2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
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The Buildings business<br />
Number 4 worldwide in building automation<br />
and video security systems<br />
In the last few years <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> has become one of world’s<br />
leading players in technical building management.<br />
The Group offers a comprehensive, innovative range of automation<br />
solutions backed by design and supervision software to manage<br />
building utilities, based on open and integrated systems. These<br />
solutions make it possible to optimise installations, modernise<br />
them cost effectively, and reduce maintenance costs and energy<br />
DESCRIPTION OF THE GROUP, AND ITS STRATEGY, MARKETS AND BUSINESSES<br />
LEADER IN AN INDUSTRY OF THE FUTURE<br />
consumption. They also enhance comfort and security, an area in<br />
which the Group has strengthened its activities, with the acquisition<br />
in 2007 of Pelco, a worldwide leader in the design, development<br />
and manufacture of video security systems.<br />
Growth in this business will be driven by the expansion of urban and<br />
industrial areas in emerging economies, the adaptation of existing<br />
buildings to comply with new energy regulations in developed<br />
regions, the development of energy effi ciency for all buildings, which<br />
is subject to increasingly stringent regulations, and the important<br />
role that they will play in the smart grid.<br />
2. 4 Enhancing the integrated solutions and services portfolio<br />
Services<br />
Customers are looking for increasingly effective solutions that meet<br />
their performance and reliability needs. When it comes to services,<br />
local presence is a major strength.<br />
Around the world, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s 6,000 Services Experts listen<br />
carefully to customers’ specifi c needs and, as long-term partners,<br />
offer a single, comprehensive line up of life cycle services. These<br />
include:<br />
• audit and consulting: engineering, installation and energy<br />
audits, energy effi ciency solutions, etc.;<br />
• solutions engineering: project deployment and management,<br />
site upgrades, tailored projects for critical applications, process<br />
simulations, energy management, etc.;<br />
• installed base services: troubleshooting and repairs,<br />
maintenance and renovation to enhance the reliability of existing<br />
equipment and processes;<br />
• job training: personalised or general, in one of the Group’s fi fty<br />
training centres or online through Energy University by <strong>Schneider</strong><br />
<strong>Electric</strong>.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s ability to industrialise services offers customers<br />
guaranteed results, thanks to its:<br />
• knowledge of applications and factory fl oor reality in fastchanging<br />
industries;<br />
• practical, innovative contracts that leverage leading-edge<br />
technologies;<br />
• ongoing support, from the initial assessment of specifi c needs<br />
and constraints to project completion.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> has what it takes to provide safe, reliable and<br />
effi cient services that help customers enhance performance<br />
throughout the life cycle of their installations.<br />
Energy efficiency solutions<br />
Energy effi ciency means using less energy for the same level of<br />
performance or service, and is the fastest, cheapest and most<br />
effective way for governments, fi rms, and individuals to reduce CO2 emissions. According to the International Energy Agency (World<br />
Energy Outlook 2010), 53% of the reduction in CO emissions<br />
2<br />
needed over the next 20 years will have to come from more effi cient<br />
energy use.<br />
Taken together, industry, infrastructure and buildings – <strong>Schneider</strong><br />
<strong>Electric</strong>’s traditional markets – account for more than half of the<br />
world’s energy consumption. Since 2005, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> has<br />
been working on energy effi ciency issues, and now has the knowhow,<br />
skills and technologies to meet the energy challenge of the<br />
21st century.<br />
The acquisition in 2009 of Conzerv Systems, the leader in the<br />
Indian energy effi ciency market, enhanced the Group’s line up and<br />
considerably strengthened <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s position on the<br />
Indian market.<br />
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