Industrial Development Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs

Five Metals Industry Innovation Promotion Program

五金產業創新推動計畫

Industry chapter10 · Metal and Mechanical Industries

Eligibility

Legally registered companies operating in Taiwan's five-metals (hardware) industry.

What’s offered

Helps five-metals manufacturers adopt AI and low-carbon technology, executing a dual-axis transformation (digital + green) to build supply-chain resilience and meet the sector's low-carbon goals.

Program structure

Cross-domain supply-chain smart & low-carbon capability counseling

  • Industry pain points vs. AI solutionsTargets enterprise-level customer-experience improvement and on-the-ground AI use cases, mapping painpoint to AI-driven solution for each scenario.
  • ManufacturingPain: manpower demand cannot be met. Solution: AI quality inspection.
  • Quality managementPain: high manpower demand. Solution: AI detection.
  • Reduction methodologyAI cost-optimization solutions for line-side waste reduction.

Expected counseling benefits

  • Operations value-addImprove manufacturing visibility, provide customer service in real-time, lift product yield.
  • Tech-led optimizationLift technical capacity, equipment availability, and material yield.
  • Quality and outputMinimize defect rates, improve product certification rates, raise output reliability.
  • Expected benefitConcrete reductions in operating cost, productivity acceleration, and capital efficiency.

Application window

Per published call schedule.

Who to contact

Metal Industries Research & Development Centre (MIRDC)

財團法人金屬工業研究發展中心

Ms. Yao (姚)

(04)2350-2169 #8200

English-language application support: not confirmed. Plan to bring a Mandarin-fluent collaborator to the first conversation.

Source: 115年度產業輔導資源手冊 (FY2026 Industry Counseling Resource Handbook), Ministry of Economic Affairs, page 111. Translated and indexed by Compass Global. Verify terms with the issuing agency before applying.

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