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 modern 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 akin to 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 major 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 come back. By way of this distinctive and long-term partnership, we wish 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 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 depends upon 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 essential meals trade. Collectively, we will additional its mission to supply more healthy, creative 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 permits trade to handle the largest challenges dealing with shoppers, sufferers and residents at present. We’ve proven how digital worlds open up new horizons in therapeutic growth. 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 modern meals applied sciences and disruptive methods of effectively growing and manufacturing wholesome and sustainable meals in a extremely regulated trade.
Bel Group will deploy Dassault Systèmes’ ‘Excellent Manufacturing’ trade answer expertise based mostly on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to enhance the effectivity and sustainability of its manufacturing operations at 11 crops 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 digital transformation, to make its manufacturing extra environment friendly and aware of market calls for whereas optimising stock ranges and consumption of uncooked supplies. Bel Group will have the ability to produce extra sustainably, with constant high quality, in any location.
With AI, Bel Group can repeatedly adapt to client wants with sustainable growth 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 can cut back time-to-market, optimise formulation, cut back industrial trials, speed up product growth, and improve product efficiency.
With PLM, one collaborative setting will join individuals, processes and information, offering everybody concerned with entry to the suitable data, 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.
