Productivity Revolution In The Era Of Automatic Cloth Spreading Machine

Since the second half of 2009, the Eastman cloth machine in the United States has been showing a growth rate of 30% to 40%, of which the increase in December 2009 has increased by 100% compared with that in November, and the market performance has been more robust since 2010.

Hubei kinetic energy Sports Products Co., Ltd. (Lining Industrial Park), Suzhou far east textile, Anta group, 361 degree (China) Co., Ltd., and other sports leisure brands and their processing factories have made extensive use of the Eastman spreading machine in the past two years. It is worth mentioning that the Qingdao Development Group, which has more than one hundred sets of paving machines, began buying dozens of Anta spreading machines in 2009.

This century old brand, famous for its electric scissors, has only been four or five years since it started producing and spreading its cloth spreading machine. But it has jumped from the new fabric producers to the rising fastest growing year.

In addition to the outstanding performance of the rookie, the brand of the old cloth spreading machine also has outstanding achievements.

The founder of cloth spreading machine, Japan's Sichuan Province, has been in short supply from 2009 to now.

Pan Guomin, deputy general manager of Sichuan China, said that since the first two years, the demand for automatic cloth spreading machines has been on the rise in China's garment factories. Especially since the second half of 2009, the market of cloth spreading machines has suddenly been improved. The boom of purchasing cloth machines has been rising in almost all the markets of the country, and not limited to several concentrated sales areas in previous years.

Taking the Ningbo area as an example, nearly 200 years have been purchased in the area in the past two years, and the upgrading of production equipment has been adapted to the demand for large-scale production of garment factories, which has increased production efficiency while saving production costs.

In addition, Taiwan, Europe, and other brands, including the brand of cloth spreading machine as its automatic tailor matching products, such as French Rick, American Gerber, Shanghai and eagle, also have good market performance.

Different from these production factories, the sales agents, represented by PGM and Shanghai Decca, have made some sales achievements in this wave market craze.

In fact,

Intelligence

Today, the situation in China's clothing industry is in fact similar to that seen in Europe and America and Japan in the late 1970s and early 80s.

From that time on, the automatic cloth spreading machine began to replace labor in large numbers of garment factories in Europe and America and Japan, and spread rapidly. This state of high progress lasted nearly 10 years, until the peak period of development in the late 80s and early 90s, and the utilization rate of the cloth spreading machine reached over 80% in Europe, America and Japan.

Therefore, for today's Chinese market, the cloth spreading machine is stepping into a popularized stage, Pan Guomin expressed confidently.

In 1967, Sichuan Province successfully launched the world's first cloth spreading machine (then semi automatic spreading machine).

After several years of painstaking research, the first automatic cloth spreading machine was officially launched in 1973, and the market resonates.

In the same era, European and American enterprises also launched their own cloth spreading machine products.

The United States, Gerber, France, Germany, Italy, immergas, Japan NCA, and Gao Gang and high birds are the main brands of this period.

In recent years, with the rapid rise and growth of Eastman and Taiwan osima brand, the cloth spreading machine product has entered the era of hundred flowers bloom.

The development process of the cloth spreading machine was carried out from the earliest manual simple cloth spreading machine, that is, the machine's hands, and by manual breaking cloth, and then to the semi-automatic cloth spreading machine, that is, the machine carried by hand, the automatic cloth breaking machine, and then the automatic cloth spreading machine, that is, the automatic walking and automatic breaking of the machine, each of which was completed on the basis of the principle and structural change of the machine.

In particular, all kinds of automatic cloth laying machines that come into being in accordance with the requirements of different fabrics and products in different fields, each renewal can better show the evolution of the cloth spreading machine in terms of intelligence.

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In other product areas, the automatic cloth spreading machine has been developed from the clothing industry to the automotive, aerospace, home textiles, medical and other fields.

Because of the different raw materials to be laid, the cloth spreading machine needs to make changes in the overall structure and principle so as to realize cloth spreading.

Generally speaking, the critical point of the raw material to be laid is 2.4 meters in width and 100 kilograms in weight. After adding more than one level after this limit, the whole cloth spreading machine needs structural changes.

Now, in Japan, the method of loading loose cloth system and paving system is adopted, and special equipment can be configured to make cloth for non-woven fabrics, car airbags, tents, bedding and so on. The width of cloth is 3.5 meters and the weight is 2000 kilograms.

