Recently, the 2023 China Food and Beverage Digital Technology Summit with the theme of “Technological disruption and Business reshaping” was successfully held in Shanghai. Yang Lili, head of the food and beverage industry of Schneider Electric’s Industrial automation business, was invited to attend and shared the trends of the consumer goods industry, the key path of the digital transformation of the food and beverage industry, and Schneider Electric’s advanced technology and application practices in the food and beverage industry.

Schneider Electric Industrial automation business food and beverage industry head Yang Lili delivered a speech

At present, the consumer goods market is ushering in a comprehensive recovery and a new round of growth: in terms of policy, local government work reports clearly “will focus on expanding domestic demand”, especially “expanding consumption” in a priority position; In the market, consumers are increasingly paying attention to green and healthy food, which has derived a number of vertical segments, and this is becoming a new driving force for recovery growth in consumption; At the same time, new forms of consumption such as live streaming and Internet celebrities are also stimulating consumers’ purchase behavior.

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However, while the new round of consumption growth brings opportunities, it also brings greater challenges to the food and beverage industry: First, consumers have higher requirements for food safety and transparency, which means that enterprises need to accelerate the improvement of the whole industry chain product traceability and quality system construction, to achieve transparency and safety of the production process. Second, based on the dual-carbon goal and consumers’ demand for green and healthy food, enterprises need to establish a green and high-quality development model of the food and beverage industry through scientific carbon reduction. Third, the continuous rise of labor costs and other problems are highlighted, the construction of automated, less-humanized factories, to improve the flexibility of production lines and automated production capacity has become the trend of The Times.

Yang Lili said, “In the context of dual transformation, the food and beverage industry is accelerating to IT information technology, AT automation technology, ET energy technology, DT digital technology and CT network technology integration to seek productivity breakthroughs. As a global expert in digital transformation in energy management and automation, Schneider Electric is integrating digital technologies in energy management and automation to create integrated solutions from local optimization to comprehensive improvement, from production line level to factory level, and then to group level, ensuring technological advancement, process standardization, transparency and traceability. Help the digital and low-carbon transformation of the food and beverage industry.”