Abstract
Abstract In recent years, considerable concern has arisen over the industry 4.0 and big data analysis. Every companies are looking for future directions to fit in the upcoming technology transformation trend. The mold industry as one of traditional manufacturing industries is also facing the challenge of industrial transformation. Many manufacturers attempt to raise the entry thresholds and gain the competitive edges by adopting production line automation and improving yield rate. However, in Chain, there are still many small and medium sized molding factories which are transformed from primitive workshops and only have few machineries so far. Some of them are even lack of ERP system. As a result, the introduction of automation and industry 4.0 seem too unlikely for them. Nevertheless, financial crisis and market changes are influencing upon the whole industry regardless of the size of enterprises. When those small and medium sized factories facing the challenges of transformation, they use machinists’ intelligence and experience to remedy the inadequacies machinery and equipment, and also seek for better and more precise molds.