Remote and real-time monitoring, selfdiagnosis for preventive maintenance, as well as intelligent machinery and smart managing communities, these Industry 4.0 developments are inevitable directions for manufacturers globally. Given that, it has been a tough task for machinery builders to find the right path to develop digital platforms. The Intelligent Cloud Platform for Machinery Cloud is a project supported by both the Taiwan government and technical institutes, and can now act as crucial support to assist small & medium-scale machine builders to easily add and build smart manufacturing platforms.