SPS – Smart Production Solutions Guangzhou, a key event within the international SPS – Smart Production Solutions network, will be renamed SPS – Smart Production Solutions Shenzhen and relocate to Shenzhen in 2027. The next edition will take place on 1 – 3 September 2027, at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center. The move will keep the fair within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), allowing it to carry forward the audience, industry relationships and reputation built over 17 years as a leading meeting point for automation suppliers and buyers in South China. From Shenzhen, one of China’s leading cities for high-tech manufacturing, it will join the annual Formnext Asia Shenzhen, as well as the biennial PCIM Asia Shenzhen, to form a co-located platform for advanced manufacturing technologies. The platform will bring together complementary exhibition and conference content across smart and digital automation , additive manufacturing and power electronics.
Serving manufacturing markets across the region and throughout Asia, the fair will continue to cover core automation components such as sensors, drive systems and intelligent controls, together with integrated production solutions for sectors including automotive, new energy, 3C electronics and engineering machinery. The fair will also leverage its established automation expertise and industry resources to support key growth areas in Shenzhen’s manufacturing sector, including new energy vehicles, the low-altitude economy and embodied intelligence, with coverage of automation technologies used for handling, inspection, assembly and material movement.