Global food solutions via optimal diet formulations
Research Team: Julian Hall, Ken McKinnon, Andreas Grothey, Ivet Galabova
Research Area(s): Optimization, Operational Research
Impact on food formulation: High performance optimization software is essential to the efficient formulation of food, particularly in the (farm) animal and pet food markets, but also in important areas of human food production.
Beneficiaries: The optimization solvers have been largely developed for Format Solutions, the world’s leading supplier of software for food formulation.
Significance and Reach: The reach is global. Significance is demonstrated by the dependence of Format Solutions on the Edinburgh technology when selling its software – in particular to a manufacturer producing more than half of the world’s pet food.