The “2023 China Packaged Drinking Water Summit” hosted by the Packaged Drinking Water Branch of the China Beverage Industry Association was held in Danjiangkou on July 19, with the theme of “pure and lasting, natural and sustainable”. At the meeting, Shi Jingfeng from Schneider Electric gave a speech entitled “Digital Transformation Helps enterprises achieve More efficient and Less carbon” for industry experts and business executives, sharing Schneider Electric’s insights and views in the field of digital transformation and green low-carbon packaging drinking water industry.

Today, the beverage industry has entered a new stage of high-quality development from high-speed growth, and the whole industry is trying to explore a path forward with product innovation, quality upgrading, green and low-carbon, digital transformation and other development priorities. However, in this process, many enterprises have encountered faults in the connection of technologies: on the one hand, the digital enterprises that focus on IT technology lack the experience of hardware application in the industry; On the other hand, the manufacturers of specialized process equipment lack the understanding of top-level planning and design management in software design, which brings no small resistance to the two in the process of technology development and practical application.

Shi Jingfeng, Food and Beverage Industry Manager, Schneider Electric Automation OEM Business

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As a global expert in digital transformation in the field of energy management and automation, Schneider Electric, with years of technical experience in the packaged drinking water industry, has summarized and formed a mature management consulting project implementation method through a series of successful cases and practices of digital transformation such as top-level design, supply chain management optimization, lean production to smart factory design and construction. It can provide enterprises with integrated production scheduling and integrated operation management in a green intelligent manufacturing overall solution. From design and construction to operation and maintenance integration, from decentralized management to integrated enterprise management integration, to help the transparent management of enterprise production and operation, in accordance with the “lighthouse factory” standard to build green smart factories. Help enterprises improve production efficiency, enhance the transparency and traceability of the entire manufacturing process, ensure product safety and quality while improving energy efficiency, reduce corporate carbon footprint, and promote the digital transformation of the food and beverage industry in every link of the value chain.

In the long term cooperation with natural mineral water brand Evian, Schneider Electric continuously provides solutions to meet the constantly updated production standards through the upgrading of equipment. In a recent collaboration, Schneider Electric completed the upgrading of four high-voltage substations at its Evian plant. The Schneider Electric EcoStruxure solution, which uses the new SM6 switchgear and MasterPact MTZ circuit breakers, enables the collection and analysis of production data, reducing the energy consumption of the plant and helping Evian achieve the Carbon Trust carbon neutral certification goal. Over the past decade, the two companies have worked together to reduce energy consumption per litre of water by 34%.

France’s natural mineral water brand Perrier has strict requirements for the upgrading and operation and maintenance of its online cleaning process: on the one hand, it needs to strictly comply with safety production standards and food safety regulations; On the other hand, it is necessary to reduce costs and reduce energy consumption to protect the ecology. With Schneider Electric’s integrated industrial solutions, operational diagnostics, operational support, process traceability and cleaning quality monitoring for the entire cleaning line are complete. Thanks to Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure solution and architecture, the new equipment provides real-time access to data from each cleaning process for monitoring, and easily creates online cleaning operation reports and evaluation reports on the cleaning process. According to statistics, with the support of Schneider Electric’s integrated solutions, the downtime of the production line has been reduced by 20%, the production energy efficiency has been greatly improved, and the service life of the facility has been extended, achieving a win-win situation of product quality and production efficiency.