On October 24, 2025, in Suzhou—Zeiss pulled off a resounding success with its '2025 Zeiss Automotive Quality Innovation Day' grand event at its flagship exhibition center today. Centered around the theme 'Quality Drives the Future,' the event convened global experts from the automotive industry chain to deliberate on quality challenges amidst the electrification transformation. Around 200 attendees bore witness to the global unveiling of Zeiss's new online inspection solution and the release of the inaugural 'Automotive Industry Quality White Paper,' marking a pivotal stride by Zeiss in facilitating standardized collaboration across the industry. This event stands as a significant continuation and all-encompassing upgrade of the inaugural New Energy Vehicle Innovation Day in 2023, scaling up in magnitude and encompassing a wider array of areas, thereby providing the industry with a more abundant and profound sharing of information on quality solutions.

Launch of Groundbreaking New Products: Online Inspection Solution Fuels High-Quality Battery Production

At the Innovation Day, Zeiss globally introduced the ZEISS INRADIA series online inspection solution, integrating 2D and 3D inspection technologies, meticulously crafted to cater to the high-precision, high-efficiency quality control demands in power battery production. Moreover, this inspection solution is also applicable for non-destructive testing of precision components in traditional fuel systems.

Industry Quality White Paper: Bridging the Gap in Quality Standards Across the Industrial Chain

The 'Automotive Industry Quality White Paper' unveiled this time was a collaborative effort by Zeiss with over 100 leading enterprises, amalgamating over 150 quality solutions spanning more than a dozen technical domains, including batteries, motors, bodies, and chassis. The white paper, for the first time, introduces the 'Automotive Quality Gold Standard' framework, aiming to tackle prevalent challenges in electrification transformation, such as battery safety and electric drive reliability, while offering systematic quality guidelines for optimizing traditional power systems. Chen Tao, the Global Head of Automotive and New Energy Vehicle Business at Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions, specially invited Li Liguo, Director of the Metrology and Inspection Center at Geely Automobile, to jointly partake in the white paper's release ceremony.

▲ Li Liguo, Director of the Metrology and Inspection Center at Geely Automobile

Chen Tao remarked, 'The 'monthly iteration' development pace in the Chinese market is reshaping the global quality landscape, with flexible manufacturing emerging as a core competitive edge. Taking body manufacturing as an instance, the flexible inspection solutions we devised for local new energy vehicle companies are equally pertinent to the steel-aluminum hybrid body production lines of German luxury brands.' He specifically highlighted the white paper's inclusive design for next-generation technologies, 'Whether it's solid-state batteries or hydrogen fuel cells, the early establishment of quality standards will mitigate the risks associated with technology route shifts.'

▲ Chen Tao, Global Head of Automotive and New Energy Vehicle Business at Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions

Executive Insights: Technical Collaboration Fuels Industrial Upgrading

Richard Gärtner, Member of the Zeiss Board of Management and Global Head of Sales and Service for Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions, stated, 'Quality innovation stands as a strategic pivot for reconstructing industrial value. The future of the automotive industry hinges not on choosing between energy routes but on evolving quality standards through technological innovation. The white paper will foster the deep integration of technological practices in the Chinese market with global expertise, providing resilient standards for the automotive industry that transcend technology routes.' Addressing carbon neutrality objectives, he underscored that Zeiss is instituting carbon footprint tracking links across the industrial chain through data middleware technology, 'From tracing battery raw materials to monitoring energy consumption in traditional supply chains, quality data is becoming the core infrastructure for 'decarbonization.'

▲ Richard Gärtner, Member of the Zeiss Board of Management and Global Head of Sales and Service for Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions

▲ Ping Jie, President of Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions China

Furthermore, during the morning's main session, Dr. Du Shuanglong, General Manager of CLS at EVE Energy, delivered a keynote address on the evolution of power battery technology and quality challenges. From a customer's vantage point, he vividly expounded on the practical experience of collaborating with Zeiss to forge a new ecosystem for high-quality development in the battery industry, achieving quality enhancements and efficiency breakthroughs, and providing attendees with crucial insights from the industry's frontlines.

▲ Dr. Du Shuanglong, General Manager of CLS at EVE Energy

Innovation Ecosystem: From Solutions to Global Collaboration

The event featured three application technology exchange sub-forums and solution displays, focusing on batteries, power systems, and bodies and chassis, vividly showcasing Zeiss's breakthrough achievements in areas such as electric drive reliability and thermal management systems. During the 'Automotive Industry Quality Gold Standard' roundtable forum, industry leaders and experts engaged in discussions on topics such as 'technology route competition under dual carbon goals' and 'supply chain security strategies,' reaching a consensus on the 'full industrial chain data transparency' mechanism proposed in the white paper.

This Innovation Day transcends being a mere technical showcase; it constructs an industrial collaboration ecosystem encompassing R&D, production, and standards. As Zeiss advocates with the philosophy 'Seeing beyond'—when quality becomes the core engine propelling the industry's future, the 'gold standard' that transcends technology routes is infusing vitality into the global automotive industry.

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