Wuhu Shan Shan -- Advanced Equipment And Technology Can Create Benefits.

The 318 National Road across the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces stretches westward and will pass through Nanling County, Wuhu City, Anhui province. The traffic is convenient and close to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, making Nanling become the place where many garment manufacturers in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai carry out industrial spanfer.

In 2005, the Nanling County Economic Development Zone, which was connected to the 318 National Road, was invested and built by Ningbo Shanshan Group and Ningbo Mingda group, Wuhu Shanshan Mingda Garments Co., Ltd., and later renamed Shanshan (Wuhu) Garments Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shan Shan Shan").

Wuhu Shan Shan mainly produces and sells all kinds of T-shirts, sportswear, casual wear, children's clothing, knitted garments and knitted grey fabrics. It is the largest knitting and leisure clothing production base of Shanshan, and its products are exported to more than 30 countries and regions such as the United States, Canada, Japan, the European Union and the Middle East. When visiting this reporter, Wuhu Shanshan is Japan's famous brand UNIQLO OEM.

　 Building advanced bases

Dong Aikang, vice president of Ningbo Shanshan Industrial Development Co., Ltd., is stationed in Wuhu Shanshan, mainly responsible for the daily production management work of the company. He told the magazine that in 2002 and 2003, the difficulty of recruitment in coastal areas has been shown, and the price of labor has increased but the quota is not high. In view of this situation, Shan Shan analyzed the development trend of the garment industry at that time and launched a plan to build a production base in the mainland. At that time, Wuhu's economy had not yet developed rapidly, but its economic strength and development concept were located in the forefront of Anhui city.

Wuhu Shan Shan started in July 2005 and completed the first phase of the project in April 2006. The early built production base was about 20 thousand square meters, with only 600 employees. After the construction of the three stage project, the general pattern of Wuhu Shanshan Industrial Park has basically taken shape. The base covers an area of about 12000 square meters, with more than 3000 employees. 1 computer embroidery plants, 1 printing factories, 1 washing plants and 12 garment factories have been set up.

Dong Aikang said that Wuhu's Shanshan Industrial Park has invested a lot in its early stages, especially in the large number of garment factories in Anhui province.

Wuhu Shanshan invested heavily in equipment, such as the purchase of 4 French Rik automatic bed and more than 10 Eastman. Automatic cloth spreading machine More than 80 kinds of computerized embroidery machines have been purchased, thousands of oil free automatic sewing machines have been purchased from famous brands both at home and abroad, and 24 automatic computer hanging systems have been introduced.

In 2009, the company passed the examination of several international certification bodies by means of advanced production equipment and automatic computer hanging flow production, strong production capacity and excellent product quality, and further enhanced cooperation with apparel brands in Europe, America and Japan.

Investment in Anhui in the past few years Coastal garment enterprises More, but most of the investment is small. Dong Aikang said: "if clothing companies do not have a certain scale and business volume, it is very difficult to invest in equipping these automated production equipment." The Wuhu Shanshan, a fairly large scale, has made a positive contribution to improving the visibility of the leading textile and garment industries in Nanling Development Zone and building Nanling's export garment processing base in Anhui. {page_break}

　　 Science and technology create benefits

Most of the coastal garment enterprises build production bases in the mainland, most of them are close to the source of labor to ease the problem of recruitment and employment, but also to reduce manufacturing costs and enhance competitiveness. However, with the increase in the number of garment production enterprises undertaking production spanfer, the labor cost advantage of the mainland is also gradually disappearing. In this regard, Nanling Wuhu fir has already had feelings.

Dong Aikang told reporters that at present, Nanling's clothing production enterprises can not be full of production. When reporters visited Wuhu, the operating rate of Shanshan was 80%, which was ideal in the local counterparts.

"(personnel) was the largest in 2007, less in 2008, slightly more in 2009, and less in 2010. Today's workers want to enter the big business as well as their work environment. In order to recruit workers, some garment manufacturers have made inappropriate treatment and other conditions. Later, it is impossible to achieve profits in business, thus hurting the interests of the enterprise itself. Dong Aikang also said, "the price of labor here is no lower than that of Ningbo, so it can be said that it is basically flat."

This is only one aspect of the garment enterprises that are moving. There are still more problems. The competition between China and Vietnam, Kampuchea and other emerging garment producing countries is increasing. Customers' demand for quality of products is getting higher and higher, the cost of processing accessories is lower, the profit margins are reduced and the profit margins are narrowed. As competition becomes more intense, textile and garment production enterprises are facing more and more pressure.

