The OFweek 2026 China Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Annual Awards (OFweek 2026 China Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Annual Awards) are co-hosted by OFweek, a leading portal for China's high-tech industry, and its authoritative Smart Manufacturing (Intelligent Manufacturing) professional media outlet, OFweek Intelligent Manufacturing. This event is a major brand gathering in China's intelligent manufacturing industry and one of the most professional and influential awards in the high-tech sector.

The awards aim to provide a platform for brand promotion and showcase products, technologies, and enterprises in the intelligent manufacturing industry. Leveraging OFweek's platform resources and influence, they promote innovative products and solutions to industry users and the market, encouraging more companies to invest in technological innovation. Simultaneously, they introduce more innovative products and cutting-edge technologies to the industry, collectively envisioning the future of intelligent manufacturing.

The awards encompass 10 categories: Outstanding Leadership Enterprise Award, Investment Value Enterprise Award, AI+Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Product Award, Core Component Innovation Product Award, Excellent Industrial Software Award, Excellent Industrial Internet Platform Award, Digital Integration Solution Award, AI+Intelligent Manufacturing Key Technology Breakthrough Award, AI+Intelligent Manufacturing Application Innovation Award, and Industry Leader Award. A grand award ceremony will be held in Shenzhen on July 10.

Participating Enterprises

Shenzhen Jialichuang Technology Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'the Company'), founded in 2006, is a globally leading one-stop infrastructure service provider for the electronic and mechanical industries based in Shenzhen. It offers full-link hardware innovation services—'from concept to product'—to millions of electronic engineers worldwide, including:

1. One-stop electronic industry chain services: Covering PCB/FPC intelligent manufacturing from prototyping to small, medium, and large-scale production, SMT (PCBA), electronic component mall, nano/laser stencils, electrothermal film, and custom paper packaging.

2. One-stop mechanical industry chain services: FA mechanical/electrical component mall, 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal processing, prototype duplication, aluminum alloy housing, and panel customization.

3. Design and manufacturing industrial software: Jialichuang EDA, CAM, DFM, Ican Toolbox, ECAD, 3D Model Viewer, Cloud ERP, etc.

By the end of June 2025, the company operates five self-managed modern digital production bases covering nearly 1,800 acres. It has served over 8.2 million users across more than 180 countries and regions, covering strategic emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, semiconductor chips, new energy vehicles, aerospace, and robotics, as well as over a thousand domestic and foreign universities and research institutions. To date, the company has been listed in the 'Hurun Global Unicorn Index' for five consecutive years and the 'Hurun China 500' for three consecutive years. It has also received numerous industry accolades, including 'IIMedia Research - China's Top Brand for Prototyping/Small-Batch PCB,' 'People's Daily - 2024 High-Quality Development Case Enabled by New Quality Productivity,' and the '2024 IDC China Future Digital Industry Leader Award.'

Nomination Information

Nominated Award:

OFweek 2026 China Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Annual Outstanding Leadership Enterprise Award

Nomination Rationale:

I. Significant Breakthroughs and Landmark Achievements in FY2025-2026

Revenue surpasses 10 billion, achieving high-quality leapfrog development. In 2025, Jialichuang reported revenue of 10.287 billion yuan, up 28.59% YoY, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 1.301 billion yuan, up 30.31% YoY. Both revenue and profit maintained double-digit high-speed growth.

Dual breakthroughs in high-end production capacity and new growth drivers. In 2025, Jialichuang successfully mass-produced high-end products like 64-layer ultra-high-density PCBs and HDI boards in advanced manufacturing. Multilayer board revenue increased by 288 million yuan YoY, accounting for 55.17% of total PCB business growth. Simultaneously, PCBA (electronics assembly) revenue reached 1.789 billion yuan, surging 49.68% YoY, driving PCB revenue up by 469 million yuan. Additionally, the mechanical industry chain (3D printing, CNC, etc.) generated 556 million yuan in revenue, up 77.80% YoY, successfully unlocking a second growth curve.

II. AI Technology Industrialization and Digital Transformation Across Full Business Processes

AI-driven flexible manufacturing breaks through 'small-batch' scalability bottlenecks: For massive fragmented orders, Jialichuang integrated greedy algorithms with simulated annealing to reduce panelization time from minutes to seconds, boosting overall efficiency by over 150x. It now processes over 40,000 daily PCB orders with varying requirements (vs. 200-300 in the industry), elevating material utilization to an industry-leading 85%+.

Self-developed 'AI-Driven Intelligent Review System for PCB Non-Standard Orders': Implements an 'AI Precision Pre-Review + Expert Efficient Re-Verification' model, achieving up to 70%+ auto-review rates and over 80% timely order review rates.

