Industry guests gathered at the 2025 Lean Digital Innovation Conference to jointly explore how "AI + Lean Digital Intelligence" empowers the transformation of the manufacturing industry.
On September 27, 2025, the "2025 Lean Digital Innovation Conference", hosted by the China Enterprise Reform and Development Research Association, co - organized by the Enterprise Management Working Committee of the China Enterprise Reform and Development Research Association and Tianjin Apriori Technology Development Co., Ltd., and specially supported by China National Nuclear Corporation and China Railway Signal & Communication Group Co., Ltd., was grandly opened in Tianjin. With the theme of "Driving New - type Industrialization through Lean Digital Intelligence and Co - creating New - quality Productivity", the conference gathered more than a thousand representatives from government departments, industry associations, top universities, leading enterprises in the industrial chain, leading manufacturing enterprises, and news media to discuss the innovative paths and development prospects of the in - depth integration of lean management and digital technology in China's manufacturing industry under the wave of technologies such as large AI models and big data.
The series of conference activities were closely linked and rich and diverse, covering the National Finals of the 2025 China Lean Digital Intelligence Innovation Competition, an opening ceremony and main forum, six themed closed - door meetings, twelve parallel forums, and multiple resource docking salons. Through the release ceremony of the "2025 China Manufacturing Industry Lean Digital Development Report" and the award - giving ceremony of the competition, the conference comprehensively demonstrated the cutting - edge achievements of the industry and led China's manufacturing industry into a new stage of lean digital intelligence.
Zhai Lixin, the Vice - Mayor of the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, Peng Huagang, the President of the China Enterprise Reform and Development Research Association, former Party Committee Member and Secretary - General of the State - owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, Liu Mingzhong, the First Vice - President of the China Enterprise Reform and Development Research Association, former Party Committee Secretary and Chairman of China National Heavy Machinery Corporation, Fan Jianlin, the Vice - President of the China Enterprise Reform and Development Research Association, former Director of the Retired Cadres Management Bureau of the State - owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, Wang Hongyan, the Vice - President of the China Enterprise Reform and Development Research Association, Chairman of Apriori Group, and Founder of the China Manufacturing Industry International Forum, and Tan Jian, the Vice - President and Secretary - General of the China Enterprise Reform and Development Research Association attended the opening ceremony and main forum.
Zhang Tao, the Director, General Manager, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of China National Nuclear Corporation, Wang Decheng, the Party Committee Secretary and Chairman of China Academy of Machinery Science & Technology Group Co., Ltd., Li Rui, the Party Committee Member and Deputy General Manager of China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd., Wan Baohua, the Standing Committee Member of the Party Committee and Vice - President of China Railway Signal & Communication Corporation Limited, and the leaders of more than 400 domestic and foreign leading or single - champion enterprises in the industry, Zhu Sendi, the Honorary Director of the National Expert Committee on Intelligent Manufacturing and Honorary Director of the Expert Committee of the China Federation of Machinery Industry, Peter Sachsenmeier, a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and other Chinese and foreign experts and scholars, as well as the leaders of the competent departments of industry and information technology and state - owned assets in some provinces and cities such as Tianjin attended the conference and participated in multiple activities.
During the guiding session of the conference, Wang Hongyan said that more and more enterprises have incorporated lean digitalization into their "15th Five - Year" strategic plans, regarding it as the foundation and a breakthrough for organizational capacity and business model transformation. Lean is the "first - principle" of intelligent manufacturing. No matter how our management methods and technologies evolve, we must ultimately return to the origin of business, guided by lean, and always focus on profit, cost, quality, and innovation!
The "2025 China Manufacturing Industry Lean Digital Development Report", jointly compiled by the China Enterprise Reform and Development Research Association, the Institute of Electronic Industry Standardization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Tianjin Apriori Technology Development Co., Ltd., Tsinghua University, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, and manufacturing enterprises, was grandly released at the main forum of the conference. The conference summarized the practical experiences of dozens of key industries and more than a hundred enterprises, analyzed the trends and challenges of lean management driven by AI, and provided a guide for the lean digital transformation and development of the manufacturing industry.
The parallel forum on "AI + Lean Digital Intelligence", as one of the most anticipated sub - venues of this conference, successfully presented a high - level industry intellectual feast. Nearly 300 participants, including decision - makers of domestic benchmark manufacturing enterprises, leaders of industry associations, and well - known scholars, gathered together to have in - depth and constructive exchanges around the core scenarios and implementation paths of how "AI + Digital Intelligence" can deeply empower the transformation of the manufacturing industry. The exchange of views and the blending of wisdom at the scene provided forward - looking perspectives and practical references for promoting the digital intelligence practice of the manufacturing industry.
During the forum, Zhao Yu, the President of Apriori Group, released the LDC Lean Digital Cloud 2025 - 2026 solution. As a lightweight lean management digital platform independently developed by Apriori, this platform integrates core solution packages such as strategic penetration, lean fulfillment, problem management, and AI assistants. It has been successfully applied in more than 300 manufacturing enterprises, covering key industries such as high - end equipment, energy and chemical engineering, and new materials. As of now, the cumulative number of platform users has exceeded 30,000. The platform has helped enterprises identify and handle 300,000 on - site abnormalities, dig out more than 60,000 improvement opportunities, and assisted many enterprises in achieving their strategies and ensuring the on - time delivery of projects. It has effectively helped enterprises reduce costs, increase efficiency, improve quality, and establish a continuous improvement mechanism driven by AI, providing digital core support for enterprises' excellent operations.
Since its launch in 2003, the conference has been successfully held for 22 sessions and has now developed into a key window for the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry and a core hub for the integration of industry, academia, research, and application. Facing the era's mission of promoting new - type industrialization and building a manufacturing powerhouse, the conference gathers the wisdom of all parties in government, industry, academia, research, and application, empowering China's manufacturing industry to strengthen its lean capabilities and drive digital intelligence innovation, injecting strong impetus into the high - end leap, intelligent iteration, and green transformation of the manufacturing industry.