sector:

99% of food companies have less than 250

employees,

they contribute 50% of the overall turnover

The European Food and Drink Sector

Source CIAA Data and Trends 2009

EU market share of global export market

Shrinking EU

share from 24.6%

to 19.8%

ETP Food for Life was established in 2005

in order to

Increase R&D strategy and funding;

Coordinate research in Europe and prevent duplication;

Promote SME participation, specific programmes and networks;

Focus, align and collaborate transnationally between stakeholders;

Increase multidisciplinary / cross-sector education &;

Optimise the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge between Member States and towards SMEs.

ETP Food for Life

Research Priorities

ETP

FOOD FOR LIFE

3 Key Thrusts

New

products,

processes and

tools which….....

Build consumer trust

in the food chain

Improve health,

well-being and

longevity

Sustainable and

ethical production

1

3

2

Key trust 1

Requiring facilities, emerging technologies, industrial engineering concepts

& new added value products and services to:

– Understand the relationships of food structures across the nano- to macro

scales with respect to product and process design, and to develop new

processing principles for improved PAN profiles.

– Identify and incorporate bioactive food constituents from plant, animal and

microbial sources, and beneficial micro-organisms into foods - via high precision

and bio-technology tools –, and understand and optimize their mechanisms of

action.

– Provide improved PAN functions through the re-design and optimization of

food processing and packaging chain.

– Develop convenient, tailored personalized food products using most modern

engineering concepts and services.

– Improve the innovation climate for the food sector in EU.

Improve health,

well-being and

longevity

Key trust 2

Requiring facilities, emerging technologies, industrial engineering concepts

and new added value products and services to:

– Develop innovative, sustainable, and safe food packaging materials

and equipment for implementation into integrated food chain concepts,

– Introduce scale-able and flexible food manufacturing tools and their

intelligent in line control.

– Reduce or eliminate hazards during processing, including hurdle and

mild processing methodologies.

– Improve transparency of the food processing sector by learning from

other industries.

Build consumer trust

in the food chain

Key trust 3

Requiring facilities, emerging technologies, industrial engineering concepts

and new added value products and services to:

– Provide improved PAN functions through the re-design and optimization of

food processing and packaging chain.

– Develop innovative, sustainable, and safe food packaging for implementation

into integrated food chain concepts.

– Improve utilization of food raw materials and waste via emerging technologies

into new materials (food and non-food).

– Improve training/learning food science curricula.

– Implement ressource saving technologies (water, energy etc)

Sustainable and

ethical production

F4L achievements

Influencing the priorities for research under the Food, Agriculture & Fisheries, & Biotechnology theme of the Cooperation pillar of FP7;

90% of SRA-based priorities included in 2009 and 2010 Work Programmes;

Submission of project proposals which reflects IAP research challenges;

European Commission’s High Level Group recognized importance of the ETP in 2009;

Joint Programming: Recognition of specific F4L priorities as “Food health & wellbeing” & “Sustainable food production”;

Mobilisation of stakeholder communities;

Establishment of 35 National Food Technology Platforms.

Factory of the Future Roadmap

Specific relevance for the Food sector

Challenges for the food sector calling for

new, knowledge based solutions & new

technologies

Deliver more with less: More value or products with less

inputs of materials, energy and fewer emissions

Biological variation and perishable nature of raw materials

and food

Diverse supply chain influenced by climate changes

Meeting consumers’s trust regarding safety, new

technologies and affordable, freshly prepared, healthy,

ready to eat products

Priority areas of interest of food industry from

the Roadmap of the Factory of the Future

1. Sustainable food manufacturing,

2. ICT enabled intelligent food manufacturing,

3. Exploiting new materials for food manufacturing.

Sustainable food manufacturing (1)

New Eco – Factory model

– Energy efficiency

• Adaptation and application of appropriate measuring and monitoring

devices for energy consumption of individual processing steps and

machines and procedures for optimisation with particular focus on

processes with high energy consumption such as heat treatment,

refrigeration, drying etc.

– Resource efficiency

• Optimise material and resource use in food processing and minimise

waste production by adaptation and application of appropriate

measuring and monitoring devices and procedures, new

maintenance strategies.

• Adaptation of cost reduction techniques from the manufacturing

sector by considering the large variation of the properties and

perishable nature of foods .

Sustainable food manufacturing (2)

– Reduction of environmental impact

• Eco- efficient energy management systems for food processing

plants, energy efficient production equipment .

• Lifecycle management

• Recycling and recovery.

Green products manufacturing /developing “greener” products

• Developing efficient sensors for recognition , selection and sorting of

materials for recovery from waste.

• Application of Lean Manufacturing in the food sector.

ICT for agile manufacturing & customisation

– Using advanced process automation, control methods and tools for

measuring, analysing and optimisation of food manufacturing

processes, batch systems / developing batch standards.

– Testing robotics based solutions in food processing, packaging and

logistics.

ICT to support value creation from global networked manufacturing &

logistics.

– Increasing management efficiency in food supply chains, RFID,

logistics, SCM softwares, store management systems.

– Predictive and remote equipment management systems.

ICT enabled intelligent food manufacturing

Manufacturing solution priorities.

– New material functionalities through manufacturing processes.

• Using manufacturing processes to integrate materials of different

scale and functionality to provide completely new products with

functionalities:

– smart packaging,

– antimicrobial surfaces,

– biosensors.

Exploiting new materials through

food manufacturing

Invitation to transdisciplinary

collaboration

The food & drink sector is a unique market for

manufacturing technologies

Technology implemented in other sectors may be

adapted in the food processing sector

The specific challenges may bring new technological

solutions relevant for other sectors

Together we can boost the European competitiveness

Thank you for your attention

Contact:

Lisbeth Munksgaard, lmu@aau.dk,

Beate Kettlitz, b.kettlitz@ciaa.eu