Lenovo Unveils 2025 Playbook at Hannover Messe
On 31 March 2025, Hannover Messe arrived at Hannover Exhibition Grounds for an industrial fair that delves into digital ecosystems, smart manufacturing, industrial automation, IT and mobility technologies.
Chinese multinational technology company, Lenovo, made an appearance during the opening day of the event to spotlight key findings from EMEA manufacturers.
Citing research from the CIO Playbook 2025 research survey, Lenovo states that, across the next year, manufacturers in EMEA plan to increase their spending in AI by 106%.
Lenovo also celebrated the success of manufacturing in the AI industry over the past year, with 79% of manufacturing AI projects having met or exceeded expectations. This makes the industry hold the top success rate of any sector.
Jonathan Wu, Chief Technology Officer of Smart Manufacturing at Lenovo, explains: “Manufacturing companies are prioritising decision-making, compliance and employee productivity as they adopt AI to enhance operational efficiency and drive profitability.
“Success with AI will depend on a careful approach to integration, with system compatibility and adequate compute resources being key success factors.
“A historical lack of software technology investment prioritisation in manufacturing is behind many firms’ integration challenges, especially with legacy systems and struggles with scaling AI initiatives across global operations."
AI priorities and use cases in manufacturing
The manufacturing industry is shifting its focus to AI to improve operations, boost profitability and optimise decision-making.
Not only does AI enhance quality control and supply chain resilience to help organisations stay competitive in dynamic markets, but it also acts as a catalyst for faster and more accurate business decisions by offering real-time insights.
Lenovo points out the fact that the manufacturing industry holds a definite split in AI investment, with 44% focusing on Gen AI tools and 44% concentrating on interpretive AI tools.
To maintain data security while enabling scalability, Lenovo states that 67% are using on-prem, private and/or hybrid AI infrastructure.
As the manufacturing industry begins to effectively integrate AI, Lenovo highlights three factors that are leading to greater success:
- The ease with which AI can be integrated with initial systems
- Having sufficient hybrid computing and storage resources
- Possessing the right budget and driven leadership
Inside Lenovo’s AI solutions for manufacturing
At Hannover Messe, Lenovo celebrated its range of AI-led solutions that aim to enhance sustainability, operational efficiency and quality control across the manufacturing industry.
Manufacturers can improve business productivity, enhance AI adoption, and craft and utilise AI agents through Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA solutions.
These tools concentrate on forecasting, sustainability, supply chain and quality control:
LeForecast
This agentic AI-powered, multimodal forecasting tool will support real-time decision making by offering actionable reports and precise forecasts.
Lenovo’s Supply Chain Intelligence
AI modelling and automated workflows will enhance agility and resilience by monitoring supply chain data to solve challenges.
Lenovo Robotic Inspection
This digital twin-based inspection system offers detailed inspection reports and real-time alerts to enhance asset compliance and reliability by monitoring processes, equipment and environments.
Lenovo’s ESG Navigator
This sustainability-focused platform helps manufacturers meet their sustainability goals by providing more than 30 AI models that improve energy conservation and efficiency.
Demonstrations and real-world deployments
Lenovo points to several case studies that are helping enhance business impact, ROI and the scalability of its AI solutions in the manufacturing industry:
Lenovo AI Knowledge Assistant
A digital assistant that highlights customisability and rapid deployment. Not only does it support real-time interactions between customers and teams to support operational impact through productivity, but it also highlights time-to-value to allow businesses to build AI agents in weeks.
The digital human NVIDIA AI Blueprint and NVIDIA NIM™ microservices running on a Lenovo PX ThinkStation customised the demo at the event.
Trifork Vision AI Quality Inspection
Lenovo Validated Design (LVD) powers Trifork’s Vision AI Quality Inspection.
Trifok’s solution offers a link between measurable manufacturing improvements and AI, and automates quality control to cataylse inspections, reduce defects and improve output.
It is powered by Lenovo ThinkEdge SE360 V2 and SE455 V3 servers with NVIDIA GPUs.
The solution can handle high-volume data in real time and be deployed at the edge, offering opportunities for scalable performance across locations.
AI-powered warehouse automation solution (with ST Logistics)
This solution provides quantifiable results to ST Logistics: a 40% increase in order processing, 30% reduction in energy use and a 30% productivity boost.
This AI-led monitoring highlights the pace at which AI can deliver results at scale and replace legacy systems.
Real-time reporting also improves resilience in logistics and supply chain operations by preventing shutdown.
How will Lenovo alter the future of manufacturing?
Lenovo’s announcements at Hannover Messe 2025 highlight the transformative impact AI will have on the future of manufacturing.
Its research points to growing confidence in AI’s ability to enhance decision-making, boost efficiency and increase profitability.
Solutions such as Robotic Inspection, LeForecast and ESG Navigator will support sustainability, support forecasting and quality assurance to tackle key manufacturing challenges.
These innovations continue to highlight Lenovo’s commitment to providing manufacturers with high-performance and scalable AI solutions.
Lenovo focuses on system compatibility, hybrid infrastructure and rapid deployment to catalyse the transition to a more agile, intelligent and sustainable future for manufacturing.
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