In 2025, Vietnam’s Home Care market reached approximately VND 47.906 trillion, representing a 3% increase in retail value compared with the previous year (Euromonitor International, 2026). Consumers are now looking beyond basic cleaning functions and showing greater interest in multi-purpose products that save time and offer additional benefits such as odour control/fragrance, natural or bio-based ingredients, and environmentally friendly features. At the same time, smaller and more compact packaging formats are expected to support market growth. These shifts are leading to increasingly diverse product portfolios and SKUs, putting pressure on companies to shorten time-to-market for new products, maintain consistent quality, and strengthen production control, making the need to upgrade operational capabilities and accelerate factory digitalisation increasingly urgent.
Challenges Faced by Manufacturing Plants
- Safety requirements in hazardous areas: The use of solvents and alcohol creates areas with potential fire and explosion risks, where electrical incidents can have serious consequences. The factory therefore requires a partner that not only understands relevant safety standards but also has the capability to implement electrical and control systems that meet corporate assessment requirements.
- Complexity of batch production on shared systems: Multiple formulations are processed through the same mixing tanks and material transfer pipelines. As a result, manually managing interlocks, permissives, and transfer sequences can increase the risk of operational errors and cross-contamination.
- Risk of production disruption during system expansion and upgrades: Production line relocation, server replacement, and SCADA upgrades must be carried out while the factory remains operational, requiring technical solutions that minimize downtime while preserving historical data.
Tan Tien’s Solutions
1. PCS 7 and Batch Control System: Design, supply, installation, and programming of a batch control system covering the entire mixing, dosing, and material transfer process.
- Applications
- Large-capacity mixing tank systems
- Dosing systems and post-mixing ingredient addition areas
- Piping and material transfer systems
- Fragrance spraying systems and double-cone mixers
- Adjustment of interlock and permissive conditions for existing process stages
- SCADA and batch control systems
2. Safety Systems for Hazardous Areas
- Scope
- Safety barriers for control valves
- Safety barriers for instrumentation
- Emergency shutdown systems and status indicator lights
- Grounding and lightning protection systems for the factory
- Installation, commissioning, and compliance documentation
3. Plant-wide Electrical and Control Systems: Turnkey implementation of electrical systems supporting production operations and process equipment packages.
- Scope
- Power distribution panels and motor control panels
- Control panels and computer rack cabinets
- Cable tray and cable ladder systems
- Compressed air piping systems
- Power and signal cable connections to field devices
- Monitoring infrastructure upgrades to improve system availability and reduce the risk of production downtime
- Platforms
- Siemens PCS 7
- GE iFIX
- Functions
- Redundant servers for the production area
- SCADA and PLC software upgrades
- Migration of programs and historical data to new servers
- Preservation of existing configurations throughout the migration process
- System testing, commissioning, and start-up
4. Production Line Relocation, Expansion, and OT Network Integration: Implementation of production configuration changes while maintaining the operation of unaffected production lines.
- Scope includes:
- Dismantling, relocation, and reinstallation of equipment
- Additional programming for newly installed equipment packages
- Industrial network switches and VLAN configuration
Implementation Benefits
- Full compliance with safety requirements for hazardous areas, supported by complete compliance documentation
- Consistent batch quality and elimination of cross-contamination risks between formulations
- Electronic production records for each batch to support internal and corporate audits
- Elimination of single points of failure through redundant server architecture and modern SCADA systems
- Shorter product changeover times and increased utilisation of existing production assets
- Integrated production data flow from Batch Control to the MES
- Expansion and upgrade activities carried out with minimal disruption to production
In the home care industry, Tan Tien has worked alongside leading multinational companies such as Unilever and Henkel for more than 15 years, delivering projects at large-scale manufacturing facilities including Cu Chi, Lix South, NET, and Dong Nai. Products such as OMO, Comfort, and Sunlight are manufactured on high-capacity production lines, many of which involve raw materials and solvents with fire and explosion risks, requiring particularly stringent safety standards.
At the same time, these factories operate batch-based production models involving multiple mixing tanks, dosing systems, and complex material transfer networks. This makes formulation accuracy, production sequence control, and system safety critical operational requirements. The facilities also undergo continuous expansion, relocation, and addition of production lines while maintaining required output levels.
Tan Tien serves as an electrical and automation partner, supporting customers from the implementation of new systems to the upgrade and expansion of existing infrastructure. By working alongside customers throughout the development of their manufacturing facilities, Tan Tien helps strengthen control over batch production processes, improve safety in hazardous areas, and maintain stable operations during production expansion.
