Hanover, Germany, April 18, 2023 – Achieving fully sustainable industrial operations has become one of the key measures to promote the sustainable development of our planet. To promote the integration of digitalization and low-carbon, build an open and collaborative ecological platform, and focus on industrial transformation and upgrading, global energy management and automation field digital transformation expert Schneider Electric with 2000 square meters of large exhibition area to show in 2023 Hannover Messe, With four themes of “Software and digitalization”, “Zero Carbon and sustainability”, “Energy efficiency improvement” and “full life cycle service”, the exhibition comprehensively showcases many innovative achievements in the field of digitalization and sustainability, helping enterprises to move towards a more efficient and high-quality green and sustainable industrial future.

In the increasingly fierce climate challenge, no industry or enterprise can stay out of it. Hannover Messe 2023, with the theme of “How to cope with the challenges of The Times”, is showing that the industrial field needs to seek new ideas and actively cope with them, and the rapid iteration of digital technology, sharing and collaboration efficiency and level of continuous improvement. It creates more possibilities for the practice of sustainable development in industry.

“With the innovative development of cloud computing, big data, AI and other new generation of information technology, the digital level of the world has reached a new height, which also indicates that the integration of digital and real ways to promote the transformation and upgrading of industrial fields, will effectively strengthen the enabling role of digital technology in application scenarios, so as to more quickly move towards the future industry with better operation efficiency and energy use level.” Pang Xingjian, Senior Vice President and Head of Industrial Automation Business in China, said, “Going forward, we will continue to strengthen our digital capabilities including key elements such as software, and our rich experience in industry expertise and sustainability. We will continue to improve open, software-centric automation with advanced technologies such as AI, and deepen green intelligent manufacturing solutions. To enable more partners to make new leaps across all aspects of business operations and innovation to jointly create a more sustainable and resilient industry of the future.”

Products, software, technology and services, multi-dimensional innovation to empower the industrial future

To achieve sustainable industrial development means higher operational efficiency, intelligent energy consumption management and nearly zero waste of resources, while automation system, industrial software and energy management are all indispensable. Relying on the open EcoStruxureTM architecture and platform, powerful innovative hardware and software product portfolio, AVEVA industrial software application and solutions, as well as “one-stop” services from energy management strategy consulting to solution implementation, can help industrial enterprises to build industrial digital twin and realize efficient operation of the whole life cycle. Meet future challenges calmly and achieve sustainable development.

In this exhibition, Schneider Electric launched EcoStruxure Open automation platform V23.0, which takes software as the center. It strengthens the use of software and hardware decoupling to create a “plug and play” mode, solves the problems of portability, configurability and interoperability of application software, and improves the engineering design and operation efficiency. It will be further expanded into a unified control software platform integrating discrete, mixed and process industry operations, so as to enable more industry customers to improve efficiency:

● Strengthen the integration with AVEVA system platform, can reuse existing application graphics, speed up the system design

● Add graphical interface editor for program automation logic design, improve operation efficiency

● Open automated man-machine interface (HMI) and archiving functions, compatible with multiple operating systems, support flexible deployment across systems

Internet of Things connectivity, data platforms and software are the fundamental elements that make up the industrial metauniverse. As the core of Schneider Electric Industrial digital twinning, AVEVA Industrial software highly integrates digital technologies such as simulation, visualization, digital twinning and cloud computing to provide industrial enterprises with full life cycle solutions covering engineering design and construction, project execution and operation, asset management and value chain optimization. Schneider Electric and AVEVA are building an integrated data platform through a unified system of shared services and connectivity to create a unified data repository for production operations, processes, asset management, energy management and carbon emissions in an open and universal manner and standards.

By taking advantage of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, we can dig deep into the value of big data, realize highly intelligent industrial automation from the dimensions of quality and output prediction, predictive maintenance and man-machine collaboration, and improve the efficiency of production and operation. This is the meaning of “Industry 4.0” and also the key technical support of Schneider Electric’s future industrial strategy map. By combining the experience and expertise of more than 200 AI experts, Schneider Electric is making new breakthroughs in enhancing customized solutions in the industrial sector using machine learning and big data analysis. In 2022, Schneider Electric has applied for 18 AI technology patents, developed a number of applications based on AI technology, and utilized AI technology. To enhance enterprise software and solutions to help customers make agile decisions in areas such as electrification, automation and decarbonization.

Under the dual transformation of digital and low-carbon development, industrial enterprises have higher requirements for services. The transformation and upgrading of industrial enterprises not only need technology and solutions, but also need to clarify the concept of transformation from the top-level planning and strategic level, clarify the direction of transformation, make overall planning and layout, and create a sustainable future industry. By integrating its own expertise in energy management and automation, and taking into account energy and process efficiency, Schneider Electric provides top-level planning consulting covering the two fields of “digital transformation” and “sustainable development” through green intelligent manufacturing solutions covering the whole life cycle, and “companion” services guided by strategic consulting. It can meet the demand of digital transformation and zero-carbon sustainable development of industrial enterprises.