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Leather Products Industry: Intelligent Technology Gradually Phased Out Skilled Leather Cutter

2013/8/12 14:07:00 15

Leather Products Industry Leather And Garment Industry

Background 1: in the process of deep integration of global economic integration, when labor resources no longer become competitive advantages, with the rising of raw materials, rising labor costs, lack of labor, small quantity of orders, the complexity of technological patterns increases. The market is in urgent need of high quality production, short delivery time, replacement of skilled personnel and rapid market reaction to replace the traditional mode of production.

Background Two: with the revision and supervision of the new labor law provisions in the traditional labor intensive countries, and improving the wages and benefits of workers as a part of the implementation of the national strategy, a new round of prices, raw materials and operational costs will rise. Enterprises must seek new production modes, reduce costs and adapt to the new market environment.

Background Three: CAD/CAM technology and equipment (automation, digitization, intellectualization) were initially imported from developed countries, but only 5-6 years after the last two years in China and Southeast Asia (including neighboring countries). This means that the new round of competition and competition will win the investment and strength of the enterprise in the field of high technology and automation.

It is technological innovation that drives the progress of the industry, and the change of the industrial structure or technological innovation, just as human society has undergone significant changes with every industrial revolution. Leatherwear The pattern of the product industry has also undergone significant changes due to the changes in the means of production and production.

　 The current situation of enterprises: employers often work for employees.

On the one hand, the customers have repeatedly squeezed profit margins. On the one hand, five big mountains (RMB continues to rise, labor costs, raw materials, comprehensive costs rise, and new developing countries need longer time), so that the pressure of business pressure is increasing. Leather products enterprises downstream of the industrial chain need to find new ways of production and profit growth points. To increase revenue and reduce expenditure is the basic way for any enterprise to survive. Open source, enterprises have their own skills and unique skills. Throttling, no matter it is all in the "labor costs" work.

Why is it necessary to reform the field of leather cutting? As is known to all, leather products cost at least 50% of the cost of leather products (including labor, materials, energy consumption, integrated management, etc.). As a result, due to the characteristics of the industry and the maturity of the industry and the difficulty of talent training, skilled workers are very popular and tight. (in the industry, it is so hard to describe skilled soldiers who cut jobs: "one year is small, three years are in six." That is to say, a year's experience of cutting workers, factories can be a little reassuring him to operate independently. The three year experience of cutting workers can complete their work independently without wasting material, and the six year experience of cutting workers can be fast and well saved.

Today's business pressure and data show that bosses often work for their employees. Why? In recent years, because of the shift of industries, the flow of talents and the replacement of age (90 young people do not want to spend five or six years to do such manual work), wages have risen and risen again, resulting in a great gap in talent. Especially in East China and Shandong, factories generally adopt the "package work" system. In the past, the boss agreed with workers "2-3 yuan" / year (another piece of work, when the order is insufficient, annual salary must be guaranteed). Later, with the increase in labor costs, plus the substitution of leather cutting talents, the training cycle is long and the mobility is large. In the past two or three years, it has reached 6-8 yuan / year (2-3 pieces), and has become the highest wage factory in the factory. On the one hand, the boss can not afford to complain, but on the one hand, he tries to retain and attract talents. Because of the skill level of the cutting workers, their efficiency and material utilization vary widely. For example, 100 pairs. shoes Orders require about 200 feet of leather. Skilled and skilled cutting workers may only spend 190 feet of leather material, which can save 10 feet of leather material, which is equivalent to saving 300 yuan, while less skilled cutting workers are not only speed and efficiency, but also may exceed the amount of material, and waste 200-300 yuan in disguised form. This waste is enough to pay the skilled workers' wages on that day. Therefore, this "package system" has brought a lot of benefits to the factory for a long time: stable personnel, stable wages and cost control. But when employees and enterprises reach a certain scale, with the increase of wages and other costs, and the irregular orders, diversity and complexity of orders, and even insufficient orders, and the competition of cheaper labor costs in neighboring countries, the annual salary of the agreement must still be paid to the workers, otherwise the workers will lose a lot of money or seek other heights. Therefore, sometimes the bosses will have to keep up with their losses when they know they are losing money, otherwise, there will be no workers and how to keep orders and customers.

