View over Huawei's industrial campus
Company visited · Telecoms, devices, cloud

Huawei

In house
  • MES et IoT
  • Lean driven by the shop floor
Result
  • A line making 2,800 units a day
9
people on the line, against 86 in 2013
What struck usEvery productivity gain is generously rewarded.
For youDecide what you reward when a gain is proven, and by how much.
Public benchmarks
2025 R&D spending of about €25.7bn. About 114,000 people in R&D, 53.7% of the workforce. About 165,000 patents.41
On site
A data-driven factory
MES and IoT connect the factory's flows in a single system.
Nine people on a 150-metre line
The line produces 2,800 units a day. It had 86 people in 2013.
Sources

41. Huawei, 2025 annual report.

D. Figure presented by the company during the visit: full status on the status of figures page.