Beijing, China – Atos, a global leader of AI-powered digital transformation, today announced that a sovereign Agentic AI solution developed in collaboration with a manufacturing customer in China has been honored at the IDC China AI Innovation Awards 2026. The recognition highlights the growing role of enterprise-grade Agentic AI in driving outcome-driven innovation, operational efficiency, and business transformation across key industries.
The Sovereign AI Agent for Engineering R&D, developed jointly by Atos and manufacturer Flender China has been recognized as the Best Agentic AI Practice, which reduced design cycles by 83%, saving approximately 2,000 engineering hours annually. Presented by International Data Corporation (IDC), the award recognized the solution for its measurable business outcomes and innovation in manufacturing knowledge management.
Atos developed a sovereign AI agent for Flender's engineering R&D function that combines agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multimodal capabilities, and deep manufacturing domain knowledge. The solution helps engineering teams move faster from concept to market launch while delivering measurable business outcomes, including an 83% reduction in design standard document and engineering drawing interpretation time, a sixfold increase in engineering design processing capacity, annual savings of approximately 2,000 engineering hours, and improved knowledge reuse, faster onboarding, and enhanced collaboration across engineering teams.
Guo Yan Ming, IT Head, Flender China said "By applying sovereign, secure and compliant AI to complex engineering workflows, the solution accelerates knowledge reuse and decision-making, helping shorten the path from design insight to market-ready innovation while demonstrating the replicability of manufacturing agents in complex knowledge management."
Yun Rui Feng, Managing Director, Atos China said "We are honored to collaborate with forward-looking customer on their AI transformation journeys. As demand for sovereign and responsible AI continues to grow across industries, Atos remains committed to helping organizations accelerate innovation and achieve measurable outcomes at scale."
As part of the Atos Sovereign Agentic Studio (SAS), Atos China is helping organizations turn Agentic AI ambition into business results. By combining sovereign AI principles with deep industry expertise, Atos enables enterprises to deploy trusted AI solutions that accelerate decision-making, strengthen operational resilience, and unlock new opportunities for growth.
About Atos
Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.
With more than 52,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand.
About Atos Group
Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 54,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion, operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris
