China News Service, March 26. The 2024 Annual Meeting of the China Development Forum will be held on March 24-25, 2024. On the afternoon of March 25, the "Digital Empowerment Industrial Transformation Seminar" was held. Zhao Guohua, Chairman of Schneider Electric, said in his speech in the "Group Discussion 1" session that the integration of digital transformation and sustainable development includes not only optimization and upgrading of technology, but also transformation and development of society, which requires us to fully understand and enhance cooperation. Let’s meet the challenges of the digital revolution together.
Zhao Guohua said that digitalization is changing our lives and the way we work. We have entered the second stage of digitalization - the Internet of Everything. Schneider Electric looks at this problem from two sides. First, Schneider is a provider of digitalization in sustainable development, including clean electrification products, clean energy products, smart grids, smart cities, smart manufacturing, etc.; second, Schneider is also a large manufacturing company. Industrial factory, apply digital technology in the factory, and strive to build the factory into a "lighthouse factory", "transparent factory", "standard factory" and "green factory".
Zhao Guohua believes that digital transformation is not a simple evolution, but a real revolution. It affects two main factors of production: production efficiency and production sustainability, while also breaking down the silos of the past: between energy systems and processes, between machines and factory management, between supply and demand, and Islands in the life cycle, etc., through effective connection and empowerment of data, integrate resources and systems, and create a real-time ecosystem, making factories more dynamic, management more efficient, and innovation more valuable. Digitalization promotes efficiency improvements and also makes innovation more disruptive. There are five priority areas: first, the Internet of Everything, second, data structuring, third, data operation and its green development, etc., and fourth, optimization of processes and their digital Twins and models, five is digital security.
Zhao Guohua said that by applying digital empowerment, Schneider Electric has optimized processes, improved product quality, improved cooperation quality, reduced carbon emissions and costs, and achieved sustainable transformation and development. The integration of digital transformation and sustainable development includes not only optimization and upgrading at the technical level, but also transformation and development at the social level. We need to fully understand and enhance cooperation to jointly meet the challenges of the digital revolution.