As the global pharmaceutical market enters a new development cycle, the life science industry is booming at the same time, facing challenges and uncertainties such as high R&D and production costs, complex supply chains, and increasingly stringent policies and regulations. China’s “14th Five-Year Plan” pharmaceutical industry Development Plan proposes to promote industrial digital transformation, promote the deep integration of information technology and production and operation, and promote the green and low-carbon development of the whole industrial chain. In this context, embracing digital transformation and sustainable development has become an unavoidable “must-choose” for enterprises in the life science industry.

IC200ALG262J Looking around the world, the “lighthouse factory” selected by the World Economic Forum in Davos in cooperation with McKinsey represents the advanced level of digitalization in relevant industries, and can become a model for China’s life science industry to learn from and learn from in the transformation process. According to McKinsey’s statistics, the world’s leading life science industry “beacon enterprises” have achieved significant improvements in output, cost, quality, efficiency, energy consumption and other aspects, such as bottleneck equipment capacity increase of up to 40%, key product production cycle reduction of up to 40%, logistics costs reduction of up to 20%, the results can not be underestimated.

However, as of December 2023, China has dozens of “lighthouse factories” in the electronics, automotive and other industries, and only one in the life sciences field. So, how should China’s life science enterprises catch up and provide a chapter to follow for the transformation and development of the whole industry?

Accumulated, self-practice enables the construction of “lighthouse factory”

In the face of this question, Schneider Electric, an expert in digital transformation in the field of global energy management and industrial automation, handed over an answer paper – taking intelligent manufacturing as the direction, taking the overall planning as the premise, and taking the talent team as the guarantee, continues to integrate the three aspects of industry, management and technology, and provides a comprehensive solution from planning to implementation for the construction of “lighthouse factory” in the life science industry.

IC200ALG262J As a manufacturing company, Schneider Electric has its own factories and rich practices serving many users in the life science industry. It can fully understand the actual pain points in the supply chain management and factory production process of life science and other manufacturing enterprises, and can provide practical help for the successful transformation of enterprises based on its own practices. Currently, Schneider Electric has five “lighthouse factories”, two “developing lighthouse factories” and 93 “zero carbon factories” worldwide, and in China it has 19 “zero carbon factories”, 15 “green factories” and 12 “carbon neutral” factories recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as well as 18 smart factories and smart logistics centers. Schneider Electric has topped Gartner’s Global Supply Chain Top 25 list for the second year in a row.