Industry trends
2026.06.01
On May 28, the Industrial Software Innovation and Development Forum, a parallel sub-forum of the 2026 BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution Forum, was grandly held in Xiamen.
Mao Xuchu, Deputy General Manager of Luculent Wisdom and General Manager of Luculent Sunshine, was invited to deliver a keynote speech entitled Innovative Practices and Explorations of Empowering New Industrialization via Industrial Data Intelligence. He exchanged insights with industry elites from all walks of life to jointly explore innovation pathways for industrial software and share practical achievements stemming from the integration of digital and real economies.
Against the current backdrop, new industrialization has entered a new development phase driven primarily by digital and intelligent transformation, with data emerging as a core production factor and artificial intelligence a new productive force. As highlighted by Mao Xuchu, industrial data intelligence is a practice-oriented technology rooted in on-site industrial operations and oriented toward tangible value creation. To empower new industrialization through digital and intelligent technologies, enterprises should follow a phased progressive development route of "consolidating foundational capabilities → upgrading core competencies → building industrial ecosystems → boosting cross-enterprise collaboration", and advance implementation step by step from localized pilot applications to industry-wide rollout. Specifically, breakthroughs are first achieved on key equipment and core working procedures to deliver measurable results, before solutions are extended across entire workshops, individual enterprises and full industrial chains. Such progression drives the shift from isolated technological innovations to comprehensive ecological upgrading, steadily improving enterprises’ capacity for collaboration, technological innovation and market growth.
Digital and intelligent transformation, industrial software platforms and new industrialization form an interconnected and mutually reinforcing organic system. Digital and intelligent transformation defines the overarching development direction, underpinned by a service-first mindset: professional consulting helps enterprises streamline operational workflows and realize intelligent empowerment, while long-term operation and maintenance services elevate platform application efficiency to unlock sustainable long-term value. As the core carrier of development, industrial software platforms delve deep into real business scenarios, advance multi-technology integration and deliver closed-loop industrial control. New industrialization stands as the ultimate development goal, fueled by digital-real economy integration to advance industrial innovation, industrial restructuring and green low-carbon transition, enabling synchronized growth between the digital and real economies.
During the forum, Mao Xuchu elaborated on four progressive development pathways formulated by Luculent Wisdom to advance new industrialization:
Focused on the process industry, Luculent develops AI-enabled applications targeting enterprises’ core operational pain points to digitally empower full-cycle production, safety management and equipment maintenance, facilitating manpower reduction and profitability maximization across manufacturing plants via verified on-site outcomes.
Production & Operation: Intelligent monitoring systems conduct real-time anomaly identification and economic performance analysis for generating units, cutting unplanned unit shutdowns and load curtailments to guarantee stable and reliable production.
Equipment Maintenance: Predictive maintenance frameworks revamp traditional maintenance modes, enabling early warning, identification and resolution of equipment faults.
Workplace Safety: AI visual recognition technology operates round-the-clock to spot safety violations and potential operational hazards.
Energy Conservation & Efficiency: The Sunshine Intelligent Energy Management System optimizes operational parameters in real time and automatically issues optimal control commands, delivering an energy saving rate of 10% to 15%.
Business Management: Built-in forecasting models for power load, electricity price and production cost support refined production scheduling, power market trading and strategic decision-making, helping businesses capture market dividends and lift operating profits.
Unlike general-purpose large language models that excel at linguistic comprehension yet lack process industry know-how, Luculent Sunshine Yaoguang Industrial Large Model integrates in-depth industry mechanisms, equipment specifications, on-site maintenance expertise and historical fault cases. It converts implicit empirical know-how from senior industry specialists into reusable, inheritable and iterable digital assets. Leveraging high-quality proprietary industrial datasets, the platform enables continuous accumulation of industrial knowledge and functions as an independent, accurate and reliable intelligent brain tailored for the process industry, fulfilling the development vision of "industry-specific models aligned with practical production needs and delivering tangible utility" – a landmark domestic breakthrough in industrial large models.
Centered on intelligent equipment maintenance, Luculent has built a full-lifecycle digital management platform that interconnects end-to-end data covering equipment design & manufacturing, installation and commissioning, online operational monitoring, fault diagnosis, spare parts supply and scrapping management. The platform facilitates coordinated management, integrated service delivery and cross-industry collaborative innovation, fostering a win-win ecosystem linking equipment manufacturers, end users, professional maintenance providers and financial institutions, and accelerating the intelligent and service-oriented upgrading of the equipment manufacturing sector. Luculent has partnered with multiple large enterprise groups to jointly launch a new ecosystem for full-lifecycle digital management and intelligent maintenance services for coal conglomerates.
Luculent actively promotes the global rollout of homegrown Chinese industrial software solutions. Following the Belt and Road Initiative cooperation framework, the company provides digital services for overseas energy and construction material projects, and establishes a three-tier collaborative management system consisting of a domestic headquarters for decision-making and scheduling, overseas regional operation hubs and on-site production sites. This architecture enables unified allocation of capital, materials and expert resources, alongside full-spectrum visibility over production data, operational indicators and safety status, empowering global new industrialization with proven Chinese digital and intelligent solutions.
As the core underpinning of modern industrial systems, industrial software serves as a pivotal driver for developing new quality productive forces and advancing new industrialization. Mao Xuchu stressed that industrial software development must stay grounded in real industrial needs: deepen cross-technology integration and scenario-based application, and ensure closed-loop control implementation alongside sustainable profitability.
A National Champion Manufacturer and operator of an MIIT-certified Cross-Industry, Cross-Domain Industrial Internet Platform, Luculent Wisdom adheres to its development philosophy of "prioritizing industrial real economy development, benchmarking world-class standards, pioneering innovative business models and scaling solutions from pilot prototypes to full-scale industrial deployment". The company has developed a comprehensive enabling architecture for intelligent industrial software platforms featuring "one core platform, multiple high-value application scenarios, five categories of digital services and a four-tier development system". Luculent looks forward to deepening cooperation with BRICS partners to leverage China’s industrial software strengths, inject robust momentum into global new industrialization, and build a smarter industrial landscape for sustainable worldwide development.
