
Schneider appoints Philippe Rambach as first Chief AI Officer (CAIO) and establishes a global AI Hub focused on data and analytics.
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Although, there are varying opinions about the strategies building owners and managers should employ to recover from the effects of the pandemic, its structural effects, and resulting economic disruption, “business as usual” shouldn’t be part of the plan.
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Schneider Electric addresses the misperception that modernising control systems means jeopardising operational safety and money.
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Schneider Electric experts work with supply chain partners to identify and extract energy savings and sustainability benefits throughout the entire product creation, delivery, and support lifecycle.
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The challenges facing industry at the moment are tough: supply chain disruptions, recurring lockdowns and lingering travel restrictions, to name just a few.
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As the CPG industry accelerates in the digital era, rapidly changing and less predictable consumer behaviour is redefining how competitive advantage is established and maintained.
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Digitalisation has a leading role to play in reducing emissions and combatting climate change, arguably two of the greatest challenges of our age.
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Industry 4.0, the next evolution in industrial manufacturing, promises to deliver true integration of IT and OT, enabling dramatic improvements in efficiency while reducing costs.
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While the scale of the pandemic and its effects on society and the economy is unique, for procurement planning, it represents only one of many external factors.
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You probably haven’t thought much about screw threads lately, but they make do make an appearance in our daily lives, from bottle tops to flatpack furniture and just about every machine used in manufacturing.
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Over the last several years, much has been written about the large economic potential of Industry 4.0 and related digitisation initiatives.
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This time last year, global executives were mid-air on the way to Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
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Schneider Electric has doubled down on its long-standing strategy to embed environmental, social and governance considerations into every facet of its activities.
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Schneider Electric has been selected by Colas Rail to supply the electrical distribution system for Singapore’s Bukit Panjang LRT.
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During today’s times of profound change, some manufacturing organisations are falling into the trap of trying to maintain existing processes
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In this article, we will look at where power analytic capabilities are used – from the device to the edge to the cloud – and examples of applications.
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In process industries today, all organisations, regardless of their level of smart machine sophistication, are interested in reducing downtime
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Innovative digital technologies go hand in hand with sustainability when it comes to increasing business performance and resilience.
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How has Schneider Electric been managing their global supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic and what steps have had the most positive impact?
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Industry 4.0 has long been hailed as a new frontier for Asia’s businesses, particularly the manufacturing sector which is the lifeblood of many of the region’s economies.
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A rising wave of automation and digitalisation is sweeping across Asia. Can Singapore stay competitive amid this growing shift towards smart manufacturing?
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the manufacturing industry on a massive scale. What will the “New Normal” be for manufacturers?
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The stability of power grids supplying energy to our homes and businesses is emerging as a critical success factor for maintaining both physical and economic security.
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As manufacturing resumes across the globe, many of us are considering how the industry can prepare for the ‘new normal’.
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DORIS Group, Schneider Electric and AVEVA have agreed to develop a strategic partnership to deliver Digital Twin technology for the upstream oil and gas markets.
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We believe that digitisation is a way to resilience with remote monitoring, predictive and preventive maintenance, and remote operations all leading to ensuring productivity.
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The world changed overnight. Globally, we still have communities under lock-down and we are slowly progressing to “business as unusual”.
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Schneider Electric explores some of the practical ways its integrated Modicon and AVEVA solutions are already bringing benefits to Industry.
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Throughout most industrial operations, electric motors play a critical role in driving conveyor belts, pumps, compressors, agitators, fans, and other critical infrastructure assets.
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Schneider Electric and Cisco have formed a technology partnership designed to help drive major advances in making smart buildings the standard.
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Case Study: How Schneider Electric deployed AVEVA Discrete Lean Management at 70 manufacturing plants in two years for real-time production response and continuous improvement
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As control systems increase in both scale and data-rich sensors, we need a way to ensure that operators can recognise what is important and act to deliver a more efficient control system.
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When power grids, water networks and gas utility systems are targeted by cyberattacks, systems that are essential to our everyday lives are affected.
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As smart automation and digital solutions take hold, the role of industrial automation system integrators becomes more important than ever.
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Businesses are realising that they need to innovate quickly to adapt to the new digital world.
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Industrial plants, hospitals, data centers and, in fact, every type of facility, can’t afford any amount of downtime due to electrical system problems.
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Schneider Electric and AVEVA has announced their expanded partnership to deliver innovative solutions for the data center market.
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This is the third post in this blog series, looking at ways that intelligent solutions are helping facility teams optimise power and energy performance while meeting business and sustainability goals.
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Hospitals around the U.S. are facing the challenge of adding capacity faster than ever before. What once may have taken months or years of planning is now happening in weeks, even days.
