The Global Advanced Manufacturing Institute (GAMI) was established in 2008 by the wbk Institute of Production Science of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), a high-quality education and research institute and especially strong in natural sciences and engineering. With our university background, we provide advanced methods and concepts to reach operational excellence and deliver individual strategies and smart solutions in production and supply chain management. GAMI runs applied research projects, bilateral industrial projects, training programs, and a student exchange in China. Our 15 Chinese engineers were mostly trained at KIT or elsewhere internationally in engineering. They adapt research results from wbk for the Chinese market and, building on these, set up projects and trainings for our Chinese and German partners, especially in the areas of production efficiency, quality and supply chain management, and Industry 4.0 with the smart manufacturing innovation labs including Sino-German innovation and demonstration center and Artificial intelligence innovation factory we established in 2015 and 2018.