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where you can connect with over 60,000 professionals
from all over the world with a common interest
in industry and automation.
And it's integration in power and energy management.
Whether system integrators, OEMs,
technology providers, new digital players,
or end users, you are all facing similar challenges.
So, connect with peers and industry experts
across market segments in dedicated communities
and find technical tools and develop new resources
to help you co-innovate.
You can also access a marketplace
with over 500 digital offers.
All of these are available through exchange
to help you solve your most pressing, sustainability
and efficiency challenges.
So, sit back and listen to learn more and discover
how others are using Exchange
to drive collaboration, innovation, and business growth.
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- Okay, now you know a little bit more about
what exchange is.
So let's learn from others how they are tapping
into the ecosystem through this open platform
and the value it provides to their business.
Here's an excerpt from a recent
Let's Exchange Innovation talk
on the topic of open automation.
Our panel of experts from Wood, Synesis,
and Schneider Electric, share their experience
of using exchange.
Let's hear what they have to say about exchange,
an open business platform that brings experts
and peers together in a new digital ecosystem.
And how it can enable partners to keep up
with the speed of doing business in the digital world.
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- Hello, good morning, good afternoon,
good evening, everyone and welcome
to our innovation talk, Let's Exchange series.
I'm Monique Elliott, senior vice president
of global marketing for industrial automation
at Schneider Electric.
And I am joined by a panel of experts
that will be sharing their perspectives
on universal automation.
We're going to explore how joining
an open ecosystem of experts
is key to helping your business thrive
in our ever changing world today.
So with me I have Andre Babineau,
marketing director for Schneider Electric.
Next generation industrial automation incubator.
Bridget Fitzpatrick, global technical lead at Wood.
A leading global system integrator
for process controls and safety systems.
And Franco Cavadini, R and D project manager
at Synesis Consortium.
An expert in technology transfer
of advanced automation solutions.
Could you tell us a little bit too
about the communities that we have on
SC Exchange.com?
- Certainly I can talk a little bit about the exchange
and it's really, what it is.
It's a bunch of experts that connects,
answer all your questions first.
You can definitely share your expertise, your experience.
Like Bridget has done some real life projects.
It's really an environment where she could share
some of that expertise and knowledge
and also some of the proven end use software
that they developed to be shared with the larger community.
So you can really collaborate with peers.
And also other solutions that others may bring.
And want to really start exchanging with other people.
- Excellent, excellent.
So maybe, Franco, I can go to you on this one
and you can help us understand why do we need
this community approach that Andre shared with us
to make this, let's call it a quantum leap for industry.
- Well, this is a topic that I really have, let's say,
near to me because of my role
as a technology transfer expert.
The truth is that every time we face
an industrial revolution such as we are truly doing,
it brings a chicken and the egg problem.
We want to push a revolutionary technology
such as IEC-61499 is, but actually
there are not many people in the market using it yet.
Even if there is continuity
as Andre was explaining with respect to 61131.
So what we need is to grow as fast as possible
and install bases of people that not only
just buy the technology but also show
the potentiality of it.
Because honestly, we can go and talk here
for hours about how we could do incredible things
with 61499, but there is nothing such
as hundreds of use cases, of examples
to guide the entry for other people
to start using the technology.
And let me say that the direct involvement
of inducers is gonna be fundamental in this space
because inducers are gonna express their need
and what we are offering is a new technology
to satisfy better existing needs.
So we need to start from customers, from inducers.
And another point which is fundamental
is exploiting the interoperability
of the IEC-61499 data.
This under which was conceived
to be other independent and to be interoperable.
Which is something, I must be honest in saying,
was not satisfied by 61131's data.
So this is a strength of our technology,
of this technology,
which should really be exploited.
I would like also to add a couple of words
about the cost of an ecosystem.
Traditionally, the industrial commission domain
has been mostly what is called a linear value chain.
Everything starts from the suppliers,
from vendors, and then goes progressively into the market.
Now, in bringing forward the concept
of an ecosystem of a marketplace
we are actually pushing the operation domain
to become what is called a multi-sided market.
Where you have multiple complimenters
contributing together to the growth
of the value of the market itself.
So you have a software developers
who are gonna develop libraries in 61499.
That are usable in different domains.
Now, it's not just about putting online
a digital market place.
It's really sustaining the creation of a community.
And this ecosystem that Andre presented
which is partially already launching.
The SchneiderElectricExchange.com platform
is exactly what we need to sustain
the growth of this new technology.
- Franco, I'm glad you mentioned
it's not about just having a marketplace
but it's having the sustained community.
And Bridget, I can see you nodding as well
along with us.
What are your thoughts on this collaborative ecosystem?
This sustained community, as Franco mentions.
- So, one of the things that I was thinking about
as I was nodding was thinking back
to the ISA standards work
that I've been involved with over the years.
So, the International Society of Automation
over the last year or so has started
some efforts to write standards around control algorithms.
So one of the first ones that they've started on
is the PID algo, which most people would think,
oh we've been doing that for decades.
What could there possibly be to do?
And the reality is that all the different
proprietary systems have their own
slightly different interpretation.
And most of them also had multiple versions.
So part of it is to kind of re-engineer that again
so would make a pitch that people get involved in that.
So, the main reason that I got involved
with the ISA many years ago
was to try and make sure that what they put out
in a standard was resilient and made sense
for my processes.
So kind of what I was thinking
is it's really the same pitch here
for the end users and the other integrators
to all get involved so that we make sure
that what we're producing
as this next generation really is resilient
and fit for use and all that good stuff.
And really, it's a new playing field.
So, in any part of life a team
is gonna come up with a better solution
than any one company or one individual.
So definitely see it as an interesting opportunity
to jump in and make sure that what we produce is better.
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