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Annual Report 2001 ●Challenges 20•21
Enhancing performance with
Transparent ReadyTM solutions
Transparent Ready™ allows authorized users
to access data produced by electrical equipment
or industrial automation devices any time,
anywhere using an ordinary web browser.
By leveraging Internet technologies, this solution
optimizes decisions and competitiveness.
Schneider Electric is the only specialist with
a catalog of Transparent Ready™ products covering
all customer needs for building, plant or power
grid management.
Expanding in China with
localized solutions
China is now a major electrical distribution market.
We’ve invested 95 million there since 1997
and increased our sales by more than 20% a year.
This performance stems from our ability to respond
to heavy local demand with simple products like
the Anija single-phase circuit breaker, designed
especially for the Chinese market and produced
locally in the new Tianjin plant.
To support our advance, we have set up a research
and development center in China dedicated
to solutions for the local market.
Simplifying residential
communication with Easyplug
solutions
Easyplug, founded in 2000 with Thomson multimedia,
develops and sells products that make it possible
to transmit digital data and content over
the electrical network.
Three innovations are already available in the United
States:
• Phone Jack, which instantly transforms any AC
outlet into a telephone connection.
• Modem Jack, which enables a home modem
to establish an Internet connection through
any AC outlet.
• The PLC Interface Module, which is designed
for use by systems integrators for such functions
as heating, lighting and access control.
Easyplug’s objective is to become the world leader
in innovative solutions based on power line carrier
technology, a market that is expected to reach
1 billion in 2004.
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> Increase the percentage of very satisfied
customers by 20%.
> Reduce the percentage of dissatisfied
customers by 50%.
> Achieve a response time of less than 12 hours
for 100% of Schneider Electric Internet
and extranet web sites.
Targets for 2004