Briefing 2022

Initial situation

PHILIPS Kitchen Appliances focuses on delivering the most advanced and innovative solutions to help consumers improve their cooking process and make their food planning easier with data-driven solutions.

In particular, the main objectives of our in-house team are …

  • to offer consumers the opportunity to prepare "healthy homemade food" in an inspiring, fun and convenient way and

  • to support them in living a sustainable life in all aspects around food – from how they source their food, how they transform it into healthy, nutritious meals and how they can store and use their food effectively to avoid food waste as much as possible.

As we are always looking for inspiration, knowledge, solutions and partners to help us make our products even more customer-friendly and better, we would like to invite the creative IMM community to tinker with us on the following two challenge areas:

  • Healthy cooking (with Airfryer) without oil

  • Sustainable food management at home

Challenge 1: Primary function of airfryer extension

TOPIC: We are a leading developer and seller of so-called “Airfryers”. These products were originally developed to cook perfect French fries without the use of much oil. As it evolved further, it also proved to be the perfect hot air oven for many other fried, baked or deep-fried foods such as chicken, fish, vegetables, meatballs and so on.

Our challenge is to find new and further applications for these appliances by expanding the range of cooking processes, by adding accessories or by carrying out special cooking processes with the help of instructions (e.g. app), displays or remote controls.

TASK: Develop new additional use cases for cooking homemade meals with existing PHILIPS Airfryers and/or propose practical and innovative functionality additions that enrich the use of existing appliances. The result could be an innovative concept, a visualisation and/or a demonstrator with new features or accessories.

Challenge 2: Food management system for household

TOPIC: The expectation of this end-to-end solution for private consumers is that food arriving in their own household can be easily checked in and then hosted and managed in a virtual database (cloud). Consumers should be able to view their stock from outside their home and manage their personal purchases or external orders (food deliveries) from anywhere, at any time, by simply comparing the food ingredients needed for a particular planned recipe with the food currently in stock. When used up or displaced, the food should also be easy to retrieve from the stock list.

TASK: Design/develop an electronic and data-based solution for a home food inventory system, with easy check-in of new and check-out of used or spoiled food. It should make it possible to check the food inventory at home at any time and from anywhere (e.g. with a smartphone) in order to decide what to cook later and when to shop. The result could be a concept, a visualisation, an electronic check-in and check-out device for the home food store and/or an app plus database.

Perspectives

We provide support throughout the entire development process with our industry and expert know-how. If required, we will also be happy to provide the necessary PHILIPS Airfryers and – in the case of selected concepts with great potential – a pre-defined material budget for the realisation of hardware prototypes/demonstrators.

If exciting points of contact arise between us and there is mutual interest, we can imagine continuing the project beyond the end of the six-month period.

Intro video (German)

Kick-off VIDEO (German)

Kick-off slides (English)

bootcamp intro pitch (English)

bootcamp intro pitch (German)

 

Next steps

Individually organised 1:1 and group meetings as well as ongoing development of innovative solutions in coordination with the Philips team until the Best of #IMM2022 event on October 20th, 2022 at the Digital Days in the Impact Hub Vienna and online.

Contact

The main contact person for the project on the part of PHILIPS Domestic Appliances Austria is Jürgen Holzbauer.

About us

PHILIPS Domestic Appliances

PHILIPS Kitchen Appliances, based in Klagenfurt/Austria, is a unit of the Philips Domestic Appliances Austria GmbH, which is part of PHILIPS Domestic Appliances International.

At PHILIPS Domestic Appliances, our purpose is simple yet powerful: helping people to turn their houses into homes. Through meaningful innovation, we improve the lives of people, helping them to lead healthier and happier lives every day.​​

With a rich 130-year heritage from PHILIPS, we bring proven innovation to consumers around the world. As a leading player in domestic appliances, we offer innovative products across kitchen appliances, coffee, air, garment and home care. The successful product ranges include the renowned Airfryer, Fully Automatic Espresso Machine with LatteGo, the Perfect Care Elite steam generator, Air Purifier and SpeedPro Max vacuum cleaner.​​

PHILIPS Domestic Appliances is a best place to work for people who share our passion, we are firmly focused on nurturing our talent and empowering our clever and diverse teams to succeed. Our company is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and has innovation, manufacturing, and commercial centers across the globe, with presence in over 100 countries. PHILIPS Domestic Appliances employs approximately 7,000 talented employees who bring innovation to customers and consumers and help them turn their houses into homes every day.

​​We are committed to providing the highest levels of consumer satisfaction, underpinned by our quality approach. We make conscious choices caring for people’s homes and our planet. We grow Philips Domestic Appliances responsibly and sustainably.

Philips Domestic Appliances company currently employs 7600 employees globally, of whom 130 work at the Klagenfurt site in the PHILIPS Kitchen Appliances unit.

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