BeijingJune 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In 2025, Hollysys’ XMagital intelligent system broke through with the concept of “On-Demand Definition, Freedom to Define,” opening a new paradigm for China’s industrial intelligence. A year later, industrial AI has shifted from technical validation to large-scale implementation, and industry expectations for intelligent systems now focus on the dual value of “definable” and “autonomous.” Against this backdrop, on June 16, 2026, Hollysys grandly convened the XMagital Industrial AI Ecosystem Partner Conference in the ancient capital of Xi’an, responding to this era-defining proposition with the comprehensive upgrade of XMagital 2.0.
Hollysys 2026 XMagital Industrial Ecosystem Partner Conference Grandly Held in Xi’an
The conference, themed “Agentic Orchestration, Autonomous Operations,” focused on the technological breakthroughs of XMagital 2.0, deep industry applications, and ecosystem empowerment practices. It attracted over a thousand ecosystem partners from various industries, including petrochemicals, chemicals, power, pharmaceuticals, food, machine tools, and transportation. Leaders and experts such as Miao Changxing, Vice President of the China Instrument and Control Society; Chen Baoguo, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the China Software Industry Association; Du Wenli, Vice President of East China University of Science and Technology; and Dr. Tao Xinghui, Industry Mentor at the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Director of the China-UK AI Association, joined Hollysys Holding Company CEO Wang Zheng, Hollysys Technology Group Chairman and Co-President Xu Yue, Hollysys Technology Group Co-President Fang Lei, and on-site guests to witness the milestone moment driven by XMagital 2.0’s “Freedom to Define” and “Autonomous Operations.”
Conference guests visit and exchange ideas at the Hollysys XMagital Intelligent Experience Zone
Strategic Leadership: Outlining a New Blueprint for “Agentic Orchestration, Autonomous Operations”
Hollysys Technology Group Chairman and Co-President Xu Yue delivers the opening address
In his opening address, Hollysys Technology Group Chairman and Co-President Xu Yue noted that over the past year, XMagital has expanded into more than 10 industries, serving over 480 clients, validating the strategic value of an open architecture and user-defined rights. He emphasized that the core proposition of industrial AI is to bridge the gap between the “certainty of the industrial world” and the “probability of the digital world.” Driven by the XWorld industrial world model, XMagital 2.0 adheres to the concept of “Freedom to Define, Autonomous Operations,” building an intelligent ecosystem rooted in industrial knowledge, oriented toward customer value, and ensuring safety and controllability. Hollysys will harness the wisdom of the entire industrial chain, enabling experts to define intelligent agents and technology to empower business processes, unleashing production efficiency, activating data value, and strengthening safety defenses through systematic capabilities. Together with ecosystem partners, Hollysys aims to build an open, inclusive, and win-win industrial AI ecosystem, helping China’s manufacturing sector ascend to the high end of the global value chain.
Miao Changxing, Vice President of the China Instrument and Control Society, stated in his address that XMagital 2.0, with the XWorld industrial world model at its core, forms a complete industrial cognitive loop, driving industrial control systems from passive instruction execution to active intelligent cognition—a profound shift. He emphasized that instruments and sensors, as the sensory nerves of the industrial system, can leverage XWorld for intelligent analysis of on-site sensing data and autonomous decision-making, compelling a value chain transformation across the automation industry. He expressed hope that Hollysys would continue to play a leading role, consolidating more localized industrial intelligent solutions.
Chen Baoguo, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the China Software Industry Association, noted in his address that XMagital 2.0 has achieved a paradigm shift in industrial software from tool-based to cognitive-based, breaking the long-standing limitation of industrial software being passively executed. He highly praised the platform’s open and co-creation ecosystem model, believing that “platform empowerment, ecosystem co-creation” can integrate dispersed R&D efforts and is a key path for domestic industrial software to catch up. He stated that the China Software Industry Association will continue to optimize the industry development environment, looking forward to Hollysys and its ecosystem partners creating more localized industrial software solutions.
