At the Schneider Electric 2023 Innovation Summit held in Wuzhen on June 8, with the theme of “Innovation and Ecology, Accelerating dual transformation”, Schneider Electric demonstrated a series of digital innovation results and comprehensive industry-oriented and scenario-based solutions for future industries, empowering China’s industrial transformation and upgrading with digitalization. Help industrial enterprises achieve high-quality development with better operational efficiency and energy efficiency.

In the industrial sector, both digital and green low-carbon transformation are accelerating. Xingjian Pang, Senior Vice President and Head of Industrial Automation China at Schneider Electric, said, “The next step in industrial transformation is to make full use of digital tools, integrate the three major factors of energy, automation and software, and run through the entire life cycle of enterprises from design, construction to operation and maintenance, from individual plants to the entire industrial chain. Join hands with ecological partners for an open, efficient and resilient, sustainable and people-centered industry of the future.”

Digital enablement software and hardware new upgrades

Schneider Electric has long been committed to improving the level of automation in the industry, and the EcoStruxureTM open automation platform, as a disruptive technological innovation, is an important driving force to promote the sustainable development of the industry. Following the first demonstration at Hannover MESSE 2023, the EcoStruxure Open Automation platform V23.0 was officially launched for the Chinese market at this Innovation Summit. The new EcoStruxure open automation platform has been expanded into a unified control software platform integrating discrete, mixed and process industrial operations, which will further promote industrial IT/OT integration and provide unprecedented end-to-end efficiency and information security for the entire life cycle of enterprises from design, engineering development to operation and maintenance. Enable more industry customers to upgrade and improve efficiency.

The EcoStruxure Open Automation Platform V23.0 has the following highlights:

Improve engineering design efficiency and accelerate the design process by enhancing integration with the AVEVA system platform, allowing graphics in existing applications to be reused.
Reduce plant downtime and improve availability: Landmark high availability controls for industries and application scenarios that require high availability, such as desalination applications, keep the entire process running even in the event of a single point of failure.
Compatible with Windows and Linux operating systems: Objects such as user-developed HMI and archiving capabilities can be freely deployed on multiple compatible operating systems.
Simplify and reduce engineering configuration by 35% : Upgraded Human machine interface (HMI) and batch engineering capabilities, and new object-oriented application libraries include ready-to-use logic and monitoring templates to simplify task creation, automate system management, and increase operational efficiency.

The release of EcoStruxure open automation platform V23.0 further breaks the barrier that control procedures in traditional applications work based on proprietary hardware and cannot run seamlessly in different industrial fields, and helps different industrial fields achieve digital continuity of the whole process from design to operation and maintenance through a unified platform and unified source of asset data.

In addition, Schneider Electric’s AVEVA industrial software family has been comprehensively upgraded: the AVEVA APS process simulation platform integrates steady state/dynamic process simulation, reshaping process design, saving up to 66% of project cycle workload, and now covers the entire process of hydrogen energy. The AVEVA system platform 2023 can flexibly support Web/ mobile clients, achieve higher efficiency and personnel collaboration through the overall operation control, and support rich built-in extension components with powerful data connections to further improve computing efficiency and performance. The lightweight MES suite based on PI System breaks the data island between different systems and greatly improves the process production efficiency; The integrated intelligent suite for the water industry aggregates information about production and operations systems to increase the efficiency of water production process monitoring by 75% through centralized monitoring.

In addition to its powerful automation solutions, Schneider Electric also presented a flexible manufacturing and life-cycle efficiency improvement solution at the summit consisting of the Lexium 18 servo drive, EcoStruxure Machine Expert digital twin software and the Lexium MC12 flexible conveying system.

Multi-industry coverage, the whole process to improve quality and efficiency

Under the requirements of high-quality development and green development, major industries should not only accelerate transformation and upgrading, but also promote sustainability. How to turn challenges into opportunities has become the focus of many enterprises. As a global expert in digital transformation in energy management and automation, Schneider Electric continues to strengthen its digital capabilities in key elements, including software, as well as its extensive experience in industry expertise and sustainability, to help industries achieve dual transformation.