To become a zero-carbon pioneer in the context of 92% growth in production output in the past three years, Siemens’ Chengdu factory deployed a holistic digital energy management system, implemented predictive maintenance throughout the manufacturing process, introduced AI-based automation to identify and handle up to 16 types of production waste and applied eco-design features to improve circularity and dematerialization. This has reduced unit product energy consumption by 24% and production waste by 48%.