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Seminar: Department of Logistics
Start: 16/02/2018, 11:00
End: 16/02/2018, 12:00
Contact:Linke Potgieter - +27218082492
Location: Van der Sterr 3022

​​​Speaker: Fredrik Nilsson

Title of talk: Towards a dynamic shelf-life for minimized food waste

Abstract:

With specific focus on the static date-labeling system, the presentation builds on  4 year project called DynahMat that set out to explore ways to minimize food waste, supply chain inefficiencies, and how to contribute to a more sustainable food industry. The DynahMat concept entails an infrastructure for reliable, safe, and certified sensors that are attached to a food product (primary or secondary packaging) and provides data (position, time, identity, temperature, mechanical impact, etc.) to a cloud-based information system. The data is processed with, for example, prediction models for dynamic shelf life and other information that can be gained from the data and then communicated to the supply chain actors involved in the product flow as well as the end customer/consumer through different digital interfaces (web pages, mobile apps, business systems). Learning outcomes from the DynahMat project are that a secured, stable, and cold food supply chain enables longer shelf life for the products investigated as most product flows are below recommended temperatures. However, it would need real-time monitoring in order to identify abnormalities i.e. if too high a temperature is registered it would enable actions to be taken directly as well as provide registration of documented cold chain data for updates on predicted quality and shelf life.