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Faced with the compelling need for more respirators on its national territory, the French government has asked a group of French industrial companies to study the possibility of increasing the production of respirators.
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Schneider Electric presents six ways energy efficiency translates into a better bottom line.
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Monitoring solutions are essentially IoT applications that require lots of sensors. By Nadia Cheraitia, Schneider Electric.
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As more enterprises enter the implementation stages of their digital transformation projects, they are searching for productivity improvements.
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In 2017 Schneider Electric launched an initiative to improve its supply chain – with one part of that being the Smart Factory Program which aimed to digitise 80 of our global factories
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Schneider Electric has joined more than a hundred other industry thought leaders and forward thinkers as a signatory to the Cybersecurity Tech Accord.
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Forrester’s Predictions 2020: The Internet of Things report has an eye-opening forecast on cybercrime for the coming year.
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Although 5G’s long-term RoI — or “killer app”— is yet to be determined, the potential implications of the “massive IoT,” connectivity, ultra high-reliability, and low latency are very promising.
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The process of digital transformation is happening across a wide range of industries today, and perhaps no more so than in manufacturing.
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It’s clearer than ever that we a need to be a part of the solution to the climate change emergency.
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History teaches us that when you’re in the middle of sweeping technology-driven change, the struggle to simply keep pace can make it hard to maintain perspective.
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A human machine interface (HMI) is the main visible automation component that manages all vital machine features.
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Digitisation is about much more than just technology. It’s also about collaboration and people. If you already understand this, you’re off to a good start.
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We are seeing a major shift in sentiment towards sustainability from the major oil & gas companies.
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Today, I have the honor of speaking on IoT security policy at the annual CyberNextDC conference organised by the Cybersecurity Coalition.
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In this annual market outlook, we find out from executives on what they have in store for 2020 and their thoughts about the trends and opportunities in the manufacturing automation industry in the region and around the globe.
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Acceleration: The Next Steps In Digitising The Industrial World brings sweeping benefits to manufacturing. But seeing that transformation through from start to finish can be tricky.
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For years, industrial automation has provided the advantages of improving productivity and quality while reducing errors and waste, increasing safety, and adding flexibility to the manufacturing process.
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According to Kaspersky Labs, 47 percent of industrial control systems computers fell victim to cyberattacks in 2018.
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More than 32,000 attendees and 1,600 exhibitors from across the Water and Wastewater industry came together in Chicago for WEFTEC.
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Do you feel ever overwhelmed by all the information you need to process in your daily life? According to Deloitte there are 45 times more data flows across countries than goods, with greater economic impact.
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Ahmad Alshidiq interviews Mr Tommy Leong, Zone President, East Asia & Japan, of Schneider Electric during the ITAP on 22 October 2019 at the Singapore Expo.
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Schneider Electric has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to create a new Venture Building Programme in Singapore.
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Schneider Electric launched its new Smart Factory Readiness Assessment and range of smart manufacturing solutions at ITAP 2019.
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Schneider Electric has simplified and aligned its data center solutions for the new hybrid IT world with the introduction of EcoStruxure Data Center Solutions.
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As the rate of urbanisation increases, this poses a serious question in the future: how can we deliver sustainable and reliable energy to so many people?
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The essence of digital is accelerating your business. Digital is about enabling connectivity among people and processes.
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The IIoT is essentially a network connectivity system of industrial devices working in sync to collect and interpret data in order to enable new-age insights and streamline business processes.
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During Industry 4.0, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution as we often call it, companies who rethink the way they do business and how they make money are ones who will succeed.
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Today, devices of all kinds across the Oil & Gas industry are equipped with intelligent sensors that gather data.
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In a recent interview for i-SCOOP, Jean-Pascal Riss and Nicolas Larue teamed up to share their insights about the best ways to manage the harmonics created by variable frequency drives.
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Similar to the previous three industrial revolutions which capitalised on steam power, assembly lines, and computers, respectively, Industry 4.0 also presents opportunity by capitalising on the Internet of Things (IoT).
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In automotive manufacturing, electricity makes up the majority of total energy cost compared to natural gas, water and other purchased fuels.
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Schneider Electric annually organises its global student competition, Go Green in the City, inviting students around the world to submit their bold ideas of energy management and automation for a smarter and more sustainable future.
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The industry is changing as End User customers are modernising their facilities with IIoT-based technologies.
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Schneider Electric has launched the small and medium enterprises (SME) Jumpstart Automation Package that comes with a wide range of applications
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Austmine 2019, the biennial conference of Austmine was held on May 21-23, 2019 in Brisbane and AR was a great topic of interest.
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When modernisation takes over, what happens to existing industrial operation and safety systems?
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Ahmad Alshidiq catches up with Tommy Leong, Zone President of East Asia & Japan, Schneider Electric and discusses, among others, about the Southeast Asian opportunity for the industry and how is Industry 4.0 shaping up in the region.
