Metis Labs Limited (Metis) is a UK manufacturing automation SME with a core project team of Alex Appelbe (project/commercial lead), Patricio Benavides (PLC architect) and Mikhail Beck (senior AI/data science engineer). Metis is solving a significant unmet need with its easy-to-configure advanced process control software platform designed to serve the manufacturing sector. Using AI, it will learn the variability of consumer products and significantly reduce filling waste. Every high-speed filling line will have increased energy and raw material efficiency and reduced packaging waste. Ultimately, this will save manufacturers costs while helping achieve their net-zero commitments.

"Huge inefficiencies exist in the manufacturing sector due to suboptimal control of production processes. Metis Labs is using artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing to develop a new form of Advanced Process Control (APC) which is perfectly suited to the needs of the new wave of digitised factories coming online. This will be easy for industrial engineers to install and maintain, and flexible enough to use in a diverse range of factory environments."