| SATS, Asia’s leading ground handling and in-flight catering service provider, is the first company in the world to adopt digital twin technology in the catering business. It uses this technology to simulate different production scenarios and cooking process of each recipe to gain resource optimization in its kitchen. With the use of digital twin technology, SATS can now digitally capture the culinary insights and experience of its chefs, empowering them to gain consistency in their cooking methodology. In the kitchen environment, sensors are installed to provide real-time data, which helps improve response time when handling different scenarios, such as bottlenecks or disruptions.
In addition, the operational impact of new investments in machinery and process changes can be simulated, analyzed, and optimized in a virtual environment before actual implementation. The use of this technology has led to improvements to overall planning productivity by at least 30%. Besides achieving operational optimization, this project has also helped the company make better investment decisions and save unnecessary costs by providing insights into potential ROI arising from new machineries deployment, layout changes, and the like. |