PIPA LLC, a leader in Enterprise Intelligence for the Food & Nutrition industry, has launched the Digital Extruder platform, a new SaaS solution designed to revolutionize product innovation for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. This platform enhances production efficiency and helps meet the rising demand for nutritious, affordable and delicious food.
By seamlessly connecting food formulation, manufacturing processes, and sensory and nutritional attributes, Digital Extruder breaks down traditional silos in food production. As part of the PIPA Operating System (OS), it integrates AI, food science, and computational fluid dynamics to simulate food processing techniques such as extrusion, baking, and fermentation—enabling smarter, faster, and more precise food development.
“PIPA OS is a step towards a paradigm shift in food product development,” said Chris Stamelos, Chief Technology Officer of PIPA LLC. “By testing thousands of scenarios in seconds, we enable our partners to rapidly innovate and co-create products that drive consumer liking, focused on affordability, palatability, and health. In today’s volatile market, agility is key, and the PIPA OS provides the tools to achieve that.”
The development team leveraged a variety of mathematical tools, including computational fluid dynamics, heat-transfer, food chemistry modeling, and machine learning models to create a solution that connects ingredients and processing methods, to consumer liking drivers. “Applied cutting-edge AI is not sufficient when it comes to a complex system such as food manufacturing,” said Dimitris Sfondilis, the Technical Lead of the project. “By embedding core food science knowledge into agentic AI, we have created a platform that helps product development in a way that is faster, better, and cheaper than before.”
PIPA LLC is actively partnering with leading CPG companies to pilot PIPA OS, focusing on extrusion-based applications for snacks, confectionery, and pet food, with the first snacking products already in the market. Early adopting partners report significant time reduction of the R&D cycle, increased sustainability, and less variability attributed to using less and the right ingredients and the optimal extrusion parameters.
