Experience our virtual Smart Factory tour to see the IIoT at work
Take a virtual tour of our Smart Factory in Batam, Indonesia, and find out how we’re increasing our energy efficiency and reducing our maintenance costs with EcoStruxureTM.
Smart manufacturing solutions to accelerate your digital journey
We know the importance of smart solutions for manufacturing because we use them ourselves. With EcoStruxure, we’re implementing the Internet of Things (IIoT) throughout our global supply chain. Across our Smart Factories and Smart Distribution Centres, we’ve reduced energy costs by between 10% and 30% and maintenance costs between 30% and 50%.
1. Agile management
Driving faster and better decisions to help improve customer satisfaction and service speeds.
2. Asset performance
Predictive analytics for reduced downtime and more efficient operations.
3. Empowered operators
Access to real-time assets, data, and innovative technology for increased safety and efficiency in maintenance processes, and increased workforce engagement.
4. Energy and reliability
Reduced energy consumption, costs, and carbon footprint, and improved power monitoring through real-time insights and connected metres.
5. Cybersecure operations on multiple levels
Product and system security, with added value in secure solution design, training, and managed security services.
What you'll find in our Smart Factories
Our Smart Factories have been recognised by the World Economic Forum for leading the way in smart manufacturing. Factories in Lexington, USA, Le Vaudreuil, France, and Hyderabad, India have been recognised as Sustainability Lighthouses, three of only 17 worldwide. They, along with facilities in Batam, Indonesia, and Wuxi, China, are designated Advanced 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) Lighthouses. Facilities in Wuhan, China, and Monterrey, Mexico, are recognised as Developing 4IR Lighthouses.
EcoStruxure Power is an IoT-enabled architecture and platform that digitises and simplifies low and medium-voltage electrical distribution systems. It provides actionable data to aid the decisions that help protect people, safeguard assets, maximise operational efficiency and business continuity, and maintain regulatory compliance.
Aggregate all cross-enterprise energy and sustainability information in a single, cloud-based platform. Transform your data into actionable insights that will lead to real business operations.
PowerTags, PowerLogic Metres, and other connected products.
From design to integration, right through to commissioning, EcoStruxure Building brings best-in-class engineering efficiency to your building. Combined with our asset and energy performance services, we enable lifetime efficiency of your building ensuring productivity and comfort for occupants.
EcoStruxure Building Advisor
A wide range of on-site and remote connected services to increase the performance, efficiency, and reliability of your building.
Actionable insights needed to better manage and optimise buildings, improve engineering efficiency, and meet increased cybersecurity and compliance needs.
Achieve business excellence with smart machine solutions. EcoStruxure Machine brings key technologies for product connectivity and edge control on-premises, using cloud technologies to provide analytics and digital services.
EcoStruxure Machine Advisor
Cloud-based service for machine builders to track machines in operation worldwide, monitor performance data and fix exceptional events.
EcoStruxure Plant enables the scalable design and operation of connected systems with best-in-class cybersecurity built in at each layer to safely drive measurable operational profitability improvements.
*These offers are by AVEVA. AVEVA and Schneider Electric's industrial software business combine to create a leading engineering and industrial software company.
For complete visibility and control of your asset management strategy, from spares and inventory management, to complete procurement for asset-intensive industries.
A cloud-based digital services platform to more efficiently manage industry compliance. Reduce costs, increase productivity, and be audit-ready with a robust testing and approval process.
Secure communication from shop floor to IT, improving profitability through enhanced asset performance for more efficient operations and maintenance of capital assets.
Magelis HMIs provide a simple and effective means of connecting systems, collecting data, and presenting information in a meaningful format.
From seamless local production and integration at the grid edge to bridging demand and supply, EcoStruxure Grid increases your grid's efficiency for sustainable networks.
EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor
Dynamically control on-site energy resources and loads to optimise your facility’s performance.
In a connected world, it's now more important than ever to protect critical information and data. Ensure that your data centre’s physical infrastructure can adapt quickly to support both future demands driven by IoT and growth — in the cloud and at the edge — without ever compromising availability or operational efficiency.
What you'll find in our Smart Distribution Centres
Smart Distribution Centres deploy EcoStruxure solutions to improve predictability and reliability for customers and enhance delivery excellence.
EcoStruxure Power is an IoT-enabled architecture and platform that digitises and simplifies low and medium-voltage electrical distribution systems. It provides actionable data to aid the decisions that help protect people, safeguard assets, maximise operational efficiency and business continuity, and maintain regulatory compliance.
