It comes as little surprise to the IntelliAM team that Yorkshire – and South Yorkshire in particular – is identified in the @Financial Times as having one of the largest clusters of advanced manufacturing companies in the UK: second only to Birmingham and the Midlands. Based in Dinnington, which was once the heartland of the Yorkshire coal industry, IntelliAM is once again putting South Yorkshire centre stage at the heart of a very different, mining industry: the high tech mining of data using machine learning.

As the @FT says, advanced manufacturers like IntelliAM use cutting-edge technology to integrate shop floor production lines with digital and cloud-based technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive big improvements in productivity, reductions in waste and cuts in energy consumption.

In our case, that means mining vast amounts of machine data for the leading brands in the UK’s largest manufacturing sector; food and drink. While the FT notes that South Yorkshire “has pronounced strengths in advanced manufacturing” it only identifies aerospace and nuclear as specialisms, and thus misses out the role we are playing at the cutting edge of a sector that employs over 475,000 people and adds £38 billion to the national economy each year.

IntelliAM already work with half the top ten global food and drink businesses and are on confident our machine learning capabilities to win over the other half.

https://www.ft.com/content/c6de2703-2cfe-4ea4-af96-90b2685ec7ad