Startups join Made Smarter Technology Accelerator

Ascalia will be working with Sainsbury’s on the microbial control in ready to eat foods challenge: High-tech cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure food safety from microbes and rot.

CAE Tech Ltd will be working with Babcock International Group on the digital shipbuilding challenge: Using tech from the gaming and music sectors to support shipbuilding engineers to collaborate on design in real-time.

DIEM Innovations will be working with BAE Systems on the dynamic workflow management challenge: AI solutions and SCALE+, a systems dynamic model, to provide actionable supply chain insights, on where wastage occurs and improving sustainability.

Innvotek will be working with Northumbrian Water on the sewer blockages challenge: An unmanned module to tackle sewer blockages using AI.

JetSoft will be working with Babcock International Group on the Warrior base overhaul challenge:  This solution uses existing equipment and combined data output to create an automatic 3D dataset, to ease the hull inspection process

Machine Intelligence Ltd will be working with BAE Systems on the scalable artificial intelligence for visual inspection challenge: This prototype will use machine learning to identify defects in manufacturing, improve the quality of the end product, reduce waste and save money

Metis Automation will be working with O’Neills on the product customisation – intelligent verification challenge: A digital manufacturing system that uses customer order data and converts this data into simple, easy to follow manufacturing steps and checks.

Pentiot will be working with O’Neills on the automation of production challenge: An AI pre-verification system that will encourage waste elimination and a lower carbon footprint on the production line.

Riscon Solutions and Inventia UK, with Marketech Solutions on the Northumbrian Water, monitoring water quality within the distribution network and real-time analysis challenge: The ITERATION project delivers a cloud-enabled, remote water quality monitoring solution.

Singular Intelligence will be working with Sainsbury’s on the increasing shelf life and sell-through of products while reducing waste challenge:  AI-based decision-making to develop a predictive shelf-life model for the supply chain, along with an automated, centralised optimal control system.

Total Control Pro will be working with Safran Landing Systems on the adaptive scheduling and performance monitoring challenge: A data-driven planning scheduling and resource optimisation solution to tackle the challenges of complex planning and resource management.

Volatile Technologies will be working with GAF on the asphalt material characterisation challenge: Adapting existing chemical and olfactory testing instruments to deliver non-invasive, batch-on-batch asphalt profiling, without any additional specialist lab equipment. 

Zeta Motion, with Dakota Systems Inc. on the GAF, machine vision systems for product conformance and machine condition challenge:  Machine vision and sensor technology to assess product conformance that is fast, accurate, affordable, and scalable.

Zizo Software will be working with Safran Landing Systems on the implementation of SPC on all test rigs in the assembly shop challenge: A portable edge industrial internet of things (IIoT) analysis platform to create a repository and platform to manage data from across teams and across functions