Schneider Electric has launched its Smart Factory in Bengaluru. This is the second such facility by Schneider Electric in India which demonstrates how the company’s EcoStruxure architecture and related suite of offerings drives process automation, increases operational efficiency and reduces costs in the industrial environment. Having two Smart Factories located in India reinforces the company’s contribution to the Indian government’s Make in India program which is designed to facilitate investment, foster innovation, enhance skills development and build best-in-class manufacturing infrastructure in the country.
Schneider Electric India’s first Smart Factory, inaugurated in Hyderabad in February 2019, has helped more than 500 customers experience a host of EcoStruxure solutions and make informed buying decisions for their power distribution and management and machine automation needs. With the inauguration of the Bengaluru Smart Factory, Schneider Electric further strengthens its contribution to the Industry 4.0 agenda in India by providing customers with a showcase of the benefits of industrial digital transformation, including enhanced performance, increased reliability and safety, and remote monitoring and preventive maintenance.
Commenting on the launch, Mourad Tamoud, executive vice president, global supply chain, Schneider Electric said, “The Bengaluru Smart Factory demonstrates how the digitisation of industrial environments using EcoStruxure can optimise the processes for both production and end to end supply chain operation and take energy efficiency to a whole new level. Our Smart Factory Program has been recognised by the World Economic Forum’s network of manufacturing lighthouses, which aims to create a learning platform through the world’s best manufacturers who are embedding the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution into modern production. Schneider Electric is committed to developing more than 100 Smart Factories by 2020, globally, and the Bengaluru Smart Factory, which manufacturers IT products and drives that are delivered to customers across the globe, is one of our key smart facilities in this region.”
In the Bengaluru Smart Factory, Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure open architecture and platform enables real-time monitoring of machine performance and preventive maintenance to significantly enhance agility and optimize costs. The site showcases digital transformation best practices and serves as an example of the benefits of digitising energy management and automation in the manufacturing industry. The site is reporting the following results:
• Up to 10% energy savings yearly through EcoStruxure Power solutions including EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert and EcoStruxure Resource Advisor
• Improvements in industrial efficiency of up to five percent through EcoStruxure Plant solutions
• Increased asset performance and reliability delivered through EcoStruxure Machine solutions including AVEVA Insight and EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor, which have contributed to improved asset availability of 10% and driven a shift from reactive to predictive maintenance
• Effective real-time quality management to improve process robustness