Consumer-packaged goods, logistics, water and wastewater industrial automation improves IT integration with Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Automation Expert version 22.0
May 30 2022 - 9:00AM
- World’s first software-centric industrial automation system
delivers step-change advancements in operational flexibility,
productivity, and ROI
HANNOVER, GERMANY – May 30,
2022 – Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital
transformation of energy management and automation, today announced
version 22.0 of EcoStruxure™ Automation Expert, further enhancing
the capabilities of the world’s first software-centric universal
automation system.
Beijing Jingkelun selected EcoStruxure Automation
Expert to easily meet flucatating market challenges
Consumer-packaged goods, logistics, water and
wastewater operations now have next generation automation
capabilities and unrivaled operational flexibility with EcoStruxure
Automation Expert v22.0. including:
- expanded libraries for segment functions and energy management
devices
- enhanced user experience (UX) in the build time tool
- fortified built-in cybersecurity
- support for additional engineering input formats, including
DEXPI (ISO15926 based) and Excel
- Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and
Spanish language support and enhanced documentation
Importantly, the solution also provides end to
end digital continuity through close integration with AVEVA
applications. EcoStruxure Automation Expert can connect to AVEVA
Engineering and import plant design data for automated bulk
engineering. It also enables scalable visualization for the
enterprise control room by integration with AVEVA System
Platform
Decoupling automation software from
hardwareEcoStruxure Automation Expert provides increased
flexibility and control by enabling automation software to be
separated from the hardware, providing freedom for all enterprises
to break their dependency on proprietary industrial automation.
“EcoStruxure Automation Expert provides us with
the digital thread through our operations that we need to become as
efficient as possible,” said Quanjiang Wang, General Manager,
Jingkelun. “By decoupling hardware and software, we can analyze,
edit, or update systems effectively and provide our
customers with the level of flexibility they need. EcoStruxure
Automation Expert, with its open, vendor-agnostic approach, has
changed the very nature of automation software.”
Beijing Jingkelun, the high-tech business
specializing in the research, development, and construction of
green intelligent cold chain storage, selected EcoStruxure
Automation Expert to meet continuously fluctuating market
challenges. The business wanted to react to market opportunities
and changes in real-time while also decreasing commissioning and
maintenance costs. They also wanted to leverage new technologies to
advance service and capabilities and protect their installed base
investments.
With EcoStruxure Automation Expert, Beijing
Jingkelun achieved:
- 30% savings of commissioning time and ease of maintenance
- holistic system management of heterogeneous systems through
orchestration
- locked access to function blocks source code
- efficient “wrap and reuse” of automation objects
Universal automation digital
ecosystemIn addition to providing digital continuity and
seamless integration with complementary software, EcoStruxure
Automation Expert also enables different entities, whether internal
or external, to work together to create the best solution to solve
specific market challenges.
EcoStruxure Automation Expert is the world’s
first universal automation solution and part of an ecosystem that
works similarly to an app store for automation where vendors, end
users, and OEMs share a common automation software layer across
their technology. This technological collaboration is driving the
development of portable, interoperable, “plug and produce”
automation solutions that industrial enterprises can easily
integrate regardless of brand.
Since its introduction in late 2020, EcoStruxure
Automation Expert has received numerous recognitions and awards for
innovation and product excellence. Most recently, EcoStruxure
Automation Expert was the recipient of the 2022 Engineer’s Choice
Award for Software: MES, MOM.
“Our customers continue to call EcoStruxure
Automation Expert a ‘game changer’ for industrial automation
engineering and operation,” said Fabrice Jadot, Senior Vice
President, Next Generation Automation, Schneider Electric.
“Industrial flexibility and sustainability have never been more
important, given today’s highly volatile market. With EcoStruxure
Automation Expert, our industrial enterprise customers are driving
towards 100% engineering efficiency, ready for 100% effectiveness,
and now 100% future proof.”
EcoStruxure Automation Expert v22.0 is the next
in an ongoing series of updates and enhancements that Schneider
Electric delivers to the market at least twice a year.
Schneider Electric was recognized as the world’s most
sustainable corporation in 2021 by Corporate Knights Global 100
Index.
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