With the Form of a "Bow" and Intelligence at Its Core: Insvision's AlphaScan Wins Excellence Award at Design Intelligence Award (DIA)

On the evening of December 12th, the awards ceremony for the 10th Design Intelligence Award (DIA) was held at the Liangzhu Campus of the China Academy of Art. In fierce competition covering 52 countries and regions worldwide, the AlphaScan, a metrology-grade handheld 3D scanner from Hangzhou Insvision Technology Co., Ltd., was honored with the "Excellence Award" for its outstanding innovative design and industrial application value.

This year's DIA received over 5,000 entries globally, making the competition exceptionally intense. Among approximately 450 shortlisted works in total, only about 50 received the "Excellence Award." From these, 23 of the most representative entries advanced to the final Defense for the industry group. AlphaScan's award signifies that its design and application have received authoritative recognition from China's premier industrial design platform.

A Decade of Accumulation, a Bellwether for Global Intelligent Manufacturing
The China Design Intelligence Award (DIA) was established in 2015 as China's first international academic award in the comprehensive design field. Marking its tenth anniversary this year, the award has evolved from its initial focus on creative selection into a tangible innovation accelerator connecting art, technology, and industry.

The 10th DIA achieved breakthroughs in both scale and quality, with the proportion of debut entries reaching as high as 69%. It covered cutting-edge industrial fields such as smart transportation, artificial intelligence & machine learning, and healthcare & biomedicine.

Over the past decade, DIA has attracted more than 65,000 entries from over 87 countries and regions globally. It connects over 6,000 high-end manufacturing enterprises worldwide, including Google, Huawei, and BMW, as well as more than 800 top universities and research institutes, forming a robust ecosystem that drives innovative achievements from the laboratory to the market.

Micrometer-Level Precision, Defining the Boundaries of Industrial Measurement
On the "Industrial Equipment" track of DIA, robust technical capability is the primary passport. AlphaScan's core competitiveness lies precisely in liberating "metrology-grade" precision into a flexible, handheld intelligent manufacturing device.

According to industry evaluations, the AlphaScan series achieves stable accuracy as high as 0.020 millimeters. This means it can provide data reliability comparable to traditional measurement methods in demanding scenarios like the automotive industry and aerospace. Its maximum scanning speed of 7.1 million measurements per second efficiently captures every detail of complex structures.

This combination of "high precision," "high detail," and "high efficiency" constitutes the key capability required for the ongoing upgrade of intelligent manufacturing.

The "Bow" Language, Endowing Technology with Warmth and Power
If precise data is AlphaScan's "muscle," then its ingeniously unique design is its "bonus point."

The overall form of AlphaScan takes the "bow" as its primary design inspiration. This morphology not only endows the product with a highly recognizable sense of power and tension but also metaphorically reflects its operational state in terms of function—like a drawn bow poised to release, it accurately projects laser "arrows" onto object surfaces to achieve precise and efficient capture.

Its streamlined appearance and organic curved surfaces were refined through repeated iterations, ultimately resulting in an ergonomically comfortable grip that significantly reduces fatigue even during prolonged handheld operation. Against the main color scheme of black and silver-gray, an accent of technological blue adds the finishing touch, highlighting the quality feel of professional equipment while echoing the core blue light technology.

From Point Innovation to Empowering China's Intelligent Manufacturing Ecosystem
AlphaScan's award reflects the resonance between the DIA platform and the deepening transformation of China's "Intelligent Manufacturing" industry. It profoundly embodies the integration of "technological innovation" and "high humanistic care" advocated by DIA. With its metrology-grade precision and human-centric design, it precisely responds to the urgent needs of China's manufacturing sector for digital and intelligent transformation.

As a typical achievement of DIA's promotion of an innovation ecosystem integrating "the four chains," AlphaScan, by popularizing high-end 3D scanning technology, significantly lowers the threshold for industrial digitalization. It empowers a wide range of small and medium-sized enterprises to undergo collaborative transformation, serving as a key footnote in forging "new quality productive forces" and empowering the upgrade of China's intelligent manufacturing ecosystem.