Training and cooperation with enterprises are important jobs of GDIO. On January 10-11, 2020, two German experts in intelligent manufacturing from Expert Committee of Sino-German Industrial Design Center--Dr. Holm Fischäder and Dr. Markus Färber, were invited to visit Yantai, Shandong Province. They delivered lectures and discussed with over 100 leading entrepreneurs in Shandong Province on how to achieve “transition towards digital production flow” in the context of intelligent manufacturing.