To adapt to changing consumer and environmental demands, manufacturers need flexible machines to adjust their production. This presents challenges to OEMs who design and build production machines. Yet, new generations of modular multi-carrier systems…
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Partnering to Reduce Energy Waste in Commercial Buildings
A key challenge for business is how to reduce energy waste in older commercial buildings. Consider almost any commercial building, whether hospital, airport, shopping mall, hotel, or office block and it will consume lots…
How VSD Service Plans Improve Business Resilience
Building owners and industrial organisations are revolutionising their operations through the digitisation of their facilities and processes. Smart buildings and factories are helping to boost efficiency and productivity. Yet, the integrated nature of these…
MCSA – Motor Condition Monitoring beyond Vibration Analysis
The latest motor condition monitoring technology for motors and rotating equipment offers advantages over previous methods. It is simpler to install, adapts faster to more applications, and delivers improved detection rates with earlier failure…
Motor Starters: Why System Integrators should take a new approach
Motor starters play a key role in control panels. They turn motors on and off, as well as protect motors from overloading. System integrators often face specific project requirements that relate to the function…
Virtual Workflows & How they Transform Customer Retention for OEMs
According to Scneider Electric, virtual workflows can transform OEM projects and help them deliver and retain more business at lower costs.
These days, industrial OEMs and end customers face unprecedented challenges. Consumers expect a high…
Industrial Sustainability is Key to Business Survival
Most companies focus on the financial bottom line, but this is changing. The ‘triple bottom line’ approach is becoming part of everyday business language and central to industrial sustainability. It describes three bottom lines…
How condition-based monitoring reduces downtime
In a recent blog, Schneider Electric considered the latest trend in condition-based monitoring technology for rotating equipment. In particular, the urgent need for industrial businesses to find a…
Integrating digitisation into Manufacturing Execution Systems
Over time, producers invest in manufacturing automation to improve the quality of their goods at competitive prices. Having improved their operations, when is the right time to bear the expense of displacing the existing…
Harmony XAP Control Stations from Schneider Electric Updated
Schneider Electric are very pleased to announce the new design of their Harmony XAP control stations (XAPD and XAPK) to supersede their XAPG, XAPM and XAPJ products.
Schneider Electric Harmony XAPG, XAPM & XAPJ –…
The Power of EcoStruxure Asset Advisor
Nestlé pioneered the concept of soluble coffee, and sixty percent of their soluble coffee production comes from a single factory. At their Nescafé plant in Toluca, Mexico, one million jars of coffee roll off…
Remote Condition Monitoring Minimises Plant Power Outages
Manufacturers and commercial organisations rely on the availability of their electrical distribution systems to keep operating. Failures are infrequent and difficult to foresee, but when they do happen, the fiscal impact is significant.
Where Schneider Electric leads, will others follow?
Most end users rely on more than one automation supplier to build a solution and the need for cost-effective interoperability and integration is strong. Obstacles like the lack of openness of hardware technologies and…
Analytics Software Achieves Unprecedented Productivity
IIoT benefits like faster time to market, optimising workforce knowledge, increasing productivity, lowering downtime and analytics software have taken time to become practical solutions that benefit OEMs. According to Schneider Electric, EcoStruxure Machine…
Supply Chains: Finding Resilience in Automation
We often take supply chains for granted, but the recent pandemic has highlighted the need for greater resilience. The supply chain is an integral part of business and not for dismissal as someone else’s…
Why Smart Controllers are Driving Smart Manufacturing
OEM machine builders now find themselves at the heart of the industrial digitisation revolution. New generations of smart controllers are at the heart of smart machines, and the smart machines they build are the…
Manufacturing Digitisation with Edge Box – Part 2
Part one of this article looked at ways smart machine solutions can bolster manufacturing flexibility. Here we look at how one manufacturer put this into practice using Schneider Electric’s IIoT Edge…
Manufacturing Digitisation Bolsters Flexibility – Part 1
Manufacturers are experiencing interesting times as the pandemic has affected workforce availability and consumer demand. Moreover, with a shortage of skilled staff and increased material and energy costs, they need to adapt to survive….
Sustainability | What are net-zero and carbon neutral?
At the recent COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, world leaders and representatives from some of the largest organisations in the world came together to mobilise climate action to protect communities and the…
The Importance of Edge Processing to Manufacturing
The digitalisation of business and manufacturing resulting from IIoT and Industry 4.0 have a profound impact on factory automation. They envision networks of connected equipment collecting and analysing huge volumes…