Schneider Electric EcoStruxure - digital services for machines.

The most pressing issues driving machine builders are faster time to market, optimal use of existing know-how, increasing productivity and reducing downtime. Key technologies in the areas of connectivity, mobility, cloud and analytics are being used to address these issues.

The technologies improve the use of existing resources, provide more flexibility, help with faster decision-making and enable new business models. It is important to consider the entire product life cycle. The development and production phase, the delivery and commissioning phase and the maintenance and service phase.

ExoStucture is a simple IIoT structure that is divided into three levels. The first level comprises the connected products, the next level comprises the edge controls and the top level comprises the applications and analyses.

The EcoStructure Machine Advisor offers the following basic functions:
Via the Track functions, plant operators are provided with the entire architecture by the machine manufacturer in order to be able to carry out fault analysis as easily as possible. This includes all manuals for the components used.
The monitor function allows both system operators and machine builders to record and visualize the status and performance data of machines over a longer period of time.
The fix function offers troubleshooting options such as: engineering software in the cloud, augmented reality connections and much more.

EcoStruxure offers machine builders innovative solutions and services as a good complement to machine sales.