Intelligent manufacturing, network first.
As the digital and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry deepens, more and more industrial scenes and industrial parks are becoming digital, networked, and intelligent.
In this process, F5G-A all-optical network has become an important choice for basic networks due to its unique advantages.
On May 29, with “Light and Wisdom Integration”
The 2026 Zhejiang Auto Parts Industry CXO Closed-door Meeting and the Zhongce Rubber Group (Chaoyang Base) F5G-A All-Optical Factory Study Activity with the theme of “Empowering Manufacturing” were successfully held in Hangzhou.
This event was jointly hosted by Zhongce Rubber Group (Chaoyang Base) and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., bringing together 80+ CXOs, informatization practitioners and industry elites from the Zhejiang auto parts industry to share the informatization construction process of Zhongce Rubber Group (Chaoyang Base), focusing on the innovative achievements of the F5G-A all-optical factory, and jointly explore new ways for AI inclusive and all-optical technology to empower the manufacturing industry to improve quality and efficiency.
Zheng Li (Ph.D.), executive deputy general manager of Zhongce Rubber Group Hangzhou Chaoyang Rubber Co., Ltd., said in his speech that the auto parts industry is an important pillar of Zhejiang’s advanced manufacturing industry, and digital and intelligent transformation has become a must-answer for the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.
Zhongce Group is deeply involved in industry and focuses on intelligent manufacturing. It has joined hands with Huawei to build the first F5G-A all-optical factory in Zhejiang’s auto parts industry. It relies on the advantages of all-optical networks to open up data islands, realize equipment interconnection, production visibility, and quality inspection intelligence, promote the implementation of cutting-edge technologies in workshops, and build a solid digital base.
He emphasized that the digital and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry requires collaborative exploration by the industry, and he looks forward to deepening cooperation with all walks of life to empower smart manufacturing upgrades with digital intelligence and help high-quality development of Made in Zhejiang and Made in China.
Nie Jiangfeng, general manager of Huawei’s Zhejiang Government and Enterprise Intelligent Manufacturing System Department, said in his speech that the current manufacturing industry has entered the deep-water zone of global intelligent transformation, and digital intelligence, low carbonization, and independent innovation have become the core trends in industry development.
Huawei has been deeply involved in the manufacturing field for more than 30 years. It has always adhered to its original intention of “from manufacturing and empowering manufacturing” and relied on its own transformation practices to develop full-scenario solutions.
F5G-A all-optical network has become the core digital base of intelligent manufacturing with its advantages of large bandwidth, low latency, high reliability, green energy saving and so on.
This time, the company and Zhongce Rubber Group (Chaoyang Base) jointly built the first F5G-A all-optical factory in the provincial auto parts industry, setting an excellent example for the digital and intelligent transformation of the industry.
In the future, the two parties will deepen cooperation to help enterprises promote intelligent upgrading and achieve low-carbon and efficient development.
In the core practice sharing session, Lou Hong, deputy director of the Equipment Department of Hangzhou Chaoyang Rubber Co., Ltd., reviewed in detail the digital transformation and intelligent manufacturing development process of Zhongce Rubber.
He said that Zhongce Rubber is deeply engaged in industry and insists on digital and intelligent transformation. As the first tire company in China and the eighth largest tire company in the world, it has been awarded many honors such as the National Outstanding Smart Factory and the Provincial Future Factory.
Faced with the factory’s network requirements of high reliability, large bandwidth, and easy operation and maintenance, Zhongce joined hands with Huawei to build the Zhejiang auto parts industry’s first F5G-A all-optical factory. Relying on the 1+N digital architecture, it opens up data islands and realizes equipment interconnection, production visibility, and quality inspection intelligence. It greatly improves production efficiency, product quality, and operation and maintenance efficiency, and provides a practical sample for the industry’s digital and intelligent transformation.
