On November 6, AI+ Automotive Intelligence Creation and Enjoyment Technology Day themed “Sharing of Winning Digital Intelligence Technologies” co-organized by Seres Automobile and Lan-you Technology came to a successful conclusion in Chongqing. At this event, Lan-you Technology’s frontier technologies, innovative applications, and practical achievements in the field of automotive intelligence were displayed, and both sides conducted in-depth discussions on topics such as R&D, production-supply-marketing collaboration, and AI Factory, empowering the high-quality development of AI+ automotive intelligence, and injecting new impetus into deeper cooperation jointly. Zhao Yang, Director of Automotive Digital Intelligence, Seres Automobile, presided over the main session of this event.

Creating a new future of AI+ automotive digital intelligence together based on win-win cooperation

“This conference is not only a regular exchange event, but an interim presentation on the results of intensive mutual research and discussions in the past two months, and an attempt of strategic co-creation and path exploration concerning future competitiveness in the wave of intelligent electrification in the automotive industry,” said Tian Bo, General Manager of Automotive Digital intelligence, Seres Automobile, in his speech. He expected to reach a consensus, make clear directions, and plan a practical and feasible path for the advancement of digital intelligence through in-depth discussions. Currently, dimensions of competition in the automotive industry have undergone fundamental changes, where automakers are making comprehensive improvement around technologies, costs, efficiency, user experiences, etc. Digital intelligence has evolved from backend support to a core concept driving business innovation and value creation. Enterprises must achieve higher efficiency, more agile response, and smarter decision-making throughout R&D, manufacturing, supply and marketing chains. For this purpose, we should not only strengthen the foundation of digital intelligence, but also embrace frontier technologies boldly and integrate technological innovation into enterprise operations deeply.

“All digitalization efforts are intended to serve businesses, and the management of digital systems has shifted from department-level modular systems to platform IT, process IT, change, and other systems,” said Hu Yongli, General Manager of Lan-you Technology, in his speech. “In this context, as AI technology booms, enterprises are embracing AI actively to tap business value in the process of transformation gradually, and ultimately achieve goals such as cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and quality enhancement with the support of AI technology.”

He introduced the company’s development history, talents and culture, automotive digital intelligence full-value-chain solutions, Lan-you’s AI Factory and AI application scenario library, shared technology platform, etc., showcasing Lan-you Technology’s advanced solutions and practical achievements systematically.

AI Factory: An innovative model for AI application in the automotive industry

Yu Bin, Assistant General Manager (CTO) of Lan-you Technology, shared the keynote speech “Lan-you AI Factory – An Innovative Model of AI Application in the Automotive Industry”. He mentioned that AI application has become the focus of enterprise innovation, and the AI Factory concept proposed by Lan-you Technology is an innovative model of AI application on a scenario-driven basis, integrating new methods, organizations and technologies. Based on this model, Lan-you Technology is building an AI application scenario library for the automotive industry with focus on the full value chain of “research, production, supply, marketing, service and management”. 106 applications have been realized to date, and 146 are being developed, with 1,000+ AI application scenarios planned for the future.

At the conference, Song Yunsheng, Director of the Data AI Technology Department, Lan-you Technology Platform Technology Center, demonstrated the value of AI application in improving efficiency, optimizing processes, reducing costs, and enhancing user experiences through practical cases such as power battery analysis, intelligent production scheduling, visual quality inspection, logistics management, humanoid robot tour guidance and explanation, vehicle sales prediction, post-loan business processing, and vehicle health rating, promoting the business transformation of the automotive industry from single-point innovation to full-chain collaboration.

Digital intelligence R&D upgrading: Creating a main data pipeline through integrated BOM governance

In the R&D session, Lan-you Technology made a presentation themed “Creating a Main Product Data Pipeline for Automakers and Empowering the Digital Transformation of R&D”. The main idea of automotive digital intelligence R&D is developing and designing automotive products based on an integrated product development process by digitalization, intelligence, interconnection and other technological means with data flows being the mainline, scenario design being the key, software development being the core, and AI big models being the means of empowerment. The digital (data) mainline is the foundation and guarantee of collaboration. For the three major pain points identified, Lan-you Technology proposed to build a unified BOM management platform to achieve the full-lifecycle management and full-value-chain business sharing of product data; and on the basis of centralized data provided by unified BOM governance, consolidate knowledge graphs and AI applications, and improve work efficiency and dynamic decision-making capabilities, thereby laying a solid foundation for the digital intelligence upgrading of automakers’ R&D efforts, and accelerating product innovation. At the session, both sides conducted interactions and exchanges on topics such as product type spectra, comprehensive configuration, color management, and software management to explore the new value of R&D transformation scenarios.

Production-supply-marketing collaboration: Building an agile, accurate, resilient and balanced new production, supply and marketing system

At the production, supply and marketing session, Lan-you Technology shared “Exploring Collaborative Production, Supply and Marketing Solutions”. Currently, production-supply-marketing collaboration faces issues such as large sales forecast deviations, the incoordination between production and marketing, inaccurate order delivery dates, amplified plan changes, and breakpoints in supplier collaboration. The integration of the five plans can be achieved through digitization, and end-to-end comprehensive control can be achieved through unified OTD tracking.

Production-marketing collaboration achieves the coordination of full-chain resources and full-set data, and stable production through a multi-round full-set resource balancing mechanism to improve inventory turnover and achieve agile response to order demand;

Intelligent production scheduling assists the supply and demand sides in formulating forward-looking demand plans by leveraging marketing plan data (annual/monthly plans), current operating data (order and inventory data), and relevant historical data (historical wholesale and retail) alongside AI algorithm models and solvers.

Production-supply collaboration aligns orders with supplier resources through MRP resource calculation, inventory evolution, and resource inverse calculation. It checks forecasted orders and change plans with the supplier side, and builds corresponding relationships among orders, vehicles and parts.

At the conference, both sides conducted exchanges on topics such as digital business planning for the supply chain, and production-supply-marketing collaboration, and shared insights. In the future, AI big models will be applied to scenarios such as intelligent production scheduling and urgent order early warning to improve decision-making efficiency, and promote the digital intelligence upgrading of production-supply-marketing collaboration.

Share winning digital intelligence technologies! The success of the technology day marks a new level of cooperation between Seres Automobile and Lan-you Technology. In the future, both sides will continue to create value, deepen the collaborative innovation of AI+ automotive digital intelligence application scenarios, and inject sustainable digital intelligence impetus into the high-quality development of the industry together!