Recently, at the site of the 23rd China International Industry Fair in 2023, Schneider Electric, a digital transformation expert in the field of global energy management and automation, officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Suzhou Koning Polyol Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “Koning Company”), and jointly committed to building a leading domestic polyol production fully automated information demonstration production line. Mr. Pang Xingjian, Senior Vice President of Schneider Electric and head of Industrial Automation China, and Dr. Sha Feng, Vice president of Suzhou Koning Polyol Co., Ltd. attended and signed the agreement.

Suzhou Koning Polyol Co., LTD., founded in 2018, is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research, development, production and application of bio-based intermediates, bio-based materials and bio-based polymers based on synthetic biology and materials science. Koning has pioneered the expansion of the traditional food sugar alcohol industry into the field of industrial application, is a key industrial introduction project in Suzhou, and was selected as a national high-tech enterprise in 2022. Its business covers bio-based polyols, biomaterials, biomedicine, biological products, modern agriculture, biochemistry, electronic new materials and other fields, and can provide comprehensive products and technical solutions from demand assessment, technology development, product customization, application process development, intellectual property sharing and so on. Its main products biobased functional polysugar alcohols with full biobased, “negative carbon” emissions, “food grade” safety and other attributes, has entered the global industry chain of many Fortune 500 customers, leading the development of the domestic industry.

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According to the agreement, Schneider Electric will provide ProLeiT Batch iT Batch control system, ProLeiT Batch iT MWS Material weighing system, ProLeiT Material iT Material management system and AVEVA PI System big data management platform and a series of targeted solutions. Among them, ProLeiT Batch iT batch control system can realize the separation of process parameters and equipment control, to meet the diversified production needs of customers while achieving process confidentiality. The combination of ProLeiT Batch iT and Material iT can realize the whole process control from material weighing, feed review, process production, product packaging to finished product transfer, helping to build a fully automated production line in line with GMP standards. While improving process stability, the automated production line can simultaneously reduce manpower demand and labor intensity, achieve one-person multi-post production, and is expected to increase personnel production efficiency by 30%. Thanks to Proleit Batch iT good system expansion, it can achieve seamless docking with the upper and lower systems, avoid duplicate system construction, transparent enterprise management levels, and reduce the construction cost of production and operation management system by about 40%.

Dr. Sha Feng of Suzhou Koning Polyol Co., LTD., said: “From the first domestic core technology platform integrating research and development, production and application of polyol, to the industry benchmark smart factory, Koning polyol has been adhering to the development concept of quality, safety, green and low-carbon. We hope that through cooperation with Schneider Electric, with its advanced solutions and rich experience in digital low-carbon transformation, we can jointly build a fully automated and information-based demonstration production line for polyol production, comprehensively enhance Koning’s green intelligent manufacturing capabilities, and lead the development of the polyol industry and even the life science industry.”

Xingjian Pang, Senior Vice President, Industrial Automation, China, Schneider Electric, said: “While the life sciences industry is booming, it also faces challenges in quality, compliance, safety, stability and efficiency. As a global expert in digital transformation in energy management and automation, Schneider Electric has provided life-cycle solutions from top-level planning to implementation for many companies in the life sciences industry. This partnership with Koning is another important breakthrough for Schneider Electric in the field of life sciences. Schneider Electric will help customers in the life sciences industry maintain their core competitiveness and move towards a more open, efficient and resilient, sustainable and people-centered future through professional industry ecological tools, multi-faceted consulting close to customers, complete top-down solutions, and full life cycle services.”