Ai Da Develops An Intelligent Laser Carving And Cutting Machine, Cutting A Pair Of Jeans For Only 18 Seconds.

The intelligent laser engraving and cutting machine developed by the Costa Clothing Co., Ltd., which takes 4 years, has invested nearly 40 million yuan.

The pformation from manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing has been completed. The machine can tailor a customized pair of jeans in only 18 seconds.

In a workshop of Junan Town, Shunde District, Foshan, a machine is rapidly cutting one.

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In just 18 seconds, the custom tailored jeans are cut out and manual cutting takes 30 minutes to 1 hours.

This machine is independently developed by the Costa apparel limited company.

It took 4 years to invest nearly 40 million yuan.

This company, which started in the traditional processing garment industry in Foshan, has also broken through the bottleneck of traditional labor intensive industries and pformed itself into an intelligent manufacturing private custom garment enterprise integrating R & D, production and sales.

At present, the company has long distance customization as its business mode, and has intelligent tailoring robot developed by ourselves. It achieves the rapid mass production of customized products.

At the same time, the original BMS intelligent production management system has also made it the first domestic intelligent production enterprise to design, produce and sell automation.

In 2014, Asta was selected as the "most innovative enterprise TOP50 of Chinese business" selected by FastCompany, the famous American business magazine. Fan Youbin, founder of Asta, was also selected as "the most creative TOP100 of Chinese business".

In 2013, the company's annual sales volume exceeded 1 million 800 thousand pieces, and its performance reached 140 million yuan.

From generation processing to "private customization"

"When the company was founded in 2008, it soon ran into the international financial crisis.

Start to go downhill. "

According to Fan Youbin's memory, the economic environment was depressed at the beginning of the business, and the experience accumulated in the clothing industry was not useful at all.

Before establishing ed, Fan Youbin made 8 years of clothing manufacturing and foreign trade business.

In 2002, Fan Youbin resigned from a state-owned light industry textile unit in Shenzhen and went to sea to do business.

With many years of experience in exporting foreign trade, Fan Youbin led the team quickly to occupy the Pearl River Delta jeans garment export market.

Subsequently, Fan Youbin invested in the acquisition of a factory, which was pformed from a simple foreign trade enterprise into a garment manufacturing foreign trade enterprise.

Fan Youbin told reporters that after the establishment of the company, the main business has always been processing export.

But in the face of the global financial crisis, the labor intensive manufacturing industry has been deeply affected. The first year of the establishment of the company, export orders declined significantly.

But when Fan Youbin looked at the cooperative customer orders, he found that a customer order volume still increased by 3 times.

"I went over the details of the order," he said. "This company only made big size jeans. Private custom businesses were almost special at that time."

After capturing the huge commercial potential of personalized clothing, Fan Youbin immediately adjusted the direction of the company.

In 2009, the company completed a comprehensive pformation, focusing on private custom jeans, which can be customized remotely.

Since the pformation in 2009, the sales volume of the company has been growing by nearly 60% per year, and the output has reached 1 million 800 thousand in 2013.

At present, Asta is promoting a 3D personalized customization cowboy dress platform.

"Drag the mouse, you can turn your trousers and change where you want."

Fan Youbin demonstrated in front of the computer. Consumers and designers can design the DIY of fabric, color, pattern and style through the virtual fitting system, and experience the 3D customization effect and adjust the details.

Fan Youbin said that 3D private customization realized the "virtual reality sale", which solved the problem of high inventory that troubled the garment industry for many years, and greatly improved the production efficiency and product update cycle.

"When the customer determines the design, these data will be directly pmitted to the production equipment, and all data of the product development, production and sales platform are open."

It takes only 18 seconds to cut a pair of jeans.

Fan Youbin said that at present, AI has the intelligent tailoring machine developed by itself and the BMS intelligent production management system, which can achieve the rapid mass production of personalized products.

In 2010, Fan Youbin met with a professor at the China Rapid Manufacturing Research Institute at a forum.

The professor asked Fan Youbin: "do you want to buy a custom made garment on the Internet for half a month? If a custom made product is delivered in 3 days, will you buy it?"

At that time, the custom-made money in the traditional clothing industry would normally take 1 months from ordering to shipping, and 15 days sooner.

It is not easy to shrink to 72 hours.

After coming back, Fan Youbin and the team have been thinking about this problem.

"In the past, custom tailored costumes were all artificial tailors. We envisage that automatic machine tailoring is possible to achieve efficient and quick tailoring."

So Fan Youbin set up a R & D team and began to develop intelligent tailoring robot independently.

In March 2012, the smart tailor version 1 was launched. The application of laser technology made it possible to tailor garment automation.

However, when the product development was not mature enough, the cost of cutting a pair of jeans increased by nearly 20 times - the cost of the machine was 100 yuan, while the labor cost only needed 5 yuan.

In September 2013, the smart tailoring 3 version was launched, the efficiency was greatly improved, the cost was greatly reduced, the machine could cut a pair of jeans in 18 seconds, and the washing effect could be completed in 3 minutes, and the manual work needed 30 minutes to 1 hours.

"This intelligent laser carving and cutting machine has invested nearly 40 million yuan and is the first in the world.

At the beginning of R & D, there were many voices of doubt both inside the company and in the industry.

But now the sales figures show that we are doing the right thing. "

Fan Youbin said that robot automated production has greatly improved the efficiency of single piece single tailor and solved the demand of personalized customization.

"In the future, more companies need to use our smart tailoring technology."

In Fan Youbin's view, intelligent manufacturing is the inevitable way for the traditional garment industry to pform in the future, otherwise it will be eliminated by the market.

The intelligent tailoring project was awarded the first place of the 2013 China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (Guangdong competition area). In 2014, the smart tailor was recognized as a high-tech product of Guangdong province.

In 2013, the sales volume reached 1 million 800 thousand, and its performance was as high as 140 million yuan.

Intelligent tracking of every dress.

In addition to intelligent manufacturing of 72 hours delivery, Asta also independently developed a set of BMS intelligent production management system, from product orders, raw material selection, intelligent tailoring processing to the final product out of the library, all data have been opened.

Fan Youbin believes that as long as there is an intelligent production management system, the integration of order data information and production automation, customized products and mass production can be realized.

"Like the automobile workshop, each workshop processes different plates, and finally assembles.

The same is true for private custom clothes.

At present, the application of BMS intelligent production management system and RFID radio frequency identification technology enables each garment to be traced from raw material selection to finished product storage in order to achieve real-time data collection, monitoring and intelligent analysis and processing.

Fan Youbin believes that the era of industrial 4 has arrived, and information and physical systems will trigger a new round of industrial revolution.

For the traditional clothing industry, enterprises need to have the determination and courage to innovate.

In the Fan Youbin plan, the future is not only a clothing enterprise, but also a clothing intelligent manufacturing solution service provider.

It is expected to become a mass customization platform by 2018. Brand manufacturers, e-commerce platforms, independent designers and consumers will all become customers. The revenue of products and manufacturing services will be weakened, and the biggest revenue will come from providing solutions.

At present, Asta is building a huge database, including the clothing version library, the human body database and the clothing database.

Since 2008, he has collaborate and has collected 107 different brands of data from 12 countries.

In order to better collect data, Asta opened two cowboy coffee life experience stores in Guangzhou last year.

"We hope to open 1 000 experience stores in 3 years to collect data."

Fan Youbin believes that with these data, on the one hand, we can meet the customized needs of consumers, and on the other hand, meet the production needs of garment manufacturers.

"We can either sell automated production equipment or provide data for manufacturers.

When we do one person, one yard, the value of the platform is maximized.