Clothing Technology, Industry Bottleneck To Be Broken Through

The two bottlenecks of capital and consciousness restrict the application of clothing technology in Humen.

Nowadays, in Humen's clothing factories, the old style foot sewing machine, which used to be the main production equipment of clothing, has long been disappearing. Instead, it has imported high-grade electric clothes cars and computer controlled sewing machines.

In addition, the computerised clothing design, code placement, marking software, laser cutting machine, thermal comfort comfort database, RFID radio frequency identification technology and clothing

In the Humen creative design incubator of garment industry, rapid prototyping Vehicle version, Guangdong textile college students are using modern technology equipment to make costumes.

Changes

The years witnessed by an antique sewing machine

This is an old-fashioned foot sewing machine on display in the fox Brand Company exhibition hall. Nowadays, in most garment enterprises, such traditional clothing machinery has long been useless.

At the entrance of the main entrance of the fox Brand Company exhibition hall, an old-fashioned foot sewing machine is placed.

This "antique" sewing machine has a very special identity. It is the first batch of production equipment used by the company at the beginning of its founding. It is a "factory hero" and witness to boost brand development and has unique historical value.

Today, in this month's garment companies that produce up to 180 thousand pieces of clothing, such traditional clothing machinery has long been useless and replaced by imported high-grade electric clothes cars.

According to the relevant person in charge of Fox brand, at present, more than 60% of the clothing cars used by the company are electrically controlled sewing machines.

On the basis of this, the advanced production facilities, such as computerized clothing design, yard code and row mark rack, have also become the new favorite of garment enterprises and become popular gradually.

It is understood that today's Humen clothing enterprises, large to tens of thousands of large enterprises, small to dozens of people's small factories, basically have adopted computer design, plate making, bed cutting software.

The clothing production of Humen clothing enterprises has also made rapid progress in the production of equipment.

Moreover, with the development of science and technology, even high-tech laser has occupied the traditional low tech labor intensive industry.

It is understood that at present, Humen clothing small and medium-sized enterprises, the use of laser cutting technology is more than 70%, such as men's clothing brand G I, leisure brand Wen Chun and so on have been using laser cutting machine.

It is understood that using this cutting machine, as long as the laser is pferred to a certain temperature, it will be able to cut the pile of cloth successfully. At the same time, the fabric loss is low and the smoothness is high, which can largely reduce the cost of raw materials and manpower.

According to the relevant person in charge of innovation center, in recent years, the high-tech products such as the thermal moisture comfort database of clothing fabrics recommended by the center, the application of RFID radio frequency identification technology in the clothing industry and other high-tech products have also been concerned by more and more garment enterprises in our town, and have been successfully tested by many signing designers in Humen fashion industry creative design incubator and E, a well-known clothing brand in our town.

Bottleneck

Two factors restrict the "marriage" of high-tech and service enterprises

One reason: in the face of pressure from technological pformation funds, many enterprises are "powerless".

The promotion of modern technology equipment to production efficiency is obvious. Many enterprises have already had a clear understanding of this and intend to promote technological pformation by using it. But in the interview, the reporter learned that some enterprises were suffering from financial pressure and had to give up.

When interviewed by reporters, it is found that there is a considerable gap in Humen garment enterprises on the aspect of high-end detection equipment.

At present, most garment enterprises are still self testing of the raw materials such as color fastness and acid-base and so on. However, it is difficult to detect the toxic components such as composition, carcinogenic substances and so on. It depends on the testing reports supplied by the suppliers. The testing range of clothing products is also very limited. It is very difficult to do a comprehensive test of the products such as YISHION, such as flammability, chemicals, nickel, pilling, zippers, buttons, salt bleaching and chlorine bleaching.

For enterprises, of course, they prefer to have their own testing rooms, but expensive cost prohibits them.

"We also hope to set up a professional quality inspection center in the company like YISHION, but the huge investment of tens of millions of dollars is unbearable for most small and medium-sized enterprises like ours."

Humen, a well-known leisure apparel brand leader said helplessly.

With regard to the needs and difficulties of enterprises, the responsible person who has long been dealing with the innovation center of garment enterprises has a deep understanding: "many enterprises know that these high-end equipment can improve the quality and efficiency of the products, and they also want to adopt it. However, they are unable to do so because of the pressure of capital.

High tech products often cost hundreds of thousands of yuan, millions or even more, and the average small and medium-sized enterprises simply can't afford it.

Two of reasons: some entrepreneurs are bound by the idea of "being at ease".

It is reported that Humen has thousands of garment production enterprises, of which only over 1000 are on the scale, most of them are private small and medium-sized enterprises.

