Schneider Electric unveiled the 1024 Programmer's Day to explore the deep integration of digitalization and industrial automation

Changsha, China, October 25, 2021 – The second China 1024 Programmers' Festival, with the theme of "Open Source, Open Computing Empowerment and Opening a New Era of Digital Economy", was grandly opened, focusing on new achievements and trends in advanced computing, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, intelligent manufacturing, autonomous driving, databases, operating systems and other fields. Schneider Electric was invited to attend and present its latest achievement in the deep collision of digitalization and industrial automation, the open EcoStruxure Automation Expert, sharing the vision of promoting digital cooperation and digital transformation in the industrial field with open and innovative ideas.

In the congratulatory letter from the Chinese government to the Wuzhen Summit of the 2021 World Internet Conference, it proposed to "build a digital cooperation pattern" and promote the development of the digital economy in the direction of openness, inclusiveness, inclusiveness, balance and win-win results. At present, the Internet, big data, cloud computing, AI, 5G and other technologies are integrating into and accelerating the digital transformation of the industrial field. The need for interoperability, programming, and reuse porting between different brands of solutions has increased dramatically, and industrial companies are looking to be able to use automation systems that increase productivity and deploy more flexibly that match the speed of business change. As a digital transformation expert in the field of global energy management and automation, Schneider Electric has been committed to building an industrial digital cooperation pattern with open, green and intelligent innovative technologies, and continuously empowering the digital transformation of china and the world.

Wang Yong, Chief Information Security Officer of Schneider Electric China, said: "The EcoStruxure open automation platform is a model of deep integration of digitalization and industrial automation, and its core lies in openness and inclusiveness, helping manufacturers to promote industrial automation through digitalization and ultimately achieve step-by-step improvement. This platform provides a good soil for digital cooperation in the industrial field. We hope to work with more manufacturers, enterprises and programmers and developers to build an ecosystem, so that this innovative technology can benefit more enterprises and contribute to the high-quality development of China's industry. ”

Yong Wang, Chief Information Security Officer, Schneider Electric China

In recent years, the great creativity displayed by IT talents represented by programmers and developers has received more and more attention and promoted the change of the times. Among them, open automation, which contains a huge market and has an open spirit, has become the focus of attention. In the theme forum of "1024 Programmers' Day" and "Industrial Internet & The Technical Force Behind Intelligent Manufacturing", many automation talents will conduct in-depth discussions on open automation.

In the industrial sector, traditional control systems mostly use language specifications based on the international standard IEC 61131-3, and it is urgent to adapt to the current needs of enterprise digitalization and cloud-edge integration, and transform them into more productive, more flexible and can match the speed of current business changes. The EcoStruxure open automation platform, a next-generation industrial automation system based on IEC 61499, presented by Schneider Electric, has been highly recognized and paid attention to by the participants due to its openness and high efficiency:

Dramatically improve engineering efficiency by eliminating low-value engineering tasks in the automation development process, shortening engineering design time, so that engineers can spend more time focusing on innovation;

Efficient encapsulation and reuse of automation objects to ensure innovators can make the most of existing resources and easily update and upgrade;

Native support for the convergence of IT and OT systems, enabling industrial companies to achieve unprecedented operational excellence;

The decoupling of hardware and software, regardless of vendor-specific hardware, facilitates innovators to better achieve portability, configurability and interoperability of application software.

The EcoStruxure open automation platform has now been upgraded to V21.2 to support more industrial scenarios, such as full lifecycle management services for water and wastewater treatment plants. As a software-centric automation system, the EcoStruxure open automation platform seamlessly integrates IT and OT capabilities, greatly enhancing security, extending system life, and enabling continuous upgrades. As an open automation solution, the EcoStruxure open automation platform can be upgraded to existing hardware, and its virtual controller can run on any Windows or Linux edge computing device, bringing unprecedented flexibility to industrial enterprises and programmers.

In addition, Schneider Electric is actively promoting the EcoStruxure open automation platform to empower automation scenarios in more industries through innovative practices: In the edge control track of the first edge computing developer competition jointly hosted by Schneider Electric and Intel, developers can deploy logistics industry solutions by using the EcoStruxure open automation platform, win a number of rewards including bonus incentives, supply and demand docking and incubation support, and participate in the "open automation + industry" in practice.

It is reported that the final of the edge control track of the first edge computing developer competition will be held on December 7-8 at the Interroll Suzhou Factory Test Center, schneider Electric sincerely invites more developers to participate in this event that deeply combines open automation and industrial scenarios, contributing to the future industrial vision of digitalization, openness and sustainable development.