Zhu Naxin, a veteran employee who joined the company in 1988, has witnessed the historic breakthroughs of Foxboro China. In December 1991, Shanghai Foxboro Co., Ltd. became the first enterprise in China to obtain the ISO 9001 international quality certificate, which made the benchmarking contribution to shorten the gap between China’s instrument industry and even industrial field and the international advanced level. “After obtaining this certification, enterprises all over the country have come to our side to learn from, many of the older generation of experts eventually became experts in the quality system, to share our experience, to help more enterprises to obtain international quality system certification, many companies here slowly out of China, the product sold around the world.” Junaxin recalled.

As a global technical expert focusing on industrial control systems, Foxboro has always been in line with local customer needs and technology trends in China, completing a gorgeous upgrade from hardware to software, from analog to digital, from closed to open, from automation to digitalization.

After 40 years of work, Foxboro’s business in China has long been in China’s chemical, refining, petrochemical, power generation, steel, cement, glass, pharmaceutical, food and offshore oil platforms and other major process industries. As a technical trainer, field service, sales engineer and sales manager, Junaxin has worked for almost every well-known company in the industry over the past 35 years. He mentioned that in particular, the first batch of power plants and the first batch of refining plants in China, the application of atmospheric pressure, catalytic, hydrogenation, delayed coking and other major refining units, are from the earliest analog DCS system application, and with the Foxboro platform innovation and upgrading. With the iteration of new technologies and the upgrading of old infrastructure, Foxboro also works with companies to co-innovate, such as in Juhua Thermal Power Plant, where it co-develops unattended solutions for the thermal industry with customers to improve the operational stability and efficiency of thermal power plants. In addition, large local companies such as Hainan Refining and Chemical and Dongming Petrochemical have deepened cooperation with Foxboro China, strengthened cooperation in the field of

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software, mined the value of data, and kept up with the needs of the era of digital transformation.

Digital age, open a new chapter

After being incorporated into Schneider Electric in 2014, Foxboro China has integrated Schneider Electric’s integrated energy management and process automation solutions, and further coordinated with industrial software, adding green and digital wings, whether it is the change of technology or localized business progress, ushering in a new chapter. The new EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS process automation system extends the Foxboro I/A Series control system known for its reliability and future-proof industrial architecture, incorporating Triconex safety technology with more than 30 years of experience in functional safety and critical control applications. To provide enterprise customers with an engineering environment based on component objects and one-stop platform services. At the program level, the system almost covers the complete system from the field instrument, to the control system, to the safety system, to the upper optimization, and finally to the digital factory design and operation and maintenance. At the application level, it can control and protect many large and complex process facilities, and completely adapt to different process industries and different device application scenarios.

At present, in order to continue to pursue the ultimate goal of “stable and excellent” operation of large-scale integrated process equipment, process industrial enterprises such as refining and chemical industry need to change in a series of links such as automation engineering design and delivery, instrumentation, control, operation, maintenance, equipment management, and public engineering. Based on the open EcoStruxure architecture and platform, Schneider Electric provides comprehensive process automation and digital solutions for typical process industry users, including the Foxboro DCS process automation system. And full lifecycle software solutions, including Foxboro process instrumentation, Triconex safety instrumentation solutions, and AVEVA Industrial software, throughout the entire life cycle of design, construction, operation, and maintenance.