Full business process digitalization: Built a 'software-hardware integrated' online transaction closed loop (closed loop), enabling users to go from 'concept to product' with process configuration, real-time online pricing, ordering, 3D simulation confirmation, and production/logistics tracking—all fully digitized and traceable.

III. Sustained R&D Investment Intensity and Rich Proprietary Core Technology Outcomes

High-intensity R&D investment and abundant results: R&D expenditure reached 349 million yuan in 2025 (up 6.26% YoY), with cumulative R&D investment of 978 million yuan over three years. By end-2025, it held 26 invention patents, 161 utility model patents, and 293 software copyrights, with over 1,100 R&D personnel.

Breakthroughs in self-developed industrial software: Jialichuang EDA, with full proprietary IP, surpassed 6.58 million global registered users by end-2025, integrating over 1 million free component libraries and supporting 52+ million design projects. It has become the largest user-scale self-developed board-level EDA, widely adopted internally by Huawei. In March 2026, it launched an enterprise-grade EDA solution. The self-developed CAM software processes 20,000+ daily engineering files, boosting per-capita efficiency 50x+ over traditional methods.

Cutting-edge AI exploration: Collaborates with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Fudan University, and Southeast University on R&D for LLM-generated PCB layout/routing assistance engines, intelligent manufacturing process planning engines, and 3D printing model analysis engines, continuously building technological barriers for AI-era industrial software.

IV. Solution Maturity, Scalable Adoption, and Quantifiable Customer Benefits

Enabling hardware innovation for 9.5M+ users via a 'one-stop' intelligent manufacturing platform: Jialichuang built a dual 'electronics + mechanical' industry chain closed loop (closed loop), lowering hardware innovation barriers and enhancing manufacturing/supply chain efficiency. By end-2025, it had 9.5M+ online registered users, 1.3M+ paying users, and processed 21M+ orders in 2025. Customers span 180+ countries, including giants like Huawei, Tesla, DJI, and BYD, as well as 25,000+ specialized and innovative enterprises.

Delivering disruptive quantifiable benefits (reduced costs and cycles):

Time efficiency: Compresses the traditional 'Silicon Valley 18-month hardware R&D cycle' to a 'Chinese rhythm' of 1-3 months. PCB prototyping delivers in as fast as 12 hours, PCBA in 15 hours, and CNC custom orders in 3 days (50%+ shorter than industry norms), boosting efficiency 20x+ over traditional models.

Cost efficiency: Reduces PCB prototyping costs from 800+ yuan per setup and thousands of yuan per order to tens of yuan, significantly lowering innovation trial-and-error costs.

Benchmark cases: Accelerated electronic and mechanical verification for Zhiyuan Robotics, enabling mass production; enabled JD Logistics' 'Wolf Tribe' robots to iterate 3-4 times weekly.

V. Outstanding Industry Influence and Social Responsibility

Building China's manufacturing 'industrial realization capability' moat: Jialichuang has established an extremely high barrier in 'industrial realization capability.'

Pioneering 'Circuit Board Index' as a macroeconomic indicator: Leveraging massive order data, Jialichuang's order frequency and value accurately reflect R&D surge points in emerging sectors like AI, robotics, and new energy, serving as a key global innovation signal. Fulfilling social responsibility by unleashing engineer dividends: Long-term implement (implements) 'twice-monthly free prototyping' and permanent free access to EDA software. In 2025 alone, it fulfilled nearly 2 million free orders, covering 1,000+ universities, systematically cultivating China's new generation of engineers.

Nominated Award:

OFweek 2026 China Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Annual Excellent Industrial Software Award

Nominated Product: Jialichuang EDA

Nomination Rationale:

I. Fully Proprietary IP, Breaking Overseas Monopoly for Domestic Substitution

As a board-level EDA tool in the core industrial software sector, Jialichuang EDA fills a critical gap in domestic software, achieving high-level self-sufficiency.

Breaking monopoly: After over a decade of independent R&D, Jialichuang built a fully proprietary board-level EDA industrial software, challenging overseas vendors that once dominated nearly 100% of the domestic market.

Full-stack self-developed security adaptation: Supports private deployment for enterprises requiring isolated internal servers and external internet access. It is compatible with multiple domestic operating systems and CPU platforms, deeply integrated with systems like Kylin, HarmonyOS, and Loongson, offering a true full-stack self-developed solution.

Validated by massive user scale: By end-2025, Jialichuang EDA had 5.7M+ cumulative global registered users (peaking at 6.58M+), facilitating 43M+ hardware design projects (peaking at 52M+), ranking as the largest user-scale self-developed domestic board-level EDA industrial software.

