This webinar is organised by IFST North of England Branch
Much play is made of the need for ‘game-changing’ technologies that will help us to reduce and control our emissions. Tom will present how a food manufacturer-led UK consortium has launched a genuinely new solution, with proven energy and emissions savings, that can be applied in a wide range of manufacturing environments.
This is the outcome of the S3 Project (Smart People • Smart Process • Smart Factory) is a world-first technological tool, able to significantly reduce carbon emissions and cost in manufacturing. Designed and developed by a combined academic and industrial consortium, it will help meet the pressing sustainability and cost challenges faced by UK manufacturing industries.
The S3 project has demonstrated a unique combination of cutting-edge monitoring, AI-enhanced data analysis and workforce involvement aimed at reducing energy and water use, cutting waste and optimizing production methods to deliver permanent and substantial carbon emission and cost savings.
The S3 Smart Factory is now live and has recorded savings of 11% energy usage and 15% reduction in CO2e emissions within in its first seven months of testing and operation, and we are well on our way to achieving our target of a 30% reduction in energy and CO2e emissions as we continue into 2025.
What participants will learn about:
Digitalising a food factory- challenges of implementation and how to engage workforce, customers and policy makers in making decarbonisation happen. The webinar will include learning from across the S3 consortium and National Demonstrator at Raynor Foods Ltd
Target Audience:
Food professionals and early career food scientists/technologists
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Speaker: Tom Hollands Honorary FIFST - Innovation and Technical Director, Raynor Foods Ltd. Tom Hollands is the Innovation and Technical Director at Raynor Foods, he is also Honorary Fellow of the IFST and previously one of its trustees. Tom is an accomplished Food Scientist who has worked in both government (Food Standards Agency) and the private sector. Tom is a true innovator at heart and has won many national and international accolades, in 2024 he was awarded with the prestigious Honorary Fellowship from the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST), in recognition for his extraordinary contributions to the IFST and wider food system as a food scientist and innovator. Tom’s innovations are focused on sustainability and meta food systems, their emerging technologies and the fascinating and complex links that join them. |
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Chair: Dr Wayne Martindale FIFST - MD at MPC Research Wayne has led product and enterprise carbon footprinting for food manufacturing, service and retail for many years now but it has always been the need for global food security that drives the Wayne’s practice. Much of his work is available in open access articles in our IFST journals. They are written with fellow innovators and if they show one single thing, it is that our food expert community must be diverse as it is rarely defined by a single specialism. This is reflected in the projects that Wayne has delivered ranging from growing food on Mars to using satellite data for efficient cocoa production through to developing new production systems. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology where he is the Honorary Secretary and a Board Trustee. |
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IFST member - Free
Non-IFST member - £100.00
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