Planned Maintenance is one of the pillars of TPM. Its philosophy is: rather than fixing problems after a machine breaks down, it is better to perform maintenance from the outset to prevent breakdowns from occurring.

The maintenance and repair of equipment in a smart factory, along with equipment care, rely heavily on the stocking of spare parts.

Equipment failures are generally latent, and their progression adheres to the “normal‑abnormal‑failure” pattern.

Equipment BOM Management Strategy: A BOM, or Bill of Materials, is used in smart‑factory production activities to illustrate the composition of product structures.

The construction of intelligent factories must ensure the scientific rigor of their system design. The system design for smart factories should incorporate modern, advanced design philosophies while remaining grounded in the actual conditions of the enterprise, thereby ensuring that the development of smart factories can realize their intended value.

The development of smart factories is intrinsically linked to the widespread application of industrial software. Industrial software is generally categorized into two major types: foundational and application software. In the context of smart factories, the term primarily refers to application software, which encompasses operational management, production management, and research & design software, among others.

Every employee should proactively propose suggestions and methods for work improvement, starting with individual actions to enhance lean production efficiency.

There is currently no universally established implementation standard for lean production. As an innovative production methodology, lean production requires customized adjustments tailored to the specific production processes and operational stages that can be improved within each organization.

For a smart factory to be successfully implemented, it must get down to where problems occur, to the root causes of those problems, and to the fundamentals of solving them. That place, cause, and foundation is the shop floor.

For the vast majority of manufacturing enterprises, achieving a smart factory and intelligent manufacturing is no easy feat.