Leading Manufacturing Companies – Schneider Electric

“Innovation at every level is a focus that drives Schneider Electric, and keeping life on for everyone and always is what inspires our businesses,” claims Singhal.  They have a team of R&D professionals spread across the globe, who share their expertise to deliver cutting-edge products and solutions for energy management.
At Schneider Electric’s Global Technology Centre in Bengaluru, 460 employees are focused on product development, and resource enhancement. The centre’s gamut of activities includes research in the fields of electro-mechanical design and software development. The innovative products and technologies developed at the centre are available in all markets across the globe. Their innovations are aimed towards leveraging digitisation, optimising easy implementation and operation, safety, flexibility and enabling products and services to evolve.
Schneider Electric is keen to make India an export hub. The company runs a big R&D centre in India, exporting their whole range of products to 15-20 countries. Every year, Schneider spends 4-5% of its turnover on R&D.
“Our next generation of active energy management and automation architecture, EcoStruxure, delivers IoT-enabled solutions that seamlessly connect, collect, analyse, and act on data in real time. It facilitates enhanced safety, efficiency, reliability, and sustainability, and allows us to drive energy efficiency in markets that combined, consume 70% of the world’s energy,” professes Singhal.