X-Power IBM Innovation Center Today Launches Operations in Suzhou, Leveraging IBM AI and Automation Technologies to Drive Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Industry
Beijing, July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "X-Power IBM Innovation Center" officially launched operations in Suzhou Industrial Park, marking the full-scale implementation phase of the collaboration between IBM China and X-Power (Suzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "X-Power"). As a key project introduced by Suzhou Industrial Park, the center relies on X-Power's parent company, Suzhou Global Tech Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Global Tech"), with 55 years of manufacturing experience and IBM's globally leading AI technology, focusing on the core needs of "smart transformation" and digitalization in the manufacturing industry, empowering Suzhou and East China regions' manufacturing enterprises to become new driving forces for industrial upgrading.
To respond to the new demands of industrial modernization, the innovation center leverages IBM's full-stack technologies – from Watson X.ai enterprise-level AI development studios, Watson Orchestrate enterprise-level AI smart body construction, running, and management platforms, IBM Concert (AI-driven application management and operation insight tools) to IBM Maximo Application Suite (asset management application suite), as well as IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and Business Automation (application integration and business automation solution) – to provide leading-edge technology support for manufacturing enterprises, catalyzing regional industrial upgrading.
The innovation center has successfully built a distributed SaaS industrial internet platform, deeply integrating IBM's globally leading AI with hybrid cloud solutions, providing comprehensive services from strategic planning to hybrid cloud deployment for manufacturing enterprises. It also adopts modularized, "plug-and-play" smart industrial software solutions that precisely adapt to the actual application scenarios of the manufacturing industry.
Under the leadership and joint efforts of government agencies at all levels in Suzhou Industrial Park, the center has achieved phased results from signing to operation within a short three-month period. The center features an industrial expert library, combining IBM's enterprise-level AI technological innovation and global digital transformation practices with X-Power's deep understanding of manufacturing industry scenarios, embodying the values of "global vision, global experience, local cultivation."
IBM Greater China Chairman and General Manager Chen Xu Dong (left) X-Power General Manager and Suzhou Global Tech General Manager Huang Yadan (right)
X-Power General Manager and Suzhou Global Tech General Manager Huang Yadan pointed out: "Based on our own digital transformation experience (based on IBM AI and automation solutions), we have accumulated industry knowledge and software assets, building a business system that integrates industrial big data with advanced AI technology. This system has successfully helped us achieve cost reduction and modernized operations. The center will help more companies replicate this success story and better utilize data elements to create new value growth."
IBM Greater China Chairman and General Manager Chen Xu Dong expressed: "With a history of 40-plus years in China, IBM has previously assisted Chinese banks and large enterprises in completing informationization construction and digital transformation. Standing at the new development stage, IBM China is starting to empower private and multinational companies with AI-driven digital transformation. The innovation center will focus on the manufacturing industry's 'research-production-sales-service' value chain, with both parties operating teams driving the creation of expandable solutions through a dual-wheel driving mode – providing support for the park's 'artificial intelligence+' strategy and injecting new vitality into regional industrial innovation!"