The 15th International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2025)

On October 13, 2025, the "Exploration of the Upgrade Path for the Wuyi Smart Home Industry Chain and the 15th International Workshop on Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2025)" was held at the Wuyi Science and Innovation Resource Center. Experts and scholars from domestic and foreign universities and research institutions, including Wang Kesheng, Academician of the Norwegian Academy of Engineering, and Yu Tao, Dean of the Special Humanoid Robot Research Institute at Shanghai University, gathered with representatives from over 40 industry leaders in our county to discuss the future of the industry and jointly draw a beautiful blueprint.

                                                                    

Chen Yingchun, the leader of Wuyi County, extended her warm welcome to all the experts and scholars. In her speech, she expressed her hope that through this academic event featuring ideological exchange, resource sharing, and value co-creation, global wisdom could be further gathered to jointly map out the industrial blueprint. Relying on the profound knowledge and forward-looking vision of all the experts and scholars, strategic guidance would be provided for technological iteration, mode innovation, and path selection in the smart home industry, further deepening the integration of "government, industry, academia, research, and application" and accelerating the transformation of achievements.

The exchange meeting, centered around "Industry Chain Improvement," leveraged IWAMA's international influence in advanced manufacturing and automation. It focused on industrial chain collaboration, technological innovation, and the transformation of research achievements. Several industry experts delivered insightful and profound keynote speeches. Yu Tao, Dean of the Special Humanoid Robot Research Institute at Shanghai University, Yang Jinghui, Professor at Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Wan Jin, Professor at Shandong Agricultural University, Zou Zongfeng, Professor at Shanghai University, Hirpa Lemu, Professor at the University of Stavanger in Norway, Vishal S Sharma, Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Institute of Engineering and Technology in Australia, and Lizhen Huang, Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, each analyzed the new requirements and challenges of smart manufacturing development under the new circumstances from multiple dimensions based on their respective professional fields. They elaborated on the advanced path for enterprise intelligent upgrading. At the event, Academician Wang Kesheng also engaged in academic exchanges and discussions with the experts, providing direction for Wuyi County's smart home industry to extend upstream and downstream in the industry chain and climb to the high end of the value chain.

                                                                    

This conference is not only a feast of academic ideas, but also an action to promote pragmatic cooperation between industry and academia. The "Wuyi Smart Home Industry Chain Special Matchmaking Meeting" is the grand finale of this event. The matchmaking meeting organized experts to visit typical smart home manufacturing enterprises in Wuyi, and conducted in-depth discussions on key technologies such as smart home sensing technology, human-computer interaction, and system integration. It built a face-to-face bridge for industry-academia cooperation and negotiation between local enterprises and domestic and foreign university experts, striving to facilitate the implementation of a number of industry-university-research cooperation and technology transformation projects.

In this event, the Wuyi Science and Innovation Resource Center actively mobilized resources from various parties to facilitate communication and exchanges between experts and enterprises, striving to quickly transform academic research achievements into practical productivity. In the future, the Wuyi Science and Innovation Resource Center will continue to deepen international technological exchanges and cooperation, increase investment in the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and contribute more to the upgrading and development of industrial industries.