The concept of ice-breaking, the digital transformation of the food industry runs in small steps

Our reporter Jiang Mei

With the acceleration of digitalization, the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, technological innovation and the industrial Internet have completely changed the way the entire world operates

A few days ago, the 2021 Schneider Electric Green and Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Summit with the theme of "Green and Intelligent Manufacturing Shaping a Sustainable Future" was held

"For the industry, the two major transformations of low carbon and digitalization are both challenges and opportunities

The person in charge of an international food production company said that the difficulty in digital transformation is not the technology itself, but the change of concept, which is very important to promote digital transformation

According to Lu Jian, deputy director of the production and operation center of Want Want Group, the digital transformation of the food industry is an urgent and realistic need

Lu Jian told reporters that Want Want started building ERP in 2007, and by 2009 completed the construction of informatization from the sales end to the entire supply chain end of the manufacturing end, which Want Want calls Digital 1.

Lu Jian also revealed that Want Want is building a CDP consumer data platform to integrate and analyze consumer demand big data and consumer classification from different platforms such as Tmall, WeChat, Douyin, and 400 hotline.

Yang Lili, head of the food and beverage industry of Schneider Electric's industrial automation business, believes that the biggest challenges and difficulties in the digital transformation of food and beverage companies are: First, the market changes very fast, the annual production capacity cannot be evenly distributed, there are obvious off-season and peak season, and this kind of The off-season and peak season may change with some kind of promotion, and the peak effect of production capacity is very prominent

Yang Lili said: "All in all, food and beverage consumer goods companies have gradually shifted to flexible production and flexible production from simply producing according to orders in the past, which is the driving force for digital transformation

How to formulate digital transformation solutions for customers according to customer and market needs? "Our philosophy is to take medicine first, run small steps, and then iterate step by step

"You can't digitize for digitization's sake and blindly implement new technologies

At present, green and intelligent manufacturing has become the general trend of the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and it has become a consensus that carbon reduction goals should be included in enterprise development plans

For example, the "Yili Modern Smart Health Valley" created by Yili Group and Schneider Electric is building a 3D visualization virtual factory management platform, laying the foundation for the construction of digital twin factories, optimizing and reducing costs, and steadily advancing carbon reduction goals

Digital solutions are also applied to traditional mustard production

　　Industry insiders believe that digital transformation is a long-term and arduous task

"China Food News" (December 30, 2021 Edition 01)

　　(Editor-in-charge: Han Songyan)