This year marks the start of the “14th Five-Year Plan” period. At this stage, China's manufacturing industry is in a critical period of reform, development, and transformation. The overall industry's lean production has welcomed many favorable policies, but at the same time, lean production in manufacturing inevitably faces some challenges. For example, China's current manufacturing development as a whole is in areas with small profit margins, relatively extensive production methods, and low added value. Lean production is difficult, and the industrial chain is transforming and upgrading from low-end manufacturing to high-end intelligent manufacturing……

To accelerate lean production in manufacturing enterprises, various regions are also encouraging the development of industrial Internet platforms. According to the latest “Global Industrial Internet Application Case Analysis Report,” enterprises applying industrial Internet platforms are mainly distributed in the machinery, energy, and light industries. Among them, machinery accounts for 36%, energy for 22%, and light industry for 11%. The industrial Internet can leverage its intensive, intelligent, convenient, and secure characteristics across various stages of manufacturing, such as production, R&D, design, and market services.
With the continuous development and evolution of the industrial Internet, digitalization has gradually penetrated various industrial manufacturing fields, greatly enhancing production efficiency, alleviating overcapacity, reducing production costs, increasing manufacturing output, promoting lean production, and helping China's industry transform and upgrade to high-end manufacturing.
Currently, China's industrial Internet-related enterprises play their respective roles in different aspects of manufacturing, covering traditional manufacturing companies, system solution providers, and small and medium-sized startups. Alps System Integration (Dalian) Co., Ltd., as a system integrator with over 30 years of Japanese corporate background, has been deeply involved in industrial IoT research and development for many years and firmly believes that the value of data lies in continuous mining and accumulation. To truly help small and medium-sized enterprises embark on a path of lean production, it is necessary to base solutions on the current status and problems of SME development and plan a sustainable development path that meets their actual needs.
This year is the opening year of the “14th Five-Year Plan”. Both internally and externally, manufacturing enterprises face considerable pressure in lean production. Externally, the evolving global pandemic and the complex and severe economic environment; internally, manufacturing enterprises also face a painful period of lean production. Alps System Integration (Dalian) Co., Ltd. will remain confident, take proactive actions, actively implement new concepts of digitalization, intelligence, and industrial development, and continuously promote high-quality development of enterprise lean production and manufacturing transformation and upgrading.