Changshin Partners with Palantir, Sets Out to Innovate Footwear Manufacturing with AI

• Foundry and AIP to link development decisions with production feedback; variables to be identified and addressed quickly
• Data and AI to be put at the center of how Changshin works; its own distinctive capabilities to be strengthened

Global footwear manufacturer Changshin (CEO Choongil Nam) announced on Nov. 5 that it has entered into a partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc.(Nasdaq: PLTR), a U.S. AI and data analytics software company, and is setting out to use data and AI to innovate the way it develops and produces footwear.

Under the partnership, Changshin will deploy Palantir’s Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) across its footwear development and production operations. Foundry integrates and analyzes enterprise-wide data in one place, and AIP brings generative AI into business workflows. Building on these platforms, the company plans to seamlessly connect the flow of information and work from footwear development and sample-making plans to factory production. It aims to create an end-to-end data environment in which every department can see the entire process at a glance and collaborate closely.

“This partnership will be an opportunity to develop Changshin’s deep manufacturing expertise into distinctive capabilities of its own and to put data and AI to practical use at the center of the way we work,” said Changshin CEO Choongil Nam. “We will link decisions made at the development stage with feedback from the production floor to quickly identify and respond to variables in the production process. We will turn the experience we accumulate along the way into an asset and grow it into unrivaled manufacturing competitiveness that is uniquely Changshin’s.”

“Behind every shoe Changshin produces is a series of decisions, from development and sample planning to the factory floor,” said Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer Ryan Taylor of Palantir. “Together, we’re deploying Foundry and AIP to transform end-to-end processes, building on Changshin’s deep expertise, and keeping Changshin in control of how AI is applied, every step of the way.”