Recently, the 2023 (9th) International Smart Manufacturing (Wuhan) Forum grandly opened at the Wuhan · Optics Valley of China Science and Technology Exhibition Center. The high-end engineering equipment smart manufacturing factory built by Sunward has been named on the 2023 (2nd) Top 100 China Benchmark Smart Factories List.

It is reported that in 2020, e-works successfully held the first "Top 100 China Benchmark Smart Factories" selection, and in 2023 it organized the selection again for the "2nd Top 100 China Benchmark Smart Factories," continuously tracking the practice path of China's smart factories, discovering more benchmarks among China's local smart factories, seeking leading enterprises in segmented industries, and exploring the construction priorities, key technologies, and practical experience of smart factories. This year's "China Benchmark Smart Factories" cover a wide range of industries, spanning 12 major sectors including electronics/electrical appliances, machinery and equipment, complete vehicles, auto parts, energy and power, food and beverage, petrochemicals, and iron and steel metallurgy.

Sunward carries out smart factory construction around key links such as process design, planning and scheduling, production operations, equipment management, and supply chain management. By introducing automated equipment such as CNC machine tools, industrial robots, and AGVs, it enhances manufacturing capabilities; it has self-developed the "Sunward Xiangyun" industrial internet platform to advance integrated "5G + Industrial Internet" applications; it has built a R&D digital platform featuring multidisciplinary digital twins, multi-objective collaborative optimization, and simulation-test collaboration for vibration and noise reduction; and it actively applies technologies such as intelligent sensing, machine vision, big data, and AI. It has initially built a high-end engineering equipment smart manufacturing demonstration factory featuring digital integration across the product lifecycle, integrated design-manufacturing collaboration, fully transparent production, and efficient and flexible supply chain management, with digital and intelligent levels reaching the industry's leading position.

Next, Sunward will continue to comprehensively advance the digital transformation and intelligent reform of manufacturing, promote low-carbon industrial transformation and development, drive breakthroughs in manufacturing technology, process innovation, scenario integration, and business process reengineering, push smart manufacturing to a new level, and contribute to building a manufacturing powerhouse.