Intelligent Equipment Competes in New Tracks: Okly Creates the Future with Innovation and Intelligent Manufacturing

Industrial robots accurately grab original boxes, unmanned transport vehicles shuttle back and forth like weaving, smart production lines operate efficiently—this is no longer a future vision but the daily reality of smart manufacturing factories. Amid this wave of manufacturing transformation, Okly (Chongqing) Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. is sailing towards the blue ocean of intelligent equipment with technological innovation as its vessel.

At the recently concluded 2025 Asia International Logistics Exhibition in Shanghai, the logistics humanoid robot globally launched by Hangcha Group amazed the audience; almost simultaneously, Shanghai released the "Implementation Plan for Accelerating the Development of 'AI + Manufacturing'", pressing the accelerator for "Modeling & Molding Shanghai".

Since the beginning of this year, from national ministries to local governments, a series of policies supporting smart manufacturing have been intensively introduced, ushering in unprecedented development opportunities for the intelligent equipment industry.

01 Industry Wave: Smart Manufacturing Stands in the Spotlight

Smart manufacturing is no longer just a conceptual stage but has become the core path for the transformation and upgrading of global manufacturing.

In late October, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly issued a notice deploying the application work for the 2025 annual "Unveiling the List and Appointing Leaders" project for smart manufacturing system solutions.

This project directly addresses industry pain points, targeting key sectors such as raw materials, high-end equipment, consumer goods, and electronic information to discover and cultivate a group of specialized suppliers mastering core technologies.

Almost simultaneously, the "Manufacturing Digital Transformation Development Report (2025)" released at the 2025 Software Innovation Development Conference held in Suzhou revealed six major trends.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly empowering digital and intelligent upgrades, high-quality datasets are becoming key levers for enterprise transformation, and industrial software is becoming a key driver of the efficiency revolution.

Driven by both policy and technology, various regions are making strategic layouts. Shanghai has clearly proposed a development roadmap for "AI + Manufacturing", planning to build 10 industry benchmark models, form 100 benchmark intelligent products, and promote 100 demonstration application scenarios within three years.

02 Fertile Market Ground: Demand Explosion and Diverse Applications

With the acceleration of industrial upgrading, market demand for intelligent equipment is experiencing explosive growth.

Enterprises are intensifying their digital transformation efforts. According to the "Manufacturing Digital Transformation Development Report (2025)", the digital transformation of manufacturing has leaped from the level of technology application to a strategic cornerstone related to the modernization of the industrial system and the core competitiveness of national manufacturing.

Against this backdrop, Okly (Chongqing) Intelligent Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. is actively expanding its product line to cover automated production lines, intelligent robots, and other fields to meet the diverse needs of customers across different industries.

The application scenarios for intelligent equipment are continuously enriching and deepening. Taking Shanghai as an example, its "AI + Manufacturing" implementation plan focuses on ten key industries, including electronic information, automobiles, and high-end equipment, promoting progress category by category with "one policy per industry" based on the characteristics and needs of each sector.

In the electronic information field, technologies like machine vision are being deployed on a large scale; in the automotive field, vehicle and component manufacturers are building intelligent R&D systems covering computing power support, data collection, and model training.

03 Technological Innovation: Intelligent Equipment Enters a Breakthrough Period

Technological innovation is the core driving force behind the development of intelligent equipment, and currently, various breakthrough technologies are constantly emerging.

Industrial robots are accelerating their practical application. Shanghai supports key industries in deploying industrial robots for repetitive, high-risk work scenarios and encourages the large-scale application of intelligent robots in assembly, welding, spraying, material handling, and other processes.

Some enterprises have taken the lead in achieving breakthroughs. The intelligent crawling grinding industrial robot developed by Shanghai Zaike Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., by integrating AI into its "brain", has achieved progress in computer vision, force control, and learning capabilities.

The company's sales executive Hou Linshen stated: "Leveraging AI technology, we can reshape the production processes and management models of industries."

The humanoid robot field is also witnessing new developments. The X1 series logistics humanoid robot launched by Hangcha Group deeply integrates the core advantages of "wheeled efficient mobility and humanoid dexterous operation", capable of performing tasks such as transferring and palletizing/depalletizing original boxes, and transferring and stacking/unstacking material boxes in various scenarios.

Hangcha Group's Chief Engineer Xu Zhengyu said that this robot breaks through the "rigid" limitations of traditional automation, achieves the coordination of "hands, feet, eyes, and brain" in unstructured environments, and provides the ultimate flexible solution for the logistics industry.

04 Green Intelligent Manufacturing: The Necessary Path for Sustainable Development

In the wave of smart manufacturing, green transformation has become an indispensable part.

At the 2025 China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Green and High-Quality Development Conference held in Guangzhou at the end of October, over 600 participants discussed the path for the comprehensive green transformation and high-quality development of the petrochemical industry.

Li Yunpeng, Party Secretary and President of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, emphasized that the entire industry should focus on key tasks such as driving high-end breakthroughs through innovation, promoting green transformation with systematic thinking, and accelerating intelligent upgrading with digital empowerment.

Against the backdrop of increasingly stringent environmental policies, Okly is actively exploring green manufacturing, committed to developing energy-saving and environmentally friendly intelligent equipment to help customers achieve their sustainable development goals.

The integrated development of green transformation and smart manufacturing has become key for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness. As stated by Nguyen Thi Lan Giang, Director of the Department of Innovation, Green Transformation, and Industrial Promotion under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam: "Green transformation and sustainable development are not only inevitable trends but have also become action directives for all industries, localities, and enterprises."

05 Future Prospects: Vast Horizons for Soaring

Looking ahead, the intelligent equipment industry faces huge development opportunities.

National policy support continues to intensify. The "Unveiling the List and Appointing Leaders" project clarified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will promote the formation of advanced, applicable, independently controllable, replicable, and promotable smart manufacturing system solution products and services for application verification.

Technological integration will further deepen. Shanghai's implementation plan for accelerating "AI + Manufacturing" proposes to enhance the capabilities of industrial models in physical simulation, visual processing, and intelligent decision-making within industrial scenarios, break through cutting-edge industrial intelligence technologies, and develop the industrial metaverse.

For intelligent equipment enterprises like Okly, future development can focus on the following aspects:

• Continuously increase R&D investment to master core technologies and independent intellectual property rights, enhancing market competitiveness.

• Deepen industry-university-research cooperation with universities and research institutions, jointly building R&D platforms to promote technological innovation and achievement transformation.

• Seize the "AI + Manufacturing" trend, develop intelligent and flexible equipment products to meet diverse market demands.

• Follow the green manufacturing development direction, develop energy-saving and environmentally friendly equipment, and help customers achieve sustainable development.

Entering the exhibition area of Hangcha Group, several embodied logistics humanoid robots are accurately grabbing original boxes, completing multi-mode mobility demonstrations. Not far away, at the Shanghai International Machine Tool Fair, visitors stop to watch the dual-arm collaborative robots performing operation demonstrations. These scenes are precisely an epitome of the vigorous development of smart manufacturing in China.

With the release of Shanghai's "AI + Manufacturing" roadmap and the advancement of the national "Unveiling the List and Appointing Leaders" project, the intelligent equipment industry is about to welcome a new wave of development.

Companies like Okly are standing at the forefront of the times. Their opportunity lies not only in technological innovation but also in how to deeply integrate AI, robotics technology, and industry knowledge to contribute to the high-quality development of Chinese manufacturing.