369-HI-R-B-0-0 Looking around the world, the “lighthouse factory” selected by the World Economic Forum in Davos in cooperation with McKinsey represents the advanced level of digitalization in relevant industries, and can become a model for China’s life science industry to learn from and learn from in the transformation process. According to McKinsey’s statistics, the world’s leading life science industry “beacon enterprises” have achieved significant improvements in output, cost, quality, efficiency, energy consumption and other aspects, such as bottleneck equipment capacity increase of up to 40%, key product production cycle reduction of up to 40%, logistics costs reduction of up to 20%, the results can not be underestimated.
However, as of December 2023, China has dozens of “lighthouse factories” in the electronics, automotive and other industries, and only one in the life sciences field. So, how should China’s life science enterprises catch up and provide a chapter to follow for the transformation and development of the whole industry?
Accumulated, self-practice enables the construction of “lighthouse factory”
In the face of this question, Schneider Electric, an expert in digital transformation in the field of global energy management and industrial automation, handed over an answer paper – taking intelligent manufacturing as the direction, taking the overall planning as the premise, and taking the talent team as the guarantee, continue369-HI-R-B-0-0 s to integrate the three aspects of industry, management and technology, and provides a comprehensive solution from planning to implementation for the construction of “lighthouse factory” in the life science industry.
As a manufacturing company, Schneider Electric has its own factories and rich practices serving many users in the life science industry. It can fully understand the actual pain points in the supply chain management and factory production process of life science and other manufacturing enterprises, and can provide practical help for the successful transformation of enterprises based on its own practices. Currently, Schneider Electric has five “lighthouse factories”, two “developing lighthouse factories” and 93 “zero carbon factories” worldwide, and in China it has 19 “zero carbon factories”, 15 “green factories” and 12 “carbon neutral” factories recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as well as 18 smart factories and smart logistics centers. Schneider Electric has topped Gartner’s Global Supply Chain Top 25 list for the second year in a row.
Taking Schneider Electric’s Wuxi plant as an example, the plant has achieved end-to-end digita369-HI-R-B-0-0 l transformation and upgrading of the full value chain with five Industry 4.0 (4IR) advanced use cases, and won the World Economic Forum’s end-to-end “Lighthouse Factory” honorary title in 2021. Specifically, in the procurement and production arrangements, Wuxi factory uses the “supply chain independent decision support system” to improve the on-time delivery rate of the factory by 30% and the accuracy of customer order prediction by 17%; In the quality inspection process, Wuxi factory has reduced the on-site failure rate by 22% by deploying the “end-to-end electronic component quality risk detection and control cloud platform”; In the delivery process, the Wuxi factory’s “intelligent flexible storage solution” combines the high-density storage of automatic three-dimensional warehouses with attic shelves, as well as the narrow tunnel forklift, saving up to 52% of storage space; In the production link, the “5G flexible production line” in Wuxi factory designs mobile universal production line modules based on the “LEGO” concept to improve manufacturing flexibility, asset utilization, and reduce time to market; At the same time, the Wuxi plant adopted the “digital twin solution for green facilities”, and selected the best compressed air system configuration through the model, which saved 32% of energy consumption for HVAC alone.