Technology Foundation: The XWorld Industrial World Model Makes a Grand Debut
The core focus of this conference was the technological breakthrough of XMagital 2.0. Hollysys Group Chief Engineer Zhu Yiming, Dr. Fan Yiming, Senior Researcher of the Industrial World Model at the Central Research Institute, and Dr. Hu Pengfei, Technical Director of the Intelligent Software Platform Institute at the Central Research Institute, jointly delivered the keynote report “XMagital 2.0: Building a New Paradigm of Freedom to Define and Autonomous Operations Based on the XWorld Industrial World Model,” systematically unveiling the full picture of XWorld.
The report pointed out that XMagital 2.0, with the XWorld industrial world model as its core engine, innovatively constructs a three-tier progressive intelligent system from the industrial data foundation to the industrial world model to autonomous industrial operations. XWorld deeply integrates time-series models, mechanistic models, ontology models, decision models, and industrial knowledge bases to create a deducible, interactive, and evolvable industrial digital twin, providing a solid technological foundation for the “Freedom to Define” of industrial applications and the “Autonomous Operations” of industrial systems. This architecture is not only Hollysys’ strategic technology brand in the field of industrial AI but also a domain-wide cognitive engine for complex industrial systems.
Industry Depth: Three Tracks Advancing in Parallel
XMagital’s industry deployment map spans three major tracks: process industry, discrete manufacturing, and infrastructure. Through three dedicated thematic reports, the conference systematically showcased the differentiated paths and common technological foundation of each track.
In the process industry track, Hollysys Industrial AI Vice President Li Yu delivered a speech titled “XMagital: Activating New Momentum for High-Quality Development in the Process Industry with Comprehensive Autonomy and Industrial Intelligence,” demonstrating innovative practices based on the XWorld industrial world model, including the “Freedom to Define” of five application clusters (Agents) for production, planning, equipment, safety and environment, and operations, comprehensively realizing autonomous operations in future smart factories.
In the discrete manufacturing track, Hollysys Discrete Industry Business Group Vice President Zhao Henan delivered a speech titled “Autonomous Operations: Shaping New Drivers for Discrete Smart Manufacturing,” showcasing XMagital’s innovative practices in empowering smart manufacturing with AI and reshaping production and management models in discrete industries.
In the infrastructure track, Hollysys Transportation Business Group Vice President Wang Xiaoliang delivered a speech titled “XMagital Leading a New Journey of Intelligence in the Infrastructure Industry,” systematically presenting XMagital’s complete capability map built on a “digital foundation + smart operations + intelligent decision-making,” vividly confirming its cross-industry, cross-scenario universal adaptability.
Academic Frontiers: World Models and Intelligent Optimization
The conference invited top international academic experts to provide cutting-edge perspectives. Dr. Tao Xinghui, Industry Mentor at the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Director of the China-UK AI Association, delivered an academic report titled “Industrial World Models: Based on Physics and Validated Industrial Knowledge, Aimed at Optimizing Decision-Making and Execution,” systematically analyzing the technological evolution of world models and their broad application prospects in industrial intelligence from an academic height.
In her academic report, Du Wenli, Vice President of East China University of Science and Technology, pointed out that the intelligence of process manufacturing is moving from “digital construction” to a new stage of “intelligent operations,” driven by a combination of policy guidance, industry demand, and technological maturity. She specifically introduced the collaborative exploration between the National Innovation Center for Process Manufacturing Intelligent Regulation Technology (NICPM) and Hollysys: Hollysys’ XMagital provides a broad platform foundation and application ecosystem, while NICPM focuses on production line-level intelligent optimization and model closed loops. Together, they are building a new paradigm of “foundation + APP + AI” for the process manufacturing control layer, providing an important practical path for the process industry to move from point capabilities to a platform-based system.
Ecosystem Implementation: Practices from Over a Dozen Industries Flourish
The core value of industrial AI lies in industrial implementation. Ecosystem partners from over a dozen industries brought a wealth of frontline practice sharing, covering key areas of the national economy such as energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food, and equipment manufacturing.
