André Uhl
Twenty years turning technology strategy into business outcomes in industrial automation — from mechanical motion control to an integrated AI system. I lead technology vision, architecture and AI transformation for Schneider Electric's Industry business.
- Role
- VP Technology & Architecture
- Organisation
- Schneider Electric
- Board
- Director, ODVA
- Based
- Marktheidenfeld, DE
Selected platform and transformation initiatives — the work that moved the portfolio from products toward platforms, and from AI experiments toward a system.
- Technology strategy
- Connecting technology and portfolio choices to revenue, margin and competitiveness
- Enterprise architecture
- Governance across machine, process, hybrid and software automation
- AI & digitalisation
- From isolated use cases to an integrated AI system
- Platform & portfolio
- Common foundations that increase reuse and reduce duplication
- Global R&D leadership
- Multi-site engineering organisations and innovation investment
- Ecosystem influence
- Board governance, standards bodies and strategic partnerships
The foundation of next-generation automation: intelligent agents, simulation environments and adaptive control combining into self-optimising industrial ecosystems. My focus is integrating them into scalable architectures for real-time decision-making across machines, processes and software.
Edge AI
Inference at the machine
Physical AI
Models that act on matter
Humanoids
General-purpose kinematics
Industrial robotics
Six axes, deterministic
Agentic AI
Perceive, plan, act
Multi-agent systems
Coordination without a centre
Unified Namespace
One namespace, many publishers
Reinforcement learning
Policy from reward
Simulation
Test before steel
Digital twin
Model bound to machine
AI-based control
Learned loop closure
Two decades in one industry and, since the ELAU acquisition, one company — from a CoDeSys engineering toolkit to enterprise technology strategy.
Industrial automation moves at the speed its standards allow. Two board seats, and contributions to the founding groups of two more open ecosystems.
- MARGO
- Founding-group contributor — open, interoperable industrial edge
- OPC UA FX
- Founding-group contributor — field-level interoperability
- OPC Foundation
- Leadership in OPC Foundation-related initiatives
- Industries
- Food & Beverage · Oil & Gas · Water · Mining, Minerals & Metals · Process
Named inventor. Fourteen years apart, and the same problem approached from opposite ends: first the mechanism, then the control derived by a machine.
Independently driven carriers on endless belts synchronise to the infeed, then re-space articles between cycles — grouping without friction-dependent belts.
Google Patents ↗ EP4342826A1 Method for creating a control for a transport systemThe track is captured as a virtual model, requirements are stated as boundary conditions, and reinforcement learning derives the control itself — instead of an engineer writing it.
Google Patents ↗Open to conversations on industrial AI, open automation and interoperability standards — and to speaking at events on the same.
- Location
- Marktheidenfeld, Germany
- Languages
- German (native) · English (business fluent)
- Education
- Dipl.-Ing. (FH)
- Boards
- ODVA · FDT Group (former Chairman)
- Off the clock
- Family · Triathlon · Ballroom & Latin · 3D printing