Today, the 2024 Schneider Electric Process Automation business high-end customer Salon with the theme of “Number wisdom peer Wisdom See the Future” was held in Wuxi. At the event site, Schneider Electric, a global expert in digital transformation in the field of energy management and automation, discussed the future industrial development path based on the concept of green intelligent manufacturing with many corporate partners in the process industry, and comprehensively demonstrated Schneider Electric’s advanced capabilities and core vision for empowering the process industry towards sustainable development.
The “Work Plan for Accelerating the Construction of a double control system for carbon emissions” policy released recently pointed out that the implementation of double control degrees of carbon emissions with intensity control as the main and total control as the auxiliary. Among them, the “Plan” will establish and improve relevant policies and management mechanisms from industry carbon management, to enterprise carbon management, to project carbon evaluation and product carbon footprint. In this context, the trend of digitization and green low-carbon “double transformation” in the industrial field has further accelerated, especially in the relatively traditional and energy-intensive process industry field, enterprises urgently need to explore a “breakthrough” way that takes into account the coordinated development of their own digitalization and green, and the comprehensive upgrade of the value chain, in order to achieve high-quality sustainable development.
At the meeting, Tang Rong, general manager of process automation business of Schneider Electric Industrial Automation China, pointed out: “Driven by the ‘carbon emission dual control’ system, digital transformation and sustainable development are accelerating to become the core driving force and an important development strategy for industrial enterprises. In this process, industrial software, automation systems and energy management are indispensable. In this regard, Schneider Electric is driven by innovation, leveraging its deep experience in industrial automation and energy management and innovative technology, to create software-centric, sustainable solutions to help enterprises realize intelligent, green integration, and empower the process industry to increase the impact of sustainable development.”
Tang Rong, General manager of process Automation business of Schneider Electric Industrial Automation China
Relying on the complete EcoStruxure industrial Internet architecture, Schneider Electric’s innovative intelligent manufacturing solutions not only cover the various subdivisions and professional characteristics from discrete industry, mixed industry to process industry, but also vertically open up three levels of interconnected products, edge control and software, application, analysis and service. It can run through the whole life cycle of design, construction, operation and maintenance of industrial enterprises.
Among them, focusing on the pain points of “stable overgrowth” in the operation of large-scale integrated process equipment in the process industry, Schneider Electric offers EcoStruxure Power & Process Integrated energy management and process automation solutions, AVEVA Industrial Software, APC Advanced Process Control, EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS, and EcoStruxure Tricon Complete process integration solutions, including the CX safety instrumentation system and the ETAP Electrical System Digital twin platform, enable companies to take advantage of the combined value of industrial software, automation systems and energy management:
In terms of industrial software, Schneider Electric’s AVEVA full life cycle solution covers AVEVA Process Simulation software, AVEVA PI System operation big data management platform, asset information management platform, etc. By combining AI, digital twin and other technologies, It can help users create high-precision process simulation from design to production, and open up the joint application of dynamic and static data, so as to realize the optimization of process flow and the improvement of energy efficiency, and lay a solid foundation for enterprises to build industrial digital twins;
In terms of automation systems, Schneider Electric provides process automation and variable frequency drive solutions from EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS control system, Triconex safety instrumentation system, SCADA system, to hardware equipment such as servo drives and frequency converters. Ensuring safety, availability and sustainability throughout the entire life cycle of the business, helping to optimize processes, energy and resource use;
In terms of energy management, Schneider Electric’s ETAP electrical system digital twin platform can cover the entire life cycle of factory power systems from modeling, analysis, monitoring and forecasting, maintenance and protection, operation to optimization. By creating high-quality designs, enterprises can optimize investment costs, ensure system safety and reliability, and achieve accurate energy management, optimization and decarbonization. Continuous creation of considerable ecological benefits.
In addition, if process industry enterprises want to achieve long-term development and continuous improvement, they must be planning first, taking into account their own economic and social benefits, while actively collaborating with the entire supply chain ecosystem. In this regard, Schneider Electric provides consulting services from planning to implementation, through the eight pillars of “lean production”, “supply chain optimization”, “production optimization”, “smart factory planning”, “energy efficiency optimization”, “electrical asset health”, “power quality” and “integrated energy microgrid”, as well as the three levels of strategy, operation and implementation. Create customized end-to-end solutions for enterprises to help industrial transformation and upgrading.
Both inside and outside repair, leading the process industry sustainable development
At present, Schneider Electric process integration solutions are widely used in various segments of the process industry, enabling enterprises to move towards sustainable development.
For example, in the cooperation project with Wanhua Chemical, a leader in the global chemical industry, Schneider Electric has helped Wanhua Chemical achieve a qualitative leap in safe, reliable and excellent production, making it take a more solid step toward realizing its vision of global operational excellence. Relying on Schneider Electric’s intelligent power distribution and digital solutions, Wanhua Chemical has created a process twin model to train operators, and introduced AI technology to optimize the operation process, while connecting more than 100 devices and nearly one million monitoring points through the Triconex safety meter system, and effectively ensuring the safe operation of the devices. Eventually, it can bring a considerable income of more than 10 million yuan per year.
At the same time, as a firm practitioner of sustainability, Schneider Electric has incorporated sustainability into its core strategy and into all aspects of its business operations since 2002. Up to now, Schneider Electric has 5 “lighthouse factories”, 2 “lighthouse factories in development” and 93 “zero carbon factories” worldwide, of which 19 “zero carbon factories”, 15 “green factories” and 12 “carbon neutral” factories recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as well as 18 smart factories and smart logistics centers in China. With its rich practical experience and technical precipitation, Schneider Electric can provide more practical and practical reference and guidance in helping process industry users to build “zero-carbon factories” and “lighthouse factories”.
Schneider Electric has been relying on innovative digital solutions, through the integration of digital twin, artificial intelligence and other technologies, is committed to helping enterprises build the technical capability of “digital real integration”, and on this basis, promote the integration of energy and automation, terminal to cloud integration, full life cycle integration, from decentralized management to unified operation. And the integration of the five dimensions of sustainable integrated energy management, so as to enhance the overall efficiency of the entire industry chain and achieve efficient and sustainable development. In the future, Schneider Electric hopes to work with more business partners to continuously expand the two major ecosystems of digitalization and sustainability, help the process industry digitalization and green low-carbon “double transformation”, and work together to shape the future industrial influence.
