Supporting systems refers to the systems that provide support for the safe, reliable, environment-friendly and efficient operation of plants in the electronics industry. Generally, these include environmental protection systems, process support systems, energy measurement systems, environmental protection systems, security systems, and communication and information systems.

On 13 June 2022, China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI) in China completed the draft for comments of the sector standard “Technical Specifications for intelligent transition of Supporting Systems of Factories in the Electronics Industry ” (hereinafter, refer to as the “Specifications”) and issued it for public opinions.

The Specifications aims at solving the technical problems commonly encountered during the establishment of intelligent supporting systems for the electronics factory, from planning and design, construction and installation, debugging, trial operation, to inspection and testing, acceptance check, operation, and maintenance. The Specifications will standardize these processes so as to improve the quality of intelligent supporting systems of electronics factories. The standard is applicable to the design, construction, debugging, trial operation, inspection and test, acceptance check, operation, and maintenance of the intelligent supporting system of the factories in electronic industry that are newly built, expanded and reconstructed.

The main technical features of the standard include:

  • Adoption of digital planning and design;
  • Collection of multi-dimensional and multi-type industrial data by adopting new smart instruments and equipment;
  • Breaking through data flow and information barriers by standardizing data protocols and interfaces;
  • Centralized storage and utilization of data by screening, clearing, and labeling technologies, which will streamline all links of industrial big data from source to application, finally mining the value of data through various smart applications, and thus improving the management level.

The standard will provide a basis for factory construction in the electronics industry, and promote its intelligent and digital transformation.