Schneider Electric to Showcase Exciting 2025 Offerings Reshaping Automation at SPS Fair

 is a high-speed industrial robot designed for diverse industries like battery manufacturing, electronics, warehousing, and consumer packaging. The robot offers fast and precise movements, making it ideal for tasks such as machine loading and unloading, pick-and-place, assembly and material handling applications. Notably 40% smaller than comparable robots, it optimizes floor space and automates repetitive tasks, enhancing production line efficiency. Lexium Scara integrates seamlessly with a unified control system and can be virtually designed and tested using the EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin digital twin solution, speeding up time-to-market and reducing cost-of-ownership.

EcoStruxure Edge compute ecosystem is a complete edge compute apps ecosystem with an Edge Manager for centralized deployment and monitoring across multiple hardware devices. It operates with Linux-based Edge Runtime, delivering fast and efficient deployment through zero-touch automatic on-boarding. Individual Services and Connectivity Edge apps provide advanced data collection, computation, and analytics at machine or plant level, leveraging AI for fast return on investment. With a flexible approach, users can build solutions themselves or via Schneider Electric. The pre-defined solutions for Asset Performance, Product Quality and Operation Optimization are cybersecure, scalable, and suitable for various industries such as Water and Wastewater, Food & Beverage, Life Sciences, Mining, and Oil & Gas. They are all designed to be compliant with the future open interoperable edge standard Margo.

CONNECT: The continued evolution of CONNECT enables new levels of innovation. AVEVA further expands the CONNECT platform with a broad range of new use cases such as data sharing, digital twin visualization and AI and Analytics, in support of its extensive partner ecosystem. When it comes to design, teams can now move from sequential workflows to real-time collaboration and community data sharing via CONNECT, reducing discrepancies and accelerating innovation. For operations, Data management capabilities now enable a new ecosystem and use cases including AI-powered analytics for quality and production optimization. Customers can take advantage of pre-defined and self-service editable dashboards to holistically visualize complex interactions. The combination of AI and visualization allows them to investigate issues, solve problems, and gain actionable insights for optimizing production and the business. Users have access to purpose-built AI capabilities for optimizing production throughput, quality and sustainability metrics. Last but not least, new write-back capabilities from CONNECT to AVEVA PI Server enable real-time collaboration between operations experts and other stakeholders such as analysts and data scientists. Customers are already achieving breakthrough results in productivity, quality, uptime and cost savings when they integrate their industrial data from the edge, the plant and the cloud using CONNECT.

SEE Electrical 3D Panel, an ETAP Software, revolutionizes the way of designing and manufacturing electrical cabinets, switchboards and panels. It allows you to design and manufacture electrical cabinets by using a professional and intuitive interface using data from electrical projects made in SEE Electrical software or from any other electrical cad systems. This leads to streamlined design integration, improved quality by streamlining the flow of electrical diagrams with cabinet layouts design with using the same electrical database, It is also a key tool to improved production automatization and productivity thanks to automatic functions, like wire routing and automatic generation of wire manufacturing lists easy to import in any cable preparation machine on the market.

Speaking on the upcoming showcase, Ali Haj Fraj, SVP Digital Factory at Schneider Electric, expressed enthusiasm about the company's commitment to driving technological advancements. "We are excited to provide a glimpse into our future-ready innovations at the SPS Fair. Our 2025 offerings embody our dedication to empowering businesses with automation solutions that are not only cutting-edge but also help them to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.”
 
“The market for distributed I/O is being driven by digital transformation, which is rapidly increasing demand for additional manufacturing data to support analytics, AI, virtualization, asset management and predictive maintenance, the industrial internet of things (IIoT), digital twins and simulation, augmented and virtual reality, and IT and OT convergence," said Craig Resnick, vice president, ARC Advisory Group.“

However, distributed I/O must be designed to be sustainable, support open I/O protocols, future proofed, and certified to be operationally resilient, such as IEC62443-4 for cybersecurity, and internal busses based on OPC UA over TSN, all while meeting vigorous industrial standards and certifications regarding temperature, harsh, severe and hazardous operating environments, vibration, and electromagnetic compatibility. Schneider Electric’s new Modicon Edge I/O NTS next generation distributed IP20 I/O system meets these market and design requirements and will provide its users with a solution that will help to accelerate their digital transformation journey.”