Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOIT20231103006
- Term of Validity
- 3 November 2023 - 2 November 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
- Italian SME with longstanding experience in the implementation of Industry 4.0 solutions developed a technology enabling more efficient management of wine and other beverages bottling line operations, improving product quality, reducing waste and costs and optimizing production processes and energy consumption. The company is looking for new foreign partners under commercial agreement with technical assistance.
- Full Description
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SME located in North-West Italy, founded in 1995 as internet solution and web related services provider (such as website development, e-mail and hosting), progressively expanded its business to the asset management sector (i.e. management and optimisation of corporate assets) and to IoT solutions development within Industry 4.0 framework.
In this context, the company has developed a web technology aimed at monitoring the overall effectiveness of bottling lines’ equipment. The technology directly connects to the production plants with a view to getting inputs from the production equipment, providing real time information such as process or packaging parameters. The technology - initially aimed at wine bottling lines, then extended to other beverages bottling processes - would considerably reduce drift problems and limit the amount of waste product, not meeting desired quality standards.
As, usually, a number of production and quality control equipment and devices are already present in bottling plants, any new solution must be able to connect and work with existing management systems. In this perspective, the offered web technology allows real time production management and control from different electronic devices (smartphone, computer, tablet), integrating the production process with existing corporate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
Main technology features:
• The Industry 4.0 for bottling lines start from the finished product up to the packaging of pallets ready for shipment to the customer.
• The operators on the line verify and track the batches along the now paperless line. They become aware in real time of any production slowdowns or unsuitable materials.
• At the same time, management keeps efficiency and quality under control.
• The maintenance manager manages interventions and inspections on the plant's machines and systems in paperless mode.
The technology is already on the market; company business is well established in Italy and now wishes to further expand in the EU and beyond, with particular focus on countries with consolidated wine production (France, Spain, Portugal
etc…) and/or bottling industry. Nevertheless, the company is open to requests coming from any country.
The type of cooperation sought is a commercial agreement with technical assistance; ideal partners are either ERP providers for the wine sector or bottling industry providers, as well as distributors with technical background and specific
market knowledge. - Advantages and Innovations
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• Monitoring and control of environmental conditions for product preservation;
• Quality control;
• Management and traceability of ingredient and product flows;
• Predictive maintenance;
• Processes optimization. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- IPR status
- Secret know-how
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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Potential partners are:
• ERP providers for the wine sector or bottling industry providers willing to integrate the offered technology in existing ERP systems;
• Distributors with technical background and specific wine/bottling market knowledge, able to promote the technology in targeted sectors.
Countries with consolidated wine production (France, Spain, Portugal etc…) and/or bottling industry are the company’s main target, but requests coming from other countries will be also evaluated. - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 50 - 249
- Big company
- SME 11-49
- SME <=10
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 02004 - Plant Design and Maintenance
- 08001005 - Food Technology
- Market keywords
- 07003001 - Wine and liquors
- 07003002 - Health food
- Sector Groups Involved
- Agri-Food
- Targeted countries
- All countries