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Schneider Electric has had its Smart Factory in Batam, Indonesia, designated as an Advanced 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) Lighthouse by the World Economic Forum at its 13th Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC).
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Machine builder design efficiencies increase when core machine components are easy to select and simple to wire and install.
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Softing Industrial has released version 1.20 of its Modbus to PROFIBUS gateways adding redundancy for critical process control applications and adding XML import for simplified integration into Schneider Electric engineering systems.
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Two major trends are accelerating the pace of modern industrial transformation: increased pressure to improve productivity and boost ROI and the relatively low cost of IT-driven data acquisition and analysis.
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Schneider Electric has launched the first Smart Factory in the U.S. to demonstrate in real time how its EcoStruxure architecture and related suite of offerings can help increase operational efficiency and reduce costs for its customers.
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Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott is bullish on edge computing technology, particularly the industrial edge.
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New Collaboration Opportunity Bringing Together Digital Innovators and Experts The intriguing side of digital transformation innovative ways.
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Customers who want to digitally monitor their freight train fleets can do so in an easy and efficient manner by using a solution developed by Schaeffler and Siemens Mobility.
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In an increasingly digitised and data-driven world, the challenge of providing high levels of compute power, connectivity and availability to where it is needed most, requires a hybrid architecture of edge data centers.
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Smart manufacturing is all about leveraging the collective benefit of advanced technologies to optimise operations and gain competitive advantage.
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Whether you call it Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), or Smart Manufacturing, the power of technology is being felt throughout the industrial world and fundamentally changing value chains and production methods.
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In the past few years we have started to see more and more posts and adverts about glasses and head-mounted displays, augmented reality (AR), mobile computing and many more.
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Companies are continuing the transformation to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) characterised by digital, highly automated “smart” systems in virtually every vertical industry.
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Still unsure where to start with digitalisation? It seems you’re not the only one.
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One of the most important benefits of digitisation is the ability to capture and analyse data and to derive business value and profitability from that data.
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Schneider Electric will complete the transformation of their East Asia and Japan regional headquarters at Kallang Avenue into a carbon neutral building by the middle of next year.
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Schneider Electric has launched Schneider Electric Exchange, the world’s first cross-industry open ecosystem dedicated to solving real-world sustainability and efficiency challenges.
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Schneider Electric is leading the digital transformation of industrial automation markets. Our IoT technologies are delivered through our EcoStruxure architecture and are ready for smart manufacturing.
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Over the last several years, the mantra of ‘digitisation is coming’ has rung like a steady bell in the ears of both industrial manufacturers…
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Industrial markets are experiencing rapid change brought on by accelerated digitisation and new technologies such as IoT, data analysis, and artificial…
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Schneider Electric has entered into a global partnership with Vericlave, a leading cybersecurity technology provider. Under the terms of the agreement…
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According to a recent ARC survey, 93 percent of industrial stakeholders agree that both edge and cloud processing will form the basis of their industrial…
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Developers and Installers increasingly recognising what connectivity means to the end users. Connected solutions manufactures are offerings…
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We live in a constantly changing dynamic environment. Therefore, innovation is a key driver for success. It means more than just research and development.
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Internet of Things, benefits of iot in manufacturing when extended to industrial equipment require sensors to be plugged into physical assets of the manufacturing plants.
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OEMs who build machines for industrial end users are finding themselves at a crossroads. Should they maintain their traditional business model.
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KFM Holdings teams up with Schneider Electric to equip Malaysia PM Office with Building Management Systems. Never before has the need for an environment of high-performance buildings become as critical to the effort of the planet’s carbon footprint reduction.
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There is no denying that we are well into the swing of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Early adopters of digitisation are seeing measurable benefits…
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Ensuring the good functionality of electrical distribution infrastructure in the industry is one of the top priorities if you want your business to keep running without breakdowns.
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While energy consumption regulations are increasingly being imposed worldwide, organisations continue to demonstrate that energy efficiency and the associated cost savings are beneficial for business. The ISO has long recognised the need for improving energy efficiency in all types of commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities.
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Digitisation of Electric Utilities Meralco’s Innovative Approach Digitisation of Electric Utilities Meralco’s Innovative Approach Ferdinand Balagtas from Meralco shared with Schneider Electric in Singapore the next steps in their digitalisation journey.
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As digital transformation unfolds around the globe, a new reality is emerging: Digitisation’s productivity gains depend on clean and reliable electrical power.
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With energy and industrial sectors one of the biggest pollutants, a major focus is on helping heavy-industry and heavy-duty transport sectors achieve net-zero emissions without relying on offsets from the land-use sector.
