Revealing The German Footwear Industry In The Era Of Industrial 4

The so-called German "industry 4" strategy refers to the German industrial 4 working group, which was made up of multi field experts in Germany in 2013, and issued a special report: "the future of German manufacturing industry: the proposal to implement the strategy of" industrial 4 ".

That is to say, the new industrial revolution represented by omni-directional networking, intellectualization and greening is the fourth industrial revolution after mechanization, electrification and informatization. Its core is in the context of green manufacturing, through an intelligent technology, in the Internet era, especially in the era of Internet migration, it will gain an overall competitive advantage in an industrial development direction.

As a traditional shoe making industry in Germany, what kind of understanding and response will it have in this era of epoch-making change?

As an Asian technical partner of the famous LLOYD shoemaking enterprise in Germany, I am invited to visit the most modernized and large-scale shoe production center in Su Lingen, Germany (Sulingen).

MRS. BERNHARD GEERS, the head of the center, warmly received us, and gave us a detailed introduction to the history of LLOYD enterprises and the current situation of the existing enterprises in the shoe making industry.

After a comprehensive visit and understanding, the author basically summarizes several characteristics that German traditional shoe making enterprises can maintain the momentum of rapid development in the era of industrial 4:

Using digital 3D/2D technology, we have made a virtual demonstration of the products that have not yet been determined, such as shoe design, combination, color matching and local style, which are not actually produced in the process of design and development. First, through the discussion, research and pre measurement of the matching and rationality of the process, we can find a best solution through all aspects, and can participate in the design and opinions through the Internet brand fans, and then react quickly, and the design hit rate is greatly improved.

This virtualization design is easy and low cost, even after repeated modifications. Compared with the traditional manual sample printing, the design of the sample one by one will save a lot of time and cost.

Two. Standardization of manufacturing process

German products are well known for their excellent production. They also pursue perfection in all the details in the footwear industry.

Under the background of a small number of orders, they introduced a large number of CNC equipment to solve the problems of mold diversity and small batch production.

They basically use CNC leather cutting machines in leather cutting at the front end of shoemaking procedures, and even require Asian companies to help them produce the same type of cutting machines to ensure their flexibility in the production process.

This is the difference between the value orientation of German shoemaking enterprises and the traditional shoe making enterprises in Asia.

Three, the art of production skills.

During the visit, we found that the workers in the German footwear industry were full of hot pillows when making shoes. The dedication, devotion and pride of technology made people feel that they were not creating products, but creating artistic creation beauty. They naturally showed the skilled cognition and intimate feelings of the operators in leather processing.

During the production process, many shoes need to polish, wax, rub, or even change colors and spray. Each pair of shoes has different parts of processing. The operators are relying on their professional experience and aesthetic vision to complete the products that can not find flaws.

It is precisely because every link of every effort of every person can ensure that the top quality products can be made.

The production workshop of LLOYD production center basically adopts mechanization, including the automation process.

Anyone who can replace machines with automatic equipment must replace machines with machines, especially those with relatively high risk, such as sole fuzzing, gluing, polishing, polishing and so on, all of which are handled by automatic arm or special machine.

The pmission links are more fully automated. Mechanical (ARM) pmission reduces the movement of personnel and reduces manpower input.

Five, matching logistics intelligence.

The most amazing thing about LLOYD shoe making centers is that they were built in late 2013, with 25 meters 75 meters and 17 meters high, matching computer intelligent logistics warehouses.

As a hundred year old shoe making brand, there are not only many counters and stores in the world, but also online sales. How to support the logistics system quickly and conveniently is indeed a big project.

To ensure smooth and unimpeded global sales, LLOYD invested heavily in R & D and eventually built a computer warehousing and logistics system.

Through this system, the finished shoes produced by factories can automatically enter the logistics warehouse after packing the bar code properly. After receiving the order requirements, the logistics warehouse can automatically take out the goods from the warehouse in two minutes by computer intelligent system, and distribute them to the logistics vehicles sent to different regions, and then move to the corresponding stores. This greatly improves the speed of store replenishment, saves costs and speeds up turnover, and becomes the guarantee of LLOYD company's competitive advantage in the industry.

"Made in Germany" has been able to last forever, and has always maintained a leading position in the era of globalization. It mainly benefited from the system guarantee of Germany's "Trinity" (technological innovation system, standardization and quality certification system, dual track vocational education system), while German industrial 4's strategic roadmap, more like LLOYD, has a long history of old enterprises, pointing out the direction of sustainable development.

Today, China is just like Germany in the late nineteenth Century, but also a catching up rising country. Although it has become a "world factory" and a big manufacturing country, it is far from manufacturing power.

In the face of many challenges, drawing on the successful experience of German manufacturing industry is very important for our manufacturing industry to get rid of difficulties and create brilliant future.