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How to meet the agility challenges of
fast-moving CPG production
Optimizing industrial automation systems with

technological innovations that support agility
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Agility challenges of a fast-moving

consumer goods industry
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Agility challenges of a fast-moving

consumer goods industry
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) is an industry serving a vast number of consumers with changing tastes
and habits. Digital solutions
Provide the tools that enable
Both consumer demand and raw material sourcing volatility has impacted the way manufacturers build, real-time visibility to drive
operate, and optimize their plants: the performance of a flexible
consumer goods operation.
• Building bigger plants that enable production at higher volumes presents significant advantages from an
economy of scale point of view. But it is challenging to predict demands for a new product or interest from
a new market, and therefore producers must build facilities that can scale easily with market volumes.
• As retailers are willing to order products at the last moment and be delivered shortly, speed is becoming The World Economic Forum:
an important factor. Producers have to reduce the production cycles and keep inventory at the right level to
allow delivery in time while reducing the impact on the balance sheet. “Digital Transformation
Powering the Great Reset 2020”
reports that 47% of companies
• As consumers demand more variety, the number of SKUs increases. For manufacturers, this results in who pivoted to competing in
smaller batch sizes and more frequent changeovers. new digital ways have achieved
organic growth greater.
• Most manufacturers are also facing a data visibility challenge. If it takes too much time to collect and gather
data consistently across multiple sites, then it is not possible to drive higher levels of plant performance.
Agility
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Increase real-time visibility

to drive the performance
and flexibility of operations
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optimization experience
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Increase real-time visibility to drive

performance and flexibility of operations
Addressing these changing CPG demands requires agile manufacturing that allows you to:
Meet consumer Manage materials, Drive performance in Optimize resource Reduce design and
demands quality, and traceability real-time usage support effort
Increase flexibility to Precisely manage all Achieve precise visibility to Increase throughput and Build an ecosystem of
deliver the right product material transactions and machine, process, line, and yield with fewer materials, experts and partners as
all the time. quality tests linked to plan performance to support less labor, and reduced needed.
recipe control production. better decision-making. energy consumption and
waste.
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Building agile manufacturing

on a robust architecture
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Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure platform and architecture can help transform
manufacturing operations while utilizing digital solutions to achieve maximum
production benefits.
EcoStruxure for Food & Beverage provides:
• Field device-to-ERP end-to-end integration
• Integration across the connected device, edge control, and cloud and
analytics technology levels
• Simple machine to multi-site management capabilities
• A design that streamlines operations and maintenance-dedicated

applications
• Easy Schneider Electric-to-third party component integration
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A dairy plant application:
The EcoStruxure architecture adds intelligence and connectivity to previously for CPG
isolated assets, synchronizes control, and communications between these AVEVA Historian*
Apps, AVEVA System Platform*
assets, and shares information with analytical applications. Analytics,
& Services Plant iT Integrate
(MES)
This results in the following advantages:
Plant iT PCS
Plant iT LMS
• Drives velocity, variability, and visibility of flexible production units Edge
Control Read more
PacDrive IoT Greenbox (OEM)
• Enhances performance across manufacturing sites which, in turn, increase
operations profitability
Connected
• Creates more attractive workplaces for a dynamic workforce Products
• Improves asset performance and extends asset lifetime

The result? Improved flexibility, yield,
• Increases production-based energy efficiency profitability, and a transformation to
more agile manufacturing operations.
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and technological evolution
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Control layer optimization and

technological evolution
We provide automation systems that can keep pace with today’s dynamic environment while providing customers with the agility they need
for tomorrow. We are moving from hardware-based to software-based automation solutions, providing much more flexibility to implement
automation architecture supporting manufacturing agility.
Much has changed since we invented the programmable controller over 50 years ago:
• With AVEVA (formerly Wonderware), our solution includes a hardware-agnostic software suite that
enables control and optimization of CPG manufacturing operations.
• ProLeiT goes a step further, managing in a consistent way the process control layer via a fully object-
oriented approach running on the leading PLC platforms of the market. ProLeiT does not replace AVEVA
but complements the open software-based automation at the control level by providing a consistent,
detailed, and contextual plant model from it to feed.
The next step is to go to a hardware-independent, software-based control solution. EcoStruxure Automation

Expert complements ProLeiT with a truly hardware-independent solution for control applications.
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We believe it’s time for the industry to move away from proprietary systems,
towards truly open systems that will allow us to:
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• Facilitate the migration of existing applications to a new hardware platform,
while ensuring existing and future equipment can be integrated.
• Deploy these applications across different types of system hardware, Join the game changers that are making
architectures, or components with minimal programming effort, plug and produce automation a reality.
whether highly distributed, centralized, or both.
• Edge computing can be incorporated for more calculation-intensive
applications, and its processing load can be shared across all
available hardware resources.
• Move to plug-and-produce automation systems that are faster and easier
to program and will lead to true interoperability with IT systems.
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To help our industrial customers with IT/OT convergence, we have been working hard to
bring more agility than ever before into our automation systems with a focus on openness
and flexibility. From AVEVA’s industrial software portfolio, which can run on any control
hardware regardless of manufacturer, to the recent acquisition of ProLeiT, which provides
the capability to define the process control in a fully object-oriented approach, our goal
at Schneider Electric is to enable flexible CPG applications that run on any major control
hardware brand.
Our next steps include:
• Decoupling the application lifecycle from the hardware lifecycle
• Enabling the design of much more sustainable applications with full reusability, native
object orientation, and drag and drop capabilities
• Creating an integrated development environment for all tasks of the automation system
engineering and management, automatic cross-communication generation and
integration with IT systems, to be Industry 4.0-ready
EcoStruxure Automation Expert is our latest evolution that will become a revolution.
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EcoStruxure Automation Expert
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EcoStruxure Automation Expert is a new category of industrial Meet EcoStruxure