Wuhu Shanshan believes that in order to build a foothold in the domestic and international market, the key is to win in technology and management. On the one hand, we should improve the quality of products and increase output. On the other hand, we will substantially improve the living environment of employees, including working environment, living environment, human environment, technological environment and management environment, and enhance the overall management level of enterprises.

Dong Aikang said: "the strength of an enterprise is related to management and equipment. To win in technology is to create benefits through science and technology and to adopt mature and backward production facilities.

During the three phase of construction, Wuhu Shanshan had a large investment in equipment and attracted many industries. Equipment supplier In the end, the company chose the products with better quality according to the results of the trial. Eastman's newly launched NA-900F fully automatic cloth drawing machine is also selected by Wuhu Shan Shan in this case.

A cloth spreading machine operator told reporters: "the NA-900F cloth loom is a convenient cloth changing device, and the telescopic platform is also favorable for the machine to move across the side. As a result of servo control, the positioning accuracy is very high, and the waste time of manual correction is reduced. We use it to spread knitted fabrics. Generally, we can lay 50 layers and spread tens of meters per minute. This machine has been in operation for over a year, and it feels good. "

It is reported that in 2011, when the economic situation at home and abroad dropped again, Wuhu Shanshan produced about 15000000 kinds of clothing (calculated by standard parts), and completed the output value of more than 500 million yuan, reaching the highest peak since the establishment of the factory, which mainly benefited from the active role of advanced equipment in improving efficiency and guaranteeing the quality of products.

Paying attention to maintaining and enhancing the ability of scientific and technological revenue generating of enterprises, Wuhu Shanshan is not worried about the negative impact of the current market environment.

In Dong Aikang's view, the status quo is a development opportunity for large enterprises. According to the analysis, domestic processing factories have to absorb and digest themselves because of the decline in the price of overseas orders. The total volume of future orders will not expand too much, and the price of orders will further decline, while domestic excipients and labor prices are still rising. The factories of medium scale (such as three or four hundred people) will be more difficult. Because orders are unstable, they will be less flexible than small factories with four or five smaller ones, while large ones will not be able to eat. Besides, high operating costs and insufficient funds will make it difficult to purchase advanced equipment to improve their own ability to generate science and technology.

"Now that we really enter the period of adjustment of industrial structure, the stronger enterprises will become bigger and bigger. In the next two years, only the enterprises that seize opportunities can have a bright future. Dong Aikang said. {page_break}

　　 Suggestions for manufacturers

Wuhu Shanshan attaches importance to the use and maintenance of equipment. The company focuses on two aspects: first, after the installation and commissioning of the equipment, training and maintenance training for the staff; two, adequate supply of spare parts to meet the needs of routine maintenance and repair.

Dong Aikang thinks manufacturers can consider strengthening follow-up training. Equipment suppliers will arrange training when they purchase their equipment for the first time, but there are very few follow-up training services. In his view, manufacturers should try to get the trust of enterprises from the perspective of user enterprises.

Speaking of after-sale service, Dong Aikang also reflected a situation to our correspondents: the on-site service personnel of a whole machine company went to the company to repair the equipment, and accused the workers before they had identified the cause of the failure.

"This is not very good. Even if the worker misled the operation to cause the equipment breakdown, also indicated that is your training is not in place. You know, sewing workers don't want equipment to stop, which affects his income. " Dong Aikang thinks that manufacturers should improve the communication skills of the attendants and improve their professional skills.

Compared with ex post maintenance, enterprises such as Wuhu Shan Shan hope that manufacturers can do well in advance maintenance work of equipment, that is, manufacturers can guide customers to replace vulnerable parts in a planned way according to the life cycle of the products and their components through irregular or regular return visits, so that customers can take precautionary measures.

Dong Aikang analysis said that the maintenance personnel will only replace the bad parts after the equipment parts are damaged, and will not do any treatment to the old but not damaged parts. As a result, old parts and new replacement parts work together, the old and new parts can not be coordinated, affecting the accuracy of the equipment.

Referring to prior maintenance, Dong Aikang praised Ningbo Eastman. "They will take the initiative to predict the expiration date of the vulnerable parts of the equipment, provide an alternative replacement for us in advance, and will also take the initiative to check and clean up the damaged parts that will be damaged, so that the equipment can continue to operate well." He told this reporter.

For manufacturers, the fundamental measure to prevent is to improve the performance and life of equipment. In this way, manufacturers and customers can also be repaired from time to time.