Combining hardware, intelligent software, as well as communication devices and protocols in an optimized reference architecture, PowerStruxure solutions deliver increased operational and cost efficiency while simultaneously improving power quality and reliability. PowerStruxure solutions empower stakeholders through unifying all aspects of power management such as finance and operations, in addition to facilitating strategic management through one or multiple facilities.

PowerStruxure is a tested, validated and documented solution that delivers the intelligence needed to support a complete EcoStruxure energy and management architecture, from the shop floor to the boardroom. The entire PowerStruxure range is designed to leverage companies' current investment in their existing systems through active, real-time monitoring and control of power infrastructure and energy use across facilities. Schneider Electric's new solution provides customers with configured solutions to consolidate all required energy-related inputs.

Commenting on the new solutions, Goktug Gur, Country President - UAE & Oman, Schneider Electric, said, "Businesses run on energy, which generates a significant impact on the bottom line. Today's economic and environmental challenges are increasing, and organizations are taking a very close look at the purchase and use of energy in their facilities. PowerStruxure goes beyond traditional energy management parameters and aligns power and business strategies to offer tools that help electrical and site managers understand the true drivers behind efficiency, reliability and costs. In turn, this helps corporate finance officers, energy program directors and facility or plant managers to collaborate on decisions, and share best practices that will sustain savings and maximize productivity."

As a key sub-system of EcoStruxure, PowerStruxure supports and integrates easily into its comprehensive energy management strategies. Solutions are highly scalable, allowing customers to take advantage of modular components to add to or upgrade systems as required. It integrates power data from across the enterprise, capturing power quality events, filtering and correlating them to help personnel quickly isolate conditions that may be a risk to reliability and cause production disruptions or equipment damage.

EcoStruxure integrated system architectures are supported by StruxureWare software, helping companies drive business performance while conserving enterprise resources, delivering maximum enterprise efficiency from shop floor to top floor. StruxureWare is an open and scalable software platform, ready to expand to complementary functions as companies' efficiency needs grow.

StruxureWare incorporates seven key functions, and PowerStruxure software provides two of these - 'Power Availability' to control facilities in real time at the site level, and 'Energy Management' to optimize all energy (water, air, gas, electricity, steam) across multiple sites.

The software and suites help companies drive business performance while conserving enterprise resources, delivering maximum enterprise efficiency from shop floor to top floor. StruxureWare is an open and scalable software platform, ready to expand to complementary functions as companies' efficiency needs grow. The first software suite, StruxureWare for Data Centers, was introduced in June 2011 and other StruxureWare suites for Buildings and Industry will be introduced during 2012.