The 2024 World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference grandly opened in Nanjing, gathering 263 companies from nearly 10 countries and regions to showcase cutting-edge intelligent manufacturing technologies.
The term "lighthouse factory" refers to enterprises that have applied digital production technologies on a large scale and gained significant financial benefits against the backdrop of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Procter & Gamble's Huangpu Factory. [Photo/WeChat account: guangzhougaoxinqu]
Among the 172 global lighthouse factories, 72 are located in China, with three in Guangzhou, including Procter & Gamble's Huangpu Factory, GAC AION's Panyu Factory, and Midea Air Conditioning's Nansha Factory.
Procter & Gamble's Huangpu Factory integrates the supply chain through artificial intelligence, flexible automation, and digital twin technologies to enhance response speed, reduce costs, and improve delivery rates.
Lighthouse factories possess excellent production capabilities and lead upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain toward intelligence, promoting a new type of industrialization.
Automated integrated production line at Procter & Gamble's Huangpu Factory. [Photo/WeChat account: guangzhougaoxinqu]
With the rapid development of technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G, China's manufacturing industry's intelligence transformation and digitalization process is accelerating. Huangpu district continuously promotes the integration of the digital economy and the real economy, creating an internationally competitive smart manufacturing equipment industry cluster.
In the future, the district will continue its efforts to achieve the transition from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing.