Gary Mintchell's Feed Forward

Schneider Electric announced its PlantStruxure architecture, a new collaborative system that allows industrial and infrastructure companies to meet their automation needs and at the same time deliver on growing energy management requirements. The system offers flexible, scalable and collaborative architectures that are the building blocks for manufacturing and process within Schneider Electric’s comprehensive EcoStruxure energy management architecture portfolio.

EcoStruxure allows organizations to improve energy efficiencies across multiple domains of business including process automation. PlantStruxure integrates bothagement solution that allows companies to optimize their energy usage and drive maximum efficiency within their operations while also improving productivity.

PlantStruxure combines a platform from the Citect software acquisition along with manufacturing automation, building automation and electrical power products and expertise. On top of these are support for a variety of networks, especially Ethernet-based technologies.