Eastman NA-800 cloth spreading machine can be used for laying fabrics including home textiles, tourist tents, sleeping bags, medical products, bags, beach umbrellas, cloth closet, etc.

French Lick's Brio series cloth cloth machine with its cradle loading device can effortlessly lift more than 250 kilograms of fabric for tension free cloth. The conveyor belt type user can easily deliver the cloth to the automatic cutting area, so that it can be aligned well for cutting.

Uesima F8 full automatic PVC paving machine is developed for reference to the performance of the previous generation of F1 series of flat cloth and feather cloth, specially designed for light, thin and sticky fabric, such as PVC, nylon cloth, feather cloth, chemical fiber, coated fabric and so on.

efficiency

Eastman, sales manager of the Ningbo Eastman company, said: "now the cloth workers in the clothing factory can walk around the earth several times a year, boring.

The emergence of the automatic cloth spreading machine has freed them from simple repetitive labor, and reduced production costs, improved the quality and efficiency of cloth laying, and even realized the task that human can not finish in the laying stage.

This is why in a developed country, even a very small garment factory will use the cloth spreading machine.

Wu Hanqiao said that if you work 10 hours a day, a Eastman cloth machine can lay about 6000 meters of knitted fabric every day, which is equivalent to 4~6 artificial cloth.

From the point of view of saving face and accessories, Eastman cloth spreading machine can not reserve more than 1.2 centimeters at each end of the bed, saving 4 centimeters per floor, so the total daily cost of saving accessories for garment factories is RMB 300~400 yuan.

Take the NK-300GXN cloth spreading machine in Sichuan as an example, only 1 operators are needed, and 8 hours' work can complete the cloth laying work of 110 rolls of fabric. Otherwise, even 6 operators may not be able to complete the workload.

Generally, a cloth loom can take up to 3.5 years to recover the investment.

In the 20 years of service life, it can create considerable benefits for garment factories in the remaining 16.5 years.

Taiwan Ou Sima has done a survey, the result is: when the knitted fabric is used for knitted fabric, its efficiency is 5~8 times that of manual cloth, and the efficiency of woven fabric is 3~5 times that of manual cloth.

It is because of the ability of the automatic cloth spreading machine to change the garment production status and the ability that the manual can not achieve, it develops in the Chinese garment industry.

potential

In the 70~80 's of the twentieth Century, the Japanese brand paving machine market was mainly in Asia, and the European and American brand paving machine market was mainly in Europe and America.

Today, this pattern is still maintained, but the main competitive areas are increasingly concentrated in the Asian region represented by China.

In the early 80s, the paving machine was mainly used in Sino foreign joint ventures and some state-owned enterprises in northern China.

In the late 80s and early 90s, the utilization rate of China's clothing industry was less than 5 per thousand.

In the late 90s, with the shift of the global garment industry, some Chinese clothing enterprises began to contact the cloth spreading machine, and the popularity rate increased to about 10%.

In view of the outstanding performance of the cloth machine in the past two years, the supplier has raised the expectation of the Chinese market.

Pan Guomin thinks that cloth spreading machine has entered the popularization stage in China.

In the next period of time, the rate of increase will be greater than that of the previous two years. Once the equivalent height reaches a certain level, the whole industrial pattern will change.

When it comes to the ideal state of the development of cloth looms, the market volume of Wuhan Bridge is expected to increase by 20% over the next 2~3 years.

Such a development space is an opportunity for any cloth machine brand.

In the long and fierce market competition, the role of old cloth supplier has changed.

NCA and the Gao Gang and Gao bird brand constantly shrink their territory; French Rick and American Gerber's paving machine products are used as the equipment of tailoring rooms for garment factories, supporting their automatic tailoring system for sale, and the closing and acquisition of the Esther galloping horse in Germany. At present, paima brand is fully responsible for sales promotion in the Chinese market by Zhejiang new Jack sewing machine Co., Ltd.; after Shanghai and Eagle have finished their cooperation with Japan's high birds, they have fully realized local research and development and sales from automatic cutting system to cloth spreading machine; Eastman, from the professional tailoring equipment and pformed from the ironing equipment to Taiwan, has quickly occupied the spreading machine market with its intelligence, compatibility and high performance price ratio. Apart from Sichuan Province, Japan's brand still has its advantages.

