Apparel Industry: Informatization Drives Industrialization

With the rising cost of raw materials and labor, and the emergence of competitors from Southeast Asia and other countries, China's garment industry is facing unprecedented difficulties.

In recent years, intensified labor shortage has made enterprises generally realize that past advantages have been unable to support their own development and turn to technology dividends, forcing domestic garment enterprises to "machine substitutions".

Provincial equipment trend

Experts say that machine substitution is an inevitable phenomenon after China's garment industry has developed to a certain stage.

Compared with the previous equipment, efficiency, energy saving and labor saving are the commonalities of these devices.

According to the latest data released by China Sewing Machinery Association, in 2013, China Sewing machine industry produced 12 million 920 thousand sewing machines, electromechanical integration, high efficiency and energy saving.

The proportion of total production to industrial sewing machinery has increased from 10% in 2009 to 49% at present.

The proportion of mechatronics products, such as flat, bag and stretch, increased from 15% in 2009 to 45% at present.

Among them, the computer sewing machine in 2013 total output of up to 2 million 700 thousand units, an increase of 80% over the same period, for the first time exceeded the production of mechanical ordinary sewing machine.

New industry

Gradually, automatic and intelligent machinery has become the hot spot for enterprises to choose.

The sewing machine can automatically complete the operation of all the nail production lines and basically realize the unmanned operation. The wire cutting machine is also an efficient alternative to manual machines, which is 8 times higher than the manual cutting line, and can complete 2~8 personal work at the same time. The price of the sewing machine is only 2000~3000 yuan. The three dimensional ironing machine shortens the auxiliary time of ironing, improves the production efficiency, and generally improves the production efficiency of 30%~35%. The flexible manufacturing system increases the flow of clothing or semi finished products through the real-time monitoring of the garment sewing process, and reduces the inventory to the maximum extent. In the past, a staple button procedure for a garment had to be completed by 4 workers. Now, after using the "intelligence" to fasten the machine, one person is responsible for controlling the computer.

It is particularly noteworthy that garments with different styles, colors and sizes can be operated simultaneously on a production line, adapting to the needs of garment production of many small and multi varieties enterprises at present, which greatly improves the quick reaction capability of enterprises.

It can be seen that the continuous progress of new technologies and products of intelligent and provincial labor has changed the way of operation of the traditional garment industry unprecedentedly, and the pformation and upgrading of the garment industry really usher in the production mode of the digital age.

Those who get information get the world.

Facing the rapidly changing global market, the rapid response ability of garment industry has become the yardstick for measuring the competitiveness of enterprises, and the core of rapid response is information technology.

In the field of production technology, we should popularize CAD and CAM systems, and develop specialized software such as online customization, intelligent design and discharge system, single piece automatic cutting, order processing and so on.

Facts show that the efficiency of using computer plate making is 2.7 times that of manual plate making. The computer code efficiency is 5~6 times that of manual setting, and computer discharging efficiency is 10 times of manual discharging.

Internet of things technology is an important aspect of the apparel industry informatization.

RFID technology has revolutionized the product production, inventory, logistics distribution and product sales management mode.

Gap company used RFID technology in the whole supply chain process very early.

According to statistics from relevant departments, Gap company has increased sales by 20% since its application of RFID technology, increased its inventory accuracy by 30%, reduced the cost of leftover goods by 90%, increased the inventory efficiency by 20 times, and reduced the sales cost of stores by 10%.

The informatization of garment product process will drive the modernization of the production process, marketing process and management process of enterprises, effectively utilize the information platform and e-commerce platform of enterprises, and strengthen the consulting service of enterprise informatization, so as to achieve the optimal allocation of resources and adapt to the new situation of global competition.