Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, is deploying its “Smart Factory” program to the East African market. The Schneider smart factory concept showcases how digital transformation delivers improvements in the efficiency, to reduce time and costs, operator errors and provide better support to the end user in the day-to-day operations and maintenance of the industries through better visibility of the operations.
Schneider Electric launched “Smart Manufacturing” program, powered by EcoStruxure for Industry and opened its doors to share its knowledge and best practices in order to address customers’ pain points in the transformation journey; driven by IoT monitoring, collaborative documentation and maintenance, unified operations centres, electrical safety and customized operator training, digital scheduling and capture of calibration records to meet compliance requirements, remote assistance for maintenance & predictive maintenance via cloud-enabled machine learning.
As the world becomes more digitized industry players must focus on the question of how to build a smart factory. Digital transformation throughout the industrial value chain is critical to achieving increased global competitiveness.