The 2023 Forbes China Sustainable Development Summit brings together experts from industries, universities and research institutes in the field of sustainable development to conduct in-depth discussions on the two major topics of sustainable development and digital transformation. Xu Juan, Director of Strategy and Business Development Dual Carbon and Sustainability at Schneider Electric, was invited to attend the theme forum “How Low-carbon Digital Transformation enables industrial enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency”, and shared cutting-edge ideas and many successful practices that empower customers and ecological partners to move towards efficient and sustainable development. Schneider Electric believes that digitalization is the “best weapon” to achieve dual transformation, applying digital innovation to its own factories and upstream and downstream enterprises, and reducing energy consumption in China’s supply chain by 12.4% in the past three years. Through digital technology, Schneider Electric creates an end-to-end green supply chain covering green design, green procurement, green production, green delivery and green operation and maintenance. For example, Wuxi Factory is awarded the World Economic Forum’s end-to-end “Lighthouse Factory” by virtue of the whole process innovation of the end-to-end value chain, setting a new benchmark for green intelligent manufacturing in China.

Aiming at the pain points of carbon reduction for upstream and downstream users in the industrial chain, Schneider Electric has set up a carbon neutral and sustainable development consulting team, launched sustainable development consulting services covering comprehensive solutions from top-level planning to implementation, from carbon neutral consulting services to hardware and software, and helped enterprises establish an efficient and sustainable development model. To date,

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Schneider Electric has successfully helped users achieve significant carbon reduction results, between 2018 and the third quarter of 2022, has helped customers worldwide reduce carbon emissions by 400 million tons, and plans to achieve a cumulative carbon reduction of 800 million tons by 2025. In the cement industry, which is in urgent need of energy saving, consumption reduction, and safe and stable production, Schneider Electric relies on EcoStruxure architecture to provide integrated software and hardware solutions including digital consulting and services, APC advanced process control system, EMS energy management system, enabling Qilanshan Cement to reduce its clinker standard coal consumption to less than 100 kg/ton per month. The annual energy saving cost is nearly 3.2 million yuan. In the energy efficiency two-carbon scenario, Schneider Electric and Deep Stone Zero Carbon Group in the Biosphere 3 – Dmeisha Vanke Center carbon neutral Experimental Park project, through consulting first, digital software and companion services, found the overall energy saving potential of 18%-22%, through continuous operation and maintenance can achieve 3% energy savings per year. Help Deep Stone Zero Carbon Group to achieve carbon neutrality in advance.

Recently, based on the in-depth research of more than 110 business executives in 14 fields, Schneider Electric released the report “To Evergreen – Carbon neutral and Sustainable Development Executive Insight”, which aims to outline a clear sustainable development path for enterprises and provide reference for carbon reduction ideas and programs. And put forward “strategic planning”, “organizational innovation”, “technological innovation”, “ecological empowerment” four steps to build sustainable development enterprises, embrace green “change”, to achieve a win-win economic and social benefits.

As an expert in digital transformation in the field of global energy management and automation, Schneider Electric adheres to sustainability as its core strategy, accelerating the pace of action from supplier “zero carbon program” to “carbon reduction master”, working with ecological partners to continue to explore and deepen industry applications, and help the overall industrial chain towards sustainability.