In August 2022, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the "Guidelines for Digital Transformation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" (referred to as the "Guidelines"). The Guidelines propose that SMEs should fully utilize lightweight and precise applications and services, first solidify the foundation, then gradually expand the coverage of smart factory business links to achieve data and business collaboration. Building a smart factory for SMEs is not "going it alone"; multiple parties need to work together, leverage their own advantages, and improve the quality of smart factories.

At present, the digital transformation path for SMEs is relatively long, with high technical thresholds in the early stage, often facing challenges such as tight investment costs for intelligent resources, weak capabilities, and shortage of talents. In addition, the foundation of SMEs varies, and their needs are also different. It is difficult to promote smart factory construction solely by their own strength. So how should SMEs undergo digital transformation? Alps System Integration (Dalian) Co., Ltd. (referred to as "ALSI") has delivered a satisfactory answer.

ALSI is a lean expert with more than 30 years of experience on the manufacturing floor, and one of the leading domestic suppliers of intelligent manufacturing solutions. It provides manufacturing enterprises with one-stop, software-hardware integrated smart factory solutions, deeply aligned with the MIIT's guidance on digital transformation for SMEs. ALSI flexibly applies IoT and AI technologies, focusing on full lifecycle management of equipment, including tools and systems suitable for the manufacturing floor such as data collection, equipment maintenance, remote monitoring, and intelligent scheduling. Among them, the standardized, low-cost intelligent data collector TS-10 hardware solves the data collection challenge for enterprises; the Lighthouse application software system performs data statistics and analysis to achieve unified supervision of all plant equipment; the Lingjian button allows one-key transmission and recording of equipment status; the TPM equipment management system establishes an archive database, intelligently dispatches tasks, and provides preventive maintenance recommendations... ALSI's intelligent manufacturing solutions form an end-to-end management closed loop for equipment, which for manufacturing enterprises also means cost optimization. Through ALSI's full-journey accompanying and reassuring service, SMEs do not need to engage in "make-up" informatization construction, and can embrace the smart factory at lower cost and technical threshold, achieving data and business collaboration.

ALSI integrates lean concepts into all aspects of smart factory production and service. With 30 years of technical accumulation and field service experience in the field of intelligent manufacturing, it has solved smart factory construction challenges for thousands of enterprises at home and abroad. Low-cost, one-stop service is not only the demand of SMEs but also of most manufacturing enterprises for digital transformation suppliers. ALSI will continue to leverage its professional advantages, strengthen and enrich its smart factory solutions, help enterprises achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement, and promote the digital transformation of more manufacturing enterprises.