On December 28, 2021, the “14th Five-Year Plan” for Smart Manufacturing Development (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”), jointly issued by eight departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, focused on the essential needs of manufacturing, emphasized advancing smart factories, and guided enterprises toward digital transformation and intelligent upgrading. Alps System Integration (Dalian) Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as “ALSI”) closely follows national policy directions, seizes policy opportunities, and relies on over 30 years of industry knowledge accumulation in the industrial sector, continuously deepening its experience on the production front. Combining current issues in the implementation of smart factories, it takes equipment health management as the core, deeply interprets the policy connotation, and matches corresponding solutions. According to the enterprise’s own characteristics and development needs, ALSI promotes the deepening application of the Plan, helps enterprises find their own development paths, contributes to better implementation of the Plan, and lays a solid foundation for the transformation of smart factories.

Under the “14th Five-Year Plan,” “digital-real integration” is the main task of smart factory transformation. With the support of policies, ALSI, as one of the leading enterprises in the field of digital intelligent manufacturing, starts from the country’s urgent and long-term needs. By going deep into factory workshops and working diligently, it independently developed a smart management solution for production equipment, putting “digital-real integration” into practice. This solution deeply integrates the production processes and actual needs of the manufacturing industry. Using the ALSL equipment status monitoring system as a key tool for data collection, it collects equipment operation data in real time. With real-time insight into factory production, energy consumption, and equipment status information, it uses digital operation and maintenance to form a production anomaly and maintenance management knowledge base. Through the automatic accumulation of maintenance experience, it greatly improves equipment utilization, helps managers better control the manufacturing process, and achieves cost reduction and efficiency improvement through smart operations and maintenance, becoming a breakthrough in smart factory equipment management. At the same time, this solution can be seamlessly integrated with ERP/MES and other systems. Its strong compatibility highly matches the actual production scenarios of enterprises, enabling interconnection between enterprise information management software and workshop production data, facilitating insight into real-time status on the production floor, and realizing the digital value in detail. Overall, this solution helps enterprises achieve digital management of equipment, promotes the feasible implementation path of smart factories, and realizes the digitization and full circulation of production information from the production end to the management level, which is also an important manifestation of the core of the “14th Five-Year Plan” policy.

As a practitioner and enabler of smart factories, under the policy direction of the “14th Five-Year Plan,” the smart factory solution breaks the “data silo” effect, organizes and analyzes data into management information, directly addresses the pain points of equipment management in industrial enterprises, and achieves intelligent control of the production process. This is not only a perfect interpretation of ALSI’s more than 30 years of deep involvement in manufacturing informatization and intelligent construction but also the best answer to promote the deep and practical development of smart factories.