On September 23, Schneider Electric Manufacturing (Wuhan) Co., LTD. (referred to as: Wuhan Factory) and Wuhan Logistics Center held the 10th anniversary celebration. Guests from East Lake High-tech Zone and Schneider Electric China management attended the ceremony to witness the opening of a new chapter in green intelligent manufacturing and logistics in Wuhan factory and logistics center.

Schneider Electric Manufacturing (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. and Wuhan Logistics Center 10th anniversary celebration

On the same day, the Wuhan Logistics Center was awarded the “Smart Logistics Center” certification by Schneider Electric China. The Wuhan Logistics Center is Schneider Electric’s strategic logistics center in the Midwest. The logistics center has been committed to accelerating the transformation process of digitalization and automation in the past two years, and now provides customers with more than 20 customized and convenient logistics services. At the same time, through intelligent AGV, transportation control tower, intelligent control lighting, intelligent matching transport box type, etc., the efficiency of one-stop real-time presentation, storage and transfer of orders is greatly improved, and 100% green sustainable packaging is used in paper packaging, setting a model for the intelligent and low-carbon development of logistics centers.

As a global model of Schneider Electric’s intelligent manufacturing and green energy-saving production base, the Wuhan plant has always adhered to “efficient” and “sustainable” during its 10-year brilliant history, and has taken it as a key driving force for the plant’s vigorous development.

Guests from East Lake High-tech Zone and Schneider Electric China management attended the ceremony

In terms of efficient lean, since 2014, the Wuhan factory has been deeply cultivating lean production and constantly exploring improvement space. In 2018, relying on Schneider Electric EcoStruxure architecture and platform, the Wuhan plant has integrated the concept of green intelligent manufacturing into all aspects of factory operation, and continuously improved the level of automation and digitalization. For example, through the deployment of cloud-edge collaborative AI industrial vision inspection platform, product quality inspection is greatly improved, and the missed detection rate is 0 and the over-detection rate is less than 0.5%.

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Building on the realization of smart manufacturing, the Wuhan plant set out to strengthen sustainable development and integrate it into the core of the business. Through digital technology, the Wuhan plant has achieved a 10% reduction in energy consumption, the facility can save up to 30% of the basic energy consumption, and the plant’s green energy use accounts for 10% of the year.

At the same time, the factory also carried out a series of green measures to practice sustainability. For example, its photovoltaic system has been in operation since February 2018, and as of November that year, it has achieved a total power generation of 560,000 KWH and a carbon reduction of 564 tons. With 400 cubic meters of rainwater storage facilities, the Wuhan plant is able to use natural rainwater for green irrigation and ground flushing within the plant, achieving a win-win situation of cost reduction and resource conservation.

Relying on green intelligent manufacturing, the Wuhan factory continuously launches green innovative products to meet the needs of the Chinese and even the global market. For example, its key results, TeSys Deca series of motor control and protection products, achieve green innovation on the basis of high quality and performance. Based on the whole life cycle management, TeSys family products are injected with green genes at the beginning of design, and the impact of raw material selection, production, sales, use, recycling, treatment and other links on resources and the environment is systematically considered, so as to achieve the minimum consumption of energy resources, the minimum impact on the ecological environment, and the maximum regeneration rate. The TeSys family of products has obtained third-party carbon footprint certification, and the transparency of its carbon footprint can better help customers achieve carbon neutrality goals.

Because of this, the Wuhan plant has become a benchmark of green intelligent manufacturing with many honors: it has been awarded the “Lighthouse Factory” in the development of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the national “Green Factory” by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and has become one of Schneider Electric’s 15 “zero carbon factories” in China. In 2022, the Wuhan plant completed the certification of “carbon neutral plant”.

Zhang Kaipeng, senior vice president of Schneider Electric and head of Global Supply Chain China, said: “After ten years of hard work, today’s Wuhan campus has become a global model of green intelligent manufacturing for Schneider Electric. In the future, Schneider Electric will further strengthen its digitalization and sustainable development strength with the help of green benchmarks, including the Wuhan campus, and empower more manufacturing enterprises to jointly realize the dual transformation of efficiency and sustainability.”