Japanese School Uniform Enterprises Strengthen Horizontal Cooperation

Due to the continuous reduction of birthrate over the years, the total number of school-age children has gradually decreased, and the merger between schools has become commonplace, which means that the size of the market is shrinking for the school uniform production enterprises.

Against this background, school uniform production enterprises began to try various efforts to survive and develop in an unfavorable market environment.

The construction of the plant took 2 years, with a total investment of 800 million yen.

For the Mingshi clothing and clothing industry, the new plant's production means not only the increase of production capacity, but also the production system that is linked to other factories in China, so as to cope with the production demand in different periods.

This means that all processes from receiving orders to delivery must be completed in the period when the school admissions results are announced to start school.

Therefore, for the school uniform production enterprises, the busy period production system has become a key factor in the competitiveness.

After the adjustment, the annual production capacity of Mingshi clothing and its own factory is still about 2 million 800 thousand units, but the capacity of the peak period has increased by more than 50%.

That is to say, the ability to receive orders is greatly improved.

After the completion of Sakura workshop, Mingshi is engaged in the study of the division and cooperation between the factory and the 120 cooperation factories. It has determined the idea of "Cherry factory's tailoring and inspection, and sewing by the cooperative factory".

The characteristics of school uniform decide that small batch, multi variety and short delivery time become the key to improve the competitiveness of enterprises, and how to improve the efficiency of equipment during the period of reserve production has become an unavoidable topic.

The computer aided design system (CAD) of the company consists of 8 automatic scribing machines, 5 computer aided production systems including bar code system (CAM), and OEM machines, ironing machines, mobile hooks, etc., 7 employees can undertake 500 meters of work every day, 4 rooms of CAM are guaranteed, and the other is used as backup to cope with rush hour production tasks.

Therefore, Mingshi clothing and clothing industry attaches great importance to personnel training while emphasizing the introduction of advanced production equipment.

The uniform workshop KURASHIKI consists of teams and groups, each of which has a fixed working place.

Not only that, the Department also organizes regular staff to communicate with the young employees of the headquarters commodity development department, aiming at cultivating comprehensive talents who are competent for multiple posts.

After being rebuilt, the inspection center has 9 Professional ironing machines, which undertake the inspection, packing and logistics of school uniforms.

In the future, Mingshi clothing and clothing industry also plans to integrate the functions of the factories around the headquarters to further reduce the cost of warehousing, logistics and so on.

In order to achieve this goal, Mingshi garment and garment industry must strengthen cooperation with the cooperative factories. The company's idea of "one needle and one mind" is being accepted by more and more cooperative enterprises.

The reason why it is so cautious in the use of foreign trainees is that Mingshi is convinced that employing their staff is more conducive to technology inheritance and personnel training.

Mingshi clothing and clothing industry has been widely recognized for its long-term vision and related measures, and has also been closely watched by the Japanese apparel industry.