As a result, in the first half of 2013, a rigid demand for digital / Automation / intelligent technology and equipment for saving materials, reducing skilled workers, saving energy and managing costs was released. And the ratio of repeated purchases by enterprises with strength is rising. This has also brought spring to sales for suppliers who have long adhered to the field of digital automation / intelligent technology.

Industry leader: take the lead in application and create advantages

With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, consumers' values are undergoing structural changes, and consumption presents a trend of individuation and diversification. As far as leather products industry is concerned, users not only raise the quality of leather products, but also speed up their renewal. In order to adapt to this changing market demand, the production of leather goods enterprises needs to be more flexible. It is urgent to shorten the cycle of leather from design, manufacture to market, and make the product develop towards multiple varieties and small batch. As a result, traditional batch production is facing serious challenges, and a more intense competition is taking shape.

Many leading technologies are originated in Europe. Because of the high labor force in Europe and the European advanced leather products countries (such as Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, etc.), 80 to 90% of the production enterprises use computers to open materials. Because of the characteristics of computer cutting (individuation, standards, development originality, keeping the competitive edge of the world), most advanced factories in Europe have adopted advanced computer production equipment (numerical control leather cutting machine), with good effect and high flexibility. Designer The larger creativity makes room for production, and products that produce uniqueness (traditional production methods are not easy to imitate) maintain the competitiveness of enterprises.

Computer feed was first introduced from Europe to China in the 70s and 80s of last century. clothing Industry use. At the beginning of this century, the leather industry began to appear. It was first adopted by large enterprises and world-famous brands.

After many field visits, the author explores why the large scale foundry enterprises and famous brands are willing to take the lead in computer processing.

1, product customization, process standardization and management transparency can be realized.

2, save the overall cost of leather and labor, improve the added value of products. Take a 30 foot skin typesetting as an example. Skilled workers spend 40 minutes, and intelligent typesetting technology takes only 5 minutes. Moreover, intelligent typesetting technology can customize the leather grade and improve the utilization rate of leather at least 3%.

3, to achieve lofting, cutting, marking, punching one step. And can complete complex and high-precision cutting graphics, is the knife mold can not achieve the effect, so as to make the product more personalized, diversified, quality.

4, have the same leading equipment and production mode as European enterprises, forming the industry leader position.

5, adapt to the trend of foreign orders, set up a small number of unique business models.

It is reported that this mode of production has been gradually popularized in shoemaking, leather goods and bags, automotive interior decorations and so on, and customers generally expect to explore the digital cutting mode of scale production effect. {page_break}

　　 Supply enterprises: rush to work overtime and order

Although technology originated in Europe, there are many differences between European and Asian factories in terms of staff quality, production concept, working habits and matching supply of raw materials. Therefore, European machines (for small quantities, high staff culture quality, small scale, abundant raw materials, good quality and cheap production mode) are not very well suited to Asian production mode in Asia (labour intensive, raw material import or expensive, low staff general culture level, relatively backward management and Philosophy). As a whole, computer technology and equipment are not expected to be popular and popular in Asia. This has also provided an opportunity for Asian rising and developing digital cutting systems, and catching up with others. Some technologies even surpass those of European predecessors. For example, in 2013, Emma CNC launched the "iwin AI cloud" multi-core cloud computing technology (which will be officially launched in September 2013 in Shanghai), which can raise the utilization ratio of leather by about 3~6% compared with manual typesetting, greatly reducing the time of typesetting and improving production efficiency.

As the leader of CAD/CAM technology in Asia, Emma CNC has dozens of CNC cutting machines, such as H2 series, C series and G series, and all kinds of supporting hardware and software products. As a rising star, it has shown strong R & D, production and technical leadership in the past ten years. According to CEO Wang Guoquan, "Emma distinguishes himself from foreign peers, which is guided by customer needs, actively cooperating with development and improvement, and focusing on localization services." We integrate the concept of CAD/CAM/ERP into the characteristics of Asian manufacturing enterprises: (1) the quality of the operators is not high and the mobility is large; (2) the enterprises are mainly based on output; third, the investment return period is fast; fourth, the investment capability and willingness to be strengthened; the investment cost and the strict control of the use cost are the characteristics of the design system, which is not only to meet the practical needs of the manufacturing industry in Asia, but also Emma's unique competitive advantage.

