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Sustainable, but also cost-efficient, production at scale is critical for food & beverage manufacturers to successfully adapt to changing market & regulatory environments. We have helped our clients to develop light-weight sustainable packaging materials and innovative manufacturing processes to improve quality and efficiency. Innovation allows our clients not only adapt to changing market conditions, but also to thrive in their target market segments by leveraging advances in sensing & computing technology, industrial machine connectivity, and artificial intelligence.

We invent technologies for food & beverage manufactures in areas ranging from product safety, inspection, packaging to optimization of manufacturing processes. In one example, SmallTech invented and is prototyping a smart nanofluidics sensor for a Fortune 100 food & beverage company. The in-line sensor may be directly integrated into existing manufacturing lines to drastically improve product quality by detecting and identifying contaminants and ensuring formulation consistency.

In a typical project, we first strive to understand a client’s needs for manufacturing process optimization, and deliver custom solutions that resolve the client’s difficult problems. Where possible, we leverage technology that is commercially available, often in innovative ways that can provide a unique competitive edge to our clients. When commercial solutions don’t exist, we can go further, building innovative custom systems from the ground up. We can develop hardware components, associated electronics, as well as all necessary software that leverages advances in signal processing and artificial intelligence.