Last week, Siemens announced a new collaboration with Jack Technology, a Chinese maker of industrial sewing equipment. Jack partnered with Siemens to accelerate digital innovation across apparel manufacturing operations, which includes bringing together low‑code application development, advanced product engineering and intelligent automation to support more flexible, responsive and software‑driven production environments.
Jack will deploy Siemens' new industrial AI orchestration software, Intelligence Center X, starting with Mendix for agentic low-code development and Designcenter software for advanced product engineering to streamline product development, reduce complexity and support new applications for AI and humanoid robotics in sewing workshops.
Jack Technology serves customers in more than 160 countries and operates in a highly competitive market shaped by rising demand for shorter lead times, increased product customization and improved cost efficiency.
The collaboration is expected to deliver measurable gains across product development and production, with Jack Technology targeting efficiency improvements of up to 30 percent.Jack Technology
To address these pressures, the company is integrating AI‑enabled systems and humanoid robots into traditional sewing environments to improve flexibility, responsiveness and production performance.
To support this transformation, Jack will deploy an integrated suite of Siemens' technologies to rapidly build, deploy and iterate manufacturing- and robotics‑related applications, as well as new engineering software to support product design, simulation and manufacturing for complex mechanical systems, such as humanoid robots. Siemens will also provide specialized technical training to support the development of a dedicated digital platform for the sewing equipment industry.
Jack Technology expects the integration to shorten development cycles, improve product quality, optimize production workflows, reduce costs and increase overall manufacturing efficiency by up to 30%.
The collaboration reflects a broader shift across the apparel manufacturing sector, as companies adopt software‑driven engineering, agentic low‑code development and AI‑enabled automation to modernize operations and improve responsiveness to evolving market demands.
In a statement, Raymond Kok, CEO of Mendix, a Siemens business, said, "By combining agentic low‑code development with digital product engineering, manufacturers can move faster from concept to production."
