Meet the Industries of the Future
Where will next-generation automation take you?
The Industries of the Future call for unprecedented sustainability and resilience – and open, software-centric industrial automation is the answer. Smarter manufacturing starts here.
30%
of CO2 emissions are created by the industrial sector 1
Only 26%
of industrial companies are successfully reaping the rewards of digital transformation at scale 2
#1
Industries are now the number one sector attacked by cyber-criminals 3
8M
Expected global labor shortage in the industrial sector by 2030 4
Open up the next level of industrial automation
Kunming CGE Water Supply
Safe and smart waterKunming CGE Water Supply upgraded its water distribution platform with an EcoStruxure for water solution, enabling it to reduce energy and operating costs and deliver high-quality drinking water to nearly four million people safely, efficiently, and reliably.
Oxford Energy Solutions
Chilling out
Using EcoStruxure Machine solutions, Oxford Energy Solutions is changing the way refrigeration systems are built and maintained to make them more sustainable and energy efficient.
Livetech
The complete packageUsing EcoStruxure Machine, Livetech builds next-generation, responsible robotic packaging systems for the food industry.
Universal automation starts here
A new era of industrial innovation is here. The Industries of the Future are all about people creating the products that shape our lives. Think universal automation — the world of plug-and-produce automation software components proven to solve specific challenges — and think what we can create together.
Discover universal automation
See how we are fundamentally changing industrial automation system architectures with universal automation.
Read more in EnglishReinvent your industrial automation system
EcoStruxure Automation Expert unites assets from different systems with a common language and grand design.
Reduce control automation engineering time by 68%
ARC Advisory Group examines how the first universal automation solution offers huge productivity gains.
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Own your environmental impact
Today’s consumers want to feel good about the products they rely on. We can help you implement greener practices and lower your carbon footprint, starting now.
Discover industrial sustainability
Read our call for industrial eco-efficiency.
Learn more in EnglishMeet your sustainability goals
See how Industries of the Future make your operations more sustainable.
Holistic motor management drives sustainability
Learn how to gain step-change advancements in motor efficiency to help reach your sustainability goals.
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Software-centric automation drives the Industries of the Future
Humans power industries of all kinds, bringing irreplaceable skills like judgment, reasoning, and imagination to the table. With intuitive, agnostic, and end-to-end software on their side, there’s no limit to what industrial workers can achieve.
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Seizing the digital opportunity
An industrial software action plan.
Read now Take control of industrial digital transformation
Explore the keys to a successful digital transformation in heavy process industries.
Download our white paperSmart software for smart factories
See how we put software to work in our own smart factories and distribution centers.
Awards and recognitions
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Supply chains have faced new levels of disruption, and businesses have had to work hard to bolster supply chain resilience and agility to meet customer demands, while simultaneously striving to deliver on their sustainability goals. In 2022, Schneider Electric ranked #2 in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25, up two places from the year prior.
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Awarded for our “self-healing” supply chain platform which is driven by adaptive machine learning for real-time optimization of performance measures including safety, stock quantity, minimum order quantities, and lead times.
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Our partner AVEVA™ was named a leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). AVEVA’s MES solutions help maximize profitability, flexibility, quality, and compliance for Industries of the Future.
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Accelerate your digital transformation journey with industry-tailored software built to enhance efficiency, productivity, and sustainability. Together with AVEVA and other leading software companies, we built our robust software portfolio to ensure a seamless and collaborative data flow through the entire operational lifecycle.
Sources
1Word in data (Oxford), 2020, Emissions by sector
2McKinsey, 2021, Covid-19: An inflection point for Industry 4.0
3IBM, 2023, X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023
4Randstad, 2022, Why is there a global labor shortage?
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How do digital transformation and next-generation automation create the Industries of the Future?
Well, Schneider Electric helps create the Industries of the Future by making manufacturing and process industries smarter, sustainable, more agile, and resilient through open, intuitive, agnostic, and end-to-end software-centric automation.
As an industrial automation technology leader with IIoT and data analytics expertise, we can help bring unprecedented flexibility and automation to each level of your industrial enterprise. We do this through connected products, edge control, and digital solutions that improve energy efficiency and lower carbon footprint.
EcoStruxure, our IIoT-enabled architecture and system, brings innovation and establishes an automation standard to be replicated in manufacturing and process industries including Food and Beverage, Water and Wastewater, Mining, Minerals and Metals, Energies and Chemicals, and Machine Control.
The Industries of the Future are leading unprecedented digitalization of industrial automation applications which rely on Schneider Electric for unlocking new business models that combine smart control, a digitally connected workforce, and optimized assets to drive operational profitability, safely.
Our strong agnostic software portfolio for Industries of the Future, in partnership with world-leading independent software companies such as AVEVA, brings digitalized energy and automation to empower you to design, build, operate, and maintain an unbroken data flow across the entire lifecycle.
We can offer digital twin technologies that combine powerful simulations and analytics in a virtual, software-led environment which brings to life your data for better performance, promising significant business benefits.
Our scalable solutions help the Industries of the Future achieve strategic data management for agile and optimized operations, collaborative energy management through digital communities for efficiency and sustainability, and improvements in industrial safety and cybersecurity standards through improved bypass methods and the latest IIoT technology.
Schneider Electric collaborates with the Industries of the Future to develop universal automation solutions with plug-and-produce automation software components, open operating platforms, and control automation engineering to create the products that shape our everyday lives.