Bel Group and Dassault Systèmes push sustainable innovation in meals business

Bel Group and Dassault Systèmes have cast a long-term partnership geared toward accelerating the transition of the meals business towards a extra sustainable mannequin. The collaboration is ready to reshape the way forward for meals by boosting the business’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 workers. 

Leveraging Bel Group’s experience in producing well-known manufacturers comparable 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 business 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 business.

“Meals transition in direction of a extra sustainable mannequin wants disruptive gamers and actions within the decade to return. By means 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 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 will depend on the way forward for vitamin,” mentioned Bernard Charlès, government chairman of Dassault Systèmes. “Our partnership with Bel Group will likely be a game-changer within the essential meals business. Collectively, we will additional its mission to supply more healthy, creative meals selections which might be produced extra sustainably. Because of modelling, simulation, knowledge science and generative AI, we will 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 business to deal with the largest challenges going through customers, sufferers and residents at the moment. We’ve proven how digital worlds open up new horizons in therapeutic growth. Now, we will 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 folks 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 business.

Bel Group will deploy Dassault Systèmes’ ‘Good Manufacturing’ business answer expertise primarily based 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 workers 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 of produce extra sustainably, with constant high quality, in any location.

With AI, Bel Group can constantly adapt to client wants with sustainable growth 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 business. This can cut back time-to-market, optimise formulation, cut back industrial trials, speed up product growth, and enhance product efficiency.

With PLM, one collaborative atmosphere will join folks, processes and knowledge, offering everybody concerned with entry to the correct 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.