The challenge Speed Composites, manufacturers of composite panels for race cars competing at tracks in North America, were looking to expand their product line: an innovative product that provides precise measurements of a vehicle’s chassis prior to a race. Competitive racing requires the measurement of the car’s chassis frame to…
EatSleepRIDE Mobile Inc. gives solo riders their freedom and peace of mind back through CRASHLIGHT, a ride-tracking and community app.
My Active Snacks is a Toronto-based- snack food start-up expanding the marketing for healthy snack food options. The challenge Support with recipe development and ingredient sourcing to develop a tasty snack puff that meets the strict keto diet requirements. The result Fanshawe College’s Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI) researcher Josie…
LeanSuite partnered with the Walker Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (WAMIC) to upgrade their app and extend it to include Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to automatically categorize the information collected in a meaningful and reportable format. The WAMIC team of researchers and students got to work on the first phase of…
The Challenge Simcoe, Ont.-based Meadow Lynn Farms is a mixed farming enterprise that includes cash crop, dairy, CSA market gardens and strawberries. The farm has been family-owned for 73 years. The owners wished to capture a niche market for the thousands of pounds of wasted strawberry seconds (imperfect, under-or over-ripe…
Left to right: Daniel Hacikyan, EarthOne; Sidhanth Pereira, EarthOne; Sherif Abdou, AMIC; Edward Garcia-Torres, AMIC Research has shown that it’s beneficial to talk to plants but wouldn’t it be nice if the plants could talk back? Leveraging support from the Southern Ontario Network for Advanced Manufacturing Innovation (SONAMI), EarthOne Inc….
George Balyasin (left), founder of Acrebot Inc. and Ramzy Ganady (right) a research technologist with CAMDT. For many Canadians, flashbacks to March 2020 conjures images of panic buying and empty grocery store shelves. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the food supply chain in other, less obvious ways. …
Four All Ice Cream scoops, including their Chocolate Orange Vegan Ice Cream Vegan ice cream enthusiasts are flocking to Four All Ice Cream, a Kitchener-based artisanal ice cream brand with a cult following that was dreamed up by entrepreneur Ajoa Mintah. The small-batch ice cream manufacturer places customers at the…
Image caption: The Gastronomous team. People are thinking carefully about new ways to work and the rules of engagement. In general, more people are leaving their jobs. There’s been a full-scale exodus from hospitality during the pandemic. The global health crisis exasperated a pre-existing condition. Filling jobs has been hard…
Dr. Allan Spence, WAMIC research lead, giving the prototype developed to Kevin LeBlanc, Brilliant Photonics CEO. Brilliant Photonics is well known for developing high-tech industrial lighting systems for the agricultural and horticultural industries. Now the Kitchener, Ont. company is adding another market to its list – industrial disinfection technology to…
