Dr. Barbara Frei, Global Executive Vice President and Head of Industrial Automation Business of Schneider Electric, and his delegation visited Zhejiang University and delivered a speech on the theme of “Building a Firm Foundation for Industrial Innovation and Talent, Let’s Participate in the Future of Digital Industry” and met with Zhejiang teachers and students. They jointly discussed the development trends of future industries under the wave of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G, and shared Schneider Electric’s practical paths and explorations in actively responding to current global climate change and energy issues to achieve efficiency improvement, carbon reduction, and sustainable development. Results.

Barbara Frei, Global Executive Vice President and Head of Industrial Automation Business of Schneider Electric, visited Zhejiang University

Currently, the rapid development of big data, cloud computing and other technologies is subverting the entire industry. Global industries are accelerating digital transformation and actively exploring new development opportunities suitable for themselves. At the same time, in the face of climate change, energy issues and high-quality development needs, Under the influence of the epidemic, global industry is ushering in a wave of sustainable development. As a global digital transformation expert in the field of energy management and automation, Schneider Electric is driving the digitization of the manufacturing industry through continuous exploration in digital technology innovation and application, open automation, and industrial software, and by continuously integrating new technologies such as AI and 5G communication technology. The dual transformation with low carbonization will promote the entire industrial field towards an open, efficient and resilient, sustainable and people-oriented future industry.

Moving towards the future industry requires strong talent support. Barbara mentioned in her speech that cultivating diverse and innovative digital talents is the inevitable path to promote industrial upgrading and lead to future industries. Schneider Electric has always led digital transformation and is committed to cultivating digital talents. It advocates deepening the integration of industry and education, and strengthens industry-university-research cooperation through practice, giving full play to the advantages of schools and enterprises to empower industrial transformation and upgrading. Up to now, Schneider Electric has formed a profound history of industry-university-research cooperation with dozens of domestic universities. By strengthening school-enterprise interaction, it has seamlessly connected theory and practice, established a long-term innovation mechanism, and through course teaching, product training, technical exchanges and Take measures such as jointly building research centers and carry out industry-university and industry-research cooperation to cultivate high-quality talents for the development of new industrialization.

With the in-depth development of digital transformation, accelerating digitalization has become inevitable for enterprise development, and the importance of cultivating digital talents has become increasingly prominent. Enterprises' active participation in the construction of digital talents will not only help improve the company's own digital capabilities, but also promote the complementary and integrated development of industry, academia, research and even the entire industrial ecosystem. In the future, Schneider Electric will further cooperate with Zhejiang University to cultivate more digital talents in fields such as industrial automation and industrial software. Barbara said that Schneider Electric hopes to take advantage of this visit to Zhejiang University to continue to increase cooperation and innovation with domestic universities and colleges, work together to promote industrial digital innovation and digital transformation talent training, and build a solid foundation of innovation and talent for future industrial development.