ARGUS

保护家庭和个人护理产品（如洗衣剂、洗发水和化妆品）免受问题微生物的侵害是产品设计、制造系统和集成供应链的关键因素。该行业正越来越多地寻求引入新的、更可生物降解的材料，减少环境足迹，提高这些供应链的灵活性和弹性。然而，目前用于确保产品质量的基于微生物学的测试方法太慢，缺乏诊断能力，无法催化这些供应链转型。ARGUS旨在创建一种实时测量解决方案，以检测整个供应链关键点的微生物，并确定生产系统中更容易发生微生物积累的点，以便进行有针对性的清洁。不再依赖于离线测试，这些材料质量和供应链健康的即时测量可以结合起来创建数字分析证书，实现材料的无摩擦移动，降低运营成本，并加速创新新产品的上市。这项可行性研究将评估三种工业数字技术的潜力，以实现这一转变——用于整个供应链的在线微生物计数传感器，静态生产系统中物质积累点的传感器，以及数字分析证书。以英国一个成熟的家庭和个人护理供应链为案例研究，它将描述关键的供应链设计标准，评估这些新技术的潜在价值，并提出通过工业研究进入市场的途径。它支持英国政府的战略，以增加工业数字技术的采用和创造市场，扩大大小公司之间的供应链合作，提高运营的弹性和可持续性，最终帮助实现英国2050年的净零碳目标。

Protecting Home & Personal Care products (such as laundry detergents, shampoos and cosmetics) from problematic microbes is a critical factor in the design of products, manufacturing systems and integrated supply chains.The industry is increasingly seeking to introduce new, more biodegradable materials, reduce environmental footprints and increase the agility and resilience of these supply chains. However, current microbiology-based test methods for assuring product quality are too slow and lacking in diagnostic power to catalyse these supply chain transformations.ARGUS aims to create a real-time measurement solution to detect microbes at key points across the supply chain, and identify pinch points in production systems for targeted cleaning where microbial accumulation is more likely to occur. No longer reliant on offline testing, these instantaneous measures of material quality and supply chain health could combine to create digital Certificates of Analysis enabling frictionless movement of materials, lower cost operation, and acceleration of innovative new products to market.This Feasibility Study will evaluate the potential of three Industrial Digital Technologies to enable this transformation -- sensors for in-line microbial count across the supply chain, sensors for material accumulation points in static production systems, and digital Certificates of Analysis. Taking an established UK Home & Personal Care supply chain as a case study, it will characterise critical supply chain design criteria, assess potential value of these new technologies and propose a path through Industrial Research to market. It supports UK Government strategy to increase adoption of and create markets for Industrial Digital Technologies, amplify supply chain collaborations between larger and smaller companies, and increase resilience and sustainability of operations, ultimately helping to meet the UK's 2050 Net Carbon Zero target.