First, control costs by aligning the construction and operation of your smart factory with the actual conditions of your facility—avoid blind investment. Second, ensure practical feasibility.

To solve this problem, it is essential to select a smart factory solution that is "easy to use and low maintenance." Such a smart factory solution can help these small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises rapidly advance their industrial internet construction.

The intelligent decision-making in smart factories primarily involves building a "data brain" for the factory through technologies such as the Internet and big data.

Compared with the existing model of traditional factories, smart factories, through the Internet + manufacturing model, can bring more changes and unlimited possibilities to the factory.

Taking the ALSI equipment status monitoring system as an example, the smart factory equipment status monitoring system integrates management systems with data acquisition through Zigbee intelligent wireless gateway networking.

Intelligent management in smart factories entails leveraging core operational systems to enhance the sophistication, efficiency, and specialization of factory administration.

The intelligent supply chain of a smart factory is built upon the foundation of traditional supply chains, enhanced through the integration of internet technologies and other advanced solutions to form a more sophisticated and interconnected system.

When manufacturing enterprises transition to smart factories, the selected smart factory solution must be implementable. Whether a smart factory solution can be practically implemented directly determines the success or failure of the factory's transformation into a smart factory.

Existing manufacturing facilities possess the potential to transition into smart factories. However, during this transformation process, it is unrealistic to expect these legacy plants to achieve full-scale intelligent upgrades in a single step.

The primary gap between Chinese enterprises and world-class corporations lies in management and production methodologies. To address the pressing challenge of market encroachment, adopting innovative production systems has become an urgent priority for domestic firms. Lean production emerges as the strategic remedy to navigate this crisis.