Global partners visit the Foton Cummins Lighthouse Factory
On November 9, 2025, the 2026 Global Partner Conference of Foton Motor, themed Drive To Great, was grandly launched in Beijing. Over 2,000 representatives of Foton Motor's global dealers and partners from more than 140 countries visited the Foton Cummins Smart Lighthouse Factory, delving deeply into the company's strength in technological research and development, intelligent manufacturing, and ecological co-construction. This immersive visit not only attracted global attention but also sounded the clarion call for the coordinated and upgraded development of the global industrial chain.
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Over 2 million kilometers without major repairs
Vividly demonstrating reliable quality
At the Foton Cummins Customer Experience Center, the disassembled parts of an F series light-duty engine that had run 2 million kilometers without major repairs attracted many guests to stop and watch. This engine has withstood the rigorous tests of the market, and its core components still maintain excellent performance. This achievement has long transcended the durability of the product itself and has been elevated to a profound commitment to the operational value for global users. Running 2 million kilometers without major repairs is the best footnote to interpret reliability.
In the current era where global logistics transportation efficiency reigns supreme, the product features of high availability and low failure rate not only reduce maintenance costs and operational risks for users, but also create a value loop of worry-free operation and efficient profit-making, serving as the ballast stone that anchors the industry's development amid uncertainties. As a partner on the scene put it, "The reliability of Foton Cummins products is our confidence in laying out the global market and is also the core guarantee for the sustainable profitability of the industrial chain."
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Intelligent manufacturing
Witnessing the birth of outstanding quality
Entering the Foton Cummins Smart Lighthouse Factory, one is immediately greeted by a scene of mechanical arms working in precise coordination, AGV carts shuttling flexibly, and data flowing in real time throughout the entire chain. A picture of digital-driven and intelligent interconnection manufacturing unfolds before your eyes. As an end-to-end smart manufacturing lighthouse factory, it is not merely a simple accumulation of cutting-edge technologies, but rather has established a full-process digital control system centered on the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence. The strict control of the CMES manufacturing execution system and the full-chain traceability of supply chain quality ensure that every engine meets the globally unified high standards, laying a solid foundation for quality from the source.
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"Future Workstations"
Re-defining the New Paradigm of Intelligent Manufacturing
Before this, a press conference on the future of manufacturing was held at the Foton Cummins factory. The conference not only showcased the latest achievements of the deep integration of AI and manufacturing, but also released the "Future Workstation" of Foton Cummins. At the critical juncture of the global manufacturing industry's transition towards intelligence, digitalization and greenization, it provided practical and replicable solutions to address the pain points of manufacturing such as efficiency bottlenecks, labor force transformation and flexible production.
This human-centered intelligent operation unit integrates thirteen core modules, including visual tightening positioning, laser material picking guidance, intelligent error-proofing system LOTO door lock, safety zone scanning, humanoid robot sorting, robot dog inspection, and virtual commissioning system, etc. It has built a complete closed loop of data-driven, flexible configuration, human-machine collaboration, and built-in quality. It reflects a profound transformation in manufacturing logic: from people adapting to machines to machines empowering people. Workers are no longer "screws" performing repetitive single actions on the production line, but are liberated from heavy and repetitive labor by AI and automation technologies, transforming into knowledge-based operators who handle anomalies, optimize processes, and innovate knowledge. And it also reflects a transformation from fixed production lines to reconfigurable units. Facing the market trend of multiple varieties and small batches, traditional rigid production lines struggle. Future workstations, through modular design and software-defined approaches, achieve high flexibility and can quickly respond to changes in production tasks from post-event inspection to built-in quality. Quality is no longer a random check at the final stage, but is integrated into every manufacturing process through visual inspection, real-time monitoring of tightening data, predictive maintenance, and other means, pursuing "zero defects" from the source.
Under the consensus of "AI x Data = Future", Foton Cummins has deeply integrated AI into the entire manufacturing chain through a five-layer architecture of basic layer, business layer, technology layer, platform layer and application layer. Relying on Foton Cummins' Intelligent Computing Platform and Intelligent Body Development Platform, a closed loop of data, algorithm and application has been formed, promoting AI vision robots to achieve millimeter-level precision assembly, AGV intelligent logistics systems to achieve flexible distribution, and AI-driven predictive maintenance of equipment to provide early warnings of faults, thus enabling intelligent manufacturing to move from single-point application to systematic empowerment.
The future workstation is not only a technological achievement but also a vivid practice of a new paradigm in intelligent manufacturing. It marks the transition of AI from the cloud to the workshop and from concept validation to large-scale implementation, providing the industry with a replicable and scalable construction path.
As an important link in the global industrial chain, Foton Cummins has always adhered to the core concept of customer-centricity, and deeply understands the industrial logic that one goes fast alone, but together we go far. In the current era of global economic integration and accelerated industry transformation, only by working together and achieving win-win results can we address common challenges. Looking to the future, Foton Cummins will not only continue to drive the intelligent and green transformation of the industry with technological innovation, providing more intelligent and reliable power solutions for the global logistics and transportation sector, but also adopt an open attitude to share technological achievements with global partners and jointly build an industrial ecosystem, empowering the coordinated upgrade of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. On the road of promoting the transformation of global manufacturing and supporting sustainable development, it will demonstrate the responsibility and commitment of Chinese enterprises.
From the manufacturing benchmark of Lighthouse Factory to the ecological leadership of Global Symbiosis, Foton Cummins is interpreting the profound connotation of Drive To Great with practical actions - not only pursuing its own outstanding development, but also committed to working with global partners to jointly create a smarter, more efficient and more sustainable industrial future, and writing a new chapter of win-win cooperation in the global industrial chain.