Cheng Boon Seng

Founder & CEO, Elliance

Cheng Boon Seng has been serving in various industries since graduating from Tunku Abdul Rahman College in 1995, where he also obtained the Bachelor Degree in Microelectronics from Campbell University, USA. Started as Automation Engineer in LKT Automation as a young graduate, where he put his programming skill into practice, he also gained much insight in Mechanical Design & Assembly. His programming & system design skill further polished in the later jobs as Test Engineer in Lemtronics (Paramit) & Automation Manager in BAFE, new skills gained in the jobs are Control System, EE, PLC & SCADA as well. He has good exposure to IT world when he spent few years in FGAC as System Administrator, where he single-handedly set up the Network System for the whole organization, unknowingly, the IT knowledge he gained here has proven crucial for his later involvement in IoT and Industry 4.0 as these are the convergence of IT and OT. He co-founded Elliance Sdn Bhd in 2011, where he led a team of talented programmers, system integrators & mechanical designers to help the industries to automate manufacturing processes, implement cloud based & IoT applications. His passion in Industry 4.0 has turned him into an Industry 4.0 evangelist for which he keeps himself occupied with sharing in Industry 4.0 seminars & guiding industries to implement Industry 4.0 in their plants & organizations.