Schneider Electric Universal Automation User Manual

Universal Automation
A call for change
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The IT world has moved on from proprietary operating systems. Now it’s industry’s turn.
The future of industry is wide open
Schneider Electric calling it universal automation and it will forever change the way we automate operations.
believes the time is right for a bold move in industrial automation. We’re
Universal automation is the world of plug-and-produce automation software components (think app store) enabled by the IEC 61499 standard.
We believe “open automation” as it exists today is not open enough. We believe interoperable and portable application software is an essential enabler for next-generation industries.
We believe broad adoption of universal automation will unleash a wave of unbounded innovation and usher in a new era of à la carte automation where cost/performance is optimized by integrating best-of-breed components without regard to vendor.
We believe industrial enterprises will embrace this ever-growing automation app marketplace to realize step-change improvements in eciency and sustainability we could only dream of a decade ago.
And we believe businesses will thrive with universal automation that fluidly adapts to our changing world to better transform humanity through the food we eat, the technology we use, the products we consume, the work we do, and the environment we live in.
This is NOT business as usual.
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Executive Summary
Current industrial automation system architecture has done a good job of advancing industry to where we are today, but to fully realize the promise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we need to fundamentally change our technology model.
It is time to release the constraints we have learned to accept: Big engineering efforts, lack of modularization, and barriers that inhibit adaptability and bog down innovation.
We can create step-change operational improvements with an open, standard-based architecture and a plug-and-produce application ecosystem capable of keeping up with the speed of doing business in the digital world.
Will you be part of the universal automation future?
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À la Carte Automation
A digital world
We are now living in a true digital economy. Technological innovations and the internet have forever changed how the business of the world gets done.
At the same time, the recent pandemic and resulting global economic disruption has served as a “wake up call” for industrial enterprises to no longer postpone much-needed operational advancements in automation and digitalization. Even established companies that were once perceived to be immune from market fluctuations are finding themselves challenged by unprecedented global dynamics and by newcomers who are embracing digital technologies to create agile businesses that better serve the modern world.
No one company can navigate these conditions alone. Persisting in this new world requires an extended ecosystem of partners collaborating to succeed. It’s time for universal automation.
For manufacturing enterprises, the epidemic has
simply exposed problems and risks that already
existed. As such, it might force industry to undertake
much needed reforms to automation, digitalization
and logistics processes and systems.”
Control Engineering, 2020
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What future do we want?
In a digital world, industrial organizations thrive by seamlessly adapting to ever-changing market conditions on both the supply and demand sides. By embracing innovative technologies along with sustainability goals, companies can easily accommodate new business opportunities while also conserving energy and natural resources.
Operations respond fluidly and cost-effectively to evolving market demands, to real-time
price fluctuations in energy and raw materials, and to highly dynamic and greatly shortened product lifecycles.
Plants and processes are fully optimized for efficiency, reliability, productivity, and
sustainability, supported by a flexible, intrinsically cybersecure digital automation platform.
Manual tasks are fully automated freeing the industrial workforce to use intuitive technology
and easy to understand analytics to make smart, real-time decisions that create unprecedented business value.
Innovations such as augmented reality, remote management tools, and predictive maintenance
ensure that plants and processes are ready for 100% effectiveness. Return on OpEx and CapEx spend is quickly realized.
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