Liu Yue, vice president of the government and enterprise optical field of Huawei’s optical product line, said that adhering to the concept of integration of light and intelligence, Huawei’s AI F5G-A all-optical park one-stop solution builds a new digital intelligence base for manufacturing parks with four core capabilities.
All-optical connection: 50G PON guarantees a super 10 Gigabit AI application experience, the industry’s first dual-transmit and selective-receive technology with zero packet loss guarantees 7*24-hour uninterruption of key businesses, and the “one optical to the end” architecture also makes factory flexible production more efficient; multi-dimensional perception: smart Wi –
Fi senses the presence of personnel, helping the park to save energy, increase efficiency and ensure production safety; Hongmeng IoT: Huawei ONU integrates the open-source Hongmeng base to accelerate the efficiency of IoT integration and enable the implementation of diversified innovative applications; Intelligent operation and maintenance: relying on agents and storage and management computing platforms, it realizes independent operation and maintenance of the park and ecological closed loop, and comprehensively helps manufacturing companies improve quality and efficiency.
Subsequently, the event ushered in a major event, with the awarding ceremony of the F5G-A all-optical factory innovation demonstration project of Zhongce Rubber Group (Chaoyang Base) being held grandly.
This license award marks that the base has become the first F5G-A all-optical factory benchmark in the auto parts industry in Zhejiang Province, verifying the feasibility and practicality of all-optical technology adapting to the upgrading of traditional manufacturing industries, and setting a new demonstration model for the digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises in the province and even the country.
Wu Haibin, Director of Huawei Manufacturing and Large Enterprise Legion Components Solutions, combined with the development status of the tire industry, analyzed the current development pattern of industry capacity upgrades and intensified overseas competition, as well as the pain points of the digital transformation of the entire chain of manufacturing companies’ research, production, supply, marketing and services.
He said that Huawei relies on its own manufacturing experience and the advantages of Legion’s deep cultivation to create a full-link digital solution suitable for the tire and auto parts industry. It focuses on core scenarios such as intelligent production scheduling, AI quality inspection, equipment operation and maintenance, and data governance. It solves problems such as enterprise system chimneys, data fragmentation, and transformation inefficiency, and helps the entire industry improve quality, efficiency, and upgrade development.
In the roundtable discussion session, Zheng Li, Liu Yue, and Nie Jiangfeng conducted in-depth discussions around the core theme of AI inclusiveness helping the manufacturing industry to improve quality and efficiency.
Based on multiple dimensions such as industry trends, technological innovation, and corporate practice, the guests analyzed the current pain points and opportunities for inclusive AI in the manufacturing industry. All parties had in-depth exchanges around the implementation of lightweight solutions, training of interdisciplinary talents, technological iterative innovation, and co-construction of industrial ecology, and contributed many new ideas and insights to the large-scale application and high-quality development of AI in the industry.
At the same time as the event, the guests visited the Zhongce Rubber Group (Chaoyang Base) production park and visited the F5G-A all-optical factory implementation application scenario.
Visiting various application scenarios such as all-optical network deployment, flexible production scheduling, and intelligent operation and maintenance control in the semi-steel radial tire curing workshop, you can experience the hard-core capabilities of digital intelligent bases to reduce costs, improve quality, and increase efficiency in traditional manufacturing at close range, and deepen your knowledge and understanding of all-optical intelligent manufacturing and AI inclusiveness.
The successful holding of this event not only comprehensively demonstrated the benchmark cooperation results of Zhongce and Huawei’s strong alliance and digital intelligence empowered manufacturing industry, but also established an efficient platform for experience exchange, idea collision, and resource docking for Zhejiang’s auto parts industry.
In the future, Zhongce will continue to work with Huawei to deepen the integration and innovation of F5G-A all-optical technology and industrial AI, continue to build benchmark scenarios for intelligent manufacturing, openly share transformation experience, help Zhejiang manufacturing companies accelerate digital, intelligent, and low-carbon upgrades, and inject surging momentum into the high-quality development of the regional digital economy.
