AI Revolution in Manufacturing: Haier's Award-Winning Factories 2026: The AI-Powered Transformation of Global Industry
By 2026, artificial intelligence has reshaped the global industrial landscape with disruptive power. On February 2nd, Haier's Qingdao Water Purification Internet Factory and Qingdao Water Ecosystem Internet Factory were honored with the EFESO Industrial 4.0 "AI Innovation Leadership Award." This recognition marks another authoritative validation of Haier's "Supply Chain AI Super Intelligent Body."
The EFESO Industrial 4.0 Award, established in 2013, was born alongside the Industrial 4.0 concept. In 2024, it introduced the "AI Innovation Leadership Award," which is被誉为 the "crown jewel" of the industrial AI field. Haier has achieved two "global firsts" in this award: the only winner to have won it consecutively and the only water industry to have two factories listed simultaneously.

According to Luo Qingqi, senior director of Parle Consulting, Haier's industrial 4.0 practice is ahead of the West by more than a decade and represents the direction of global industrial transformation, using externality to transform the industrial system. Haier's globally first "Supply Chain AI Super Intelligent Body," driven by the best user experience, further strengthens the leadership of this model.
The success of Haier's two factories is not accidental; they have cracked the fundamental contradiction of traditional manufacturing by using AI technology to transform fragmented user demands for quality, safety, and greenness into determinate parameters and optimal solutions on the production line.
In Haier's Qingdao Water Purification Internet Factory, an AI intelligent diagnosis system was built on the supply chain platform to address the long-standing "micro-leakage" problem in the industry. Through deep learning of more than 9,800 historical cases, it achieves "micron-level" leakage location and root cause analysis in seconds, transforming the user's emotional demand for "absolute safety" into a quantifiable and traceable engineering system.

The Qingdao Water Ecosystem Internet Factory focuses on the user's expectation for "long-lasting reliability" in water heaters. It uses an AI digital process intelligent body to innovate core processes, improving the control accuracy of key parameters in the inner tank pre-treatment by 67%. The energy feedback intelligent test platform, through the scheduling of the AI energy management intelligent body, achieves real-time feedback and reuse of product test energy, reducing annual test energy consumption by 92%, achieving a win-win situation for user experience and green低碳 practices.

The practices of the two winning factories fully demonstrate that they are benchmarks of Haier's Supply Chain AI Super Intelligent Body's capabilities. When the manufacturing end can use data intelligence to accurately "decode" and "execute" user needs, it can simultaneously improve user experience and production efficiency.
While the industry views AI as an "efficiency tool," Haier has elevated AI to a "system operating system" for reshaping industrial value. This is the core strategic support behind the AI innovation of the two factories: Haier's Supply Chain AI Super Intelligent Body.
This system is constructed with a 1+3+N strategic architecture, creating a "smart life form" operating system that operates with a new logic:
"1" is the core, which is the best user experience as the starting point. Unlike the traditional "internal efficiency-driven" model, the operation of the system is initiated by external dynamic user demands, making the supply chain an open, user-satisfaction-oriented value response system.
"3" layers of collaboration are the integration of "end," "edge," and "cloud," forming the "neural network" of the system. The "end" layer widely senses user and device data; the "edge" layer performs real-time processing and preliminary decision-making; and the "cloud" layer aggregates information for deep analysis and model iteration. The three layers work efficiently together to ensure that user instructions drive material scheduling and production execution efficiently.
"N" distributed AI super intelligent body matrices are the "organs and limbs" of the system. They cover more than 15细分 scenarios from demand forecasting, master planning, flexible production scheduling to intelligent detection, smart logistics, energy management, and more. Each intelligent body makes independent decisions and collaborates to achieve a leap from "satisfying known orders" to "responding to unknown experience needs."
In the 15th batch of the Global Lighthouse Factory list published by the World Economic Forum on January 15th, Haier's Water Purification Internet Factory was successfully selected as the only "Lighthouse Factory" in the global water purification industry. This international award, together with the previous one, confirms Haier's next-generation supply chain network with "full-chain transparency" and "global intelligence" as its core, marking the transition of manufacturing competition from single-point technology optimization to an ecosystem collaboration-driven system intelligence competition.

The core pain point of traditional supply chains lies in the "whip effect" caused by information silos. The breakthrough of Haier's Supply Chain AI Super Intelligent Body is to start with "demand transparency," using AI to convert user intentions into data instructions, and贯通 plans, execution, and closed-loop transparency to build a "super mirror" system that achieves end-to-end visibility, analysis, and control.
Transparency has constructed the "sensory system" of the network, and what drives its autonomous operation is the evolved "self-perception, self-decision, self-execution, self-optimization" four core capabilities. This makes the supply chain evolve into a smart life form that can sense, make independent decisions, and continuously learn in real-time.
Today, this "transparent network + intelligent decision-making" integration paradigm has been verified in the most global 13 Lighthouse Factory groups in water purification, refrigerators, washing machines, and other fields. Haier's output is not only a technical architecture but also a replicable industrial transformation path, providing a solid and credible "Chinese model" for global industrial intelligent upgrading.
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