03 Our Customers Industry

Sustainable industry highlights

At Schneider Electric, digitization makes all the difference in our Industry Business, accounting for 22 percent of our business in 2017. We’re leaders in making industry simpler and more profitable. Last year was one of great progress with the introduction of EcoStruxure for Industry in April 2017. Our leading, open Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) approach increases end-to-end operational efficiency with more dynamic control for better business results. We’re changing the sustainability game for industries worldwide by delivering new levels of intelligence, decision-making capabilities, productivity, and efficiency.

Featuring next-generation System Platform 2017, powered by Wonderware™, this release delivered a new standard for operational excellence for industrial organizations. System Platform 2017 sets the new standard for operational excellence, situational awareness, and actionable intelligence, and can be built on any hardware or software regardless of age or manufacturer.

Increasingly, industries are looking to connectivity, mobility, cloud, and analytics, as well as edge intelligence in mission-critical environments to increase operational efficiency for better business results. Through connected products, edge control, and innovative apps, analytics, and services, EcoStruxure continues to bring automation to industry and infrastructure from machine manufacturers to process operators, and leads manufacturing of the future.

System Platform 2017 has impacted 100,000+ sites worldwide, as well as an ecosystem of 4,000 system integrators and implementation partners, and 160,000 developers to date.

A sample of our industry solutions

Apps, Analytics & Services

Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Benefit from sustainable manufacturing operations, delivering unprecedented gains in productivity and efficiency.

Edge Control

Modicon M580 PLC controller

Drive productivity and boost performance with the first PLC with built-in, cybersecure Ethernet capabilities.

Connected Products

Altivar Process variable speed drive

Reduce OpEx and drive energy savings with this services oriented drive designed for process and utilities installations.

2015 – 2017 Planet & Society barometer achievement

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Climate & Development (sustainability offers)

168,400 tons

of CO₂ avoided through maintenance, retrofit, and end-of-life services

IIoT EcoStruxure™ at WaterForce Ensures Efficiency and Sustainability

Farmers report increased efficiency and reduced costs

Sustainable agriculture success story: Waterforce

WaterForce’s sustainability journey

WaterForce had a bold vision to change the game for efficient agricultural irrigation using state-of-the-art IoT technology to change the farming paradigm. Powered by the Microsoft^® Azure platform and Schneider’s EcoStruxure Industry IoT architecture, SCADAfarm is an integrated automation and information management solution developed for WaterForce, an irrigation solutions builder and water management company in New Zealand. In the first season alone, farmers report more control and visibility into operations, with up to 50 percent in energy savings.

WaterForce's sustainable solutions

What

SCADAfarm, an integrated automation and information management platform

Why

Delivers real-time visibility into system status and performance for better, faster decision-making, and more effective irrigation

What

Scalability

Why

Adaptable to meet ever-changing requirements — updates are handled seamlessly through the cloud

What

Complete water management portal

Why

Monitor and control irrigation systems over a wide geographical area and multiple properties, giving complete access to irrigation and wastewater systems from anywhere in the world

What

Business opportunities

Why

An expanded portfolio including remote monitoring, and troubleshooting and fault diagnosis helps WaterForce stay competitive

Recorded benefits to date include:

Improved operational performance and crop yields
Saved time by allowing farmers to view equipment status on any device, instead of driving hours to check irrigation equipment
Enhanced safety procedures by pre-setting safe stop locations for pivots in case of high winds and providing the ability to stop equipment remotely should someone need to enter the irrigation field
Significant energy savings by shifting irrigation behavior and taking advantage of off-peak energy rates
Better management of water and wastewater across the farm, and easier compliance with regulatory requirements

Ron McFetridge

Director of WaterForce

By leveraging our relationship with Schneider Electric, we can focus on our core business — effective water management, knowing that the information management, analytics, and automation side is covered.

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