A Lighthouse factory, then a template for thirteen moreThe factory that became everyone else’s homework
Project Phoenix connected SAP S/4HANA, IIoT, MES, digital twins and real-time analytics across 45+ production lines. The Suzhou factory entered the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network.Forty-five production lines, one data fabric, and a factory the World Economic Forum now uses as an example.
- Organisation
- Precision-optics group, Greater China
- Role
- Head of Digital Transformation & Technologies
- Period
- 2022 – 2024
- Setting
- Precision optics manufacturing
What changed
- +32%OEE
- ~US$2.8Mannual savings
- 13further sites benchmarked on Suzhou
- 45+production lines on one data fabric
The brief
Lead Greater China’s digital transformation and technology agenda, reporting to the CFO, and turn the Suzhou and Guangzhou lines into a Lighthouse-Factory model that other sites could adopt.
What was done
- Built a unified industrial data fabric, Project Phoenix, integrating SAP S/4HANA, IIoT, MES, digital twins, predictive analytics and real-time data platforms.
- Rolled it out across 45+ production lines in Suzhou and Guangzhou.
- Packaged the result as a reusable Lighthouse-Factory template instead of a one-site showcase.
- Authored the China Digital Playbook so data residency, cross-border transfer and cloud deployment met CSL, DSL and PIPL from the start.
Scope
- SAP S/4HANA
- IIoT
- MES
- Digital twins
- CSL / DSL / PIPL
The template, more than the award, was the asset: it became the starting point for the Tianjin Lighthouse programme in the next role.