Industrial Development Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs
Textile Industry Smart Value-Add Development & Counseling Program
推動紡織產業智慧加值開發與輔導計畫
Industry chapter12 · Consumer Goods & Chemical Industries
Eligibility
Textile-related manufacturers.
What’s offered
Helps the textile industry pursue smart transformation, sustainability, and value creation — through industry-expert and AI-assisted advisory visits, smart-system applications, and the creation of benchmark 'MIT Smile' Taiwan-made products with consistent, certified quality.
Key terms
- Smart value-chain development
- Cross-sector collaboration that combines expertise, technologies, and resources from multiple industries to drive smart-transformation. Firms work through an iterative innovation model — adopting smart-system applications, AI, and benchmark-product technologies — to lift integrated smart-management efficiency and accelerate upgrade.
- MIT Smile benchmark quality programme
- Full MIT Smile certification pipeline — pre-application advisory visits, certification of Taiwan-made benchmark products, market testing and product-quality testing, label-use rights, certified-producer evaluation, and quality-uplift / industry-upgrade counseling.
Program structure
MIT Smile benchmark categories
- Eligible product fields — Fibres, towels, ribbons, underwear, sweaters, hosiery, dyeing/finishing, knitted fabric, silk, and textile machinery — among others.
- Already 15 product categories accepting applications.
Workforce integration & development
- Smart applications — Strengthen the second generation of operators and lift industry competitiveness.
- Deeper tech adoption — Deeper application of technologies into the production line.
- Automated product design — Design workflows assisted by digital and AI tools.
- Cross-domain collaboration — Cross-domain and cross-industry collaboration.
Application window
Per the official call-for-proposals announcement each cycle.
Who to contact
Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI)
財團法人紡織產業綜合研究所
Ms. Ding (丁小姐)
English-language application support: not confirmed. Plan to bring a Mandarin-fluent collaborator to the first conversation.