When custom coke, custom watches these in a single mass production era is seen as a fable or no necessary gradually becomes the norm, when the mass consumer goods companies springing up with the new business model, in the short term that is beyond the traditional mode of more than 10 years or longer to get success, manufacturers of anxiety is growing.

"With the rapid integration of industry into digital transformation, the limitations of traditional manufacturing are becoming more and more obvious.

How to connect markets and manufacturers digitally by means of digital means to achieve flexibility, innovation, and customer demand is very important for manufacturing enterprises.
At schneider electric (China) co., LTD., vice President of industrial business, China head of OEM business, pang xingjian, thinks that this is the original intention of schneider electric to build a digital ecology.
"We want to connect the user market, the supply chain and the enterprise internally to form end-to-end connectivity.

Empower the entire manufacturing industry

Digital ecosystem for schneider electric is not a new concept, the past few years the automation and management of energy efficiency products and solutions have been implemented enterprise value chain multiple coverage and penetration of latitude.
The introduction of EcoStruxureTM provides a new carrier for the whole manufacturing industry.

EcoStruxure is an open network architecture, industrial use of connectivity products, border control, as well as the application, analysis and three levels of service innovation, formed from the connection, the collected analysis, the action of the closed loop.
Pang XingJian tells a reporter, EcoStruxure is a standard architecture, in view of the industrial, building, infrastructure, data center four terminal market and building, power distribution, information technology, machine, factory, complete reunification of six major professional in the field of grid architecture, and schneider electric's hardware and software products, solutions and comprehensive service through which the upstream and downstream vendors, partners, and application developers also based on the architecture of platform and connected.

Schneider electric also aimed at the general problem of talent shortage in manufacturing enterprises, which opened the "luban" program, which is a key point of building ecological system.
Schneider electric and professional colleges and universities set up the digital training center, through a variety of forms such as online and offline, lets the student in addition to master the teaching plan of course, there will be more opportunities to learn knowledge and skills needed to in the industry.
Technical experts in teachers or enterprises can create content. After certification, the course content can be passed to students through training platform.
Training content in addition to the theoretical knowledge, also has a lot of practical operation, we have learned, schneider electric is considering with partners to some of the latest Internet practice in the teaching process, change the one-way teaching form, through innovative interactive teaching to attract more students' interest and operating personnel.
At present, schneider electric has signed a cooperation and jiangsu a vocational colleges, more than a dozen colleges and universities during the period of GongBoHui representative to inspect the progress and achievements of "ban" plan, soon after multiple projects will also gradually entered the stage of practice.

Accelerate vertical industry exploration

In the construction of ecological system, a company can't finish all the things, in addition to system integrators, partners, and inevitably requires the user to the depth of participation, "each the process technology of the industry, the demand for manufacturing capacity is different, we can't understand his industry more than the customer, but we must be able to the development of different industries to match customers' requirements."
In fact, schneider electric has been in a joint industry partners, actively expand industry solution ability, and in modern agriculture, engineering machinery, light industry equipment industry has made significant achievements.

Schneider electric to OEM, for example, machinery and equipment manufacturers to launch the Machine Advisor consultant service platform, digital Machine using existing large amounts of data interface connecting equipment distribution all over the world, and obtain the real-time data, through Ethernet, mobile network and bluetooth mode to transmit data to the cloud, such as data storage, processing, display, ultimately achieve operational optimization, business intelligence, etc.
Schneider electric and partners have developed several vertical solutions such as digital mixing station and mushroom planting based on machine consulting platform to help customers solve various practical problems effectively.

Against some of the industry is more and more strict regulation and compliance requirements, EcoStruxure to food and beverage, pharmaceutical industry, technology, quality, personnel, equipment, materials, environment and other full traceability data, ensure the production environment, production process and product quality full compliance.
The strict security mechanism of schneider electric on hardware and cloud services eliminates the security concerns of enterprises in intelligent manufacturing or digital transformation, ensuring the smooth implementation of the project.

 "Almost every project schneider electric has implemented in the field of intelligent manufacturing has been completed with users and partners," said ms pang.
At present, more than 4,000 industrial systems integrators have helped schneider electric transform industry user knowledge into APP.
"We also want to have more partners to join, based on the EcoStruxure architecture, combined with schneider electric's existing software, industrial cloud services and other tools to create more application value."

 The inevitable path of digital transformation

 In the eyes of pang xingjian, the creation of digital ecology is also the time to do it.
In a digital age, no data is unworkable, and a large amount of data can't be turned into an asset if it is only deposited in the enterprise and not effectively utilized.
"In a highly competitive environment, who can better meet the needs of customers, who can flexible to the market, who can win the market, the platform of the openness and compatibility of data are the embodiment of the core competitiveness.
A closed enterprise will undoubtedly be very difficult in the process of change.

 The openness of EcoStruxure provides an important foundation for schneider electric to connect with partners.
System in the past, a user can use all kinds of hardware, if different data interface to the hardware, data format, communication protocol, the user must use third party software to the data acquisition, and then to analysis and application, this way of extensibility is poor.
And through schneider electric's system platform, the enterprise can connect the original soft and hardware, to expand or upgrade the installed factory, which will undoubtedly bring great convenience.
Schneider electric is not dependent on the hardware and software for all hardware are all in the same openness and compatibility, the connectivity products layer to bring more flexibility, user or integrator can choose the appropriate forms for equipment integration, after by schneider electric in the edge of the control and application, analysis, and the service level to help them get through.

 "For partners and integrators, a stable, open and efficient platform is one of the strong backing of their application development and industry capabilities."
Ms. Pang believes that the role of EcoStruxure is just that.

 At present, schneider electric has been in the logistics, electronics, packaging, food and beverage and other key industries actively promote the construction of ecological system, because the industry which is closely linked with the national economy and people's livelihood iteration speed is very fast, innovation, change and innovation driving force of the strong.
Of course, schneider electric is not backward in traditional industries.
In fact, most of the Chinese enterprises currently deploying the industrial Internet platform are in the traditional industry, and schneider electric has established close cooperation with many traditional industries.

 Building a platform or setting up an ecologic cycle is the most difficult, and the front line will be more and more smooth.
Future, schneider electric's goal is to apply industry and digital integration, combined with the user, the partners make industry competitive power, to help Chinese enterprises in the tide of intelligent and digital.