November 26, 2018, Beijing, China - Recently, the fourth China Manufacturing Power Forum was held, which was co-organized by the Economic Observer and CCTV's "Quality" column. Schneider Electric, a global leader in the digital transformation of energy efficiency management and automation, attended the event and won the "China Manufacturing Power Forum - Top 10 Quality Outstanding Contribution Award" for the second consecutive year.
November 26, 2018, Beijing, China - Recently, the fourth China Manufacturing Power Forum was held, which was co-organized by the Economic Observer and CCTV's "Quality" column. Schneider Electric, a global leader in the digital transformation of energy efficiency management and automation, attended the event and won the "China Manufacturing Power Forum - Top 10 Quality Outstanding Contribution Award" for the second consecutive year. Mr. Pang Xingjian, senior Vice President of Schneider Electric and head of the Industrial Division in China, represented the company, and Mr. Zhou Changyi, former Director of the Department of Raw Material Industry and the Department of Energy Conservation of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Mr. Qu Xianming, Director of the Manufacturing Office of the Strategic Consulting Center of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and member of the National Manufacturing Power Construction Strategy Advisory Committee, Wang Zhonghong, president of China Economic Times, and other guests jointly discussed the topic of "Manufacturing upgrade password and Industrial transformation momentum" and shared the relevant insights and practices of Schneider Electric.
"With the extensive and deep application of information technology and the continuous emergence of new models and new forms of business, the world is accelerating construction." In the era of industrial economy, the most important factors and driving force are capital and technology, while in the era of digital economy, it is data. We need to activate advanced production factors to reduce general production factors, and data is the most important representative, and the integration of data and management + technology + professional knowledge will become an important means to drive economic development." Speaking of the upgrade of Made in China, Pang Xingjian pointed out that "In this new era, customized production will become a prominent feature of the manufacturing industry, and the ability to flexibly adapt to the rapidly changing market environment to enhance competitiveness and profitability is a change that Chinese manufacturing enterprises need to make." The integration and innovation of OT and IT technologies, and the gradual maturity of the industrial Internet will drive the networked dynamic allocation of manufacturing resources in the whole society, make the manufacturing system move from closed to open, thus accelerating the transformation of the manufacturing industry to a data-driven innovation system and development model, and build a new manufacturing ecology."
In the era of digital economy, the manufacturing industry is undergoing new changes. Schneider Electric is relying on advanced information technologies such as mobility, sensing, big data, cloud and security, and the EcoStruxure architecture for the industrial market based on the Internet of Things, to help manufacturing enterprises achieve innovation and transformation and upgrading at the level of interconnected products, edge control, application, analysis and service. At present, Schneider Electric's transparent Factory TM solution based on EcoStuxure architecture for the industrial market has many successful practices in the Chinese market, including Yili, Shenlong Automobile, Hanwei Electronics, Jinwang Group, etc. In addition, for its outstanding performance in successfully applying Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to modern production, Schneider Electric's Le Vaudreuil plant in France was awarded by the World Economic Forum in Davos during its 12th Annual Meeting of the New Champions as one of the nine most advanced "beacon factories" in the global manufacturing sector. The Schneider Electric plant in Wuhan, China, was rated as a "lighthouse factory" in development, providing a successful example for China and other countries to build smart factories.
During the conference, the Chinese Academy of Engineering released the "2018 China's Powerful Country Development Index Report". The report compares the manufacturing power composite index of nine countries, including the United States, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, South Korea, India, Brazil and China, and summarizes and prospects the development process of China's manufacturing power from 2012 to 2017. The report points out that the process of manufacturing power in the nine countries is "generally good, the index fluctuates frequently, and the pattern is basically stable"; Among the late developing countries, China and South Korea have experienced rapid exponential growth, and the gap with strong countries has been narrowing. The overall international competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry has achieved sustained and steady growth. The process of China's manufacturing power presents an overall situation of "strengthening the advantages of scale development, urgently improving the quality and efficiency, arduous task of structural optimization, and challenges to sustainable development".
