Schneider Electric

PlantStruxure Collaborative System to Automate Processes, Optimize Energy Usage


PlantStruxure is Schneider Electric's new collaborative system designed to allow industrial and infrastructure companies to meet their automation needs and at the same time deliver on growing energy management requirements.

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Dick Morley does a Fireside Chat at ISA Expo


From Jennifer Infantino's press release:

ISA Celebrates 40 Years of PLC Technology at ISA EXPO 2008

PLC showcase will highlight the very first PLC and its evolution over the past 40 years

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Schneider does well and does good, too.


From the press release:

More than 200 Schneider Electric/Square D business leaders will work alongside Ocean Springs, Miss., residents Jan. 30 to build six houses with Habitat for Humanity. For the second consecutive year, the rebuilding efforts kick off the Schneider Electric North American Operating Division’s annual Leadership Forum and continue to build upon the company’s 4 1/2-year, $7 million commitment to Habitat for Humanity that was pledged in 2007. The funding will provide Hab...

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Schneider joins Clinton Climate Initiative


It apparently also takes a village to reduce global warming... even though the jury is still out on the anthropogenic nature of the phenomenon.

Schneider Electric announced today that they were joining the "Clinton Climate Initiative"...whatever that is.

Here's the text, which is guaranteed to inflame anybody who isn't dyed resolutely Green:

Schneider Electric’s Building Automation Business Unit joins Clinton Climate Initiative

Global effort to help address Climate...

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Modicon: the phoenix rises from the ashes


Schneider Electric announces the addition of the Telemecanique brand Modicon M340â„¢ programmable automation controller (PAC), the newest addition to its Modicon line of programmable controllers. The Modicon M340 PAC offers real-time logic solving, communication, motion, and database and manipulation capabilities in multiple programming environments.

After shutting down the Modicon name entirely two years ago, and even shutting down www.modicon.com, it is refreshing to see that Schneid...

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Counterfeiting isn't just for purses and watches and CD/DVDs


Press release received today:

SQUARE D FILES SUIT AGAINST BREAKERS UNLIMITED

FOR SELLING COUNTERFEIT SQUARE D® PRODUCTS

PALATINE, Ill – June 25, 2007 – Square D®, best known in the United States as the flagship brand for the Schneider Electric North American Operating Division, announced today that it has filed suit agains...

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