Dr. Barbara Frei, global Executive Vice President and head of Industrial automation business of Schneider Electric, visited Zhejiang University and delivered a speech with the theme of “Firmly forming the basis of industrial innovation and Talents, and Going to the Future of digital Industry”, and discussed the development trend of future industry under the wave of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G with teachers and students of Zhejiang University. It also shared the practical path and exploration results of Schneider Electric in actively responding to the current global climate change and energy issues, achieving efficiency and carbon reduction, and sustainable development.

Barbara Frei, Global Executive Vice President and head of Industrial Automation Business of Schneider Electric, visited Zhejiang University

At present, the rapid development of big data, cloud computing and other technologies is subverting the entire industry, the global industry is accelerating the digital transformation, and actively exploring new opportunities for their own development, at the same time, under the influence of climate change, energy issues and high-quality development needs, the global industry is ushering in a wave of sustainable development. As a digital transformation expert in the field of global energy management and automation, Schneider Electric is driving the digital and low-carbon transformation of the manufacturing industry through continuous exploration of digital technology innovation and application, open automation, industrial software, and constantly integrating new technologies such as AI and 5G communication technology. Promote the entire industrial sector towards an open, efficient and resilient, sustainable, people-oriented industry of the future.

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Towards the future industry, it needs to be supported by strong talents. Barbara mentioned in her speech that training diversified and innovative digital talents is the inevitable path to promote industrial upgrading and the future industry. Schneider Electric has always been leading the digital transformation and committed to the training of digital talents, advocating the deepening of the integration of production and education, and strengthening the cooperation between production, university and research through practice, giving full play to the advantages of schools and enterprises, and enabling industrial transformation and upgrading. Up to now, Schneider Electric has formed a deep history of industry-university-research cooperation with dozens of domestic colleges and universities, through strengthening school-enterprise interaction, seamless connection between theory and practice, the establishment of long-term innovation mechanism, through course teaching, product training, technical exchanges and joint construction of research centers and other measures, to carry out industry-university-research cooperation, training for the development of new industrialization of high-quality talents.

With the in-depth development of digital transformation, accelerating the promotion of digitalization has become the inevitable development of enterprises, and the importance of training digital talents has become more prominent. Enterprises actively participate in the construction of digital talents, not only help to improve their own digital capabilities, but also promote the complementary and integrated development of the advantages of production, university and research and even the entire industrial ecology. In the future, Schneider Electric will carry out further cooperation with Zhejiang University to train more digital talents for industrial automation and industrial software. Barbara said that Schneider Electric hopes to take the opportunity of this visit to Zhejiang University to continue to increase cooperation and innovation with domestic institutions of higher learning, work together to promote industrial digital innovation and digital transformation talent training, and build a solid foundation for innovation and talent for future industrial development.