To make digitalisation solutions more accessible to SMEs of the food sector, three of EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation communities (KIC) – EIT Food, EIT Digital and EIT Manufacturing (lead) – have joined forces to enable development and implementation of end-to-end digitalised production testbeds.

The food industry is largely composed of SMEs with little investment capacity and a lean structure. Many of these companies find it difficult to take the leap towards industry 4.0 due to lack of infrastructure, resources, and expertise. There are many questions that need to be answered before embarking industry 4.0 transformation: what processes to digitalise, what data to collect, what analyses to run, and