Schneider Electric Doubles Down on Sustainable, Digital Industrial Transformation at Hannover Messe

Schneider Electric

• Company will unveil new technologies to tackle energy demand and help industries meet net-zero commitments
• Will showcase new and integrated electrical digital twin platform from ETAP, and cutting-edge industrial software from AVEVA

HANNOVER, GERMANY / ACCESSWIRE / June 2, 2023 / Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, will unveil an array of new technologies and software solutions at Hannover Messe 2023 to help industries address the global priorities of energy security, resource efficiency, and sustainability.

"We are at a unique moment in history, where the global goal of carbon neutrality is meeting the short-term need to mitigate the energy crisis," said Barbara Frei, Executive Vice President, Industrial Automation at Schneider Electric. "We have an unprecedented opportunity to tackle these issues, but it requires a mindset shift and the right tools. We must take a holistic view of energy investment, addressing both efficiency and the move to clean-energy generation. The digitalization, automation, and electrification technologies we will showcase at Hannover Messe are proof that solutions to the challenges we face exist here and now."

Hannover Messe is the world's premier trade fair for industry, and it takes place in Hannover, Germany, from April 17 to 21 this year. The innovations Schneider Electric is announcing at the event span its IoT-enabled, plug-and-play, open, interoperable architecture and platform, EcoStruxure, to drive efficiency in industries. They include:

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• EcoStruxure Automation Expert V23.0: The world's first software-centric industrial automation system now delivers software-based redundant automation solutions for the water desalination market. This extends the EcoStruxure Automation Expert portfolio to become the single control software platform that brings convergence across machine, hybrid, and process industrial operations. New features in V23.0 include enhanced integration with AVEVA System Platform to reuse graphics from existing applications for faster system design, and a new graphical editor for procedural automation which improves operational effectiveness. The new release brings multi-OS compatibility with the EcoStruxure Automation Expert HMI and archive now available on Linux, in addition to Windows, which allows users to develop similar objects across all compatible operating systems.

"The combination of EcoStruxure Automation Expert and a PC-based high-availability solution continues the trend of automation becoming more software-based and more hardware-agnostic," said Alicia Pérez Ballester, Manager of Automation, Systems & Process Optimization at Acciona Water Solutions, a long-term customer and partner of Schneider Electric in this space. "Such an approach can bring concrete benefits to our projects both in the design phase and during operations."