In those days, Taiwan's Provincial Department of Agriculture and Forestry was promoting the mechanization of agriculture. It hired Professor Chen Suming of National Taiwan University's Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering and experts from agricultural improvement stations around the island to advise farmers on automation. Chan, who already knew a good deal about construction, was receptive to their ideas about an automated "plant factory" and immediately ran with them.
當時省農林廳正在推動農業自動化工程，委請台灣大學生物產業機電工程系教授陳世銘和各地農改場專家，組成一個輔導農友的顧問團，對建築原本就有概念的詹朱金，對自動化「植物工廠」的新概念很能接受，立即採取行動。