Shanghai, September 24th (Xinhua) -- Rockwell Automation Global Senior Vice President: China leads the world in achieving sustainable development
Reporter Li Jiajia from China News Service
For Scott Genereux, although this is his first visit to China as Senior Vice President of Rockwell Automation Global, he has visited China nearly 30 times in his 20-year career. "During this process, I have seen the rapid development of China's manufacturing industry," he said.
During this visit to China, Scott Genereux continued his tight and busy schedule, understanding the current development status of China's manufacturing industry, visiting customers and partners, "ensuring communication and consistency between Rockwell and them, and helping them jointly solve the problems and challenges they are currently facing".
Although he can be considered a frequent visitor to China, it has been six years since his last visit, and some positive changes in the Chinese market have left a deep impression on Scott Genereux's trip. For example, in the field of new energy vehicles, "six years ago this industry almost did not exist, but now China has developed into a huge market," he said, especially in the technological field, there have been earth shaking changes.
In addition, in terms of intelligent manufacturing and sustainable development, Scott Genereux has also found that many of Rockwell's Chinese customers are at a global leading level in the field of intelligent manufacturing. "I have seen many of their innovations, and some technological developments are not visible in other markets," he said. In the field of sustainable development, the Chinese market, like other markets around the world, regards "green" as an important topic. "Many companies and countries have reached consensus on sustainability and are actively working together to promote it.
Recently, Scott Genereux, Senior Vice President of Rockwell Automation, visited China and was interviewed by China News Service reporters in Shanghai. Photo by Zhang Hengwei, reporter from China News Service
For many years, Rockwell has continuously released the "State of Intelligent Manufacturing Report". In the latest 9th edition of the annual report released this year, about 92% of Chinese respondents stated that the obstacles they face are driving their accelerated digital transformation, leading the world in this proportion.
Rockwell's 9th Annual State of Intelligent Manufacturing Report covers over 1500 manufacturers in 17 major manufacturing countries and regions worldwide, including nearly 100 manufacturing partners from China. Speaking of this year's report, Scott Genereux believes that it presents two very important trends. Firstly, in the field of intelligent manufacturing, the trend of embracing technology is constantly growing, with over 95% of surveyed companies worldwide using or evaluating intelligent manufacturing technology, compared to 84% last year; Secondly, the widespread use of artificial intelligence. The interviewed manufacturers believe that generative artificial intelligence will be a huge opportunity in the coming years, and we will actively explore how to implement it and evaluate the potential benefits it may bring to the manufacturing industry.
As one of the leaders in green technology and intelligent manufacturing, sustainable development has always been the direction that Rockwell focuses on and vigorously develops. From the dimensions of front-end technological innovation, terminal application implementation, and multi terminal cross-border promotion, Rockwell empowers its Chinese partners to achieve net zero intelligent manufacturing throughout the entire chain, demonstrating its firm commitment to supporting the sustainable development of China's manufacturing industry through practice.
For example, Rockwell has partnered with Yunnan Diqing Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. to empower Pulang Copper Mine to build a world-class "digital mine" and promote the green and intelligent transformation of the mining industry. Rockwell's intelligent operation and maintenance Rockii solution has helped the company achieve SaaS application of carbon accounting. The complete carbon accounting solution is based on safe, high-quality, and highly reliable carbon data, which can provide multi-dimensional decision support for customers to adjust product structure and expand production capacity, support the reduction of carbon emission intensity per unit output value, and set benchmarks and carbon reduction paths for customers. Through continuous green upgrading and transformation, it ultimately paves the way for low-carbon leaders in the copper industry chain.
This year, Rockwell and Shanghai Climate Week jointly initiated the Climate Lighthouse Action Plan, aiming to use green digital innovation to light up a better future for humanity. This long-term action plan is being promoted year by year, helping more Chinese partners lock in the path of green transformation.
Speaking of this, Scott Genereux said, "During my visit to China this week, I have seen that China has become a global leader in achieving sustainable development, which has undoubtedly become a focus of attention for Chinese manufacturing companies
He believes that the key to achieving sustainable development in the manufacturing industry lies in how to utilize information. "Only by gathering and utilizing information scattered across machines and places can value be generated. At the same time, he also pointed out that implementing sustainable measures can improve the productivity and production efficiency of enterprises. Only by combining sustainability and production efficiency can better decisions be made.
Since entering the Chinese market in 1988, thanks to China's reform and opening-up policies, Rockwell has achieved rapid development in China and benefited greatly from it. Looking ahead to the future prospects of China's manufacturing industry, Scott Genereux believes that "the potential and opportunities are enormous", and states that "we still have opportunities for continuous development in the market, even explosive growth. We will further communicate with Chinese customers, find a common direction, and benefit from the rapid development of the market". (End)