Improving baked goods

Puratos develops, produces, and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality. Founded in Belgium in 1919, Puratos is growing rapidly with over 9000 employees in 74 countries, with consolidated turnover of over 2 billion EUR in 2021. Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit and core value continue to propel our global ambitions. This, coupled with our commitment to our communities is what makes working at Puratos so magical.

Description of the Internship

At Puratos we attach great importance to measuring physical parameters and surface characteristics of baked goods. Think about the break and shred in a Kaiser roll or the volume of a bread or cake, these inspections require expertise and craftmanship.

We are looking for a digital translation that quantifies these product specific parameters.

In collaboration with the R&D and ICT Team we challenge you to develop a user friendly and cost effective web application to aggregate data coming from specific hardware. This solution should be flexible in a way that data from different sources located all over the world can be gathered directly into a central data base. You will also process data like volume, height, width calculation based on the 3D images from the scanner.

Pre-requisites

• Available for min 6 weeks
• Experience in Python programming
• Affinity with computer vision techniques, AI and Machine learning

What the student will learn

• Computer vision techniques, machine learning algorithms and methods
• Company processes and operations, how to analyze user needs and translate them into technical solutions

Team and environment at the company

The student will be part of the Group R&D Baking test Center team, consisting of 11 members. This team is responsible for organizing and executing baking tests and evaluating the baked products according to well defined procedures in an accurate reliable reproducible and efficient way. The Baking test Center evaluates all bakery ingredients under development, as well as possible new alternatives, and their impact of baked goods.

Students work under the direct supervision of a mentor, who is responsible for both the scientific and the logistics aspects of the internship.

Application procedure

Send your application to Céline Petit (cpetit@puratos.com)