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More than ever, the world needs bold ideas for reducing emissions and transitioning to renewable resources. A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report stressed the need to cut global emissions by 45 percent by 2030 to minimise the risk of irreversible changes to our environment.
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The power monitoring system provides maintenance managers with the information to prompt necessary upgrades to the ageing facilities. Improved reliability and fewer maintenance and repair hours are also major benefits of the EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert.
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Even power connections that are perfectly installed tend to loosen over time; avoiding this can head off serious problems. By Emir Boumediene, Manager of Simulation & Mechanisms, Architecture & Innovation, Schneider Electric.
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We all know that downtime for any business can be expensive, even devastating. But did you know the cost of downtime is rising?
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The era of digital transformation is impacting every industry — and manufacturing is seeing cutting edge innovation delivering some impressive results. Employing the Internet of Things technology to improve connectivity, productivity and efficiency are vital to any business competing in this digital economy.
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Industrial Control System (ICS) operators recognise the need to improve cybersecurity, but many lack the understanding on how to operate a system in a secure manner. By Dan DesRuisseaux, Cybersecurity Offer Manager, Schneider Electric.
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Consider how IIoT analytics and industrial edge concepts are being applied to productivity improvements in discrete manufacturing. One of the key components of the “smart” manufacturing process is predictive analytics.
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So how can the sector face these pressures and protect brand reputation, employee safety and profitability? The answer lies in digital transformation.
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Companies investing in IIoT and industrial innovation are continuing to push the envelope, exploring new technologies to benefit plant operators. One of the most cutting-edge of these technologies is augmented reality. By Simone Gianotti, Business Development Manager, Industry Digital Offer, Schneider Electric.
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F&B industry supply chain efficiency is critical to both corporate profits and to the well-being of the customers who consume the manufactured processed foods. By Michael Jamieson, Segment President for the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry, Schneider Electric.
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In order to provide end customers with the machine productivity levels they demand, OEM-built machines have to incorporate motor control automation technologies optimised for rapid time-to-market, operational efficiency and simplification as well as increased machine uptime. By Baris Aytekin, Global Product Manager, Schneider Electric.
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It is said that 21st century is the century of cities. Governments across the globe have realised that for the nations and states to grow economically, cities need to grow economically. This paradigm shift views Cities as the ‘engines of economic growth’. By Sayaji Shinde, Business Head – Smart Cities and Infrastructure, Asia Pacific, AVEVA Group Plc.
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The future of design and collaboration is also changing. Increases in computer capabilities and miniaturisation of devices change the way designers and specifiers make decisions. By Asha Devasia, Global Channel Management And Digital Transformation Lead at Schneider Electric.
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As one of several modernisation initiatives, the university moved its political science department to a building equipped with a modern Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Building Operation building management system. By Thomas Peregrin, PowerTag Launch Leader and Business Developer, EMEA, Schneider Electric.
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As the complexity and sophistication of our electrical distribution infrastructure increases, it becomes more important to have the appropriate digital sensors, advanced controls and analytic capabilities. By Markus Hirschbold, Marketing Director, Healthcare Solutions, Schneider Electric.
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IAA spoke with Shanmugavel Subramaniam, Schneider Electric’s Water Segment Leader for East Asia & Japan, on what defines their vision, strategy and ambition in the water & waste water segment in the region.
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The marketplace need for smart machines has rendered the traditional machine design process inefficient and design time and costs have increased as a result. By Paul Stephens, Solution Marketing Manager, Schneider Electric.
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The concept of an “extended enterprise” – that is, a network of partner relationships – is not new, according to Jean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO and Chairman, Schneider Electric. A single company cannot operate successfully in a silo to serve its customers best. Instead, a successful corporation depends on an ecosystem of partnerships, including suppliers, system integrators, and innovation partners such as universities, startups, technology alliances, and more. For Schneider Electric, this extended enterprise ensures that Life Is On everywhere, for everyone, and at every moment.
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In the world of innovation, we must welcome disruption. It prompts technological advancements. It drives a competitive spirit that results in improved performance for all companies. By Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman & CEO, Schneider Electric.
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What we are seeing today are things that we have been developing over many years now becoming embedded as part of mainstream, modern digital life. By Fabio Mielli, US Mining, Minerals, and Metals Segment Manager, Schneider Electric
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Forty-Six per cent of US lighting energy consumption is projected to drop by 2030 thanks to the adoption of LEDs. By Shoumi Sen, Schneider Electric
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What is behind the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) that actually helps industrial organisations drive profitability?
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Regardless of the industry, you are in, the digital transformation is upon us.
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Singapore: Claroty and Schneider Electric have announced that they are partnering to address safety and cyber security challenges for the world’s industrial infrastructure.
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How Information Technology (IT) and Operations Technology (OT) determine smart grid success.
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