A Production Line That Reshapes Itself Enters Testing
Ahead of the 2026 World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, the CAS Institute of Industrial AI in Nanjing’s Jiangling district said it is testing an AI-brained, self-reorganising line for mixed-model and surge production. Hardware decouples process steps into reconfigurable cells; software generates process plans, layouts and control programs automatically — 90%-plus first-pass design accuracy, 90%-plus shorter design and commissioning cycles, and cell programs that once took weeks now produced in minutes.