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The factory modernization is gaining notice and realizing benefits. For example, Schneider Electric’s Le Vaudreuil factory in France was awarded by the World Economic Forum as one of the world’s top nine most advanced “lighthouse” sites applying Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale.
The factory has implemented tools such as EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor, which lets operators use augmented reality to speed up operation and maintenance, delivering between a 2% and 7% gain in productivity. The technology also provides up to 30% energy savings.
The digital transformation of Schneider’s factories has made the company more sustainable, more flexible in meeting customer demands, and more attractive to potential employees, Perducat said.
“Digital infrastructure in manufacturing has been an evolution over several decades, but we now have the tools to manage factory optimization strategies at the scale and speed to take a real-time approach to asset management and process optimization,” Perducat said.
With the digital transformation of its plants, Schneider Electric has seen work practices evolve quickly, and has seen many new tools appear in the working environment. These include automatic guided vehicles, tablets, and other mobile tools, augmented and virtual reality, and “cobots,” or robots that physically interact with humans in a shared workspace.
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