Knowledge Exchange Projects

Below are examples of some of the knowledge exchange projects we are involved in

S4S Dental

This collaboration is developing innovative digital techniques for processing 3D dental scans to ensure an efficient streamlined and sustainable service within a highly competitive sector of dental device manufacture. Early signs show a significant increased dental scan processing time and digital team acceptance of improved intuitive process management interface.

Academic Staff: Chris Roast and Ajmal Gharib

Guildhawk Limited

This collaboration is exploring the development of secure machine translation techniques that are flexible and sensitive to cultural variation and topic specific details. It builds upon a long-term collaborative relation with the company and benefits from their technical innovation and experience in the field of specialist professional natural language processing and translation.

Academic Staff: Chris Roast and Alex Shenfield

Cafeology

This collaboration is developing in-house digital technologies to enable the more effective management and control of coffee roasting and preparation. This will enable the company more accurately manage and monitor its production process. In addition the platform will enable potential automation of processes to be explored and also be built to support enabling a neuro diverse workforce to expand production capturing economies of scale.

Academic Staff: Carlos da Silva and Chris Roast

Preformed Windings

The collaboration will develop a bespoke and scalable production planning system that can collaborate with sales, HR and quality control departments enhancing efficiency, capacity forecasting and profitability in the manufacturing of high voltage diamond coils for the global hydro-service industry. Ongoing data collection will enable applying AI for production planning in future.

Academic Staff: Soumya Basu and Essam Eliwa