Zhu Xingming, Chairman of Inovance: Aiming at the Future of Industrial Wirelessization, Focusing on the Four High - end, Green, Intelligent, and International Directions of Industrial Development | Frontline Report

Author | Huang Nan

Editor | Yuan Silai

Currently, the global manufacturing industry is accelerating its transformation towards "Intelligent Manufacturing 4.0". Chinese factories are also at a critical stage of upgrading from "scale" to "efficiency", but are troubled by three major pain points: difficult coordination among isolated equipment, difficult implementation of fragmented technologies, and high energy costs making it hard to reduce carbon emissions.

Against this background, shifting from single - point automation to systematic intelligent upgrading has become the core trend for the industry to improve efficiency and respond to market changes.

Zhu Xingming, the chairman of Inovance, pointed out in a media interview that within the next five years, wireless technology in industrial fields will become a reality. Based on this trend, Inovance has carried out a systematic layout around four major directions of industrial development.

Firstly, it is high - end development. As consumers' pursuit of high - quality life continues to increase, the manufacturing industry must upgrade to high - end to provide better products and services.

Secondly, it is green development. The manufacturing industry must actively respond to the global consensus on sustainable development, promote energy - saving and consumption - reducing, environmentally friendly production methods, and achieve more efficient use of resources.

The on - site of Inovance's booth at the Industrial Expo

Thirdly, it is intelligent development. Future manufacturing is not about reducing the workload, but about using AI and intelligent equipment with learning and decision - making capabilities to hand over more tasks to machines, thereby improving overall efficiency and flexibility.

Fourthly, it is international development. As the global manufacturing center, China is gradually promoting the internationalization process in three stages: in the initial stage, Chinese - made goods are exported globally; in the middle stage, Chinese production capacity is deployed overseas; at the current stage, it has entered a new "global for local" model, that is, integrating global R & D talents, engineers, industrial workers and supply - chain resources to achieve local operation.

Based on the above four development directions, Inovance Technology has formed a systematic implementation path in specific industrial scenarios.

On September 23 in Shanghai, at the 2025 Industrial Expo, instead of piling up equipment like traditional exhibitors, Inovance's booth displayed a digital solution that runs through the entire link of "design - manufacturing - energy - operation".

Specifically in industrial scenarios, problems such as cumbersome wiring, low efficiency of fault troubleshooting, and difficulty in equipment cleaning and maintenance are still the key bottlenecks restricting the improvement of production efficiency. Inovance Technology has currently launched four core architectures to further promote the upgrading of industrial automation towards flexibility and intelligence with a systematic solution.

The wired communication connection between devices has long restricted the improvement of production flexibility and efficiency. The complex cable laying not only increases the installation and debugging costs, but also brings many inconveniences to later maintenance and upgrading. To address this pain point, Inovance has launched the INO AIR global industrial wireless synchronous motion control solution, which has an ultra - short communication cycle of 1ms, 1μs - level synchronous jitter control, and 99.9999% industrial - grade reliability, and can solve the stability problem of wireless transmission in high - speed dynamic scenarios. Currently, INO AIR has been applied on a large scale in the world's first wireless labeling machine, effectively eliminating cable constraints and significantly shortening the production line transformation cycle.

The on - site of Inovance's booth at the Industrial Expo

In terms of energy and data flow optimization, Inovance has proposed an intelligent transmission system. Through the collaboration of ultra - efficient flat - wire motors and wireless frequency - conversion technology, it can connect energy and information flow. At the same time, its intelligent motion control system, through the design of integrating "data flow, control flow, and safety monitoring flow", can also realize the seamless and free flow of data in the production line on the premise of ensuring safety.

To address the problem of equipment maintenance, Inovance's intelligent pneumatic system, the IPT210 intelligent valve island, has compressed the fault location from "hours" to "milliseconds", significantly reducing the loss caused by unplanned downtime.

For precision operation scenarios, Inovance's intelligent robot has achieved an excellent performance with a load - to - self - weight ratio greater than 0.5. Its seven - degree - of - freedom bionic arm, based on the full - joint torque sensing design, has high - precision force control ability and can support complex remote - operation tasks. Currently, the above technologies have been applied in actual scenarios such as machine tool processing, injection molding, and new - energy production lines.

As embodied intelligence technology moves from the laboratory to the forefront of the industry, humanoid robots have become the key technological carrier to solve the risks of high - risk operations and relieve the pressure of labor costs. Inovance Technology focuses on the industrialization of humanoid robots and has built a complete solution with software - hardware collaboration.

The scene of the robotic arm at Inovance's booth

At the hardware level, Inovance creates stable and reliable "bones and muscles" for humanoid robots through core components such as integrated planetary joint actuators and high - torque - density frameless torque motors. These components support continuous operation for more than ten thousand hours, have the characteristics of small size and high power, enabling robots to replace humans in complex or high - risk environments such as automobile welding, chemical inspection, and internal machine - tool operations.

At the software and AI level, Inovance has built the iFG platform as a "digital employee incubator". This platform includes a data base and low - code development tools, which can transform raw data into high - quality training materials and support non - professional personnel to quickly build scenario - based intelligent agents. Through the coordinated scheduling of large and small models, the system can understand complex instructions and achieve millisecond - level response, effectively balancing the requirements of intelligence and real - time performance.

"In the future, the most potential application scenarios for AI will be intelligent robots, especially humanoid robots. As their sense of touch becomes more sensitive, their visual systems continue to improve, and they gain the ability to handle complex tasks and make decisions, humanoid robots are expected to gradually replace humans in various jobs. This may become the most important direction for AI technology to replace human labor. In the field of industrial manufacturing, the application of AI will fully penetrate into every link of people, machines, materials, methods, and the environment, and the most transformative aspect will still be reflected in the collaboration between humans and machines." Zhu Xingming said. "In this process, Chinese enterprises also need to adopt a more integrated and local 'international' new model, combine the capabilities of intelligent manufacturing with global industrial needs, and participate in building the future manufacturing ecosystem."