The Dawn of E-Manufacturing

摘要

With all the excitement about online procurement and sales, it would be easy to think that the production floor has no role to play in e-business. Enter Mark Fondl. He's betting his career on the opportunities he sees in helping production respond to the challenges of e-business. Fondl, now vice president of the Automation Business Unit of Lantronix Inc., Irvine, Calif., first saw the e-business implications for manufacturing last year when he served as vice president of worldwide marketing for Schneider Automation Inc., North Andover, Mass. At the time Schneider was formulating its Transparent Factory initiative, a framework for linking plant-floor automation with enterprise-business systems.