Bel Group and Dassault Systèmes have solid 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 reminiscent of The Laughing Cow, Babybel, and GoGoSqueez, and mixing it with Dassault Systèmes’ superior scientific and technological capabilities, the deal is anticipated to pioneer next-generation trade answer experiences for the meals and beverage sector. Additionally, the alliance marks a big step in the direction of a extra sustainable and technologically superior meals trade.
“Meals transition in the direction of a extra sustainable mannequin wants disruptive gamers and actions within the decade to come back. Via this distinctive and long-term partnership, we wish to pioneer new options and speed up our transformation,” Cécile Béliot, CEO of Bel Group, stated in a media assertion. “The joint capabilities of our two teams, sharing the identical imaginative and prescient, will empower our groups to shift in the direction of ‘augmented R&D’ by way 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 relies on the way forward for vitamin,” stated Bernard Charlès, govt chairman of Dassault Systèmes. “Our partnership with Bel Group will probably be a game-changer within the essential meals trade. Collectively, we are able to additional its mission to supply more healthy, ingenious meals decisions which are produced extra sustainably. Due to modelling, simulation, knowledge science and generative AI, we are able to think about and create novel connections and vital financial system levers between well being, prevention, and inexpensive and sustainable vitamin.”
Charlès added, “Our scientific and technological strategy 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 are able to apply this strategy to Bel Group’s enterprise and drive true disruption that makes it the meals tech firm of reference.”
The problem of sustainably feeding a world 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 based mostly on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to enhance the effectivity and sustainability of its manufacturing operations at 11 vegetation worldwide.Key components 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 way of digital transformation, to make its manufacturing extra environment friendly and conscious of market calls for whereas optimising stock ranges and consumption of uncooked supplies. Bel Group will be capable to 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 tens of millions of information factors and utilizing machine studying for augmented merchandise and packs, whereas offering Dassault Systèmes with complete insights into the meals trade. This can cut back time-to-market, optimise formulation, cut back industrial trials, speed up product improvement, and enhance product efficiency.
With PLM, one collaborative surroundings will join individuals, processes and knowledge, offering everybody concerned with entry to the correct info, on the proper time. This can facilitate transversal collaboration and decision-making – from a product’s ideation to its launch in the marketplace – and simplify enterprise actions.