Machines Change, Red Shoe Enterprises Introduce Automation Machines.

　　 Women's Shoes Manufacturing industry has always been a gold card of Shimen town in Tongxiang. However, in recent years, the problem of increasing labor costs and frequent flow has made the shoe making industry, a traditional labor-intensive industry, enter the bottleneck of development. How can we reverse this situation? This year, more than 20 local shoe companies have turned their attention to the advanced automatic production equipment, hoping to transform and upgrade the enterprise through "machine substitution".

Save labor and increase production capacity.

Santa Lee shoes Industry is the leading enterprise in Shimen shoemaking enterprises. There are more than 560 employees, with 2 million pairs of shoes and 300 million yuan in output. "As we have a certain size of shoe enterprises, the most fear is the loss of labor force." Zhong Hongxing told reporters that shoemaking enterprises can not do without artificial labor from inspection, tailoring, skin, help and sewing. "Most of the employees are outsiders. It's normal to come to work this year and not come next year." He said that the mobility and instability of employees will affect the production of enterprises and affect the completion of orders. In order to solve this unstable factor thoroughly, he decided to purchase automation equipment at the beginning of this year to save labor cost.

The imported cutting machine has replaced dozens of manual machines, and the intelligent sewing machine has replaced the old-fashioned sewing machine. In the first half of the year, Sheng Danli shoes industry has invested 4 million yuan to purchase equipment. Nowadays, these devices are all in operation. In the 5 steps of traditional hand-made shoes, there are two steps of "tailoring" and "sewing" to be replaced by machines. From a single workshop assembly line, saving nearly 40% of labor, but increased by 40% of production efficiency.

　　 automatic Tailoring The utilization ratio of leather is higher.

In the workshop of the Santa Fe shoe industry, the reporter saw that two technicians could simply finish the work of leather cutting through computer program control. "We just need to input programs, the machine can automatically identify the defects on the leather, automatically tailoring." A technician told reporters that compared with manual cutting in the past, machine tailoring can save more leather and improve the utilization of leather.

In the past, only eight or nine pairs of shoes could be produced by manual cutting. Now there are about 12 pairs of shoes.

While saving labor costs and increasing productivity, Zhong Hong Xing, the sweetener of machine replacement, revealed that he plans to complete his first phase transformation plan this year.

"By the end of this year, I intend to purchase two automatic clippers to keep the number of employees at around 400." He said that if the plan can be realized, the initial transformation of "machine substitutions" has achieved its own expectations.

To expand production, to transform shoe companies to follow suit

In the town of Shimen, the transformation of the "machine replacement" of the Santa Fe shoe industry soon attracted the attention of colleagues. By August this year, more than 20 local shoe companies went to Zhejiang to learn and learn from foreign trade, and one of them was Forward Shoes Co., Ltd., which sold from foreign trade to domestic sales. "Machine substitution" is the only way for transformation and upgrading of shoe enterprises. Yan Xianzhong, deputy general manager of the company, said that through the early inspection, this year, Forward shoes industry also intends to invest certain funds to purchase imported equipment, while saving labor costs, and expanding production scale. Through the "machine substitution" transformation and upgrading, this road has reached a consensus among many shoe manufacturers in Shimen. Now, in the production workshop of these shoes enterprises, more or less can see some automation equipment is on the line.

However, there are nearly 300 shoemaking enterprises in Shimen, and 2000 pairs of leather shoes are produced annually, and more than 20 of the pioneer enterprises in the field of "machine substitution" account for only 10% of the total. "The transformation of Shimen shoe enterprises' machine replacement" has just begun. Zhang Honglin, Secretary General of Tongxiang Footwear Association, said that if more shoe companies choose this path of transformation in the future, the production capacity of Shimen footwear industry will also have a qualitative leap.

Reporter's notes] with the increasing cost of labor and frequent flow, footwear industry has once been caught up in "labor shortage". Intelligent and automatic shoe machine has successfully solved this difficulty, and many enterprises have successfully achieved transformation and upgrading. In the face of difficulties, some people shrink back and others face difficulties. As a new person who has not yet been recruited, Xiaobian is moved by breaking the predicament and welcoming the strength of the new generation in the shoe industry. In this industry's shuffling, we believe that companies that can persist will usher in a brighter future.