Collaborative approach

Schneider Electric has announced the launch of its PlantStruxure architecture, a collaborative system that integrates both hardware and software components throughout the plant, offering flexible, scalable and collaborative architectures. It allows companies to optimise their energy use and drive efficiency within their operations while improving productivity.

Michel Crochon, executive vice president, industry business, Schneider Electric, says: "PlantStruxure breaks down information silos with open, standards-based technologies to drive speed and agility - helping users gain a competitive advantage. " The system allows easy collaboration between plant and operation managers, as well as engineering and maintenance teams through its powerful software suite combined with field proven hardware and open Ethernet-based technologies. It enables high process availability and offers redundancy and functional safety at each level of the architecture, to meet the needs of a wide range of industries.