And Emma CNC, after the initial choice of difficult projects, the two financial turmoil twists and turns, products, technology, customer groups gradually mature, the accumulation of hundreds of customers (mostly industry leading enterprises), and in March this year, domestic and foreign orders grew in a straight line, the factory every day overtime. In 5 and June, orders surged, even now, the delivery date was 90 days. The return of multiple orders from old customers has greatly stimulated Emma's confidence and morale.

Since March this year, purchasers and agents at home and abroad have shown great interest and urgency in saving energy, protecting environment, reducing labor costs and improving efficiency. Similar factories in Emma CNC automation equipment business are booming and orders are pouring in.

　　 Policy Escort: three subsidies for technology subsidies

The "NC generation" is a demonstration project of mechanical product innovation applied by the state during the "12th Five-Year" period. In the "12th Five-Year plan", the high-end equipment manufacturing industry has been listed as seven strategic emerging industries in China's current stage of cultivation and development. In view of the development of high-end equipment manufacturing industry, the state also proposes to strengthen basic matching capabilities and actively develop intelligent manufacturing equipment, which is based on digitalization, flexibility and system integration technology. A generation of mechanical products of numerical control refers to the integration of numerical control technology and products with mechanical equipment to realize the digitized trajectory control, motion control, logic control and process monitoring of such machinery and equipment. Intelligent manufacturing equipment refers to the manufacturing equipment that has the functions of perception, analysis, reasoning, decision-making and control. It is the integration and integration of advanced manufacturing technology, information technology and intelligent technology on equipment products, which embodies the development of intellectualization, digitalization and networking of manufacturing industry.

To this end, the state has allocated special funds to carry out various forms of project support, to carry out key technology research on Key Technologies of machinery and equipment, key industries and regional application demonstration, service system and environmental construction. The Ministry of industry and information technology also arranged a special fund of 100 million yuan in 2012 to support the construction of enterprise informatization. Meanwhile, it selected two national integration demonstration enterprises and promoted the integration of industrialization and informatization in two ways.

There are still some labor-intensive industries with high industrial concentration in the leather products industry. At the same time, a number of backbone enterprises and a number of small and medium-sized numerical control technology service companies have been formed. It is of great significance to popularize numerical control technology and raise the level of manufacturing in China.

Emma CNC has been committed to "promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries with new and high technologies". It actively responds to the call of the state and local governments and promotes the popularization of "digitalization, informatization and intellectualization" of traditional industries under the guidance of industry organizations, and sets up a model for industrial application in the whole country. As one of the national industry application demonstration enterprises, Emma enjoys many national science and technology subsidies. Since July 2013, all the buyers of the technology have been rewarded in return for the industry and new and old customers. It is hoped that through the establishment of large-scale application models, the application of advanced NC technology and high end CNC equipment industry can be promoted, and the upgrading of user numerical control technology and equipment and the comprehensive competitiveness will be promoted. The transformation and upgrading of the industry will be promoted, and the cost and technology subsidies will be promoted, so as to achieve the goal of "one arrow, three carvings".

　　 Future trend: Technology navigating intelligent manufacturing era

With the deep adjustment and integration of the global economy and industry, the traditional manufacturing industry will be divided into two stages: some low-end products will inevitably be transferred to lower cost areas, such as Taiwan funded enterprises from China, Vietnam and Indonesia to countries such as Bangladesh, Burma, Kampuchea, Africa and other countries with lower labor costs. Part of the high-end manufacturing and high quality requirements will continue to be produced in areas with mature, automated and highly mechanization, convenient transportation, closer to consumers and more sensitive to fashion trends as the consumption pattern changes.

The future manufacturing will integrate many extraordinary technological achievements, including intelligent software, new materials, robots, robots and new processes, especially the digital integrated technology solutions. As the cost of producing a small number of batches of products is decreasing, future factories will focus on dealing with large consumer customized product orders. Moreover, the digitalization of the manufacturing industry will make the technical training of the factory simpler, and the students can simulate the design and production of products in the computer virtual environment.

In the final analysis, the future competition is the competition of comprehensive national strength, and the key is the competition of science and technology. The current scientific and technological revolution is bound to bring unprecedented influence to mankind: promoting the unprecedented development of social productive forces and causing changes in the world economic structure and the international economic pattern. All countries in the world are developing hi-tech, enhancing their position in the international pattern, thus promoting the multi polarization of the world economic structure. {page_break}