II. Innovative Cloud-Native Architecture, Leading Enterprise-Grade Efficient Real-Time Collaboration

Jialichuang EDA's architecture aligns with the cloud evolution trend in industrial software, significantly enhancing R&D team management and collaboration efficiency.

Cross-platform online design: Pioneers browser-based online design, enabling true cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Linux) and cross-device application without installation.  Ultimate team collaboration: Supports multi-person simultaneous design of the same project, allowing parallel work across roles with sub-second synchronization, boosting team efficiency by 50%+.

Data asset security and traceability: Enables team modules and libraries to precipitate (accumulate) enterprise design assets, with full lifecycle version tracing, engineering log recording, and role-based permission control, creating a secure collaborative environment where 'data stays in-house, and operations are auditable.'

III. AI Empowerment and Unified Central Library Management, Addressing Enterprise R&D Pain Points

Jialichuang EDA achieves breakthroughs in addressing underlying data challenges in enterprise R&D management through intelligent means.

Resolving standardization issues: Eliminates the long-standing pain point of 'fragmented component libraries and inconsistent standards' via unified central material library management, enabling 'build once, reuse organization-wide.'

AI-powered intelligent library creation: Supports AI-driven library creation, reducing manual library setup from 10 minutes to 2 minutes, boosting efficiency by 80%, and saving substantial basic R&D time.

Massive official library support: Includes 1.3M+ built-in official component libraries for instant use, providing electronic engineers with highly convenient data support for circuit design.

IV. Deep Integration of 'Design-Manufacturing' Closed Loop, Empowering Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

This is Jialichuang EDA's core competitive edge over traditional EDA tools, enabling seamless R&D design and production manufacturing integration.

Full industry chain linkage: Fully integrates the 'EDA design → PCB prototyping → component mall → SMT assembly' chain, allowing engineers to complete component selection during design.

PLM/ERP system integration: The central material library connects downward to enterprise PLM and ERP systems for unified material management. Upon design completion, BOM lists are automatically generated, significantly reducing BOM matching and selection workload.

Real-time data synchronization and pre-emptive risk mitigation: Design and manufacturing-side inventory/prices sync in real-time. Engineers receive manufacturing quotes instantly upon schematic completion. They can one-click push manufacturing files to the DFM system for rule checks (trace width, hole diameter, silkscreen, etc.) and view 3D post-SMT welding (soldering) effects, pre-emptively identifying manufacturing risks and shortening project cycles by 20%-30%.

V. Exceptional User Reputation and Thriving Industry-Education Ecosystem

Industrial software vitality lies in its ecosystem. Jialichuang EDA has achieved remarkable success in user recognition and talent cultivation.

Endorsed by authoritative media and engineers: With its 'instant load' experience via front-end caching and '2-hour mastery' design philosophy, Jialichuang EDA ranked in the 'Domestic EDA Tool Reputation List' by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology-affiliated China Electronics News.

Building a geek hardware open-source ecosystem: Leveraging EDA tools, Jialichuang's LCEDA open-source hardware platform hosts 30,000+ open-source projects, incubating influential hardware works (e.g., Zhihui Jun's open-source projects) and providing efficient validation platforms for startups and makers.

Cultivating a million-strong talent pipeline in universities: Jialichuang EDA covers 1,400+ universities nationwide, conducting 400+ annual school-enterprise trainings and co-building 500+ 'Electronic Design Joint Laboratories' with universities, reaching millions of students. It was named a 'Top 10 Industrial Software Talent Cultivation Partner' by the Great Bay Area's Ten Universities Expert Committee, nurturing future engineers' usage habits and independent innovation capabilities from the source.

Welcome to Participate

The annual awards are now accepting nominations, with the application deadline on May 20. Pioneers across the intelligent manufacturing supply chain are encouraged to apply and vie for industry honors!

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Concurrent Event

The 'OFweek 2026 (7th) China Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Conference' will be held in Shenzhen on July 10, 2026. Scan the QR code below to reserve your seat. We look forward to joining you for this annual intelligent manufacturing industry gathering!

White Paper of the Same Period

The conference will also release the "2026 Blue Book on the Development of AI + Scenario-based and Graph-based Intelligent Manufacturing" with great fanfare.

Currently, the call for enterprises to contribute to the blue book has officially begun, with the registration deadline set for June 1, 2026. Selected enterprises will announce their achievements at the conference site and simultaneously gain multiple benefits, including brand promotion, resource matching, and priority recommendations for awards.