Diversity in the manufacturing industry is essential for success. It provides a range of perspectives and ideas that can help to identify problems and solutions, as well as create new products and services. Additionally, it helps to create a more inclusive environment where everyone can feel accepted and respected. We…
Meet Harasavardanan Velumani Jayaraman, a Quality Engineering Management student at Lambton College Of Applied Arts And Technology. Why did you apply to work in Applied Research at your school? I would like to do a Ph.D. in the near future, research experience would give me the required exposure for the…
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…
Meet Angad and Prabhpahul Singh, co-founders and the brains behind LeanSuite, a software development company that offers lean manufacturing and process improvement solutions for manufacturers and companies in other sectors. The Brampton, Ont.-based company was created to specifically fulfill the needs of small businesses in terms of operations management and…
Ryan Billinger is the Program Manager for the Product Development Exchange (PDx) at George Brown College and a Project Manager for SONAMI. His role is to ensure students, industry partners and faculty have all the resources required for successful project execution from the beginning to the end of the project….
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…
Meet Olivia Uildersma, a Mechanical Engineering Technology – Design & Analysis student at Conestoga College Conestoga Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Olivia made a big difference in helping SMEs grow through Research & Innovation across southern Ontario. Why did you apply to work in Applied Research at your school? What first…
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….
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. During the first wave, Canadian farmers experienced many difficulties hiring temporary foreign workers due to border…
