Advanced Automation of the Mushroom Packaging Filling Process

联合生物科技有限公司以神奇蘑菇公司(MMC)的名义经营，通过将菌丝与农业废弃物相结合来生产蘑菇包装(R)(MP)，以种植保护性包装，并提供难回收的发泡聚苯乙烯(EPS)和其他基于化石燃料的保护性泡沫的替代品。该项目的目的是加快关键流程步骤的自动化，以提高流程效率，降低成本，提高我们的质量。这个项目将专注于蘑菇包装生长过程中最重要和最手动的部分，并建立在成功的概念验证工作的基础上，以完全自动化的过程为我们如何填充我们的生长模具。取消人工工作将使我们有才华的团队专注于质量控制和更多的增值任务，同时允许先进的自动化系统在满足和加速蘑菇包装需求所需的水平上进行扩展。我们的项目专注于特定的挑战主题：*先进材料和制造*人工智能、数字和先进计算*机器人和智能机械该项目展示了该公司颠覆已建立的基于化石燃料的包装市场的雄心，该市场已有多年的制造业增强。为了竞争和认识到100%天然包装产品的潜力，我们需要像这样的资金，有针对性地支持关键工艺步骤，使我们雄心勃勃的英国业务能够发挥其潜力。

Symbiotec Ltd, trading as The Magical Mushroom Company (MMC) produces Mushroom Packaging(r) (MP) by combining mycelium with agricultural waste to grow protective packaging and provide an alternative to hard-to-recycle expanded polystyrene (EPS) and other fossil-fuel-based protective foams. The purpose of this project is speed up the automation of a key process step to drive efficiencies in the process, reduce cost and improve our quality. This critical to creating price party compared to polystyrene and support wider scale adoption.This project will be focusing on the most important and manual part of the Mushroom Packaging growing process and build on successful proof of concept work to fully automate the process for how we fill our grow moulds. Removing the manual work will allow our talented team to focus on quality control and more value add tasks, while allowing the advanced automated systems to scale at the level required to meet and accelerate the demand in Mushroom Packaging.Our project is focused on the specific challenge themes for:* Advanced materials and manufacturing* AI, digital and advanced computing* Robotics and smart machinesThe project demonstrates the ambition of this company to disrupt an established fossil fuel based packaging market which has had many years of manufacturing enhancement. To compete and recognise the potential of a 100% natural packaging product, we need funding like this for targeted support for a key process step and enable our ambitious UK business to reach its potential.