The proposals made at the 2022 Two Sessions—"enhancing scientific and technological innovation capabilities" and "increasing incentives for enterprise innovation"—are still fresh in our minds. Many traditional manufacturing enterprises have already started on the path to transforming into smart factories. For manufacturers, innovation means the application of technology, and innovation in the production process is essentially technological upgrading. For example, optimizing the manual data entry steps in traditional production workshops by adopting automatic equipment recording not only saves labor and improves efficiency but also reduces error rates—this is industrial upgrading. As a key focus of industrial upgrading, smart factories can reduce costs and improve final benefits, which is why traditional enterprises see smart factories as an inevitable transformation.

Looking back, traditional manufacturing enterprises relied more on manual labor in their production processes. At that time, labor costs were low, so companies could obtain higher profits. But now, with rising labor costs, corporate profits have shrunk significantly. The emergence of smart factories is precisely to replace excessively high labor costs and safeguard corporate profits.

Compared with the financial and material resources required for large enterprises to transform into smart factories, small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises can achieve a simpler, more convenient, and most importantly, lower-cost transformation. Alps System Integration (Dalian) Co., Ltd. (referred to as "ALSI") identified problems by visiting domestic production workshops and comprehensively summarized them. Relying on 30 years of technical accumulation, they developed a smart factory solution with a craftsman spirit that helps small and medium-sized manufacturers save money, effort, and time. The three major systems establish an intelligent equipment management closed loop for production workshops, covering equipment monitoring, equipment maintenance, and timely problem notification, providing comprehensive services for traditional manufacturing enterprises to transition to smart factories.

System 1: ALSI Equipment Status Monitoring System

Traditional enterprises have old production equipment that cannot achieve data interoperability. After the intervention of the ALSI Equipment Status Monitoring System, it is fully compatible with old equipment, easily obtains various data, and generates visual reports to help managers discover problems with the equipment.

System 2: ALSI Smart Maintenance System

In the past, equipment maintenance could only be discovered manually. After the intervention of the ALSI Smart Maintenance System, maintenance records are established for equipment, preventive maintenance is performed before repairs, unexpected equipment failures are prevented, and the process of repeated manual inspections is eliminated. Automatic equipment inspections are more efficient.

System 3: ALSI Instant Notification System

It promptly notifies responsible persons and managers of equipment status for immediate handling, eliminating the tedious steps of manual notification and achieving precise information delivery.

With the ALSI equipment management closed loop, traditional manufacturing enterprises have initially completed the construction of smart factories. Smart factories under technological innovation drive enterprises to move towards the mid-to-high end. Comprehensive intelligent management enables smart factory production workshops to efficiently complete production processes and avoid shutdowns caused by failures.