With the "two sessions" in 2022 in full swing, the topic of "stable growth and promotion of consumption", which is related to the people's livelihood, has become the focus of public discussion. Therefore, the "CPG 2022 7th China Consumer Digital Technology Conference",
With the "two sessions" in 2022 in full swing, the topic of "stable growth and promotion of consumption", which is related to the people's livelihood, has become the focus of public discussion. Therefore, the "CPG 2022 7th China Consumer Digital Technology Conference", which opened on March 10, has been placed more expectations by the industry and outside. How to use digital tools and tools to improve efficiency and reduce costs? How does IT+OT technology deeply integrate with manufacturing application scenarios? How can the food and beverage industry achieve sustainable development under the goal of "double carbon"? Guests from various consumer brand industries gathered to discuss these issues in depth. Yang Lili, head of the food and beverage industry of Schneider Electric's industrial automation business, attended the main forum and shared Schneider Electric's in-depth insights and rich practices in the food and beverage industry.
Li Li Yang, Head of Food and Beverage Industry at Schneider Electric's Industrial Automation business
According to the data from the 2022 Government Work Report, consumption growth in 2021 is significantly higher than that in 2020, but it has not returned to the pre-epidemic level from the two-year average growth rate. Therefore, "promoting consumption" is crucial to achieving the goal of stable growth of the national economy. At the enterprise side, with the intervention of Generation Z in the main force of consumption, the gradual intensification of brand competition, and the continuous increase of elements such as new models, new formats, and new scenarios promoted by digital technology, the digital "degree" and "depth" have become the key to affecting the core competitiveness of enterprises. Only by "immediate response" to the rapidly changing market demand can enterprises gain a firm foothold in the fierce market competition.
"Digitalization is reshaping the core competitiveness of the food and beverage industry. Increasingly stringent regulations, as well as the trend towards highly personalized requirements, present the food and beverage industry with the challenge of high compliance, flexible customization and efficient production while safeguarding product safety. With the world's leading software and hardware solutions for green intelligent manufacturing, based on EcoStruxureTM architecture and platform, integrating digital technology and industrial scenarios, Schneider Electric is actively helping the food and beverage industry to improve operational efficiency and safety, accelerate digital transformation, and achieve green manufacturing and sustainable development." Yang Lili said.
As a global expert in digital transformation in the field of energy management and automation, Schneider Electric empowers the digital transformation of companies in the food and beverage sector with green smart manufacturing. For example, integrating the characteristics of each life stage of the enterprise, bringing the "whole life cycle solution" of the design, construction, operation and maintenance of products and production, it has obvious advantages in improving production efficiency, shortening time to market, ensuring product quality and continuously optimizing production and operation; Thanks to a wealth of practical experience in digital transformation, Schneider Electric's "from consulting to landing" green intelligent manufacturing overall solution promotes the planning and deployment of each subsystem of the enterprise through top-level design. Schneider Electric is accelerating the digital transformation of companies in the food and beverage sector with a complete digital solution and rich practical experience, helping to enhance core competitiveness and bring greater value:
First, implement lean management. With digitalization, companies can improve efficiency, reduce waste, optimize manufacturing processes, reduce energy consumption, improve personnel efficiency, reduce worker intensity and complexity, and increase productivity.
Second, more flexible and flexible production capacity. With its modularity and flexibility, digitalization meets the individual needs of consumers to the greatest extent, so as to achieve high efficiency production and flexible manufacturing;
Third, higher quality and safety. Standardization and digitization of recipes and manufacturing processes ensure consistency of taste and quality management throughout the entire manufacturing cycle. Moreover, through the tracking and tracing of the whole supply chain, enterprises can ensure the transparency of the whole process, so as to ensure the safety of food and beverage and ensure the quality of products;
Fourth, shorter product innovation research and development cycle. According to the new needs of consumers, enterprises can shorten the design time of new products from the aspects of product formulation, production, packaging, etc., efficiently integrate multiple production links, and finally complete the rapid iteration and optimization of products.
With the deepening of digital transformation in the food and beverage industry, more and more leading companies in the food and beverage industry have begun digital exploration. Taking the dairy industry as an example, digitization has become an important tool for dairy enterprises to improve quality, efficiency and management level. In the "Yili Modern Smart Health Valley" project created by Yili Group, Schneider Electric builds smart factories through digital delivery, and uses intelligent systems to promote green and low-carbon plant management, control systems, energy management systems, and utility facility management. In addition, the AVEVA AIM delivery platform is used to build a 3D visual virtual factory management platform, which can improve the efficiency and safety of factory operation and maintenance, reduce downtime, achieve data consistency of various systems, achieve digital asset management, and steadily promote carbon reduction goals.
With the upgrading of consumption and the personalized needs of the public, the competition in the hot pot base material industry is intensifying and changing rapidly. Based on the green intelligent manufacturing and ProLeiT's Plant iT software platform, Schneider Electric has integrated the overall solution with the Mordecon M580 control system to help Mairun Technology realize the safe traceability of the production process. Reduce labor costs, office expenses, transparent project management, improve production logistics efficiency, standardize raw material management, reduce energy consumption, achieve efficient supply chain management and lean production, and create an intelligent manufacturing demonstration line in the condiment industry.
Having been in the Chinese market for more than 30 years, Schneider Electric has always paid attention to the development of the food and beverage field and continued to dig deep into the needs of enterprises. In the past decade, with the adjustment of population structure, the promotion of urbanization, as well as the improvement of the diversity of consumer demand in the terminal market and the awakening of safety and health values, the terminal consumer market of the food and beverage industry has undergone profound changes. With Schneider Electric providing the food and beverage industry from digital transformation top-level planning consulting to industry-oriented professional system hardware and software platform; From supply chain management experience to smart logistics practices, from energy management solutions to lean production practices, a series of innovative values will provide more and better products and services for the construction of benchmarking green and intelligent food and beverage manufacturers, and help China's food and beverage industry accelerate the digital transformation toward green and intelligent manufacturing and sustainable development.
