The Smart Factory reinforces the company’s commitment to the Make in India programme, will enhance sustainable development and energy efficiency.
Bangalore November 27, 2019: Schneider Electric, the global leader in digital transformation and energy management and automation, launched its Smart Factory in Bangalore today. This is the second such facility by the company which demonstrates how its EcoStruxure architecture and related suite of offerings drives process automation, increases operational efficiency and reduces costs in industrial environment.
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 Bangalore 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 safety and reliability and remote monitoring and preventive maintenance.
Schneider Electric has launched several Smart factories around the Globe in countries including Mexico, China, France, USA, Indonesia and the Philippines. The Bangalore Smart Factory is smart and integrated, with digital tools such as augmented reality empowering operators to gain visibility into operations and maintenance, driving a 10% reduction in the mean time to repair critical equipment. In addition, digitised processes have eliminated paperwork by 95% and are contributing to a cleaner plant with optimised energy consumption.
Commenting on the launch, Mourad Tamoud, Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain, Schneider Electric said, “The Bangalore Smart Factory demonstrates how the digitisation of industrial environment 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 Programme 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 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 Bangalore Smart Factory, which manufactures IT products and drives that are delivered to customers across the globe, is one of our key smart facilities in the region.”
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.
