What Is an Information Appliance?

Information equipment refers to hardware facilities such as computers, communications and office automation equipment, and buildings in the information department.

Information equipment

Information equipment is the hardware that makes up the information system, and it is an essential and important part of the information system. Its quality is directly related to the performance and operating life of the information system. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the management of information equipment procurement. ^[1]

The requirements for the production of information equipment are high, and it is difficult to expand production. The production conditions of information equipment are mainly strict environment and precision equipment. The production of information equipment has strict and specific requirements on the air quality, temperature, and humidity of the production environment, which makes it more difficult to build, expand and rebuild production plants. The production equipment required for the production of information equipment is special equipment with high precision. In addition to the requirements of the production environment, it also has strict requirements on operating procedures, use and maintenance. The service life, maintenance intervals, maintenance procedures, and time of this equipment cannot be changed arbitrarily, so the elasticity of the number of products produced by each equipment is relatively small. This made it difficult to expand production during the war. ^[2]

Recruitment of electronic information professionals can solve the manpower required for the expansion of the information equipment industry. Generally, the method of recruiting electronic information professionals from other industries to enrich the information equipment industry is adopted. Due to the shortage of wartime electronic information professionals, and they have undertaken important tasks in all walks of life, they should be recruited from pure life service enterprises with little military relations, or improve the efficiency of such personnel in other units. Partial talents were released to support the expansion of the information equipment industry. ^[2]

Expanded on the basis of component factories and assembly plants. Because the requirements for the production of information equipment are relatively harsh, it is not easy for general enterprises to switch to production. Therefore, the scale can be expanded on the basis of component factories and assembly plants. The first is to increase the number of production shifts and production lines; the second is to expand the component factory and assembly plant into a one-stop all-round enterprise from component production to finished product assembly during wartime; the third is to separate new enterprises based on existing enterprises . Reduce the number of civilian products to meet military needs. Because the difference between military and civilian use of information equipment is not very large, and the versatility of military and civilian production is high, it is necessary to make every effort to reduce the number of civilian products to ensure military needs.