PRD Footwear Enterprises Successfully Introduce Digital Production Technology

　 In the 90s of last century, Pearl River Delta It takes about a week for a shoe factory to produce a pair of shoes, from material preparation to shoe design, mold opening to final production, and final shipment. It was also from that time that a shoe factory was crowded in a compartment of the South China Sea. Guo Huazhong began to study how to use computer technology to carry out the shoe design and successfully put it into practice. Digital technology Introduce Shoemaking machinery industry 。

Now, through the shoe making system of Foshan Nanhai Rui Zhou Technology Co., Ltd., the production of a pair of shoes has been compressed to about two hours. The technology of Rui Zhou, founded by Guo Huazhong, has become popular in the market.

Improve the efficiency of digital design

The shoe industry was once a well-known industry in Ping Zhou, Nanhai. In the early 90s of last century, after graduating from University, Guo Huazhong started his shoe design with "self-employed".

"At that time, people who made design were relatively short. Many Taiwanese shoe factories took orders to me. But one shoe design requires one day, and the efficiency is too low. " Guo Huazhong told reporters that sometimes, in order to make shoes, he had to stay up late in a rented cabin. At that time, the domestic market of computer drawing shoes had just emerged, and only a few Taiwanese funded enterprises had tried in this regard.

If you draw with the computer, the efficiency of shoe design can be shortened from 1 days to 1 hours. Guo Huazhong has looked at the business opportunities in this area. Since 1995, he founded the first computer hair sampling center in Guangdong, introducing Taiwan design software and Japanese machinery and equipment, concentrating on the digitalized and intellectualized software and cutting equipment of shoemaking and leather manufacturing.

In the early twentieth Century, computers began to spread in China, which provided conditions for further marketing of Rui technology. Rui Zhou has become one of the first companies to develop footwear industry CAD (Computer Aided Design) in China. It has independently developed computer software products RECAD V2006 and RZCAM V3.0, and has become the "double soft enterprise certification" enterprise in Guangdong province. After the computer drawing of shoe design, Guo Huazhong thought that CAD only designed the proofing link, and the whole shoe manufacturing process was still "manual" era. How to make the whole manufacturing process numerical control, intelligent and improve efficiency has become his next goal.

The shoe industry is recognized as a "labor-intensive" enterprise, because in the traditional shoemaking process, after a pair of shoes are opened, the process of cutting, scribing, punching, carving and so on needs to be completed by several pipelines. The whole process will take a week.

In 2006, Rui Chau invested a large amount of R & D special funds to develop the world's leading technology of four axis linkage leather cutting machine. "We are the first enterprise in China to introduce automatic leather cutting machine. You just need someone to manipulate it in front of the computer. Guo Huazhong said that Rui Chau's CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) technology has made a major breakthrough. The four axis linkage leather cutting machine was launched at the eighteenth leather shoe material exhibition in Guangzhou in 2008.

Today, Rui Zhou is both a software company and a device manufacturer. It has participated in the formulation of 7 industry standards and has jumped to the top three suppliers in the field of flexible material cutting system in China. "In the field of shoe making and leather manufacturing, we are one of the most complete products in the national product chain. We can customize the personalized equipment according to the needs of our customers." Guo Huazhong said proudly that now the equipment of cutting equipment developed by Rui Zhou can replace three workers. It took a week to make a pair of shoes, and now it can be realized in 2 hours. {page_break}

Grow together with upstream enterprises

In the 90s and early twentieth Century of the last century, it was easier for shoemaking enterprises to hire workers, and the development of the whole industry was at its peak. With the rapid development of shoemaking enterprises represented by Taiwanese funded enterprises, the products of new innovative enterprises such as Guo Huazhong are not even able to take account of them.

"When factories earn money easily, they are more likely to expand production and rarely consider innovating machines." Guo Huazhong clearly remembers that in the 2003 years and two years of 2004, at the very least time, only 4 or 5 machines were sold in a month.

However, some shoe making enterprises began to accept the new products of Ruizhou technology. In 1997, at the beginning of Guo Huazhong's pioneering work, Nanhai shoemaking enterprise began to accept the new cutting technology and computer design software of Rui Zhou on Saturday, until the listing, and the shoe industry on Saturday was always a loyal customer of Rui Zhou. In the list of old customers, the 360 degree, Goldlion and BELLE international have become partners in the growth of Rui Zhou technology.

Seizing new opportunities for Industry Transformation

The real turning point came from the financial crisis in 2008, and Chinese shoemaking enterprises encountered an unprecedented cold current. Rising prices of raw materials and rising labor costs have led to difficulties in the export of China's footwear industry. After the shortage of recruitment workers, the number of enterprises has begun to decline.

"If the workers are hard to invite and the cost is rising, the footwear industry must insist on improving efficiency and quality and lowering costs." Guo Huazhong said, at this time, the spanformation and upgrading of the entire footwear industry is particularly urgent. It can replace manual leather cutters and CAD/CAM system sales, and grow at 50% speed, and intelligent cutting equipment market will be suddenly enlightened.

At the sales side, Rui Chau has always insisted on opening up its own channels. Currently, 2 branches have been opened in Wenzhou and Dongguan, and the location of Shanghai and Beijing branches has also been completed. By the end of next year, the 9 branches or offices in the state will complete the layout.