Strong Partnership Lands in Japanese Manufacturing | TTX x HAI Robotics: Helping a Leading Japanese Construction Machinery Manufacturer Build a New Benchmark for Smart Spare-Parts Warehousing

Abstract: Faced with labor shortages and limited space, how can Japanese manufacturing spare-parts warehouses improve quality and efficiency? TTX, together with HAI Robotics, has delivered a smart warehouse project for a leading Japanese construction machinery manufacturer. With TTX WES as the core scheduling hub, the solution connects the entire chain of systems and automation equipment, upgrading warehousing from labor-driven to system-driven operations. The two partners are jointly deepening their presence in Japan's overseas manufacturing market.

Recently, TTX Japan Co., Ltd., together with HAI Robotics, delivered a smart warehouse project at the Shonan Factory of a major Japanese construction machinery manufacturer. The project has successfully passed full-line acceptance and officially entered production. Leveraging the integrated solution of "TTX WES Warehouse Execution System + HAI Robotics multi-layer bin robots," the two parties have built a systematic and replicable automation paradigm for high-end Japanese manufacturing spare-parts warehousing, helping the factory move from traditional manual warehousing toward a modern warehousing operation model that is system-driven, intelligently scheduled, highly efficient and precise.

The Shonan Factory of this leading Japanese construction machinery manufacturer mainly undertakes the core functions of group spare-parts warehouse management and production support, serving as a critical logistics backbone for the stable operation of production lines. Its warehouse operations feature the typical characteristics of high variety, small batch size and high frequency, imposing manufacturing-grade standards on warehouse response speed, inventory accuracy and on-site refined management.

Against the backdrop of Japan's local manufacturing industry, the upgrading of high-end manufacturing warehouses has long faced dual structural opportunities and room for optimization:

On the one hand, as Japan's declining birthrate and aging population continue to deepen, the labor structure at the warehouse front line keeps evolving, and the traditional operation model that relies heavily on manual experience urgently needs digital and automation upgrades to improve quality and efficiency while reducing costs and burdens. On the other hand, industrial land in Japan is scarce, making it difficult for warehouses to boost throughput through physical expansion. As a result, the core path of warehouse upgrading has shifted toward a lean operation model featuring high-density space utilization, highly efficient resource scheduling and systematic process control.

As the automation transformation of Japanese manufacturing warehouses accelerates, intelligent handling equipment represented by HAI Robotics' ESS robot system has been widely deployed in Japanese factory warehouse scenarios thanks to its efficient and stable on-site execution capability, laying a solid hardware foundation for warehouse automation. However, in complex spare-parts warehouse scenarios with high variety, small batches and high frequency, a professional scheduling hub is urgently needed to connect and empower the efficient execution capability of hardware equipment and the existing WMS system, so as to fill the core capabilities of refined real-time operation scheduling, overall inventory strategy coordination and intelligent operation rhythm control, and fully unlock the value of automation hardware and business systems.

It is therefore clear that the upgrading of modern smart warehousing is not simply a matter of stacking equipment, but a full-chain collaborative upgrade of business, systems, equipment and on-site operations.

In this project, TTX WES serves as the core scheduling hub for the entire site, precisely inheriting the business logic of the upper-layer WMS and driving the execution of HAI Robotics ESS automation equipment downstream. Through standardized task decomposition, intelligent wave planning and dynamic resource scheduling, it reconstructs the spare-parts warehouse operation process within limited labor and warehouse space, truly realizing the leap from "equipment automation" to "full-process system intelligence."

Five Core Capabilities of TTX WES Empowering High-Standard Delivery for Japanese Manufacturing

1. Decoupled Integration, Adapting to the Complex IT Systems of Large Multinational Enterprises

Positioned as a professional intermediate scheduling layer, TTX WES seamlessly connects the enterprise's existing WMS system with HAI Robotics' ESS equipment layer, adopting a low-intrusion, highly compatible integration architecture. Within the complex and rigorous IT systems of large international manufacturing enterprises, it enables smooth connection and stable operation, avoids the risks of system modification, and meets the high-standard and high-stability delivery requirements of Japanese factories.

2. Business Modeling, Making Automation Deeply Fit Real Business Scenarios

Based on the characteristics of manufacturing spare-parts warehouse business, the entire process—including inbound/outbound, picking, waves, handling and inventory counting—is standardized, modeled and decomposed, closing the complete closed-loop chain of "business strategy → system scheduling → equipment execution." Automation equipment is no longer a single mechanical executor, but operates fully around the real business rhythm of the factory, enabling the precise delivery of automation capabilities.

3. Scheduling Optimization, Maximizing the Efficiency of Human-Machine-Equipment Resources

Through WES's global intelligent scheduling capability, all warehouse resources—including personnel, locations, materials and robotic equipment—are centrally coordinated, and operation waves and rhythms are dynamically adjusted. On the basis of existing equipment and labor configurations, it continuously improves warehouse throughput efficiency, shortens operation cycles, and realizes efficient collaboration among people, goods and machines.

4. Process-Based Inventory Management, Comprehensively Improving Warehouse Control Accuracy

Breaking the traditional result-based inventory management model, it synchronizes inventory changes, location status and material information in real time at every operation step, realizing dynamic updating, full-process visibility and full-process traceability of inventory data. It greatly improves the accuracy of spare-parts inventory and perfectly matches the high-precision, high-controllability management needs of high-variety spare-parts warehouses.

