Recently, Smart Manufacturing School has made new progress in industry-education integration by formally signing a horizontal research project contract with Mitsubishi Electric Automation (China) Co., Ltd. The two parties will jointly conduct research on the development of mechatronics teaching and training resources based on the Mitsubishi system. The project is led by Wu Min, Dean of Smart Manufacturing School, with a research timeline spanning from June 2026 to January 2027.
As a globally leading provider of smart manufacturing and industrial automation solutions, Mitsubishi Electric Automation (China) Co., Ltd. has long been committed to breakthroughs in smart manufacturing production line development, industrial interconnection, green manufacturing, and other fields. Its e-F@ctory intelligent production line concept and mechatronics technology system are widely applied in industries such as automotive, electronics, and chemicals. The implementation of this horizontal project represents a typical practice of Mitsubishi Electric deeply integrating its cutting-edge industrial technologies with the teaching capabilities of vocational colleges. The company provides access to real-world application scenarios and typical cases based on the Mitsubishi system, and Wu Min will lead the project team to "pedagogically reconstruct" production-line-level technical logic into technical skills training resources. The project outcomes will directly serve Mitsubishi Electric's customer training, enabling frontline workers or vocational college students to engage with the problem structures and solution pathways of real industrial settings during their studies.
The contract value is RMB 100,000. According to the agreement, the ownership of the project’s R&D outcomes is jointly held by both our school and the enterprise, with the rights to technical know-how and commercial use belonging exclusively to Mitsubishi Electric, while our school retains the right to use the resources for teaching purposes. During the research process, Mitsubishi Electric will provide equipment technical support and industry technical documentation to ensure that the development content remains aligned with the forefront of the industry.
In the future, Smart Manufacturing School will take this collaboration as an opportunity to further strengthen the mechanism of school-enterprise collaborative innovation, focusing on key issues in high-end equipment manufacturing, green production technologies, and other areas. We will continue to enhance our capacity to serve industrial upgrading and inject more "vocational education momentum" into the high-quality development of the regional economy.
