How to start your AI journey with Exhive?
The top challenges in food and beverage manufacturing circle around ingredient replacements and a growing demand for faster ideation-to-shelf time. These influence both existing and new product development initiatives, and are affected by instabilities in the supply chain, increasing ingredient costs, new regulations and rising consumer demand.
Exhive is transforming product development with generative AI. Our platform automates recipe generation, optimizing prototypes based on your parameters, and adapts in real-time through feedback, accelerating innovation. With centralized data management and an intuitive interface, Exhive empowers developers to utilize AI, achieving results 10x faster while promoting collaboration and efficiency.
We’ve made capturing product development projects as easy as it gets!
In this article you’ll find out how Exhive guides your product development process and what you need in place to get started with a project on the platform. To ensure a smooth and efficient start, every project benefits from clear objectives, detailed parameters, and relevant data.
Here’s what you’ll need:
1. Clear Goals and Objectives
Define success: What are the specific criteria for success?
Set formulation goals: Examples of formulation goals include cost or sodium reduction, increasing protein amount or other measurable targets.
Remember to add consumer targets: Consumer targets are to improve product appeal, such as increasing liking or reducing negative attributes.
2. Ingredient Details
Provide a full ingredients list, including names and acceptable ranges. Here you can add your knowledge of individual ingredients into the platform: for example, use a maximum of 30 grams of chickpea flour or fix a thickening agent to 20 grams.
Include specifications such as cost, calorie content, or nutritional values for the ingredients to guide formulation decisions.
3. Process Parameters
List the key process parameters (e.g., cooking temperature, cooling time) that affect the final product. Process parameter configurations can be adjusted simultaneously with ingredients and their formulation.
Specify acceptable ranges for each parameter to ensure viability during testing either in the lab setting or in the pilot or production plant.
4. Feedback Variables: Sensory Attributes and Measures
Determine the critical sensory attributes of your product like sweetness, texture, or flavour.
We recommend defining both positive attributes to enhance the qualities and negative ones to minimize the unwanted side-effects (e.g., off-notes or undesired textures).
Include measurable metrics such as moisture content or texture firmness. Track physical qualities and improvement to learn more about your product.
5. Constraints and Optimization Targets
Set realistic constraints for your process or formulation. You can outline any constraints like cost limits, calorie caps, or other critical factors. “Rules-of-thumb” can be also included in your product formulation as constraints.
Specify optimization goals, such as maximizing liking or minimizing undesirable attributes. You can also set multiple targets simultaneously with various constraints.
6. Historical Data (Optional)
Any past data can be further leveraged in the platform. Share any previous formulations along with feedback from internal or external tests. Historical data accelerates the process but is not mandatory.
With all of these elements (or a subset of them) in place, you’ll create a solid starting point for producing better formulations and configurations for products with efficient problem-solving. Exhive's platform equips food and beverage manufacturers with the tools to tackle today’s toughest challenges with speed, precision, and creativity. By combining clear project setup with the power of generative AI, your team can accelerate the journey from ideation to shelf, reduce costs, and create products that resonate with consumers.
Ready to accelerate your product development process? Start with Exhive and experience a smarter, faster way to create products that consumers love.
