DIW Factory 4.0 capability theme: data-readiness checklist

The recovered public-source record states: DIW promotes enterprise participation in Factory 4.0 and Smart Factory capability-improvement activity. It confirms only the described event, not that a company has obtained eligibility, approval, benefit or a compliance conclusion.

Define the business use case and boundary first. State the decisions, legal entities and systems in scope, and use one actual product flow or one work centre as the rehearsal case; keep any unsupported state as unconfirmed.

Create a data catalogue covering at least product and item, BOM and routing, order, inventory, equipment, operation report, quality, downtime, energy, maintenance and cost record. Give every field a business definition, format, system source, accountable function, update timing and acceptable evidence.

Standardise identifiers for entities, counterparties, documents, projects or transactions, retaining aliases and historical versions. Do not merge on names alone or overwrite a version referenced by past activity.

Map every state in demand and order → material and plan → equipment and operation execution → quality release → completion and inventory → cost and performance review to its source document, owner and timestamp, with a visible queue for missing, conflicting, stale or unauthorised data.

Test completeness, consistency, timeliness and traceability on a small sample and record gaps instead of inventing values. Expand only after operations, finance and IT sign off the boundary.