Schneider Electric's New Breakthrough in the Industrial Sector in 2025: Dual Wheel Drive of Technological Innovation and Sustainable Development

In 2025, Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, will continue to deepen its technological layout in the industrial sector. Through digital transformation, open automation ecosystem construction, and green intelligent manufacturing solutions, it will promote the evolution of global industry towards efficiency, low-carbon, and intelligence.

1、 Technological Innovation: Deep Integration of Open Automation and AI

● EcoStruxure Open Automation Platform Iterative Upgrade

At the 2025 Hanover Industrial Fair, Schneider Electric released the EcoStruxure open automation platform V25.0 version, which adds an industrial AI inference engine and a digital twin dynamic simulation module. This platform supports seamless integration of devices from multiple vendors through a modular software architecture, and has achieved a flexible production line efficiency improvement of over 25% in industries such as food and beverage and automotive manufacturing. For example, Budweiser beer has reduced the production line changeover time from 4 hours to 45 minutes and increased capacity utilization by 18% by deploying this platform.

● Deep coupling between AI algorithms and industrial scenarios

Based on the Global AI Hub and Shanghai AI Innovation Laboratory, Schneider Electric has developed a predictive maintenance algorithm library for industrial scenarios. In the field of data centers, Dalian Bank has adopted its AI cold station optimization solution, which has reduced the energy consumption of precision air conditioning at the end by 32% and lowered the PUE value from 1.6 to 1.28; In the process industry, Wanhua Chemical has achieved an annual carbon dioxide reduction of 12000 tons per production line through AI driven process parameter optimization.

● New electric operating mechanism patent landing

In May 2025, Schneider Electric was granted the patent of "electric operating mechanism and power switch" (CN222813433U) by the China National Intellectual Property Administration. This technology, through the linkage design of cam delay components and dual micro switches, achieves a 40% increase in the response speed of power switch opening and closing, with a stability of 99.999%. It has been widely applied in high reliability scenarios such as photovoltaic inverters and ultra-high voltage transmission.

2、 Market Expansion: Accelerating Strategic Layout in the Asia Pacific Region

According to the Q1 2025 financial report, Schneider Electric's revenue in the Asia Pacific region reached 2.54 billion euros (a year-on-year increase of 9.3%), with significant contributions from data center solutions. In India, the ultra large scale data center built for Reliance Jio adopts liquid cooling and microgrid technology, with a PUE value exceeding 1.15; In China, the Alibaba Zhangbei Data Center Phase III project applied its prefabricated power modules, reducing delivery time by 60% and TCO by 22%.

● The recovery of China's discrete automation market

With the high-end transformation of China's manufacturing industry, Schneider Electric has achieved three consecutive quarters of positive growth in its discrete automation business in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta. In the field of 3C electronics, its Lexium 18 series servo drives have helped a leading enterprise improve the accuracy of mobile phone assembly lines to ± 0.01mm; in the field of new energy equipment, the battery module laser welding workstation developed in cooperation with CATL has a welding yield of 99.997%.

● Ecological Partner Program Expansion

In 2025, Schneider Electric's "Industrial SI Alliance" global project will add 127 new partners, with Chinese enterprises accounting for 38%. In the Nanjing Keyuan Smart Cooperation, the two parties jointly developed an integrated control platform for "source network load storage", which has achieved multi energy complementarity of wind solar hydrogen storage in a chemical park in Jiangsu, with a green electricity consumption rate of 85%.

3、 Sustainable Development: Upgrading the Green Manufacturing System Again

● The network of 'zero carbon factories' continues to expand

As of Q1 2025, Schneider Electric has 58 "zero carbon factories" worldwide, including 3 new factories in China, including Beijing Yizhuang and Xiamen Torch Garden. The Xiamen factory achieves 100% renewable energy supply through the deployment of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) and green power trading, with an annual carbon reduction equivalent to planting 280000 trees.

● Deepening the circular economy model

At the 7th CIIE, Schneider Electric released the "White Paper on Carbon Management throughout the Life Cycle of Industrial Equipment", proposing the concept of "design is recycling". Its EcoFit adaptation and renovation service can improve the energy efficiency of old equipment by 30% and achieve a material recovery rate of 95%. For example, the 10kV medium voltage cabinet renovated for a certain steel enterprise achieved an annual energy saving of 1.2 million kWh through modular upgrading.

● Popularization of carbon footprint transparency tools

Schneider Electric has launched a blockchain based carbon footprint tracking platform, which has covered 12000 suppliers worldwide. In the automotive industry, BMW Group achieves real-time monitoring of supply chain carbon emissions data through this platform, reducing the carbon footprint of its Shenyang factory's single vehicle production by 19%.

From technological breakthroughs in open automation platforms, to deep penetration in the Asia Pacific market, and to the comprehensive implementation of green manufacturing systems, Schneider Electric is driving industrial transformation with a dual engine of "technology+ecology". Facing the dual opportunities of global energy transformation and digital economy, its 2025 strategy focuses on three major directions: accelerating the chemical reaction between AI and industrial scenarios, building a zero carbon industrial chain ecosystem, and promoting the integration ofnew power systems and industrial Internet. As Zhao Guohua, Chairman of Schneider Electric, said, "The future of industry lies in converting every kilowatt hour of electricity and every gram of carbon into quantifiable value, and our mission is to accelerate this process