For a long time, they earn processing fees through OEM production. After several years of development, they have completed the primitive accumulation of capital. When they have gained certain social wealth and higher social status, they are not "rich but thinking". They are satisfied with the business model of "dressing for her". They have no long-term development vision and lack of modern enterprise management consciousness. It is difficult to accept high-tech equipment that requires large capital investment and high quality of talents.

"Just make money. Why bother? How hard it is to make your own brand. Design and promotion will cost a lot of energy and money, not to mention what high-tech it is."

Talking about the use of high-tech equipment to manage enterprises, a long-term OEM production boss said.

Looking ahead and thinking

Joint efforts of government and enterprises

Clothing technology in the spring

We are pleased to see that the town government is now preparing to pave the way for the entry of high technology into ordinary garment enterprises. Relevant enterprises are also actively taking action to help enterprises to ease the pressure of technological pformation funds and help upgrade the equipment of garment enterprises.

Government support to boost high-tech applications in service enterprises

The town government has long been aware of the huge role of high-tech in the development of garment enterprises. When the town government set up an innovation center for enterprises to use high technology to build bridges, it paid more attention to guidance and support from policies, especially in recent years, the government's related initiatives are more and more clear and firm.

For example, in the five year development plan for the construction of Binhai International Mall, it has clearly pointed out that "speeding up the upgrading of traditional industries, upgrading the level of technology and products of traditional industries" and so on, and putting "promoting the informatization of garment industry" as a major implementation measure. It clearly pointed out that: "joint Guangdong radio and frequency technology (RFID) production and research strategic alliance will carry out the RFID informatization project of garment industry in our town, organize the launch of YISHION, Song Ying, Yi Yun and other key clothing enterprises to carry out RFID radio frequency technology application pilot, so as to improve the informatization level of garment enterprises in R & D, production and sales, and enhance their competitiveness."

The town government also attaches great importance to the pressure of technological pformation funds that companies are generally concerned about.

Wu Zhanhui, Secretary of the town Party committee and chairman of the town people's Congress, stressed in his keynote speech entitled "recognizing the situation, grasping opportunities and building Humen into a coastal international shopping mall" as early as 2009. It is emphasized that the strong clothing industry should strengthen technological drive, strengthen the reward and support for R & D and creative design of garment enterprises, encourage enterprises to accelerate the pace of technological upgrading, speed up the pace of new product development, and shorten the development cycle.

We must adhere to the platform linkage and focus on the construction of the garment industry platform of the four major countries, provinces and cities of "the national torch plan Humen Dongguan garment design and manufacturing special industrial base", "Guangdong innovation and demonstration professional town" and "Humen garment industry promotion center" and "Humen garment technology Innovation Center". We will attract innovative resources from domestic and international funds, scientific and technological achievements, scientific research institutions, advanced equipment and high-tech projects to these platforms, so as to enhance Humen's clothing innovation ability, regional influence and market competitiveness.

At the same time, in our town development support fund project application guide, we also clearly listed the scope of declaration, including the technical pformation and technological innovation projects of pillar industries in our town, and the pformation of traditional industries by using advanced technology and advanced applicable technology.

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Enterprises provide facilities for enterprises to upgrade shortcuts.

At the same time, Humen's International Garment Machinery City, the largest garment machinery market in the Pearl River Delta, is currently providing a "installment payment" financing service for small and medium-sized enterprises that are facing difficulties in upgrading equipment through the preparation of mutual fund for members, providing a shortcut for equipment upgrading for small and medium-sized garment enterprises beset by shortage of funds.

Yu Changyan, managing director of the machinery City, said, "before the payment is made, the ownership of the equipment will belong to the producer or bank, and the equipment will be given to the enterprise before it is used, and then paid off and the ownership pferred to the enterprise, so that the urgent needs of the garment enterprises can be solved."

Clothing is a fashionable industry, and technology is the wings that this industry takes off.

In view of the current "short board" of clothing technology in the clothing industry of Humen, some people in the industry suggest that the development of Humen's clothing technology must be supported by government policies. Two, publicity and guidance is essential. It can give full play to the publicity and recommendation role of the innovation center and the exemplary role of the garment enterprises that have benefited from the high technology. Through the demonstration of the results and the exchange of seminars, the enterprises will enhance their technological awareness and stimulate their interest in high-tech products, and guide them through the experience exchange of the excellent pilot enterprises.

Looking forward to the future development of clothing technology in Humen, people in the industry have said, "as long as the business operators actively change their concepts, coupled with the government's strong efforts to promote cooperation with knowledgeable enterprises, we firmly believe that high technology will help Humen's garment industry take off again."