INDUSTRY 4.0A VIEW FROM R&D IN FMCG

JON HAGUE

VICE PRESIDENT OPERATIONS AND OPEN INNOVATION

UNILEVER GLOBAL R&D

WE MAKE SOME OF THE WORLDS FAVOURITE BRANDS

A COMPANY WITH A PROUD HERITAGE

MAKESUSTAINABLE

LIVINGCOMMONPLACE

TeaUnit Dose

Aerosol & sprays Powders Water filters

Liquids & pastesCold Supply

Chain

Bars & blocks

WHAT WE MAKE

UNILEVER IN THE NORTH WEST– A DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM

Advanced Manufacturing Centre

Materials Innovation Factory

North-West Science Grid

€30m investment€78m investmentStrategic relationships

*BCG Report Speed to Win April 2012

Best in class FMCG Companies introduceInnovations seven months faster

Resulting in 60% higher sales in first year

BestAverage Average Best

7 Months

22 Months

15 Months

1% of sales

1.6 % of sales

60%

THE VALUE OF SPEED

• Produces 24 x 800g batches a day in 4 parallel formulation modules.

• Raw material format handling and dosing robustness.

• Capable of end-point prediction and correction.

• Excellent process control enables better scale up predictions (to AMC).

FFSTANDARDISE – AUTOMATE – DIGITISE IN FORMULATION

1 Litre FULLFormulationsPer person perday

Manual, non – standard 2 -3

Manual, standardised, 5 - 7

Automated, 25

In silico1000’s

OUR DIGITAL FORMULATION JOURNEY

Atomistic Mesoscale

One millionth of a second (10-6s) Seconds

FULLY IN SILICO IS OUR AMBITION

Newmaterials

SimpleMixtures

ProductFormats

FullFormulae

Manufacture

Launch

Computer AidedFormulation

Optimiser Engines

Virtual EngineeringProcessing

Virtual EngineeringPackaging

Factory LineOptimization

Manufacture To demand

WE ARE THINKING END TO END

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T (°C

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Manual3 months

HPC Mesoscale30 Minutes

LEADING THE WAY IN MESOSCALE MODELLING

Process & Equipment

Design

Product Structure

Complex Fluid

Properties

Fluid flow

IT’S A BIG CHALLENGETOTAL PROPERTY AND IN USE PERFORMANCE

Port Sunlight Advanced Manufacturing Centre

(AMC)

DIGITALLY CAPABLE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED

DIGITAL AMC @ PORT SUNLIGHT

THE SCIENCE – MULTICOMPONENT LIQUIDS ARE MASSIVELY COMPLEX TO SIMULATE, LENGTH SCALES AND PROCESS CONDITIONS MATTER

SENSORING UP OUR FACTORIES – MASSIVE INSTALLED CAPITAL BASE WITH A LOW RENEWAL RATE

TURNING PRIMARY DATA TO REAL TIME INFORMATION AND ACTIONABLE MODELS

SOME OF OUR CHALLENGES

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