Advantech signed a strategic cooperation agreement with SGS and Laowang to jointly protect food safety

On July 27, Advantech, a global IoT manufacturer, joined hands with SGS (SGS) and Lao Wang Hot Pot Restaurant (Lao Wang) to hold a forum titled "Protecting Food Safety, Building Hard Food Power, and Discussing the Path of Digital Transformation and Upgrading of IoT" in Shanghai. The conference focused on the essence of "food safety, standardization, and digitalization" in the catering industry, digital IoT catering kitchen solutions, and smart kitchen SSD certification standards. Dozens of brands including Burger King, Gelaoguan, Good Morning Paris, and Laurel Foods, as well as leaders from the China Chain Catering Association, the Shanghai Taiwan Association Chain Franchise Working Committee, and the Shanghai Taiwan Association Catering Working Committee all attended the event. At the event, Advantech, SGS, and Lao Wang signed a strategic cooperation alliance agreement to jointly promote the SSD (Safety, Standard, Digitalization) certification standards and solutions for catering kitchens, hoping to promote the catering industry's attention to food safety and help achieve digital transformation and standardized implementation in the catering industry.

Figure: SGS (left), Advantech (center), and Laowang (right) signed a strategic cooperation alliance agreement

In the process of digital transformation of catering enterprises, an essential link is the intelligent transformation of the kitchen. Through visual management, brand owners can implement standardized operations, and cooperate with mobile APP to monitor data in real time and issue warnings in time. "Advantech's digital IoT catering kitchen solution has four major functions: kitchen IoT, smart inspection, equipment management, and food safety alarm clock. Whether it is chain catering, group catering, food processing plants, or other different formats, it can allow your company to catch the express train of digital transformation, more easily implement standardization, help create visible hard "food" power, and thus meet consumer expectations and implement corporate social responsibility, effectively control costs and improve efficiency." Yan Mingji, senior director of Advantech's Intelligent Service IoT Business Group, introduced.

As a world-renowned certification body that started out with food safety, SGS has been accumulating strength in food safety standards for a long time. Wu Min, a senior food safety expert at SGS, said at the event, "Every industry has certain standards to implement. Standards are used to strictly control and improve the industry system, and to enable companies to implement efficiently and benefit in the long run. The food industry also needs a set of standards to establish a complete food safety system. Food safety (Safety), standardization (Standard), digitalization (Digitalization), this SSD standard will be a powerful assistant in building smart kitchens. With the standard, it can be quickly replicated and efficiently supervised, helping industry insiders solve food safety problems, and using digital technology to ensure food hygiene and safety, so that diners can rest assured and merchants can feel comfortable."

The catering experts invited this time, Lao Wang, a well-known Cantonese hot pot restaurant chain, adheres to the business philosophy of "delivering good taste with love" and has created two star products through lean R&D management. Among them, the "Pepper Pork Tripe Chicken Soup Base" is widely loved for its chewy and smooth pork tripe and spicy and fragrant thick soup, while the "Five-color Pearl Meatballs" as a public welfare project product, its pork filling has a chewy and chewy taste and outstanding "five colors", making it a classic. It can be seen that in the face of rapid changes in the market, the customization of food needs to be agile, flexible, and efficient enough. Leading the digital transformation is very urgent, and strict food safety and quality supervision also provides impetus for digital transformation. "In the catering business, we always insist on controlling every step of food hygiene and food safety. Manually monitoring the temperature and humidity of refrigeration and freezing, manually recording the shelf life of ingredients, and regularly conducting store inspections by dedicated personnel, this management model consumes a lot of manpower and time costs. As more and more branches are opened, the traditional food safety management model gradually becomes unable to cope with the situation. Through the SGS food safety standards, combined with our own food safety requirements, and the application of Advantech's digital IoT catering kitchen solution, these manual management methods are transformed into digital models, which are more efficient and more accurate. By looking at the reports of each branch, I can also understand the business situation at any time, making management easier." said Li Yucheng, Chairman of Lao Wang.

Figure: "Protecting food safety and building strong food power" meeting site

It is an irresistible trend for the catering industry and food processing plants to embrace digitalization. As a global IoT manufacturer, Advantech has spared no effort to promote the digitalization of the catering industry, using IoT digitalization technology to help the industry control and ensure food safety. Advantech, SGS, and Lao Wang have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to officially launch the operation and promotion of the SSD certification standards and solutions for catering kitchens , jointly promote the digital transformation of catering kitchens and food processing plants, protect food safety, build hard "food" power, and help the catering industry and food processing industry embark on the road of IoT innovation and take-off.