Miller Magazine Issue: 123 March 2020

43 NEWS MILLER / MARCH 2020 veloped Bühler Insights, the cloud platform dedicated to its customers in the food and mobility industries. With it, Bühler can provide added value for its customers by using data to improve yield (such as with the Yield Manage- ment System), lowering energy emissions (such as with MoisturePro) and waste, or improving uptimes (such as with the Digital Cell and the Error and Downtime Analy- sis). Bühler Insights enables secure, high-performance, reliable digital solutions that, together with blockchain te- chnologies, can achieve significant progress in improving food safety, quality, efficiency, and traceability across pro- duction value chains. Bühler started its journey to certify its information security in 2018 in order to make Bühler Insights and its connected digital solutions as secure as possible for its customers. Software development process of Mercury automation platform also certified The recent ISO 27001 audit has also certified the software development process related to this new web-based automation platform. Mercury MES forms the automation basis for food-processing customers who are on one side operating with complex processes and on the other side need a high degree of automation . Mercury enables the seamless exchange of information throughout all production process systems. Supported by Bühler, customers can optimize workflows through communication between enterprise resource planning (ERP), quality control, maintenance, and other systems. Data availability and real-time feedback enable smart decision making enhancing the plant performance and productivity. Customer data on myBühler portal safe, secure, and carbon-neutral “Almost 6,000 customers in more than 120 countries trust in the myBühler customer portal. All their data is protected by Bühler’s processes certified according to ISO 27001,” says Goetz. myBühler offers customers easy access to their installed machines in their plants as well as documentation and access to spare parts and their order history. As Bühler has tailored and persona- lized a digital shop for every customer, Bühler can offer bespoke information on products and orders, easy and advanced identification of the spare and wear parts the customers need, as well as seamless integration into the customers’ purchasing process. myBühler offers not only high data protection for its customers but is also a cli- mate-neutral website since Bühler is compensating the energy myBühler’s servers consume. For more information on Bühler Insights, please visit: https://www.buhlergroup.com/content/buhlergroup/ global/en/key-topics/Digitalization/Digital-platform.html Covantis initiative announces technology partner – ConsenSys The founding members of the Covantis initiative, which aims to modernize global trade operations, have announ- ced the selection of ConsenSys, a market-leading Ethe- reum blockchain technology company, as the lead tech- nology partner to develop its transformative platform. “The founders set up a robust selection process, inclu- ding a two week hackathon, to ensure that we chose the right technology partner to meet our industry’s needs,” said Stefano Rettore, independent advisor to the project. “ConsenSys presented prototypes that demonstrated ex- cellence in its field and has a track record of using block- chain technology to digitize processes in the commodity trade finance industry. We are confident this partnership will allow us to build a first-class product, centered around unparalleled functionality, security and privacy.” ConsenSys will leverage its enterprise-ready blockchain solutions and services, including PegaSys Orchestrate, Ka- leido and MythX to build the blockchain network on Ethe- reum. It will build a secured platform based on Quorum, a permissioned Ethereum-based blockchain protocol, to ca- ter to both small and large players across the supply chain. “The strength of the Covantis initiative’s commitment to leverage innovative, best-in-class technologies to transform global trade operations for agricultural com- modities is inspiring,” said Joseph Lubin, founder of ConsenSys and co-creator of Ethereum. “This platform is evidence that blockchain technology has started to deliver on its promise of unlocking value through col- laboration and removal of information silos within and across industries.” The Covantis initiative was created in October 2018 by leading commodity industry players to develop te- chnologies to standardize and digitize global agricul- tural shipping transactions for the benefit of the entire industry. A Covantis entity and its digital platform are expected to launch in 2020, subject to regulatory appro- vals. Initial focus will be on automating grain and oilseed post-trade execution processes.