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The Future Food Factory OWL is a research center and demonstration platform for the digital transformation in food technology

The Future Food Factory OWL is a research center and demonstration platform for the digital transformation in food technology on the premises of the Innovation Campus Lemgo funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).


Under the motto "where food meets IT", the Future Food Factory OWL at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences offers a unique research and development environment for the food technology of the future.

By bringing together expertise on digitalization and automation and food technology know-how from the Institute for Life Science Technologies (ILT.NRW) and the Institute for Industrial Information Technology (inIT) and partners, we form a competence center on the Innovation Campus Lemgo.

The Future Food Factory OWL is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) with a total volume of approximately 10 million euros.

Competences

Together with partner companies, we develop, research and demonstrate innovative food technologies and individual solutions. They form the basis for improving the quality, safety, sustainability and cost-effectiveness of food production. This takes place independently of day-to-day operations and thus provides the ideal breeding ground for creative approaches and solutions.

In cooperation with Campus Foundery OWL, our Start-Up Space offers employees and students space and expert support to bring their own ideas and inventions to market maturity with their own start-up project.

Through training courses, seminars, individual workshops and lectures, we provide access to our research expertise in the field of the digital transformation of the food industry.

We look forward to your visit!

Equipment

The Future Food Factory OWL has a wide range of facilities in the factory hall and laboratories for research purposes.

Foyer

The foyer can be used as an event room and for workshops. Events for up to 60 people can be held in the foyer.

Foyer

Direct access from the foyer to the shop floor means that a hands-on session can be integrated into workshops.

Shop floor

The 530 m² shop floor houses demonstrators and other equipment for the realisation of our research tasks.

Shop floor

Demonstrators and special equipment:

  • Smart Mashing Plant, cyber-physical system for the continuous production of beer mash
  • SmartPas Plant, flash pasteurization plant for beverages with cyber-physical control
  • Power-to-gas pilot plant, Enapter AEM electrolyser 5 kW, biocatalytic methanation (200 L)
  • Krones-Steinecker brewery 300 L (with 4-device brewhouse)
  • 2 x microbrewery 30 L
  • Plant drink production
  • Gea Rotoramik membrane filtration (microfiltration) Compressed air, heavy current, hot and cold water and steam connections are available.

Project rooms

In separate project rooms with direct access to the shop floor, working groups can use the space and equipment.

 

Project rooms

Dough 4.0 project room:
- 3D printer: 1 FDM printer / 2 SLA printers
- Mechanical photo box for generating 3D scans

Beverage technology project room:
- Rheometer, MCR 102e (manufacturer Anton Paar)

Mini6Ei project room:
- Time-resolved fluorescence spectrometer TCSPC (FT300 from PicoQuant)
- Dremel 3000 with drill holder

Scale-Up Lab

In the Scale-Up Lab, start-up enthusiasts can produce their first sample batches using kitchen-scale appliances.

 

Scale-Up Lab

Kitchen equipment and special appliances:

  • Food 3D printer (Procusini: Print4Taste GmbH)
  • Food 3D printer (Felix Food Single Head 3D Printer)
  • Thermomix TM6 (Vorwerk Germany Foundation & Co. KG)
  • Food processor with cooking function (Kenwood: De'Longhi Deutschland GmbH)
  • Hot air fryer (Cosori: BestInno GmbH)
  • Raw food dehydrator (TribestSedona: Luba GmbH)
  • Ice cream maker (MussoSRL)

Sensorikraum

Sensory room with separate preparation room for human sensory analysis of samples.

Sensory Room

Thanks to the architectural design, it is possible to conduct both preliminary discussions at a large table and sensory analyses in individual booths in this room. Sample preparation takes place in the kitchen in the next room and the samples can be placed directly in the individual booths through a hatch. Modern sensory software is used to analyse the data collected.

Laboratory

Biochemical analyses are carried out in this laboratory using special analytical equipment.

Laboratory

Biochemistry laboratory:

  • Mass spectrometer (Impact II / Elute LC-MS system)
  • Amino acid analyzer
  • Protein analyzer
  • Multi-mode microplate reader (SpectraMax iD3)

Further rooms and equipment

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