S-FACTORY EXPO – Smart Factory & Automation Technology Expo (Shenzhen) 2026Dates, Registration & Visitor Guide

What is S-FACTORY EXPO – Smart Factory & Automation Technology Expo (Shenzhen)?

S-FACTORY EXPO is RX's show for the kit that turns a production line into a connected, largely hands-off factory. The Shenzhen edition is organised by RX Greater China together with a cooperation centre under China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and it runs every autumn at Shenzhen World in Bao'an as part of RX's ITWA industrial cluster, sharing Halls 9–16 with NEPCON ASIA, VisionChina, ROBOTECH, Automotive World China, ES SHOW and C-TOUCH & DISPLAY.

The floor is split into five areas: industrial robots and integrators (cobots, handling, assembly and welding robots), motion control (drives, pneumatics and other automation components), smart warehousing and intralogistics (AGVs and AMRs, automated storage, warehouse software), industrial software such as MES and lean-production systems, and end-of-line packaging machines like carton erectors, case packers, labellers, strapping and stretch-wrap units and palletisers. For 2026 the organiser names HIWIN, Flexiv, IKO, MOSIONX, Konecranes, World Wide Group and MEAN WELL among the exhibitors. There is also a themed area on electronics assembly, and a looped "future factory" demonstration that walks an order through AGV transport, depalletising, packing, sorting, vision inspection and a security-patrol robot.

The visitor list reads like Shenzhen's manufacturing base: EMS and consumer-electronics factories, SMT and PCB lines, semiconductor packaging, display and touch-panel makers, new-energy and automotive suppliers, and warehouse operators. Most come to find specific automation parts or a system integrator for a line upgrade, and the badge also opens the NEPCON ASIA halls next door, which carry the big SMT and inspection equipment brands.

Alongside the stands, RX runs a smart-factory and AI-automation forum, a conference on industrial components for smart equipment and a smart-warehousing summit. It also shares three embodied-AI robotics forums with ROBOTECH and offers guided visits to working factories in the region. The organiser expects more than 3,000 overseas visitors in 2026, mainly from Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, and runs a hosted-buyer programme (TAP) with pre-arranged meetings.

S-FACTORY itself is compact (its 2025 show outline cites 100-plus exhibitors and brands). Its value is the combination: in one day at Shenzhen World you can see automation components, robots, machine vision and electronics-assembly lines from the suppliers that equip factories across the Pearl River Delta.