Meet the Industries of the Future
The Industries of the Future are calling. Let's make manufacturing eco-efficient, agile and resilient through open automation. Whatever you make, we'll help you make it for life.
Customer success: Mulino Marino
To keep up with growing demand while ensuring the highest product quality, organic flour miller Mulino Marino innovated its artisanal methods by digitising and automating its processes with EcoStruxure for Food and Beverage.
Where will next-generation automation take you?
The Industries of the Future call for unprecedented sustainability and resilience – and open, software-centric industrial automation is the answer. Smarter manufacturing starts here.
Open up the next level of industrial automation
Kunming CGE Water Supply upgraded its water distribution platform with an EcoStruxure for water solution, enabling it to reduce energy and operating costs and deliver high-quality drinking water to nearly four million people safely, efficiently, and reliably.
Using EcoStruxure Machine solutions, Oxford Energy Solutions is changing the way refrigeration systems are built and maintained to make them more sustainable and energy efficient.
Using EcoStruxure Machine, Livetech builds next-generation, responsible robotic packaging systems for the food industry.
Universal automation starts here
A new era of industrial innovation is here. The Industries of the Future are all about people creating the products that shape our lives. Think universal automation — the world of plug-and-produce automation software components proven to solve specific challenges — and think what we can create together.
Own your environmental impact
Today's consumers want to feel good about the products they rely on. We can help you implement greener practices and lower your carbon footprint, starting now.
Software-centric automation drives the Industries of the Future
Humans power industries of all kinds, bringing irreplaceable skills like judgement, reasoning and imagination to the table. With intuitive, agnostic, and end-to-end software on their side, there’s no limit to what industrial workers can achieve.
Awards and recognitions
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Supply chains have faced new levels of disruption, and businesses have had to work hard to bolster supply chain resilience and agility to meet customer demands, while simultaneously striving to deliver on their sustainability goals. In 2022, Schneider Electric ranked #2 in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25, up two places from the year prior.
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Awarded for our “self-healing” supply chain platform which is driven by adaptive machine learning for real-time optimisation of performance measures including safety, stock quantity, minimum order quantities and lead times.
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Our partner AVEVA was named a leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). AVEVA’s MES solutions help maximise profitability, flexibility, quality, and compliance for Industries of the Future.
Explore our EcoStruxure solutions:
Explore our EcoStruxure solutions:
Accelerate your digital transformation journey with industry-tailored software built to enhance efficiency, productivity, and sustainability. Together with AVEVA and other leading software companies, we built our robust software portfolio to ensure a seamless and collaborative data flow through the entire operational lifecycle.
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1Word in data (Oxford), 2020, Emissions by sector
2McKinsey, 2021, Covid-19: An inflexion point for Industry 4.0
3IBM, 2023, X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023
4Randstad, 2022, Why is there a global labour shortage?
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How do digital transformation and next-generation automation create the Industries of the Future?
Well, Schneider Electric helps create the Industries of the Future by making manufacturing and process industries smarter, sustainable, more agile, and resilient through open, intuitive, agnostic, and end-to-end software-centric automation.
As an industrial automation technology leader with IIoT and data analytics expertise, we can help bring unprecedented flexibility and automation to each level of your industrial enterprise. We do this through connected products, edge control, and digital solutions that improve energy efficiency and lower carbon footprint.
EcoStruxure, our IIoT-enabled architecture and system, brings innovation and establishes an automation standard to be replicated in manufacturing and process industries including Food and Beverage, Water and Wastewater, Mining, Minerals and Metals, Energies and Chemicals, and Machine Control.
The Industries of the Future are leading unprecedented digitalisation of industrial automation applications which rely on Schneider Electric for unlocking new business models that combine smart control, a digitally connected workforce, and optimised assets to drive operational profitability, safely.
Our strong agnostic software portfolio for Industries of the Future, in partnership with world-leading independent software companies such as AVEVA, brings digitalised energy and automation to empower you to design, build, operate, and maintain an unbroken data flow across the entire lifecycle.
We can offer digital twin technologies that combine powerful simulations and analytics in a virtual, software-led environment which brings to life your data for better performance, promising significant business benefits.
Our scalable solutions help the Industries of the Future achieve strategic data management for agile and optimised operations, collaborative energy management through digital communities for efficiency and sustainability, and improvements in industrial safety and cybersecurity standards through improved bypass methods and the latest IIoT technology.
Schneider Electric collaborates with the Industries of the Future to develop universal automation solutions with plug-and-produce automation software components, open operating platforms, and control automation engineering to create the products that shape our everyday lives.