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Discover how smart manufacturing technologies for the Industry 4.0 can be deployed for your own factory or business. Visit Schneider Electric’s Bangalore Smart Factory today.
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.
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.
Leaping forward from traditional machine automation, the Smart factory deploys smart manufacturing technologies for Industry 4.0. Physical machines are fitted with smart sensors and are connected to a cloud network where it uses data from connected operations and production systems to learn and adapt to spontaneous situations and make real-time decisions.
Imagine your machines telling you when their temperature is out of desired levels, and you are able to receive alert notifications through your mobile device. This will greatly reduce 30-50% of unscheduled machine downtime, troubleshooting time & maintenance costs while accelerating productivity & machine efficiency.
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How can Smart Factory help you?
Increase your business profitability & productivity through our EcoStruxure architecture & IoT technologies.
EcoStruxure™ Augmented Operator Advisor (AOA)
The AOA is a custom application that puts real-time information at your fingertips, whenever and wherever it is needed. You get immediate access in the field to instant data diagnosis, user manuals, instructions, diagrams etc. This helps to improve operational efficiency with augmented reality, enabling operators to superimpose the current data & virtual objects onto a machine, or plant.
Benefits
-Improve operations & maintenance efficiency
-Reduce operations & maintenance time & cost
-Reduce operator errors during maintenance activity
-Better support and easier information delivering
IOT Monitoring & System Alert
IOT Monitoring & System Alert is a cloud-connected monitoring and control system for plants & machines. It can detect issues that generate predictive maintenance alerts, so service staff can be dispatched to remedy problems before they cause a failure.
Benefits
-Machine Andon to notify management, maintenance, and other workers of a quality or process problem
-Quality Statistical Process Control (SPC) to monitor process behavior & find solutions for production issues
-Predictive Maintenance before and when equipment failure occurs
Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing in 3D printing technology has advanced the design power of prototyping for new products. It helps to churn out a greater range of prototypes, maintenance spare parts, jigs, fixtures, and assemblies for customized end products in all desired shapes & designs.
Benefits
- Quality can be as good as the original parts
- Faster availability of maintenance spare part
- Faster feedback for prototypes
- Cheaper alternative for specific imported spare parts and jigs
Why Should You Upgrade To A Smart Factory?
With the digitization powered by EcoStruxure, Schneider Electric's Smart Factory is driving end-to-end efficiency for the industrial environment.
Supported by the Singapore Government
Singapore government has earmarked significant time & money to invest in R&D projects, developing transformation maps & strengthening workforce’s skill sets to adopt Industry 4.0 model.
Agile Management & Process Efficiency
Creating shop-floor agility by connecting control to the enterprise level. With Lean Digitization, you are able to achieve better decisions & faster processing.
Asset Performance Management
With IIoT & Predictive Asset Analytics, you are able to predict and diagnose problems before they occur. Significantly help to reduce labor cost, maintenance cost & safety risk.
Empowered Operators
Empowering operators to drive effective decisions on the shop floor by bringing all real-time information in hand to act at the point of need or in case of repair, anytime anywhere.
Energy Efficiency & Reliability
Reduce up to 30% of your energy consumption as you get full visibility, control, and optimization over your power consumption and costs through real-time power monitoring, efficiency & sustainability insights.
Our Customer Stories with EcoStruxure™ Plant & Machine
Whirlpool achieved zero-waste 2 years earlier
Schneider Electric implemented EcoStruxure Resource Advisor, - an energy and sustainability management platform to monitor and track data across the company’s facilities worldwide for Whirlpool. With support from Schneider experts, data collection is now consistent and accurate, and Whirlpool’s staff is trained on EcoStruxure Resource Advisor.
The Result:
- 3 plants in Brazil have achieved the zero-waste-to-landfill goal,
- 2 years earlier than expected (2020: ZERO WASTE ambition).
Improved parallel robots performance & efficiency for Siasun
With Schneider Electric’s high-end PacDrive 3 motion control platform, Siasun has enhanced the performance of its single & multiple parallel robots, which means greater efficiency and cost savings for both Siasun and its customers.
The Result:
Greater parallel robots performance and up to 30% increase in efficiency with IoT EcoStruxure™.
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.
