With the continuous advancement of the “digital China” strategy, the digital economy has become an important driving force to promote China’s economic development and build new competitive advantages of the country. In this context, as a leading industry of the national economy, the digital transformation of industry has great potential for development. Among them, the industrial Internet, as a strategic infrastructure for new industrialization, is a key base for the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, promoting the digital transformation of various industries, achieving high-quality development, and ushering in unprecedented development opportunities under the comprehensive drive of policies, technological innovation, industrial upgrading and other factors.

In the process of exploring the industrial Internet, the integration of industrial enterprise information technology (IT) system and operational technology (OT) system has become the core of the industry’s current concern and the trend of industrial development. Enterprises hope to use the integration of the two to break the “information island” and “data island” between their own execution system and operation management system. In reality, however, enterprises are often faced with complex IT and OT infrastructures that span multiple vendors. How to truly integrate the two on a unified information platform, realize the interconnection of IT and OT system data of the whole environment, and help enterprises improve the comprehensive benefits of the whole process from production management, operational decision-making to manufacturing execution is the focus of enterprises. In addition, in the process of OT and IT integration, how to effectively defend against network attacks and ensure core data security is also a new challenge for industrial enterprises to deal with.

In response to the problems and challenges faced by enterprises, Schneider Electric, with the deep experience accumulated in the industry, launched the EcoStruxureTM IoT Industrial Internet platform solution (XIoT) that integrates core technology, industry knowledge and ecosystem value. As an open and flexible industrial Internet platform, XIoT Industrial Internet platform can flexibly adapt to a variety of business scenarios, providing rich data services for industrial enterprises, while ensuring end-to-end data security, promoting the true integration of IT and OT, and helping Chinese industrial enterprises to achieve digital transformation.

Enable intelligent manufacturing and create a flexible and open industrial Internet platform

As a long-term practitioner and promoter of the industrial Internet and digital transformation, Schneider Electric believes that the industrial Internet is the basic path and methodology in the digital transformation of enterprises, and its development needs to rely on digital capabilities, combined with expert knowledge, the application of advanced technology, to achieve the integration and innovation of “technology + scenario”, and promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industrial enterprises. Promote the value of technology integration and innovation.

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XIoT Industrial Internet platform is based on the underlying intelligent devices, fully covers the edge, platform and application level functions, and can be “seamlessly integrated” with the existing information system of enterprises. By providing excellent data collection, storage and intelligent analysis services, as well as mature, eco-friendly and open and flexible application software, XIOT industrial Internet platform can be integrated with the existing information system. To achieve the goal of efficient equipment, control iot, perceptual interconnection and collaborative intelligence, so as to fully escort the green digital transformation of industrial enterprises:

Integration Management: In response to the problems such as system closure and data fragmentation caused by IT/OT across manufacturers, XIoT Industrial Internet platform provides standardized device access and database connection based on standard industrial communication protocols, which can seamlessly connect Schneider Electric’s own hardware and systems, and efficiently collect physical data in edge systems or devices. And through the integration of enterprise master data, MES process control system, ERP and other information systems, open up the upstream and downstream information flow, to achieve data convergence. At the same time, it can be freely expanded and combined with other key applications to form a four-layer solution covering the workshop edge layer, smart factory, enterprise operations and supply chain and decision-making, and fully meet the diverse needs of different business scenarios.
Data wisdom insight: In view of the challenges brought by the storage, calculation and analysis of huge and complex industrial data, XIoT Industrial Internet platform provides a variety of data analysis capabilities such as reading and writing of 300,000 data seconds, minute computing capabilities of millions of data points, time series analysis, stream analysis and other data analysis capabilities, built-in a variety of batch computing and data diagnosis models. It can not only achieve high-speed storage and calculation of massive data under the premise of greatly saving storage costs, but also help enterprises greatly improve the efficiency of asset management and operation innovation.
Application expansion: The richness and scalability of industrial Internet platform applications are also the focus of enterprise attention. XIoT Industrial Internet platform has a rich industry basic application component library, supporting the construction of new industry software component libraries based on industrial technology principles, industry knowledge, basic processes, and best practices. Companies can combine a variety of energy and asset management applications with the basic services provided by XIoT Industrial Internet platform to flexibly build digital applications and achieve operational cost reduction and efficiency.
Deployment security: While the industrial Internet brings the advantages of the digital age such as efficiency and intelligence, it also hides the security risks such as data leakage that enterprises worry about. XIoT Industrial Internet platform also supports public cloud, private cloud and local deployment, providing a full range of audit, monitoring and logging, while supporting data backup and recovery, for end-to-end data security escort.

With the promotion of the “dual carbon” strategy, achieving green and sustainable development has become an industry consensus. Schneider Electric XIoT Industrial Internet platform integrates energy efficiency management and digital operation and maintenance platform EMS+, power quality monitoring, intelligent operation and maintenance system of public power equipment, energy management and carbon reduction consulting and engineering services and other energy solution management solutions, which can be based on comprehensive, real and high-frequency energy consumption data, comprehensive consideration of multi-dimensional factors, relying on innovative technological transformation means. Help industrial enterprises to quantify and manage energy consumption. Among them, the newly upgraded Schneider Electric energy efficiency management and digital operation and maintenance platform EMS+ builds an efficient digital platform by opening up the energy data within the enterprise, mining the data value with professional consulting services and insight into the actual energy consumption demand, which can help the enterprise’s carbon efficiency data tracking and accounting.