AEE2023 Chengdu International Automotive Intelligent Factory and Robot System Integration Conference was successfully held in Chengdu on May 23-24. Zhu Li, senior architect of the automotive industry of Schneider Electric Industrial automation business, was invited to attend the meeting to discuss the development trend of the automotive industry with industry experts. Taking EcoStruxureTM IoT industrial Internet platform as a highlight, he shared Schneider Electric’s green intelligent manufacturing solutions for the automotive industry, as well as rich industry application and practical experience.

At present, a new round of technological revolution represented by artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and big data is changing the automobile industry at an unprecedented speed and in an unprecedented way. Zhu Li said, “Facing the new opportunities of industrial transformation, the automotive industry urgently needs to change from ‘manufacturing’ to ‘intelligent manufacturing’ and improve the ability of sustainable development. As an expert in digital transformation in the field of global energy management and automation, Schneider Electric has launched EcoStruxure factory solutions for the automotive industry in response to industry challenges and needs. Through EcoStruxure IoT industrial Internet platform, it connects the upstream and downstream information flow and relies on the underlying intelligent equipment. Covering data, production control, production operation and management of four layers of application and solutions, to provide decision support for enterprises, accelerate the industry digital, intelligent transformation and upgrading.”

Schneider Electric Industrial automation business automotive industry senior architect Zhu Li delivered a speech

EcoStruxure factory total solution: provide intelligent manufacturing path

Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Factory solutions are based on leading information, automation, IT infrastructure, power distribution, building control integrated solutions of the Internet of things, to help automotive companies build smart factories and green factories. Among them, Schneider Electric’s powerful MES manufacturing execution system uses stable and reliable industrial SCADA as the development base platform, focusing on standard process, through real-time monitoring of production line data, resource integration, information sharing and rapid deployment of production line, and finally realizes end-to-end traceability of the whole process from supplier to customer. By decoupling software and hardware, Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Open automation platform effectively solves the problems of portability, configuration and interoperability of application software between automation vendors, and promotes efficiency in engineering design and operations.

Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IoT industrial Internet platform, is the automotive industry green intelligent manufacturing “cutting-edge tool”. Intelligent transformation is an industrial revolution driven by data. For the automobile industry, the production equipment needs to be interconnected, and data collection, storage and high application can achieve the goal of digital transformation. EcoStruxure IoT Industrial Internet platform, as an open, flexible and scalable industrial Internet platform, can integrate multi-system/multi-site isolated data sources and realize high-speed storage and calculation of massive data. Through built-in analysis tools, EcoStruxure iot Industrial Internet platform can improve the insight of heterogeneous asset groups, quickly and flexibly build digital applications and realize low-cost operations. It supports cloud deployment, private cloud deployment and local stand-alone deployment, seamlessly connecting Schneider Electric hardware and systems, as well as digital applications in energy and asset management, helping customers realize digital intelligent transformation. Through this platform, intelligent factories of automobile enterprises can vertically integrate automation and informatization, horizontally realize end-to-end integration of value chain, and at the same time realize the construction of value network of upstream and downstream of industrial chain.

Help automobile enterprises to accelerate the implementation of intelligent network connectivity

At present, Schneider Electric has promoted many enterprises in the automotive industry to accelerate the process of digitalization and intelligence with its integrated solutions of hardware and software for the automotive industry. Based on EcoStruxure factory solution for automobile industry, Schneider Electric provided Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle with intelligent manufacturing platform and 5G solution based on AVEVA system platform and EcoStruxure factory consultant to help Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle build a digital information system covering the whole production process. The equipment utilization rate is increased by about 10%, the personnel efficiency is increased by 15%, and the equipment life is extended by about 25%.

In addition, Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IoT industrial Internet platform has also helped a leading heavy vehicle enterprise solve the problem of information island and business cannot cooperate, get through the equipment, data and system at the group level, achieve rapid decision-making in the production process, production process transparency and production data paperless, thus greatly reducing the equipment failure rate. Production line visualization and digital twinning technology are used to realize the visualization of production conditions and ensure the smooth production of vehicles.

With the deep integration of digital technology and manufacturing industry, how to promote the high-end and intelligent transformation of the industry is an important question in front of automobile manufacturing enterprises. Schneider Electric will help automobile manufacturers to realize the “smart factory” in a real sense through continuous innovation of products, technologies and solutions, and contribute to the intelligent transformation of the automobile industry.