Schneider Electric accelerates its AI at scale strategy
Lagos -- Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has announced the progress made on its AI at Scale strategic initiative. With more than 200 people onboard in AI roles since 2021, the company said it 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; implemented an AI hub and spoke operating model globally; brought 200+ AI and data experts onboard; submitted 18 AI technology patents; and enhanced 15 solutions with AI capabilities.
It has also developed 20+ internal AI applications and launched an AI knowledge base on se.com/ai
The AI hub partners with all Schneider Electric business units and functions to address the most pressing customer challenges and prioritise 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 decarbonisation, such as microgrid management, alarm management, and HVAC optimisation 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.
“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 optimise 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”.