5. High-Standard Localized Delivery, Supporting Global Replication

Relying on its mature local delivery team in Japan, TTX strictly follows Japanese manufacturing project management specifications and quality standards, completing project implementation, debugging, delivery and acceptance to a high standard. The entire WES + automation equipment collaborative solution is highly stable and standardized, and can be rapidly replicated and promoted to the enterprise's major production and warehouse bases worldwide.

Mutual Recognition! Praised by Both the Customer and the Ecosystem Partner

During the project, the TTX Japan team and the HAI Robotics Japan team collaborated efficiently and worked closely together, responding quickly and closing loops efficiently for requirement changes and issue optimization. In April 2026, all acceptance criteria were successfully met with zero customer complaints, and the project was smoothly delivered.

The project lead of the end customer highly recognized the delivery service and stated:

現場運用に寄り添ったご提案と迅速な対応により、無事に本稼働を迎えることができました。プロジェクト期間中の交流もとても楽しかったです。

(Translation: Thanks to your proposals tailored to on-site operations and your prompt response, we were able to successfully enter full production. The communication throughout the project was also very pleasant.)

Meanwhile, HAI Robotics' Greater China & Japan Business Center also officially sent a letter of thanks to TTX Japan Co., Ltd., highly affirming the results of this first collaboration.

The letter noted that this project marks the first formal strategic cooperation between the two parties. The TTX team's solid technical expertise, rigorous and meticulous delivery service, and efficient and rapid response capability left a deep impression on the partner. The two parties' seamless collaboration model and zero-complaint, high-quality delivery have fully verified the feasibility and competitiveness of the joint solution in the Japanese manufacturing market.

The successful delivery of this project has not only helped the end customer achieve the digital and intelligent upgrading of its warehouse, but also helped HAI Robotics improve its local software ecosystem in Japan, becoming an important milestone for TTX and HAI Robotics in deepening the Japanese market.

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Joining Forces to Deepen Japanese Manufacturing and Explore New Overseas Automation Frontiers

At present, the two parties have fully launched regular after-sales operation and maintenance coordination, continuously safeguarding the stable, efficient and long-term operation of the customer's smart warehouse system.

Going forward, TTX will continue to deepen its strategic cooperation with HAI Robotics. While fully committed to the follow-up operation and maintenance, iterative optimization and long-term service guarantee for this benchmark customer, the two parties will, drawing on the experience of this successfully delivered project, continue to deepen the Japanese smart manufacturing market. They will fully leverage their respective synergistic advantages in software scheduling and hardware automation, combining strengths and complementing each other to jointly expand the Japanese manufacturing smart warehouse market. They will continue to deliver mature, deliverable and replicable integrated smart warehouse solutions, working together for win-win results, deepening overseas markets, and helping more Japanese manufacturing enterprises complete the digital and intelligent upgrading of their warehouses.

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About TTX

Founded in 2011, TTX is a leading Asia-Pacific provider of integrated logistics and supply chain solutions, and a benchmark domestic vendor consistently included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WMS in Asia Pacific. Guided by the philosophy of "Technology To eXcellence" and centered on customer success, the company focuses on project delivery and long-term operation and maintenance, dedicated to on-the-ground delivery and continuous full-lifecycle service.

Deepening Global Footprint, Empowering Cross-Border Expansion

TTX laid out its global development at an early stage and has built a comprehensive overseas localized operation system. It established its Japanese subsidiary in 2023, while its North American warehousing and distribution system also went into operation. Through its joint venture CyberMazon, it has deployed 15 dedicated overseas warehouses in the United States. To date, TTX's WMS system has been deployed at more than 400 customers worldwide, covering over 3,000 domestic and overseas warehouses, with one-stop, end-to-end capabilities in overseas system deployment, local warehousing and distribution operation, cross-border first-leg scheduling, and global order fulfillment.

Since the establishment of its Japanese subsidiary, TTX has deepened the local Japanese market. With professional technical strength, delivery capabilities aligned with Japanese enterprise standards, and rapidly responsive localized service, it has successfully served a host of well-known Japanese enterprises including e-logit, nakano, JB, HAI Robotics, MinebeaMitsumi, MISUMI, CASIO, Itochu and Yokohama Rubber, accumulating extensive mature benchmark experience in Japanese manufacturing, cross-border supply chains, and smart warehouse automation delivery.

Full-Chain Product Matrix, Adapting to Digitalization Across All Industries

Integrating cutting-edge technology with international management concepts, the company has built a comprehensive supply chain product matrix, including WMS (Warehouse Management System), OMS (Order Management System), TMS (Transportation Management System), BMS (Billing Management System), SCV (Supply Chain Control Tower), and WES+RCS (Warehouse Execution System), helping enterprises build an end-to-end, full-chain digital supply chain system. Its solutions adapt to diverse industries and have been widely deployed in beauty and personal care, FMCG and food, new retail, fashion and luxury, footwear and apparel, third-party logistics (3PL), smart manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, and other sectors.

Benchmark Customers at Home and Abroad

Through cooperation, the company has accumulated numerous benchmark customers at home and abroad. Representative customers include LV Beauty, POP MART, Dongpeng Beverage, Danone, Pepsi, Dyson, Laoxiangji, ECCO, cdf China Duty Free, DHL, Dingtong Logistics, COFCO, Haitian Flavouring, Humanwell Healthcare, Zhiyuan Pharmaceutical, CRRC, Tongwei Solar, BASF and more.

Relying on cutting-edge technologies such as AI for continuous iteration and upgrading, TTX keeps helping enterprises improve the quality of supply chain digitalization. It can efficiently adapt to diverse development needs such as domestic refined operation, cross-border expansion, and native global layout, confidently meeting the rapid development demands of various domestic and overseas markets.

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