It is always good to to see ongoing interest in our book Food Industry 4.0: Unlocking Advancement Opportunities in the Food Manufacturing Sector. When a research study is actually being read for new ideas and augmenting change it brings a sense of worthiness to it all. In our Industry 4.0 book, written with my colleagues Sandeep Jagtap and Linh Duong, we make faster and better solutions by doing different. See it here.
We explore three key drivers of long-term success in food manufacturing:
✅ Consumer health and wellbeing
✅ Sustainability in products and processes
✅ Harnessing digitalization
By combining data with fresh thinking, we uncover new, practical ways to build resilience in food supply. For example, our synteny diagrams map how global agri-commodities flow into processing, feed, and food — highlighting often-overlooked aspects of the system- volume and percentage into feeds not just food. Synteny methods are typically used for mapping gene similarities but we used it to map supply chains. These synteny diagrams expose a huge flaw in current food security dialogue- food chains connect with processing operations and there are a multitude of co-products. What’s more a glaring part of the system that is all too often understated thinking is feed!
The synteny diagrams were developed some time ago now using the Circos platform made possible due to the incredible graphic insight for complex data and systems of Martin Krzywinski, take a look and see what scientific data looks like and more to the point cut through the hyperbole of system thinking.
Source: Food security and digital innovation – Wayne Martindale
Dr Wayne Martindale, FIFST 