In 1966, Liugong successfully developed China’s first wheel loader, the Z435, breaking the foreign technology monopoly and starting the road to independent development of China’s loader industry.
Over the past sixty years, Liugong loaders have gone through six generations of iterative upgrades, with cumulative production and sales exceeding 600,000 units. The industrial model has advanced from traditional discrete manufacturing to full value chain digital intelligent manufacturing, and production efficiency has jumped significantly.
LiuGong loaders adhere to the concept of “craftsmanship”, accumulate a profound equipment manufacturing heritage, and take into account the inheritance of craftsmanship and technological innovation.
Integrating precision manufacturing and digital technology, empowering the entire industry chain with digitalization, achieving quality improvement and upgrading in all aspects of R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, and services, and promoting high-quality development of the construction machinery industry.
In terms of intelligent manufacturing, LiuGong inherits its manufacturing heritage and reshapes the new paradigm of intelligent manufacturing in the industry.
The integration of intelligent technology and advanced manufacturing enables self-awareness and self-decision-making in production through equipment IoT and data drive.
LiuGong has created a “LDP + LiPS” two-wheel drive quality management model, relying on digital transformation to achieve standardization and intelligence of the entire production process, laying a solid foundation for intelligent manufacturing quality.
LiuGong’s industry-leading loader smart factory, which will be officially put into operation in August 2023, focuses on the intelligentization of the entire process, the digitalization of all links, and the miniaturization of all scenarios, and completes the intelligent empowerment of the entire process including blanking, tailor welding, and inspection.
The factory can mass-produce full-tonnage engineering machinery and equipment. The factory has multiple exclusive production lines. Automated and intelligent equipment accounts for more than 85%, and a complete machine can be rolled off the production line every 5 minutes.
The factory self-developed LDS internal logistics platform, combined with intelligent warehousing and AGV distribution, optimizes material flow efficiency, increases material retrieval efficiency by more than 65%, significantly reduces storage area, and achieves zero inventory lean production.
At the same time, relying on 5G + industrial Internet, digital twin and other technologies, we will build a visual and traceable digital management and control system to achieve real-time supervision of production and early warning of faults.
This digital transformation has achieved remarkable results. The manufacturing cycle has been halved, production and production capacity have been greatly improved, the quality of the whole machine has been optimized, quality problems and defective product rates have been significantly reduced, delivery efficiency has been significantly accelerated, and the factory has outstanding flexible production capabilities and is compatible with the mixed-line production of more than a thousand products.
At present, the factory has been selected into the 5G factory list of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and has been awarded the 2023 China Benchmark Smart Factory, becoming the benchmark for smart manufacturing in the domestic loader industry.
Digital transformation is the core support for green and intelligent manufacturing. LiuGong has integrated the digital system of LTC’s entire value chain to build a data-driven, collaborative and linked operation model.
The R&D end implements the PLM three-dimensional R&D platform to shorten the product development cycle; the production planning end implements the SIOP production and sales collaboration system to improve planning efficiency and accuracy; the logistics end builds a WMS + LES integrated platform to achieve full-process digital collaboration; the server end relies on the industrial Internet to iterate Smart Butler 2.0 to improve maintenance efficiency and solve the problem of overseas service response.
LiuGong integrated MES, WMS, and LDS systems, was rated as a digital transformation pilot enterprise by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and was approved for special financial support for Guangxi’s smart digital transformation.
Green manufacturing helps achieve the dual-carbon goal. Liugong integrates digitalization with greening and integrates low-carbon concepts throughout the entire product life cycle.
In March 2026, Liugong loaders were rated as a national green factory, and were previously rated as a national green supply chain management enterprise.
The VOCs emissions of the environmentally friendly coating line in the factory have been reduced by 70%, all iron filings have been recycled and regenerated, and a low-carbon logistics model has been created. Electric loaders have zero carbon emissions, and the fuel consumption of traditional models has been reduced by more than 15%. High and low temperature and noise reduction laboratories have been built to reduce carbon emissions.
LiuGong has built a digital green supply chain, refined management and control of energy consumption, and benchmarked overseas bases against local environmental protection standards to achieve win-win economic, ecological and social benefits.
In the future, LiuGong will closely adhere to the three major strategies of comprehensive solutions, comprehensive digital intelligence, and globalization to promote manufacturing towards smart collaboration, green transition, global replication and upgrading, and lead the high-quality development of the construction machinery industry.
