Schneider Electric accelerates its AI at Scale strategy with solid progress in the first year
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RUEIL-MALMAISON, France, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
- 12 months ago the company launched its AI at Scale strategy and global AI Hub
focused on data and analytics, led by Chief AI Officer Philippe Rambach
- Schneider Electric sees solid foundations for creating new value and
capturing savings and efficiency
Schneider Electric [https://www.se.com/uk/en/], the leader in the digital
transformation of energy management and automation, announces the progress made
on its AI at Scale strategic initiative. With more than 200 people onboard in
AI roles since 2021, the company has strengthened its foundations for enabling
new revenue streams, savings, and efficient ways of working.
Over the past year, Schneider Electric has accelerated the momentum of AI by:
- Appointing its first Chief AI Officer, Philippe Rambach
- Implementing an AI hub and spoke operating model globally
- Bringing 200+ AI and data experts onboard
- Submitting 18 AI technology patents
- Enhancing 15 solutions with AI capabilities
- Developing 20+ internal AI applications
- Launching an AI knowledge base
[https://www.se.com/ww/en/about-us/artificial-intelligence/knowledge-base.jsp]
on se.com/ai
The AI Hub partners with all Schneider Electric business units and functions to
address the most pressing customer challenges and prioritize AI use cases with
the highest customer value. Focused on efficiency and sustainability, it has
been working to further develop AI applications in the field of
electrification, automation, and decarbonization, such as microgrid management,
alarm management, and HVAC optimization for buildings, electric vehicles (EV)
management, smart charging, asset management, and many more. Offers such as
EcoStruxure Resource Advisor, EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor or EcoStruxure
Autonomous Production Advisor, are a few examples of AI-enabled Schneider
Electric offers.
AI for sustainability
"At Schneider Electric, we observe a great demand from our customers to
leverage data for operational efficiency, electrification, and automation. The
growing energy costs make many of them turn to
AI applications to manage, predict and optimize their energy consumption", said
Peter Weckesser, Chief Digital Officer at Schneider Electric. "We apply AI to
enhance data-driven decision making, agility and decarbonization. It has never
been more visible that resource efficiency and energy sobriety boost the
company's profitability".
First year of service of the Chief AI Officer
"The AI by Schneider Electric is AI for good. We challenge it with the biggest
problem of our generation – climate change.", said Philippe Rambach, Chief AI
Officer at Schneider Electric. "It has been my first year in this role, and I
am happy to discover and further develop the AI foundation of many of our
products and services. Our customers rely on us to help them solve their
challenges at scale, and they recognize that our advanced AI technologies and
domain expertise make Schneider Electric the right partner in these difficult
times.
Internal AI applications
On the internal efficiency side, the Schneider AI Hub and Spokes partner with
all teams to unburden employees from day-to-day manual activities, allowing
them to dedicate more time to customers, data analysis, continuous improvement,
and real-time decision making.
Among internal AI applications, the company launched a virtual sales assistant,
which offers an entire ecosystem of connected tools supporting sales efficiency
with data-driven recommendations. It provides custom actionable insights such
as product recommendations, ordering patterns, or product decommissioning.
The AI Hub is currently developing applications in the field of customer
support, finance, global supply chain, sales, HR, and more, which are all
expected to enable significant efficiency and savings by 2025.
About Schneider Electric
Schneider's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and
resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is
On.
Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency.
We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy
technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and
services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management,
for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.
We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards
and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful
Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.
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SOURCE: Schneider Electric
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