Digital technologies, represented by big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, are driving the textile and apparel industry into a new stage of flexible and intelligent development. Handa Industries, based on industry transformation trends and starting from its original intention of "data-driven manufacturing," deeply integrates digital technologies with garment craftsmanship to build a digital system covering the entire chain of "R&D-production-supply chain-management-service." This system creates a virtual-physical collaborative intelligent manufacturing system, promoting management upgrades and improving operational efficiency through digital transformation, thereby achieving sustainable development empowered by digital intelligence.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology visited Handa to jointly draw a new blueprint for intelligent textile manufacturing

In June 2025, Xie Yuansheng, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, led a research team to visit Handa Industries.A special survey was conducted on the textile industry. The survey team visited the company's culture exhibition hall, fashion exhibition hall, and sports exhibition hall to learn in detail about the company's development history, technological innovation achievements, and independent research and development of green, environmentally friendly, and functional sports products.

The research team highly praised Handa Industries' more than 30 years of deep cultivation in the textile and apparel industry and its practice of transforming from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing. They also pointed out that Handa's exploration in the fields of high-end fabric research and development and digital production has provided a transformation model that the industry can learn from, and they look forward to the company continuing to play an exemplary and leading role.

Handa Industries was recognized as an "Advanced Smart Factory" in Jiangsu Province

Handa Industries has been successfully selected as one of the first batch of "Advanced Smart Factories" in Jiangsu Province in 2025. This selection is based on the national smart factory tiered cultivation system. Selected Industries must achieve intelligent coverage in core links such as production operations and operation management, create no less than 15 typical smart manufacturing scenarios, and reach the national smart manufacturing capability maturity level 2 or above standard.

As early as 2018, Handa proactively launched its digital transformation strategy, with the core objective of building a "fully intelligent garment manufacturing factory," continuously driving improvements in production efficiency and optimization of processes. Prior to the application, the company had already achieved industry-leading levels in intelligent manufacturing, the integration of informatization and industrialization, and data management. This recognition as an advanced-level intelligent factory is an authoritative affirmation of the company's achievements in its digital transformation strategy.

Electronic signatures empower digital management upgrade 

In 2025, Handa Industries actively promoted digital transformation, and its e-signature project was officially launched and put into application. This project is deeply integrated with OA approval and business systems, transforming the traditional offline contract approval and signing process into online and paperless operations. It effectively solves pain points such as opaque offline approval, cumbersome processes, and inconvenient access to terms, significantly improving the efficiency of contract and document processing and reducing operating costs and paper resource consumption.

With the full implementation of e-signatures, Industries can further strengthen risk control and compliance management, improve operational security and standardization, and provide efficient digital support for supply chain management, administrative office work, and other aspects, effectively promoting the upgrading of Industries towards an intelligent, efficient, green, and sustainable development model.

Digital intelligence drives transformation and empowers sustainable development

In 2025, the company achieved significant results in its digital transformation, successfully passing the AAA-level certification for its integration of informatization and industrialization management system and the Level 3 assessment of the National Intelligent Manufacturing Capability Maturity Model (CMMM), marking its leading position in the industry in digital operations and intelligent manufacturing. Based on this system, Handa will create sustainable competitive value for global brand customers with more efficient, agile, and intelligent manufacturing solutions.

Intelligent Manufacturing

The company has implemented the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) across all its global production bases, enabling comprehensive data-driven management, visualized scheduling, and intelligent production planning throughout the entire production process. It integrates multiple business platforms and management systems, including ERP, APS, MES, Handa 3D design cloud platform, GST process software, equipment monitoring system, and energy system, connecting the entire business chain from R&D to delivery and building a closed-loop digital operation throughout the entire process.

In the field of process design, relying on the deep integration of the GST process system and ERP, standardized management of production processes is implemented, and the entire process documentation is digitized simultaneously. Intelligent hanging production lines are deployed in the production workshop, leveraging IoT technology and the MES system for efficient collaboration. This adapts to multi-variety, flexible mixed-flow production modes, automatically completing intelligent material allocation and workstation load balancing. By introducing intelligent production equipment such as automatic hat-making machines and fine-sewing workstations, on-site operations are upgraded to be less manned and even unmanned. AI quality inspection equipment equipped with machine vision accurately completes intelligent defect detection in finished garments. Simultaneously, QR code and RFID traceability technologies are applied to achieve full-chain data traceability management from raw fabric to finished product delivery.

At the production and operation management level, the ERP, APS, and MES systems are deeply integrated and seamlessly linked to achieve intelligent order scheduling, intelligent reverse scheduling of processes, and dynamic scheduling of production resources; relying on the collaborative operation of AGV logistics equipment and intelligent hanging lines, the accurate and timely delivery of production materials is ensured.

With the full implementation of the complete intelligent manufacturing digital system, the company has achieved significant efficiency improvements: production efficiency has increased by 35%, order delivery cycle has been shortened by 50%, and the first-pass yield rate of products has remained stable at 99.2%.

Handa Industries was recognized as an "Advanced Smart Factory" in Jiangsu Province.

Handa Industries has been successfully selected as one of the first batch of "Advanced Smart Factories" in Jiangsu Province in 2025. This selection is based on the national smart factory tiered cultivation system. Selected Industries must achieve intelligent coverage in core links such as production operations and operation management, create no less than 15 typical smart manufacturing scenarios, and reach the national smart manufacturing capability maturity level 2 or above standard.

As early as 2018, Handa proactively launched its digital transformation strategy, with the core objective of building a "fully intelligent garment manufacturing factory," continuously driving improvements in production efficiency and optimization of processes. Prior to the application, the company had already achieved industry-leading levels in intelligent manufacturing, the integration of informatization and industrialization, and data management. This recognition as an advanced-level intelligent factory is an authoritative affirmation of the company's achievements in its digital transformation strategy.

Digitalization of Operations Management

By integrating multiple core systems, including HR, OA, and NCC, into the DingTalk platform, we successfully built a unified and efficient integrated digital portal, enabling fully online operation of process approvals, document management, and daily collaborative work. This integration significantly improved cross-departmental collaboration efficiency and powerfully promoted the implementation of "paperless office"—office paper consumption decreased by 16.9% year-on-year in 2025.

In terms of digitalizing supply chain management, Handa Industries fully launched its SRM supply chain management platform in 2025, and has now achieved systematic management of 1,556 suppliers, with a total of 123,857 processes executed. By building a global supplier digital collaboration platform, the company has achieved fully online operation of the entire process from supplier onboarding, order management, quality control to ESG assessment, significantly improving supply chain collaboration efficiency and operational transparency.

In addition, by relying on the global logistics and inventory management system, the company has achieved real-time monitoring and intelligent scheduling of global inventory, effectively reducing inventory turnover days, reducing resource waste, and promoting the continuous upgrading of the supply chain towards lean and sustainable development.

Handa consistently regards information security as the cornerstone of its digital operations management, establishing a comprehensive data security management system covering key aspects such as data classification and categorization, access control, and disaster recovery to fully safeguard the security of core corporate data and customer information. This system strictly adheres to the requirements of major global data security regulations, providing a solid guarantee for the company's compliant operations and stable development in the global market.