Tatton Consulting supported Essex-based sandwich manufacturer Raynor Foods in its successful application to Made Smarter Innovation: Sustainable Smart Factory, awarded £1,194,465 by Innovate UK for the project Smart People + Smart Process = Smart Factory.
About the funded R&D project
Following the Digital Sandwich work, this project addresses the human side of factory digitisation. Smart factory technology routinely underdelivers because the workforce is treated as a constraint rather than as part of the system. The project pairs process automation with workforce capability in a live food manufacturing environment.
Award details
- Total project grant: £1,194,465
- Of which to Raynor Foods: £477,988
- Competition: Made Smarter Innovation: Sustainable Smart Factory
- Competition year: 2022/23
- Project: Smart People + Smart Process = Smart Factory
- Sector: Food manufacturing / smart factory
- Independent verification: Innovate UK funded projects transparency dataset (UKRI), published 10 August 2026
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