Recently, the 2025 Tuanfeng Steel Structure Characteristic Industrial Chain Cluster High-Quality Development Conference was held in Hubei, jointly discussing how, against the backdrop of the country’s vigorous promotion of manufacturing transformation and upgrading, the steel structure industry, as an important pillar of the construction sector, is embracing new development opportunities and challenges. Responding to the conference theme of “promoting strengths and empowering the steel industry to lead the future”, 3Srobotics, as an industry leader in intelligent welding, brought its intelligent welding robot solution for steel structures to the main venue product display and delivered a keynote speech introducing the product’s technical breakthroughs and project cases to steel structure enterprise representatives, attracting wide attention from experts and industry peers present.
2025, as the year linking the conclusion of the “14th Five-Year Plan” and the start of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, is of great significance for promoting the high-quality development of the steel structure building industry chain. Through 5 special sessions and over 40 keynote reports, this Tuanfeng Steel Structure Industrial Chain Conference attracted about 800 representatives from government, industry, academia, research, application and business, discussing how the steel structure industry, as an important pillar of the construction sector, is embracing new development opportunities and challenges against the backdrop of the country’s vigorous promotion of manufacturing transformation and upgrading. Once again drawing global attention, this conference is a top-level event for exchange and cooperation in the steel structure field across the country and the world.
Huanggang Vice Mayor Hu Hao attended the conference and delivered a speech. Dai Changhe, Executive Secretary-General of the China Steel Construction Society, Zeng Xiaodong, Party Secretary and Director of the Municipal Economy and Information Bureau, as well as representatives of steel structure industry associations, renowned experts and scholars, key industrial chain enterprises and universities from across the country, were invited to attend.
Dai Changhe, Executive Secretary-General of the China Steel Construction Society, Li Ting, National Engineering Survey and Design Master and Chief Expert of Central-South Architectural Design Institute, and other experts and scholars delivered keynote reports on steel structure industry development trends, intelligent construction reshaping the new ecosystem of the construction industry, and the current economic situation and development space of the steel structure industry.
3Srobotics Product Manager Chen Ke said in his speech: China’s manufacturing is shifting from “quantity expansion” to “quality improvement”, and the steel structure industry, with its inherent advantages of green environmental protection, high efficiency and energy saving, and industrialized production, is ushering in an unprecedented window of development. Yet most steel structure enterprises are bound in actual production by a series of deep contradictions. The essence of these dilemmas is the disconnection between the traditional production model and the new-era market demand.
The embodied intelligent welding products for steel structures exhibited at this conference are not a simple replacement of people with robots, but have found the key to the breakthrough — a fundamental reshaping of productivity. 3Srobotics chose a more fundamental path: reconstructing the technology stack from the bottom up to realize the deep integration of “AI algorithms + welding processes + robot bodies”. This enables our system, when facing complex, non-standard steel structure workpieces, to behave like a true “industrial life form”: autonomously perceiving the environment, making intelligent decisions and plans, and precisely executing welding. It integrates the “eyes” (visual judgment), “brain” (process experience) and “hands” (stable operation) of high-level welders into one, thereby solving the key challenge of flexible intelligent manufacturing. In particular, for large-batch large-scale steel structure welding scenarios characterized by heavy workpieces, long weld seams and diverse forms (such as H-beams and box columns), robotic welding enables continuous operation, with one person operating 4 units while ensuring welding quality and consistency. Customers can also select external axis configurations such as fixed stations, floor-rail dual-station, seven/eight/nine-axis cantilevers and gantries according to their needs.
The intelligence of a single enterprise is the starting point, not the destination. True industrial upgrading depends on the coordinated evolution of the entire cluster ecosystem. Taking this conference as the starting point, 3Srobotics will become a deep partner in the intelligent construction process of steel structures, helping China’s steel structure industrial clusters break through bottlenecks and truly realize the grand blueprint of “leading the future with steel”.
3Srobotics is willing to work with industry peers to go deep into steel structure welding scenarios, provide key technical innovations, build intelligent benchmarks, and construct an efficient, flexible, green and low-carbon modern steel structure industry system, enabling China to move from a steel structure manufacturing power to a strong nation leading global intelligent manufacturing.