automation built within the EcoStruxure for Food & Beverage architecture, Automation Expert
which is based on the IEC 61499 universal automation standard.
EcoStruxure Automation Expert is the first of its kind. Since IT/OT

convergence is a key digitization challenge, we have decoupled the software
from the underlying hardware and made it easier to connect to IT applications.
Learn more about
EcoStruxure Automation Expert supports agile, asset-centric EcoStruxure
automation architectures. That means performance can now be controlled Automation Expert
throughout the entire automation lifecycle to deliver real and measurable
improvements to all business variables, even profitability.
EcoStruxure Automation Expert is designed to enable concepts such

as value-added engineering by automating low-value tasks and eliminating
task duplication across tools, virtual commissioning, IT/OT convergence, and
digital services in multiple ways.
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Field test: Comparison of digitized

industrial automation systems
EcoStruxure Automation Expert was tested alongside three leading marketplace automation vendor
offers. Independent third-party contractors with significant automation project experience across
specific vendors performed engineering comparisons. Listed below are some of the key field test
findings:
Application System level Systems agility

3X development was
three times faster 6X diagnostics was
six times faster 7X was increased
by a factor of 7
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comparison study
A Quantitative
Comparison of Digitized
Industrial Automation
Systems
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EcoStruxure Automation Expert provides engineers, plant managers, system integrators, and machine builders with:
Increased flexibility – Since software is no longer tied to the hardware, manufacturers can easily
adapt their automation infrastructure to ever-changing supply and demand-side business conditions. If
productivity numbers need to be increased, the selection of technology-solution choices is now wider and
integration costs of those new tools are much lower.
Open engineering philosophy – Object-oriented programming approaches are central to the IEC 61499
standard, newer models of business assets can be easily manipulated by engineers to accommodate
preferred methods of control. The automation application is designed to connect directly to pre-built, ready-
to-use asset models. This enables an open engineering philosophy and strategy that centers around user
experience and process improvement, rather than system technology constraints. By placing process at the
center of the engineering universe, plants can attain the operational phase faster, with lower costs and fewer
risks.
Cost-effective implementations – Rather than having to build and purchase IT/OT gateways, users benefit from embedded native IT/OT
integration. This simplifies engineer, plant operator, systems integrator, and machine builder system deployment workloads. In addition to
reducing new system deployment time and cost, EcoStruxure Automation Expert also facilitates a “wrap and re-use” approach for existing
systems, helping to preserve millions of dollars in prior end user investments.
Agilitydigital
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Migrating to a universal automation Conclusion: Get started with universal automation

approach requires building upon open
digital architectures. Schneider Electric’s • Universal automation, and solutions like
EcoStruxure platform is designed for industrial EcoStruxure Automation Expert, provide “plug
multi-vendor environments where disparate and produce” connectivity within the hardware
systems from a variety of generations and and software elements of control architectures.
suppliers are common.
• As a result, process-centric automation
EcoStruxure seamlessly connects smart architectures can be designed to provide Industries of the Future Universal automation
machines, edge control, and software apps users with the ability to exercise greater
and analytics so that CPG factory automation control over their processes and to make
can securely leverage advanced connectivity improvements to the key business variables
that comes with digitalization. that can positively affect profitability.
Our architecture is robust, yet simple for • Universal automation means better
organizations of all sizes to use and is interoperability. The reuse of existing assets
designed to easily grow and expand when in modern contexts provides an easier and
new pieces are added to existing multi-vendor more cost-effective method for keeping
frameworks. systems flexible and up-to-date. EcoStruxure Automation Expert interactive demo
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To learn more about Schneider Electric's
vision for Industries of the Future, visit:
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How to meet the agility challenges of

fast-moving CPG production

Optimizing industrial automation systems with

Agility challenges Increase operational Agile manufacturing Control layer

Why change the EcoStruxure TM

Agility challenges of a fast-moving

Agility challenges of a fast-moving

Increase real-time visibility

Increase real-time visibility to drive

Building agile manufacturing

Building agile manufacturing

EcoStruxure for Food & Beverage provides:

• Field device-to-ERP end-to-end integration

• Simple machine to multi-site management capabilities

• A design that streamlines operations and maintenance-dedicated

• Easy Schneider Electric-to-third party component integration

Building agile manufacturing

• Improves asset performance and extends asset lifetime

Control layer optimization

Control layer optimization and

The next step is to go to a hardware-independent, software-based control solution. EcoStruxure Automation

Why change the paradigm?

Why change the paradigm?

Why change the paradigm?

Our next steps include:

• Decoupling the application lifecycle from the hardware lifecycle

EcoStruxure Automation Expert

EcoStruxure Automation Expert

EcoStruxure Automation Expert is a new category of industrial Meet EcoStruxure

EcoStruxure Automation Expert is the first of its kind. Since IT/OT

EcoStruxure Automation Expert is designed to enable concepts such

Field test: Comparison of digitized

Application System level Systems agility

Download our full

EcoStruxure Automation Expert

Getting started with EcoStruxure

Migrating to a universal automation Conclusion: Get started with universal automation

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