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Coca-Cola HBC, one of the world's leading beverage companies, is looking for an intelligent facility oversight system for its production shop floors. The goal is to move beverage production from manual auditing to automated exception reporting through a centralised infrastructure of sensors, cameras and computing power. Solutions should already be proven in industry or science (TRL 7–9), because the successful applicant gets to build a pilot in one of Coca-Cola HBC's factories.
What is Coca-Cola HBC looking for?
The challenge is structured around three complementary monitoring capabilities. Coca-Cola HBC is happy to receive proposals covering one or more of them, with the long-term goal of integrating everything into a single platform:
- Standards compliance: detection of variances against 5S organisation protocols and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Safety and risk: real-time identification, tracking and monitoring of Health & Safety hazards to keep the working environment secure
- Predictive maintenance: monitoring equipment and production line flow to spot patterns predicting mechanical failure, with machine learning models sharpening predictions after several months of observation
The envisioned platform combines core infrastructure (sensors, cameras, computing) with modular programming so different use cases can run on the same base. Full application criteria are available on the LEO platform.
Who is this for?
The challenge is open to innovators worldwide with market-ready shop floor monitoring technology. This includes:
- Scale-ups with computer vision, spatial and behavioural analysis or AI monitoring platforms
- Companies offering sensor and camera infrastructure for industrial environments
- Predictive maintenance and machine learning providers with proven industrial deployments
- Solutions at TRL 7–9 — Coca-Cola HBC explicitly wants systems already implemented in industry or science, not conceptual designs
Applications are submitted through the LEO platform. NDA support is available for confidential submissions.
What's in it for you?
The successful applicant gets a concrete pilot inside a leading European beverage producer's manufacturing environment:
- Pilot deployment in one of Coca-Cola HBC's factories
- Real-world validation of your platform across compliance, safety and maintenance use cases
- Direct engagement with Coca-Cola HBC's operators, supervisors and production managers
- Potential to expand from a single-factory pilot into Coca-Cola HBC's wider European factory network
- Positioning your technology within a large-scale industrial IoT and AI transformation programme
- Visibility on the LEO innovation platform and its wider corporate client network