Pleased to see ongoing interest in our book Food Industry 4.0: Unlocking Advancement Opportunities in the Food Manufacturing Sector. Our study of Industry 4.0 for food industry demonstrates how interdisciplinary approaches will result in the development of innovation and the implementation of solutions to supply chain limitations.
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. The synteny approach was developed using the Circos open access API developed by Martin Krzywinski which is among many of their other fantastic graphical communications that push the boundaries of being innovative in the right direction- too the solutions and understanding.
In our Industry 4.0 book, written with my colleagues Sandeep Jagtap and Linh Duong, we make faster and better solutions by doing different.
Dr Wayne Martindale, FIFST 