ZOOMLION has recently been recognized in the “Hunan Top 10 Science and Technology News 2025,” as its Excavator Shared Manufacturing Intelligent Factory was selected into China’s first batch of Lighthouse Intelligent Factory cultivation projects. As the only enterprise from Hunan Province included in this national list, ZOOMLION has set a benchmark for high-end equipment manufacturing by introducing an innovative “shared manufacturing” model that can be replicated and promoted across the industry.

The Lighthouse Intelligent Factory represents the highest level in China’s intelligent manufacturing development system. It is jointly promoted and certified by six national ministries, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and reflects the future direction of smart manufacturing in China. In November 2025, at the World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, the first batch of selected enterprises was officially announced, with only 15 companies nationwide making the list. ZOOMLION successfully broke through the world-class challenge of mixed-flow production for heavy equipment characterized by multiple models and small batch sizes, and built a globally unique collaborative and shared intelligent factory cluster for construction machinery.

The ZOOMLION Excavator Shared Manufacturing Intelligent Factory has realized full-process intelligent manufacturing across six core production stages, enabling more than 100 excavator models to be efficiently produced on shared mixed-flow lines. It has also pioneered a new collaborative production model linking excavators with cranes, concrete pump trucks, and aerial work platforms, significantly improving overall manufacturing efficiency. As a result, steel plate material utilization has exceeded 90%, and work-in-process inventory for structural parts has been reduced by 70%, fundamentally solving one of the long-standing production challenges in the construction machinery industry.

“Sharing” is the core concept behind this intelligent factory. By horizontally covering four major categories of construction machinery and vertically connecting hundreds of production processes, ZOOMLION has built a highly integrated collaborative manufacturing ecosystem. Supported by self-developed AI dynamic resource scheduling algorithms and multi-modal flexible workstations, the production lines can achieve zero-changeover between different models, allowing production resources to self-organize and self-optimize. With an overall automation rate of 85% and six unmanned “black-light” production lines, the factory can produce one excavator every six minutes on average. From steel plate cutting to complete machine rollout, the entire manufacturing cycle takes only 6.5 days, while customized products can be delivered to domestic customers in as fast as two weeks.

These achievements have set new global benchmarks in production pace, changeover time, and manufacturing cycle in the construction machinery industry. Looking ahead, ZOOMLION will continue to promote the deep integration of next-generation artificial intelligence and robotics, explore new models of future manufacturing, and provide more “China Smart Manufacturing” solutions to support global industrial upgrading. As an important practitioner of Hunan’s development strategy, ZOOMLION will continue to drive high-quality growth in China’s high-end equipment manufacturing sector through technological innovation.