Footwear & Bag Industry Smart Manufacturing Program

Eligibility

Taiwan-based footwear and bag manufacturers.

What’s offered

Helps footwear and bag manufacturers digitise design, production and management — through diagnostic visits, technology counseling, and workforce development.

Key terms

Diagnostic visits & promotion

Includes industry-wide visit-and-exchange sessions, on-site product diagnostics for smart upgrades, technology assessments, R&D-direction analysis, smart-system + AI solution recommendations, and brand-marketing advisory.

Technology counseling

Smart design — adoption of smart product-design technologies including material libraries and applied material-system design to lift R&D effectiveness. Smart manufacturing — using smart technologies to raise precision, reduce reliance on tacit expertise, drive cross-domain collaboration, and build out smart operating environments. Central Taiwan advisory cases funded up to 30%.

Talent training

Joint industry-learning programmes, including engagement with foreign manufacturers, hands-on practical training, and skill-building in smart-manufacturing and digitalisation.

Application window

Per the official call-for-proposals announcement each cycle.