The realization of comprehensive sustainable industrial operations has become one of the key measures to promote the sustainable development of the Earth’s home. Strive to promote the integration of digitalization and low-carbon, create an open collaborative ecological platform, and focus on the transformation and upgrading of the industrial field, Schneider Electric, a digital transformation expert in the field of global energy management and automation, debuted at the 2023 Hannover MESse with a large exhibition area of 2000 square meters. With the four themes of “Software and Digitalization”, “Zero Carbon and sustainability”, “Energy efficiency improvement” and “full life cycle service”, we comprehensively demonstrated many innovative achievements in the field of digitalization and sustainability, helping enterprises to move towards a green and sustainable industrial future with more efficient and high quality.

In the increasingly fierce climate challenges, any industry and enterprises can not stay out of the situation, with the theme of “how to cope with the challenges of The Times” 2023 Hannover MESse, is indicating that the industrial field needs to seek, actively respond, and the rapid iteration of digital technology, sharing and collaborative efficiency and level of continuous improvement. It creates more possibilities for the practice of sustainable development in the industrial sector.

“With the innovation and development of the new generation of information technology such as cloud computing, big data and AI, the digitalization level in today’s world has reached a new height, which also indicates that the transformation and upgrading of the industrial field through the integration of data and reality will effectively strengthen the enabling role of digital technology for application scenarios, so as to move more quickly towards the future industry with better operational efficiency and energy use level.” Xingjian Pang, Senior Vice President of Schneider Electric and Head of Industrial Automation Business in China, said, “Going forward, Schneider Electric will continue to strengthen its digital capabilities including key elements such as software, as well as its rich experience in industry expertise and sustainability, and continue to improve open, software-centric automation with advanced technologies such as AI. Deepen green and intelligent manufacturing solutions to enable more partners to make new strides in all aspects of enterprise operations and innovation, and jointly create a more sustainable and resilient industry of the future.”

Products, software, technology and services, multi-dimensional innovation to empower the future of industry

Achieving industrial sustainability means greater operational efficiency, intelligent energy management and near-zero waste of resources, while automation systems, industrial software and energy management are all indispensable. Relying on the open EcoStruxureTM architecture and platform, a powerful portfolio of innovative hardware and software products, AVEVA industrial software applications and solutions, as well as “one-stop” services from energy management strategy consulting to solution implementation, Schneider Electric can help industrial enterprises to build industrial digital twins and realize efficient operations throughout the life cycle. Meet future challenges and achieve sustainable development.

At this exhibition, Schneider Electric launched the software-centric EcoStruxure open automation platform V23.0, which strengthens the use of hardware and software decoupling to create a “plug and play” mode, solving the problems of application software portability, configurability and interoperability, and improving engineering design and operational efficiency. It will be further expanded into a unified control software platform integrating discrete, hybrid and process industry operations to enable more industry customers to improve efficiency:

Enhanced integration with AVEVA system platform can reuse existing application graphics and speed up system design
Add graphical interface editor for program automation logic design to improve operational efficiency
Open automated human machine interface (HMI) and archiving capabilities, compatible with multiple operating systems, enabling flexible deployment across systems

Iot connectivity, data platforms and software are the fundamental elements that make up the industrial metauniverse. At the heart of Schneider Electric’s industrial digital Twin, AVEVA Industrial software highly integrates digital technologies such as simulation, visualization, digital twin and cloud computing to provide industrial companies with full life cycle solutions covering engineering design and construction, project execution and operation, asset management and value chain optimization. Schneider Electric and AVEVA are creating an integrated data platform through a unified system of shared services and connectivity to form a unified data repository for production operations, process processes, asset management, energy management and carbon emissions in an open and universal manner and standard.

By leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, the value of big data can be deeply mined, and highly intelligent industrial automation can be achieved from the dimensions of quality and output prediction, predictive maintenance and human-machine collaboration, and production and operation efficiency can be improved, which is the meaning of “Industry 4.0” and the key technical support for Schneider Electric’s future industrial strategy. By combining the experience and expertise of more than 200 AI experts, Schneider Electric is making new breakthroughs in using machine learning and big data analysis to strengthen customized solutions in the industrial field, applying for 18 artificial intelligence technology patents in 2022, developing a number of applications based on artificial intelligence technology, and using artificial intelligence technology. To enhance the enterprise’s many software and solutions to help customers make agile decisions in areas such as electrification, automation and decarbonization.

Under the dual transformation of digital and low-carbon development of industrial enterprises, higher requirements are put forward for services. The transformation and upgrading of industrial enterprises not only need technology and solutions, but also need to clarify the transformation concept from the top-level planning and strategic level, clear the transformation direction, overall planning and layout, and create a sustainable future industry. Integrating its own expertise in energy management and automation technology, taking into account energy and process efficiency, Schneider Electric provides top-level planning consulting covering the two fields of “digital transformation” and “sustainable development” through green intelligent manufacturing solutions covering the whole life cycle, and “companion” services led by strategic consulting. It fully meets the needs of digital transformation and zero-carbon sustainable development of industrial enterprises.

Win-win cooperation and building an open ecology of collaborative innovation

In the context of digitalization and low-carbon transformation, no enterprise can stand alone, only the upstream and downstream of the industry chain can work together to build a complete and efficient closed-loop ecology. Schneider Electric has always been committed to creating a new industrial ecology of win-win cooperation and symbiosis, and continues to strengthen collaboration and innovation with partners such as research institutions, start-ups, system integrators, equipment manufacturers and end users, so as to continuously inject momentum into the future industry.

During the 2023 Hanover Industry Fair, Schneider Electric signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hangzhou Samorius Technology Co., LTD., focusing on the green intelligent manufacturing of high-end vacuum equipment, and carrying out comprehensive cooperation in lean production, supply chain collaboration and sustainable development to promote the green development of high-end equipment manufacturing industry.

In the “double transformation” of digitalization and low-carbon, the integration of technological innovation and application scenarios to enable efficient and green operation and production is the only choice for enterprises to lead to the future industry. Moving forward, Schneider Electric will continue to actively practice the concept of green intelligent manufacturing, and continue to improve the innovation and open platform and collaboration to create ecology, helping more industrial enterprises to move towards a more sustainable industrial future.