This study takes the ceramics industry as its object to improve production efficiency, reduce resource waste, and reduce environmental pollution. It explores the application of intelligent manufacturing technology in the ceramics industry. The ceramics industry is a significant part of China’s traditional manufacturing industry. However, it has low production efficiency, causes serious resource waste, and causes severe environmental pollution. In the era of Industry 4.0, intelligent manufacturing has become a meaningful way to address these issues. This paper uses a combination of literature reviews, case studies, and other methods to evaluate and analyse intelligent manufacturing technologies’ actual effects on the ceramics industry’s transformation, upgrading, and sustainable development. The research shows that intelligent manufacturing technologies represented by the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and robotics have begun to show clear advantages in the ceramics industry. Improving production efficiency and reducing resource waste also positively affect environmental protection.