Schneider Electric launches its second Smart Factory

By OEM Update Editorial December 16, 2019 11:41 am IST

Schneider Electric, one of the global leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, announced the launch of 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.

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.”

Schneider Electric constantly strives to innovate and ensure cutting edge technology is accessible to all. To that end, the Bengaluru smart factory provides a space where engineering students from top global institutes can work on emerging technologies and develop digital solutions using Microsoft technologies under Schneider Electric’s Center of Digital Innovation (CODI) program. In addition, the site contributes to a local skills development programme for underprivileged youth and school leavers in India in partnership with the government of India called Project NEEM. With this step, Schneider Electric brings digital innovation into manufacturing in India and aims to prepare people for further development and disruptive innovation into the future.