Dr. Zhou Jun : Technology and Quality — The Foundation of YIZUMI’s Future

As manufacturing moves deeper into intelligent and green transformation, how can a leading molding equipment company shape its next decade?

At the YIZUMI CONNECT 2026 in late April, Dr. Zhou Jun, Director and Chief Technology Officer of YIZUMI, as well as General Manager of Die Casting Machine Division—offers his answer in a keynote titled Evolve Beyond Limits.

In his view, the synergy of technology and quality drives YIZUMI’s transformation from excellence to long-term sustainability. Technology and quality are not separate capabilities, but twin drivers of long-term growth. Reinforcing each other, they ultimately converge on one goal: delivering irreplaceable value to customers.

01.「Redefining Value」

Beyond Products, Empowering Customer Success

“Why choose us?” Dr. Zhou Jun cuts straight to the core. His answer: YIZUMI delivers more and deeper value to customers than anyone else.

YIZUMI defines value on two interlinked levels. Externally, customer value is built on four dimensions: simplicity, efficiency, reliability and one that goes beyond traditional expectations — evolution. Clients aren’t just buying a machine; They’re choosing a strategic partner that grows with them. What matters is whether YIZUMI as an organization, a brand, and a technology leader can support a long-term, strategic partnership. Internally, value follows the golden rule of “getting it right the first time”: not making, passing on, or accepting defects. It involves enhancing capabilities through continuous improvement to provide superior output for downstream processes. This is how the internal value chain achieves mutual success.

Building on this, YIZUMI has built a “triangle framework” of its core product competitiveness — technological performance and innovation, quality reliability and stability, delivery and customer value realization. These three dimensions are deeply integrated, ensuring solutions translate into tangible results for customers.

“The same product can bring very different levels of satisfaction for different customers,” emphasizes Dr. Zhou. “The difference lies in whether we truly deliver value tailored to their specific needs.” This underscores YIZUMI’s shift from mere product delivery to comprehensive customer-value delivery.

02.「Strength in Systems」

Making Success an Organizational Instinct

With a clear value focus, Dr. Zhou Jun emphasizes the need to move beyond individual heroism and build robust system-level capabilities — embodied in YIZUMI’s “Five-in-One” framework: processes, organization, competencies, data, and IT.

The Grand Launch of YIZUMI Academy

In the field of technology, YIZUMI is embracing AI with a forward-looking vision, defining six levels of product intelligence from L0 to L5. Starting at L3, AI drives transformative change with neural-network-powered remote management, fault diagnosis, and online quality monitoring. At L5, digital twins enable full-scope autonomous coordination, with systems capable of self-learning and evolution.

2025 YIZUMI Science & Technology Festival

“Automation replaces manual tasks, while AI reshapes roles requiring analysis, judgment, and decision-making,” Dr. Zhou Jun notes. “The goal is not to replace humans, but to use automated decisions to reimagine manufacturing and unlock human creativity.”

2025 YIZUMI Quality Month

In the realm of quality, YIZUMI is shifting from reactive fixes to a prevention-driven approach — supported by initiatives such as establishing a quality management committee, advancing VDA 6.4 standards, and embedding quality requirements into every business process, moving from inspection to assurance and design.

The impact is measurable: in 2025, completed quality improvement projects reduced failure rate by over 90%, with the cost of poor quality set to decline significantly in the year ahead. This underscores a clear belief — quality is not a cost, but a powerful driver of value.

03.「Coordinated Capabilities」

Connecting to Deliver Value

With foundational systems in place and customer value clearly anchored, how does YIZUMI translate these capabilities into value that customers can truly perceive? As Dr. Zhou Jun explains, the answer lies in leveraging sustainability and digital intelligence as two wings—bridging the “last mile” between capability and customer-perceived value.

Strategic and Product Alignment: This is the connection between strategy and products. YIZUMI translates its green vision into five product directions—high-end, intelligent, sustainable, precision-driven, and modularized development—while redefining manufacturing scenarios through AI-powered digital intelligence. Together, these directions chart the evolution of next-generation products.

■ Intelligent Flexible Mixed-Model Production System (Partial View)

■ Smart Warehouse System

■ AGV Logistics

■ Clamping Line

Capability-to-Value Realization: One pillar of the triangle framework — delivery and customer value realization is coming to life. Reliability engineering enters phase 2.0-by establishing a failure mode library and implementing component-level reliability monitoring, YIZUMI is shifting from reactive inspection to proactive prevention and prediction, ensuring long-term stable operation across diverse customer production environments.

Enterprise-to-Ecosystem Connectivity: Through partnerships with leading companies like Huawei and Inovance, YIZUMI gains both cultural insight and technical expertise. YIZUMI CONNECT 2026 serves as a major practice of connection, bringing together customers, suppliers, and experts worldwide. The event underscores a key point: creating real customer value relies not only on YIZUMI, but on the coordinated development of the entire ecosystem.

These three aspects, together answer a key question: with a clear customer value proposition and robust systematic capabilities, how does a company shape its future?

Dr. Zhou Jun concludes: “Innovation drives enduring success. To earn our customers’ ongoing trust and loyalty, we must keep evolving, delivering better products, higher quality, faster delivery, and greater value.”

At YIZUMI CONNECT 2026, more than new products and technologies, YIZUMI reveals a future in the making. Guided by customer value, fueled by technology and quality, and lifted by green and intelligent innovation, YIZUMI is becoming a partner its customers can truly rely on.

The future is being built, step by step. This is evolution in action. Evolve Beyond Limits.