Mexico. Schneider Electric opened in recent days its first smart factory in Mexico, a showcase for customers and partners to witness how digital transformation can help them make informed and data-driven decisions that produce better profitability, asset management performance, operational efficiency and a smarter productive workforce while keeping operations safe, agile and environmentally sustainable.
Schneider Electric integrates its EcoStruxure solutions spanning connected products into its manufacturing operations to showcase the value of transitioning to a smart factory and how easy it is to start your digitalization journey.
Smart factories form a central component in your own digital transformation of the Tailored Sustainable Connected 4.0 supply chain within your Global Supply Chain organization, where you leverage digitalization to provide end-to-end integration and visibility across all supply chain operations to improve overall performance.
With EcoStruxure domains, the Smart Factory in Monterrey expects several productive benefits including:
• Reduced maintenance costs by 20%, while increasing overall equipment efficiency by 7%.
• Agile management and process efficiency, with a return on investment of less than 1 year through process efficiency.
• Transparency and visibility across all plant operations.
• Increased process efficiency by more than 10%.
• Implementation in the most critical machines such as the painting system, the welding robot, the line of panel boards where critical variables are monitored; receives alarms and collects data to avoid unexpected breakdowns.
• Reduction of maintenance time.
• Significant improvement of safety during maintenance intervention through the Augmented Operator Advisor.
• Energy efficiency: an additional 10% savings at an already optimized level of consumption.
• Reduction of CO2 in the foot of 377 tons.
• Performance and reliability of assets: optimization of the maintenance of the management of the facilities of 10%, in labor costs and spare parts.
• Increased preventive vs corrective maintenance.
Note: Illustration image only, does not belong to the new headquarters – Taken from Facebook.
