SIXUNITED’s Anhui Huainan Intelligent Manufacturing Base, captured by the Economic Daily: Where AI surges, manufacturing is reborn.


On July 23, the Economic Daily published an in-depth industry report titled “The Industrial Internet Unleashes a Multiplier Effect,” highlighting innovative practices in leveraging the industrial internet to drive high-quality development in manufacturing. The smart workshop at SIXUNITED’s intelligent manufacturing base in Huainan, Anhui, was featured in the report, showcasing a new industrial landscape where the industrial internet is powering the upgrading and efficiency gains of intelligent manufacturing.

 

The industrial internet is becoming a key driver for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing sector. This time, SIXUNITED’s Anhui Huainan Smart Manufacturing Base was featured in the Economic Daily, which not only serves as a comprehensive showcase of the company’s smart manufacturing practices but also highlights SIXUNITED’s ongoing efforts to advance industrial internet development and accelerate the integration of AI with advanced manufacturing.


Industrial Internet Empowerment—Making Manufacturing Smarter and More Efficient
The Economic Daily focuses on the industrial internet, which, at its core, examines how digital technologies are reshaping manufacturing. At SIXUNITED’s smart manufacturing base in Huainan, Anhui, the industrial internet has been deeply integrated into every stage of the production process. The park is equipped with an advanced MES manufacturing execution system and seamlessly connected to ERP enterprise resource planning and WMS warehouse management systems, forming a collaborative digital foundation that spans the entire end-to-end workflow—from production scheduling to finished-product shipment—enabling fully digitized and traceable operations.

SIXUNITED Anhui Huainan Intelligent Manufacturing Base Smart Production Workshop

 

Faced with the massive scale of global deliveries and a highly complex, ever‑changing order portfolio, cutting‑edge industrial Internet technologies have deeply integrated into core production processes. At the smart workshop of the Huaibei Intelligent Manufacturing Base in Anhui, an AI‑powered quality‑inspection system conducts comprehensive, multi‑dimensional product screening with millisecond‑level response times, rigorously controlling defect rates at every upstream stage and continuously boosting the yield of conforming finished goods—ensuring stable, standardized smart terminal products for customers in more than a hundred countries worldwide. The industrial Internet has not only enhanced production efficiency but also redefined manufacturing paradigms. Data‑driven operations and intelligent collaboration are making manufacturing more agile and efficient.

SIXUNITED Anhui Huainan Intelligent Manufacturing Base


From an “AI + Manufacturing” Pilot to a Smart Factory—Continuously Refining the AI‑Driven Manufacturing Ecosystem
The development of intelligent manufacturing capabilities is not achieved overnight; it is the result of continuous accumulation through ongoing innovation. As a full-stack AI infrastructure service provider, SIXUNITED consistently promotes the synergistic development of AI software and hardware with intelligent manufacturing. Through AI terminal products such as Agent PCs, AI workstations, and servers, along with its proprietary AI platform and ecosystem-building efforts, SIXUNITED continuously advances AI technology from R&D and innovation toward industrial implementation.

 

In January 2026, SIXUNITED’s Shanghai Songjiang Industrial Park was selected as one of the first “AI+Manufacturing” model enterprises in Shanghai. This recognition underscores the company’s proactive efforts to leverage AI to empower manufacturing and drive the intelligent upgrading of the industry. In recent years, SIXUNITED has steadily advanced the deep integration of AI technologies into R&D design, production manufacturing, operations management, and other processes, continuously exploring new pathways for the synergistic development of AI and manufacturing.

SIXUNITED (second from the left) was successfully selected as one of the first batch of 10 model cultivation enterprises.

 

The Anhui Huainan Intelligent Manufacturing Base, featured in the Economic Daily, undertakes the critical tasks of digital production and large-scale manufacturing for AI‑enabled terminal products. Leveraging a robust manufacturing ecosystem and advanced digital capabilities, the base has established production capacity spanning a wide range of smart terminals—including laptops, AI PCs, Mini PCs, all-in-one PCs, tablets, IoT devices, and industrial control products—providing global customers with reliable, high‑efficiency product manufacturing and delivery services.

 

The coordinated collaboration between the two locations has become a crucial pillar of SIXUNITED’s AI manufacturing system, enabling innovative breakthroughs to be swiftly translated into industrial capabilities and allowing AI-enabled products to reach the market more efficiently.


Seven intelligent manufacturing bases are working in concert to build global AI terminal manufacturing capabilities.
A smart factory embodies manufacturing capability, while a global manufacturing network reflects an enterprise’s comprehensive strength in continuously serving the market.

 

Currently, SIXUNITED has established seven major smart manufacturing bases spanning Shanghai, Huainan in Anhui, Jiashan in Zhejiang, Jianhu in Jiangsu, Xiaogan in Hubei, Huizhou in Guangdong, and Vietnam, creating a manufacturing system that integrates R&D innovation, intelligent manufacturing, supply chain management, and global delivery. Leveraging its well‑developed industrial footprint and collaborative manufacturing capabilities, the company can swiftly respond to global customer needs, providing end‑to‑end support for its products—from R&D and design through large‑scale production, to product validation and worldwide delivery.

 

As AI applications continue to expand into more industries and use cases, manufacturing capabilities have become a crucial foundation for the development of the AI industry. SIXUNITED is steadily fostering collaborative development across its various bases, continuously enhancing manufacturing efficiency, supply chain resilience, and global delivery capabilities, thereby providing stronger support for ongoing innovation in the AI terminal industry.

 

 

Empowering Manufacturing with AI—Building a New Future for the Industry Together
At present, AI is accelerating its transition from technological innovation to industrial implementation, and the manufacturing sector is entering a critical phase of upgrading from digitalization to intelligentization. The Industrial Internet unlocks not only enhanced production efficiency but also immense potential for collaborative innovation across industries. For the AI industry, advanced manufacturing capabilities are emerging as a vital bridge that connects technological breakthroughs with real-world industrial applications.

 

From a model enterprise of “AI+Manufacturing” in Shanghai to the Anhui Huainan Intelligent Manufacturing Base featured in the Economic Daily, SIXUNITED has consistently adhered to innovation-driven development, strengthening the industrial foundation through intelligent manufacturing and enhancing production quality and efficiency with AI technology. Looking ahead, SIXUNITED will continue to deepen the integrated innovation of the industrial internet and AI technologies, elevate its intelligent manufacturing capabilities and global service capacity, ensure that AI truly permeates all industries, and contribute more of China’s smart manufacturing prowess to the global digital economy.