RS Components and Schneider Electric have partnered to enable wider access to Scheider’s revolutionary open, interoperable, IoT enabled system architecture and platform EcoStruxure throughout the ANZ region.

The incredibly popular platform enables wireless connection of factory floor instrumentation so engineers can capture and monitor critical data.

EcoStruxure leverages advancements in IoT, mobility sensing, cloud, analytics and cybersecurity technologies to deliver innovation at every level – from connected products to edge control, to applications, analytics and services, and is available for all different branches of industry.

Products such as breakers, sensors and drivers are endowed with Internet-of-Things (i.e. cloud connectivity) through the EcoStruxure Connected Products layer, serving as the foundation of smart operations.

With the partnership, Schneider Electric is broadening its customer base, bringing IIoT innovations to a wider field.

By taking a more active role with RS, Schneider is effectively up-skilling the industry to improve decision making and specification.

“We want to be the first choice for every customer requiring industrial control devices, whatever their demands. That means we have to have the ability to specify and support, as well as execute,” RS Components managing director Scott Philbrook says.

“Having Schneider Electric’s expertise directly embedded into our company, effectively allows us to provide the best possible technical advice for and help customers make the best possible decisions.”

The next layer in the EcoStruxure platform is to incorporate edge control for users to control the machines that collect the data and act as a gateway to deliver it to the cloud. Once data is available via the cloud, the EcoStruxure platform also offers analytics capabilities so users can carry out further analysis.