E-Enterprise: Awareness and Implementation of Transparent Factory in South East Asia

Three strategies, which denoted as MA, Management Automation, Marketing Automation and Manufacturing Automation have to be jointly incorporated to confront the more competitive market. An answer to these needs, transparent factory (TF), which is an open automation framework, based on internet technologies that provide seamless communication between plant floor and business system has been introduced by Schneider Electric. Despite the good work and technology introduced, the acceptance is only significant in United States, Europe and Africa. Hence, this paper is to look into the awareness of the TF in South East Asia (SEA) in particular. A particular reference to oil & gas plant in Indonesia, which had the system implemented recently, and a waste treatment plant in Malaysia will be highlighted in this paper.