With the rising cost of raw materials and labor, as well as the emergence of competitors and other countries in Southeast Asia, China's garment industry is facing unprecedented difficulties. Intensified in recent years, "labor shortage" so that enterprises generally recognized strengths in the past have been unable to support its own development, turn to technology dividend, Forced domestic garment enterprises "machine substitutions."
Now, many garment enterprises have gradually realized the importance of technological innovation, the survey showed 82 percent of garment enterprises have machines substitutions demand, 44.1 percent of businesses will strengthen product development and innovation. At the same time, improve product value and technological content, many companies have been put into the development agenda in advance.
Provincial artificial device into a trend
Experts said that the machine is inevitable substitutions after the development of the apparel industry to a certain stage that appears. Compared with the previous equipment, high efficiency, the provincial labor is common for these devices.
According to the latest data released by the China Sewing Machinery Association show that in 2013 produced a total of sewing machine industry sewing 12.92 million units, mechatronics energy efficient sewing machine production accounts for the proportion of total industrial sewing machine 10 by 2009 % to the current 49%. Flat, bags, and other bulk stretch leading products in mechatronics products accounted from 15% in 2009, and elevated to the current 45%. Among them, the computer sewing machine in 2013 the total output of up to 270 million units, surged 80 percent, the first time over the mechanical type ordinary sewing machine production.
The new pattern of development the industry fade, automation, intelligent machinery become a hot buy. Before clinch a garment sub-process, need to work together to complete the four workers, and now after using the "smart" button sewing machine by a person responsible for controlling the computer program will be able to complete all the clinch automatic sewing machine assembly line work, the basic realization unattended operation; cut-ray machine is an efficient machine to replace the manual, the efficiency is eight times the artificial cutting line can be completed two to eight people work at the same time, the price is only 2,000 to 3,000 yuan; three-dimensional ironing machine reduces the ironing hot auxiliary time and improve production efficiency, and can increase productivity by 30% to 35%; flexible manufacturing system for garment sewing process through real-time monitoring to increase the garment garment or semi-flow, minimize inventory, line quality inspection, control and repair, you can ensure that every product off the assembly line of quality products to meet the requirements, through computer software to control the process of production and management, coordination and execution costs. Of particular concern is the different styles, different colors and different shapes of clothing can simultaneously work on a production line to meet the needs of many companies currently producing garments in small quantities, multi-species, which greatly improves the rapid response capability.
Visible, intelligent, provincial labor continues to progress new technologies and products, ever changed the traditional garment industry practices, the transformation and upgrading of the apparel industry really ushered in the era of digital production.
Information technology to stimulate industrialization
Get information who may be the world. Faced with a rapidly changing global apparel industry market, the strength of the rapid reaction capability of becoming the ruler to measure the competitiveness of enterprises, while the core is a rapid response capability information.
Promotion in the field of production technology CAD, CAM systems, such as online custom development, intelligent design layout system, a single automated cutting orders for rapid processing and other specialized software provides efficient and time-saving work. The fact that the use of computer-plate, the efficiency is 2.7 times the plate by hand; the computer grading efficiency is 5-6 times of manual grading; computer discharge efficiency is 10 times the manual nesting.
Things technology is an important aspect of the apparel industry information technology. RFID technology for production, inventory, distribution, sales management has brought a revolutionary advance. Gap Inc. in the United States early RFID technology will be applied to the entire supply chain process. According to the relevant department statistics, since the application of RFID technology Gap Inc., sales increased by 20%, improve inventory accuracy by 30%, the remaining 90% of goods cost reduction, inventory efficiency by 20 times, and shop the cost of sales decreased by 10%.
Information technology will drive the process of clothing production process, modern marketing process and management process, the effective use of trade information platform, e-commerce platform, to strengthen enterprise information technology consulting services to achieve optimal allocation of resources to adapt to the new global competition situation.
Substitution by machine upgrade
At present, China's garment structure level is not high, the quality of the clothing industry structure is relatively low, there is no R & D, design, manufacturing, sales as one of the vertical chain, nor the formation of a lateral chain linkage between regional development, face, accessories design production processes is still relatively weak, the garment industry need technological innovation, improve design capabilities, thereby enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises to strengthen its own brand. With this machine substitutions will enhance work efficiency and product quality, to make up for recruitment difficulties and efficiency, not high, but will undoubtedly promote the transformation and upgrading of equipment downstream garment industry.
Associate Professor, College of Textiles, Tianjin Polytechnic University Liying Lin believes that the overall downturn in the industry trend, "machine substitutions" for clothing equipment companies offer opportunities. Clothing equipment enterprises should grasp this opportunity. In his view, first of all, innovation, research and development efforts, is to improve the industry's core competitiveness of the foundation that is the top priority. China's garment equipment business after years of development, has made some progress. Such as cutting and ironing automation has matured, with clinch, including sewing, sewing template system gradually introduced, sewing automation is also a major step forward. Related businesses to continue to rely on independent innovation, industrial restructuring, the amount of change from the expansion of quality improvement, the real growth pattern.
Secondly, the "fast fashion" garment factory on aspects of small-volume, multi-batch, multi-style production model, time to market and put forward higher requirements. Clothing apparel industry as a service equipment companies should follow the fast, high-quality service concept to help companies reduce time to market, expanding product lines and reduce costs.
Finally, about 80 percent of China's garment enterprises are SMEs, capital, talent, especially technological innovation and other aspects of the problem has been plagued by the development of enterprises, and they are eager to offer a professional costume design and other technical services, public service platform to address these issues . Currently, the domestic information website has a large number of professional-type clothing, but in order to provide online technical service center business of public service platform is still in its infancy. Therefore, to build Internet-based technologies for small and medium garment enterprises of technical service public platform to help integrate social resources, provide SMEs with product, process design, technology, and equipment planning online and offline marketing support, consulting and many other services.
Currently, industrial robots have been widely used in automobiles and auto parts manufacturing, fabricated metal products (including machining), electrical and electronic industry, rubber and plastics industry, food industry, pharmaceutical industry, glass and ceramics industry, and many other fields. According to incomplete statistics, since 2014, a total of seven listed companies through acquisitions or direct investment in the way the layout of the industrial robot market. Perhaps the near future, you is not seen in the garment factory equipment, but one of the robots.
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