The China Automation and Digitalization Awards have been presented annually in Beijing for 20 years now. The award ceremony takes place as part of the China Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing Market Seminar (CAIMRS). As a long-established, widely accessible, open and fair award in China's industrial automation industry, a total of ten awards for the entire industrial chain of intelligent manufacturing were presented at this year's awards ceremony. Beckhoff won the Application Innovation Award for its optimization of the real-time inspection of instant noodle packages using machine learning.