In the process industry direction, four morning ecosystem partner practice sessions covered four benchmark scenarios: green hydrogen control, autonomous chemical operations, smart power plants, and full-process petrochemical intelligence. Afternoon sessions covered multiple dimensions including domestic computing power integration, APS intelligent scheduling Agents, pharmaceutical digital transformation, PID parameter auto-tuning based on intelligent Agents, equipment fault intelligent diagnosis, and digital delivery, collectively presenting the depth of XMagital 2.0’s cross-industry, cross-scenario implementation.
In the discrete manufacturing direction, innovative practices such as multi-factory intelligent foundations for the food industry, integrated control and management with AI-empowered digital machine tools, and industrial AI tool platforms were showcased, fully demonstrating XMagital’s ecosystem vitality in equipment manufacturing and discrete manufacturing.
Product Showcase and Ecosystem Co-creation: Making Technology Tangible
In addition to the insightful reports in the main venue, the conference meticulously created an XMagital product showcase area and an ecosystem partner showcase area on the periphery. Using a “seeable, touchable, feelable, interactive” approach, the technical concepts of XMagital 2.0 were extended from the theoretical podium to real-world application scenarios, allowing every guest to experience the surging momentum of industrial intelligence up close.
Numerous ecosystem partners interact and experience in the XMagital product showcase area and ecosystem partner showcase area
The XMagital product showcase area, centered on the XWorld industrial world model, used a real-time demonstration system to link the full-stack technology chain of “industrial data foundation — industrial world model — autonomous industrial operations.” Through interactive screens and physical simulation devices, guests could intuitively observe the complete closed loop from real-time data perception to model deduction to autonomous decision-making, vividly confirming XMagital 2.0’s technical commitment to moving from “Freedom to Define” to “Autonomous Operations.”
The ecosystem partner showcase area presented over a dozen industry benchmark cases based on XMagital, covering key fields such as petrochemicals, oil and gas, power, new energy, metallurgy, building materials, pharmaceuticals, and nuclear energy. From million-ton ethylene localization DCS to the world’s largest green hydrogen-ammonia-alcohol integrated project, from virtual DCS smart power plants to offshore unmanned oil platforms, the area comprehensively demonstrated XMagital’s cross-industry, cross-scenario engineering implementation capabilities, fully reflecting the open concept of “platform empowerment, ecosystem co-creation.”
Media Focus: Discussing a New Chapter in Industrial AI
During the conference, over a dozen party and central media outlets and industry media, including People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Science and Technology Daily, and China Industry News, conducted in-depth interviews with Hollysys’ core management, engaging in thorough discussions on topics such as industrial AI strategic layout, engineering implementation, and industrial ecosystem building.
Over a dozen party and central media outlets and industry media conducted in-depth interviews with Hollysys’ core management
Ecosystem Resonance: Defining New Heights in Industrial AI
With the XWorld industrial world model as its core engine, XMagital 2.0 is evolving from a single company’s technological innovation to value resonance across the entire industrial ecosystem. As XWorld aims to solve, it enables industrial AI in complex factory environments to—read every object, see every condition, explain every judgment, and preserve every experience. Only when this is truly implemented can industrial AI take root on-site, continuously creating and amplifying value. When industrial intelligent systems begin to understand production processes and possess self-evolution capabilities, it will undoubtedly propel smart manufacturing to new heights. “Agentic Orchestration, Autonomous Operations” is not only the theme of this conference but also a new chapter in industrial intelligence co-written by Hollysys and its vast ecosystem partners.
As a leading global supplier of intelligent system solutions, Hollysys has set a new benchmark for the high-end development and large-scale implementation of industrial AI with the breakthrough innovation of XMagital 2.0. XMagital 2.0 not only achieves full-stack technology self-sufficiency but also leverages an open platform architecture to gather ecosystem strength, providing intelligent solutions for key national economy industries—from “import substitution” to “leading innovation.”
This innovative practice marks a critical leap for China’s industrial AI from technological catch-up to independent leadership. Amid the global wave of industrial intelligence transformation, it offers a replicable and evolvable Chinese solution for the future factory of “Agentic Orchestration, Autonomous Operations.” Making every factory smarter, making every operation more autonomous, and ushering in a new chapter of industrial civilization through autonomous evolution.