Schneider Electric and Krohne have announced a partnership to provide customers with a complete solution including Schneider Electric’s PlantStruxure process automation architecture and Krohne’s instrumentation offering. Schneider Electric’s open system architecture and Krohne’s customised instrumentation allows for easy integration of complete system solutions, enabling customers to achieve increased energy efficiency, productivity and process optimisation.
“We are building this partnership on the shared values of search for simplicity, drive for innovation and voice of the customer oriented developments. I am confident that the partnership of Schneider Electric’s global expertise in energy management and process automation, coupled with Krohne’s world-class expertise and engineering capabilities on both standard and customised Instrumentation solutions, will prove to be a winning combination for our customers,” says Cyril Perducat, CTO of Schneider Electric industry business.
Stephan Neuburger (l), Cyril Perducat and Michael Dubbick.
David Orgaz, VP, process automation systems at Schneider Electric adds, “The integration of Krohne’s best-in-class instrumentation offering with Schneider Electric’s PlantStruxure will deliver some great synergies and superior customer benefits and is very much in line with what we hear in terms of what our customers need to cope with the evolving challenges in process and energy management.”
Michael Dubbick, co-CEO of the Krohne Group emphasises: “The collaboration agreement with Schneider Electric is a strategic partnership of high importance for Krohne worldwide. We have already worked together on several major projects in the past. Based on this experience, we strongly believe that the combined engineering experience of our two global companies will become a real success story. This collaboration is in accordance with our company strategy and supports our goal to grow sustainably by establishing long-term relationships with our business partners.”
Stephan Neuburger, co-CEO of the Krohne group adds, “The customers of Schneider Electric will benefit from our highly skilled sales and service staff. We look forward to contributing our engineering and application knowledge to projects in different industry segments such as oil & gas, water & wastewater, food & beverage as well as metals, minerals and mining. In these vertical sectors, Krohne has already proven its expertise by not only resolving standard applications but also those which demand innovative, customised instrumentation solutions.”
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