Handshake Bühler Chairman Calvin Grieder and Microsoft’ s Çağlayan Arkan
Bühler and Microsoft committed to improving availability of safe and healthy food
At Hannover Messe, Bühler and Microsoft have committed themselves to build a powerful alliance that will increase the availability of safe food and enhance food integrity and traceability. The aspired alliance will extend the partnership the two companies have just built. Microsoft and Bühler aim at rolling out cloud-based solutions to eliminate contaminated grains and to rapidly introduce new services to improve the availability of safe and healthy food. An important part of the planned cooperation are block-chain applications, whose feasibility is currently being
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Food safety and availability is still one of the most demanding global challenges. Whilst 30 % of all food is lost or wasted, 800 million people are starving. The application of digital technologies, such as offered by Microsoft’ s Azure cloud, artificial intelligence and block-chain technologies, combined with inspection and processing technologies of Bühler and partners, will provide transparency and greater efficiency in food value chains.
“ Bühler impressively demonstrates that manufacturers can be digital innovators, by strategically combining their industryspecific know-how with artificial intelligence, intelligent cloud and IoT solutions,” says Çağlayan Arkan, General Manager Worldwide Manufacturing at Microsoft. Calvin Grieder, Chairman of the Bühler Board of Directors, adds:“ By interweaving Microsoft’ s capabilities and Bühler’ s innovations for food safety and availability, we strive to stand up to some of the most pressing issues in the global food system.”