en.Wedoany.com Reported - Suzhou Inovance Technology Co., Ltd. (300124.SZ), a Chinese industrial automation company, and CITIC Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (601608.SH), a Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer, recently signed a group-level ecological strategic cooperation agreement in Luoyang City, Henan Province. The two parties will focus on the deep adaptation of large-scale Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) with domestic operating systems as a core effort, driving the autonomous and controllable progress of underlying industrial control technologies.
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Inovance Technology specializes in industrial automation control and drive technologies, with products covering Programmable Logic Controllers, servo systems, inverters, industrial operating systems, and digital platforms. Its core industrial control products, such as servos and inverters, hold leading market shares in China. CITIC Heavy Industries, formerly known as Luoyang Mining Machinery Plant, was established in 1954 and is headquartered in Luoyang City, Henan Province. It primarily manufactures heavy mining equipment, including ball mills and semi-autogenous mills, and possesses strong capabilities in the development of large-scale mining complete equipment.
According to the agreement, the two parties will integrate the entire chain of mining, hoisting, beneficiation, and smelting, advancing the domestic iteration of core equipment, electrical control systems, and intelligent operations and maintenance. Using several medium and large ball mill projects as benchmarks, they will continuously validate the reliability of domestic solutions and overseas delivery capabilities. The localization of full-process equipment is the core of this cooperation, with joint development of domestic operating systems being the key technology. The two parties will accelerate the deep adaptation of the "CITIC Micro" domestic operating system on Inovance's EVO800 large-scale Programmable Logic Controller, building a dedicated software ecosystem for the mining industry and achieving autonomous control of industrial control systems from the ground up. Previously, the two parties have completed multiple technical integrations through project collaborations.
The Inovance EVO800 series is a large-scale redundant Programmable Logic Controller control system independently developed by Inovance Technology with a full-stack approach. Designed to automotive-grade reliability standards, it has obtained a national-level Xinchuang product evaluation certificate. This series supports single-machine, multi-CPU, and millisecond-level redundant architectures, is compatible with mainstream bus protocols such as EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, and OPC UA, and is developed on the iFA Evolution platform. It is widely used in large-scale production lines in industries such as metallurgy, mining, power, chemicals, and automotive. The primary task of this strategic cooperation is to accelerate the full-dimensional adaptation and debugging of the "CITIC Micro" domestic operating system with Inovance's EVO800 large-scale Programmable Logic Controller, bridging the gap between software and hardware, and establishing a localized underlying industrial control ecosystem tailored for the mining and non-ferrous metals industries. This means that high-end Programmable Logic Controllers will no longer rely on foreign operating systems, achieving pure domestic production from control hardware to the operating system.
For a long time, the Chinese market for medium and large Programmable Logic Controllers has been predominantly occupied by foreign brands. According to industry data, foreign brands collectively hold over 70% of the market share. The autonomous development of underlying core components such as large-scale Programmable Logic Controllers and industrial operating systems is crucial for reducing procurement costs and ensuring subsequent maintenance and functional iteration. This cooperation between the two parties will provide a practical model for the domestic substitution of high-end industrial control fields, promoting the construction of autonomous and controllable capabilities for China's underlying industrial control technologies.
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