Since then, the Chinese market, which is a must for businesses, is showing more and more vitality.

In the Chinese market, the customer groups locked up by suppliers of cloth machines have also undergone great changes.

Japan, Europe and the United States and Taiwan enterprises, which first used paving machines, have high positioning of their clothing products, and will also be the users of cloth spreading machines in the future.

The second is to develop fast Chinese independent brands. At present, they are at the critical moment of industrial upgrading, and will become the main force for purchasing cloth spreading machines because of the needs of technological pformation and equipment renewal.

In addition, some enterprises that undertake foreign trade orders will buy the designated brand or choose the brand cloth spreading machine at the request of the cooperative enterprise.

The output of woven garments decreased, and the number of knitted garment enterprises increased. This is an important reason for the increase of sales volume of paving machines at the recent stage. Of course, this also indicates that the knitted fabric and special fabric spreading machine will be the direction of market demand in the future.

Hot war

With the increasing demand for automation equipment in China's garment industry, the top position of cloth spreading machine has gradually been sinking to small and medium-sized enterprises from the initial foreign enterprises and some state-owned enterprises, and more and more clothing enterprises at different levels have begun to show their initiative to the automatic production equipment.

At present, there are many kinds of cloth spreading machines in Japan. They are targeted at different clothing fabrics and different products, and more than 50% of them are used in the clothing industry.

In the future, Sichuan will be more optimistic about China's independent clothing brand, and give full play to its technological strength in terms of custom-made products according to the special requirements of customers.

The design and production of equipment with special wide, large, light and heavy fabrics and the need for institutional modification are completed in Japan. The service and matching are completed by the Chinese team.

In addition, the price of foreign imports has been greatly affected by the exchange rate (since 2007, the yen exchange rate has changed by 20% to 30%). Although the price of the machine itself has not changed much from Japan's factory price, the price fluctuated greatly by the exchange rate.

Chuan hopes to reduce the cost by assembling cloth spreading machines in China, while guaranteeing the quality of Sichuan and reducing the price by about 15%, reducing the pressure of exchange rate changes.

Since 2004, Eastman, the United States, began to localize and produce its main product electric scissors. Based on the accumulation of a large number of localization experience of foreign brands, the company began to produce paving machines locally.

The continuous improvement of product quality and service first concept has made it a hot brand in the two years.

Eastman focuses on how to provide quality services to customers.

In order to relieve users' worries, it can set up a Wuhan office immediately on the same day when signing a sales contract with a client in Hubei, so as to realize "zero distance" service.

At present, Dongguan, Qingdao, Shishi, Wuhan, Wenzhou, Yiwu, Changzhou and other offices.

In order to improve pre-sale, post and post service, Eastman began to reorganize channels two years ago, and put the channel level from the provincial level to the municipal level, which makes the company's response speed to customers across the country greatly improved.

In technology research and development, Eastman will pay more attention to the practical challenges faced by garment enterprises in the market competition, and take the all-purpose cloth spreading machine as the main body of research and development.

The United States, Gerber, tries to localize the production of another foreign brand, launched the XLs50 and XLs250 paving machines for the Chinese market respectively.

Thanks to its more than 40 years of automation equipment production technology and innovation ability, the Gerber cloth machine has good cloth laying ability, but still lacks the price advantage, mainly supporting its automatic cutting bed for sale.

Shanghai and Eagle are the first Chinese local brands in the field of automatic cutting equipment.

At present, there are four kinds of cloth spreading machines, including knitted fabric, woven fabric, needle woven fabric and cloth spreading machine for barrel cloth.

Now all products are developed and produced in China.

The sales of cloth spreading machines currently account for 20% of the company's revenue.

With strong software development capability and automatic cutting production capacity, Rick can maximize the productivity and flexibility of the production process.

Rick has professional knowledge and experience in laying heavy and large-diameter cloth.

Because Li Ke imported completely from France and lacked the price advantage, it was mainly equipped with its automatic cutting bed for sale.

Editor's note: according to industry experts, in the past few years, Chuan Shang, Ou Sima, Eastman and so on are the top brands of the annual sales volume in the field of paving machines. Their annual sales volume accounts for about 80% of the total annual sales volume of China's cloth machines. Unfortunately, due to the fact that this interview has not been contacted with the director of Taiwan's West sigma brand, the sales and technology situation of Ou Sima has not been described in this article.