Taking Schneider Electric’s Wuxi plant as an example, the plant has achieved end-to-end digital transformation and upgrading of the full value chain with five Industry 4.0 (4IR) advanced use cases, and won the World Economic Forum’s end-to-end “Lighthouse Factory” honorary title in 2021. Specifically, in the procurement and production arrangements, 51401635-150 Wuxi factory uses the “supply chain independent decision support system” to improve the on-time delivery rate of the factory by 30% and the accuracy of customer order prediction by 17%; In the quality inspection process, Wuxi factory has reduced the on-site failure rate by 22% by deploying the “end-to-end electronic component quality risk detection and control cloud platform”; In the delivery process, the Wuxi factory’s “intelligent flexible storage solution” combines the high-density storage of automatic three-dimensional warehouses with attic shelves, as well as the narrow tunnel forklift, saving up to 52% of storage space; In the production link, the “5G flexible production line” in Wuxi factory designs mobile universal production line modules based on the “LEGO” concept to improve manufacturing flexibility, asset utilization, and reduce time to market; At the same time, the Wuxi plant adopted the “digital twin solution for green facilities”, and selected the best compressed air system configuration through the model, which saved 32% of energy consumption for HVAC alone.

From planning to landing, the whole process of escorting China’s life science industry “lighthouse factory” landing

51401635-150 The BioPhorum Digital Plant Maturity Model describes life sciences companies’ factories as five maturity levels, from simple paper-based factories to fully automated and integrated “adaptive factories” of the future. This means that the construction of “lighthouse factory” cannot be generalized, but should be “based on factory measures”. Schneider Electric believes that the construction goals, basic status, natural endowments and future development directions of each factory are different, and can not blindly pursue the unification and high-end construction, but to formulate different top-level design and construction plans for the specific situation and needs of different enterprises. As an “enabler”, Schneider Electric takes consulting as the guide to help customers in the life science industry to provide comprehensive and complete solutions from the strategic level, operational level and technical level to escort the landing of the “lighthouse factory” in the life science industry.