For smart factories, one of the important roles of Industry 4.0 is to improve production capacity and quality without expanding factory space, investing large amounts of capital, or increasing personnel. The vision of smart factories for workshop on-site construction is: automation of production data collection, visualization of the production site, and intelligent production operations. Today there are many examples of using intelligence to push product quality to the limit. The digitalization that traditional factories could not achieve is now being realized by today's smart factories.

Driven by large-scale digital commercial transformation, manufacturing is entering a new phase. The equipment status monitoring system of Alps System Integration (Dalian) Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as "ALSI") is being used to support and even change the role of human labor in the actual workplace. This technology brings efficiency and convenience to many complex processes and workflows in manufacturing. Many people think that data collection belongs to the scope of smart factories, but in fact it is only the foundation for automation. Equipment status data collection includes startup, fault, maintenance, shutdown, etc. The smart data collector TS-10 can easily achieve this, automatically collecting data from three-color lights with more than 27 different status combinations. It has advantages such as speed, accuracy, and high availability. By handing over repetitive mechanical manual labor to the smart data collector TS-10, not only a large amount of labor cost is saved, but equipment status is collected more real-time and efficiently. The smart gateway TG-10 is responsible for data upload, acting as a relay station in this system. Its powerful edge computing capability makes it a worthy messenger for information transmission. It is perfectly suitable to connect the upstream smart data collector TS-10 and the downstream Lighthouse. Aggregating, analyzing, and self-learning the collected data can be considered the prototype of a smart factory. The software system Lighthouse makes a grand appearance, perfectly presenting the chain of actions: real-time equipment status monitoring, tracing and querying equipment fault causes, and automatic production statistical reports. Overall, this system fully conforms to the essence of smart factories in solving production problems and tracing the root causes.

All implementations of smart factories should revolve around cost reduction, quality improvement, and efficiency enhancement. Through the ALSI equipment status monitoring system, upper-level production management achieves monitoring of lower-level equipment, making workshop management transparent and enabling access to relevant production information such as production quantity, speed, number of stoppages and duration, etc. It can form intuitive and visual graphic interfaces, providing managers with real-time on-site information, and helping equipment maintenance personnel quickly locate and analyze on-site faults, determine solutions, and assist in building smart factories. The ALSI equipment status monitoring system is a manufacturing equipment monitoring system. It not only provides real-time feedback and response to ERP, MES, SAP, and workshop on-site management, but also monitors the optimal configuration and interaction of resources such as man, machine, material, method, and environment during the manufacturing execution process. It allows factories to obtain more, better, and more practical production manufacturing data. In this process, improving efficiency and quality, and reducing risks are the core application values of the ALSI equipment status monitoring system. In the future, with equipment iteration upgrades and market demands, Alps System Integration (Dalian) Co., Ltd. will continue to uphold its positive attitude of insight into the market and enthusiastic service, providing more excellent solutions for smart factory construction.

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