Aggregate all cross-enterprise energy and sustainability information in a single, cloud-based platform. Transform your data into actionable insights that will lead to real business operations.
PowerTags, PowerLogic Metres, and other connected products.
From design to integration, right through to commissioning, EcoStruxure Building brings best-in-class engineering efficiency to your building. Combined with our asset and energy performance services, we enable lifetime efficiency of your building ensuring productivity and comfort for occupants.
EcoStruxure Building Advisor
A wide range of on-site and remote connected services to increase the performance, efficiency, and reliability of your building.
Actionable insights needed to better manage and optimise buildings, improve engineering efficiency, and meet increased cybersecurity and compliance needs.
Achieve business excellence with smart machine solutions. EcoStruxure Machine brings key technologies for product connectivity and edge control on-premises, using cloud technologies to provide analytics and digital services.
Variable speed drives and soft starters for powerful and reliable motor control solutions.
EcoStruxure Plant enables the scalable design and operation of connected systems with best-in-class cybersecurity built in at each layer to safely drive measurable operational profitability improvements.
*These offers are by AVEVA. AVEVA and Schneider Electric's industrial software business combine to create a leading engineering and industrial software company.
For complete visibility and control of your asset management strategy, from spares and inventory management, to complete procurement for asset-intensive industries.
Software-centric industrial automation system creating step-change improvements throughout your complete operational lifecycle.
From seamless local production and integration at the grid edge to bridging demand and supply, EcoStruxure Grid increases your grid's efficiency for sustainable networks.
EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor
Dynamically control on-site energy resources and loads to optimise your facility’s performance.
Smart factory to accelerate your digital transformation
Our world is changing at an unprecedented pace – the digital economy is reimagining the way we live, work, produce goods, and deliver services. This digital transformation is in full swing and it’s time to join the revolution. Implementing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), our Batam smart factory is both a working factory and a showcase for customers and partners to witness how digital transformation can help them make informed, data-driven decisions that bring about improved profitability, asset management performance, operational efficiency and a smarter productive workforce while keeping the operations secure, agile and environmentally sustainable. The EcoStruxure™ for Industry solutions provide real-time tracking of the performance of factory’s operations with 46% wasted material reduction and 17% maintenance operational time reduction in less than six months.
Recognized by the World Economic Forum
Three of our smart factories are recognised by the World Economic Forum as being at the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Six principal benefits EcoStruxure brings to smart factories
Agile Management
Three of our smart factories are recognised by the World Economic Forum as being at the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Process Efficiency
Better closed-loop measurement and control for greater throughput and faster processing
Asset Performance Management
Optimized asset use to improve profitability
Empowered Operators
Empowering operators for more effective decisions on the factory floor
Reliability
Ensuring plant, process and asset uptime
Energy Efficiency
Visibility, control and optimization of power consumption and costs
Smart Factory spotlight
Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Fourth Industrial Revolution Lighthouse
Recognized by Ministry of Industry Indonesia as a National Lighthouse of Industry 4.0
28 year old plant leveraging the latest IIoT solutions
-17% reduction in man-hours spent on maintenance
-46% reduction of waste material
-12% improvement in operational efficiency
-40% improvement in on-time delivery
-13% Labor Productivity
-Overall ROI <3 years
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How can digital transformation and automation in Smart Factories drive energy reduction and speed up the transition to a sustainable future?
Schneider Electric helps make Smart Factory operations innovative and sustainable through an end-to-end digital transformation that improves operational efficiency and reduces energy consumption and CO2 emission. As an industrial technology leader with IoT and data analytics expertise, Schneider Electric's digital energy strategy for smart factories leverages IIoT connectivity, Edge analytics, and predictive analytics to drive energy efficiency and sustainability goals.
Discover EcoStruxure, our IIoT-enabled system that offers smart solutions for manufacturing that help reduce energy and maintenance costs across our Smart Factories and Smart Distribution Centres. Our Smart Factories, recognised by the World Economic Forum, lead the way in manufacturing with the latest digital tools, including augmented reality, remote monitoring, and predictive maintenance, to save energy, carbon footprint, and overall cost savings, while offering increasing agility and resiliency within the operation. Our scalable smart solutions with end-to-end cybersecurity for supporting applications and data analytics enable operators to view cloud-connected critical data anytime, anywhere, and from any device.
