In April 2021, the relevant national authorities issued the “14th Five-Year Plan for Intelligent Manufacturing Development”, which shows that smart factories have become a weapon that manufacturing factories “must use, with no turning back”. For manufacturing factories to build smart factories, the top priority is to focus on production and ensure safety. How can we promote the smooth implementation of smart factories? The system introduced below can inspire you.

Under favorable policy guidance, many manufacturing factories have begun to operate smart factories automatically on the production floor, making controllable adjustments to production management from the perspective of equipment maintenance. The ALSI Smart Maintenance System is a system developed by Alps System Integration (Dalian) Co., Ltd. (referred to as “ALSI”) that uses ALSI's unique intelligent algorithms to learn and adjust data in real time, giving smart factories higher responsiveness, greater foresight and predictability, and helping factories avoid production stoppages and other production difficulties. We know that new equipment often has a high failure rate in the early stages of operation, which places a heavy burden on maintenance personnel and even affects normal production. To reverse the situation, maintenance personnel must avoid major equipment failures, nip safety hazards in the bud, and thus eliminate safety accidents.

In the ALSI Smart Maintenance System, an automatic work order dispatching method is adopted, which provides the best maintenance personnel based on factors such as distance, workload saturation, and work status, without human intervention, freeing the administrator's hands. The one-click repair request method not only greatly avoids manual operation errors, but also allows administrators to deal with large numbers of work orders more timely and efficiently. Under the premise of convenience and time-saving, it also realizes the automatic allocation of maintenance tasks in a more real-time and intelligent manner. By using this system, when a device fails, the first dispatching step makes the maintenance process more automated and intelligent, allowing maintenance personnel to arrive at the scene in time, reduce waiting time, eliminate faults in the shortest time, quickly restore the equipment to normal operation, ensure production progress, and enable smart factories to achieve a leap in interconnection and flexibility.

In a market environment where new equipment can better meet production demands, it is imperative to transform into more resilient and adaptable smart factories. Taking equipment maintenance as an opportunity, the ALSI Smart Maintenance System provides full-process reporting, tracking, and statistics of equipment faults through automatic dispatching. Based on information such as personnel time, materials consumed, tools, and services on work orders, it aggregates maintenance labor costs and comprehensively evaluates maintenance personnel performance, putting the concept of “a true smart factory is a more holistic practice” into practice, and making the vision of manufacturing factories building smart factories achievable in the near future.