Bel Group and Dassault Systèmes have cast a long-term partnership geared toward accelerating the transition of the meals trade towards a extra sustainable mannequin. The collaboration is ready to reshape the way forward for meals by boosting the trade’s digital transformation and increasing revolutionary breakthroughs. Moreover, the digitalisation of the end-to-end worth chain, enhanced by synthetic intelligence, guarantees transformative, sustainable disruptions and goals to empower staff.
Leveraging Bel Group’s experience in producing well-known manufacturers resembling The Laughing Cow, Babybel, and GoGoSqueez, and mixing it with Dassault Systèmes’ superior scientific and technological capabilities, the deal is predicted to pioneer next-generation trade answer experiences for the meals and beverage sector. Additionally, the alliance marks a big step in direction of a extra sustainable and technologically superior meals trade.
“Meals transition in direction of a extra sustainable mannequin wants disruptive gamers and actions within the decade to return. Via this distinctive and long-term partnership, we need to pioneer new options and speed up our transformation,” Cécile Béliot, CEO of Bel Group, mentioned in a media assertion. “The joint capabilities of our two teams, sharing the identical imaginative and prescient, will empower our groups to shift in direction of ‘augmented R&D’ by means of AI, and to reshape our manufacturing and product administration processes for the way forward for meals.”
“Cécile Béliot and I share the identical imaginative and prescient: the way forward for well being is determined by the way forward for vitamin,” mentioned Bernard Charlès, government chairman of Dassault Systèmes. “Our partnership with Bel Group can be a game-changer within the crucial meals trade. Collectively, we will additional its mission to supply more healthy, ingenious meals decisions which are produced extra sustainably. Because of modelling, simulation, information science and generative AI, we will think about and create novel connections and vital financial system levers between well being, prevention, and reasonably priced and sustainable vitamin.”
Charlès added, “Our scientific and technological method allows trade to deal with the most important challenges going through shoppers, sufferers and residents at the moment. We’ve proven how digital worlds open up new horizons in therapeutic improvement. Now, we will apply this method to Bel Group’s enterprise and drive true disruption that makes it the meals tech firm of reference.”
The problem of sustainably feeding a worldwide inhabitants of 10 billion individuals in 2050 has propelled the necessity for revolutionary meals applied sciences and disruptive methods of effectively creating and manufacturing wholesome and sustainable meals in a extremely regulated trade.
Bel Group will deploy Dassault Systèmes’ ‘Good Manufacturing’ trade answer expertise primarily based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to enhance the effectivity and sustainability of its manufacturing operations at 11 crops worldwide. Key parts of this transformation are manufacturing operations administration (MOM), meals and supplies sciences, AI and product lifecycle administration (PLM).
With MOM, Bel Group will proceed to empower its staff by means of digital transformation, to make its manufacturing extra environment friendly and attentive to market calls for whereas optimising stock ranges and consumption of uncooked supplies. Bel Group will be capable of produce extra sustainably, with constant high quality, in any location.
With AI, Bel Group can constantly adapt to shopper wants with sustainable improvement and breakthrough innovation, by analysing hundreds of thousands of information factors and utilizing machine studying for augmented merchandise and packs, whereas offering Dassault Systèmes with complete insights into the meals trade. This may scale back time-to-market, optimise formulation, scale back industrial trials, speed up product improvement, and improve product efficiency.
With PLM, one collaborative atmosphere will join individuals, processes and information, offering everybody concerned with entry to the correct data, on the proper time. This may facilitate transversal collaboration and decision-making – from a product’s ideation to its launch in the marketplace – and simplify enterprise actions.