Will Flexible Production Become The Development Direction Of Garment Industry In 2016?

At present, the demand for clothing is not only for warmth, but also for the pursuit of individuality and fashion.

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Industry pairs

New requirements are put forward.

With the development of electric business, there are more and more small orders coming from online brands. The first single of the electricity supplier usually has only 100~500 parts / money, and the same one may turn over many times, but the single turn is generally controlled in 200~600.

Traditional factories generally lack the ability to handle small batch orders. Once the original mass production mode is applied to small batch orders, the cost will be greatly increased and the efficiency will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, flexible production is the best choice.

The essence of flexible supply chain lies in: small batch, multiple batches, quick turn over.

The core of the flexible supply chain is: cell production design, lean production, flexible production capacity preparation, strong planning center, visual production line, and single flow production workshop mode.

In order to achieve flexibility in flexible production, various forms of combination can be adopted in the design of production systems.

Cell production mode: compared with traditional mass production, cell production has two characteristics, one is small scale (short production line, few operators), and the other is standardized production of small cells can be simply copied.

Because of these two characteristics, the cell production method can be realized

(1) simply respond to changes in production, by replicating one or more cells, can meet the production demand of cell production capacity of an integer multiple.

(2) the number of jobs per cell is small, which reduces the difficulty of working time between balancing stations, and has little difference in working time between stations and high production efficiency.

(3) a reasonable combination of employees, that is, the ability of employees to form cells, can give full play to the highest level of operational ability of employees.

A flow production mode: a stream production mode is implemented, that is, the elimination of semi-finished goods handling between processes, and through reasonable process arrangement and the coherent layout between machines, the pieces can be moved individually between the machines.

Its advantages are:

1. shorten the production cycle, because the one-piece flow is the synchronous operation of all production personnel, which reduces the waste of human resources to the greatest extent, and the production efficiency greatly shortens the production cycle.

2. reduce the WIP: because the production mode of the single piece flow is a backward pull production mode, how much is the last process and how much the former process will produce, so its manufacturing process is that every process runs synchronously at one time, that is, a finished product shop.

3. save the production space: because the single piece flow is the process of producing the finished product quickly, there is no need to stock any material in the production process, which greatly saves the production space.

4. reduce the number of defective products: the production mode of single piece flow is to synchronize the whole line with one product at a time, so that it can detect problems in time and minimize the probability of occurrence of defective products.

5. improve productivity: the essence of single piece flow is unit synchronization, and each post is a unit.

Habitual synchronization and coordination, which cultivate the spirit of teamwork, highly united and highly concentrated efforts, greatly improve productivity.

In the near future or for a long time in the future, the flexible production of clothing will become the development direction of the garment industry.

Large scale mass production will be replaced by flexible production which is longer than many varieties and small batch.

Flexible production

In terms of production efficiency, inventory management, supply chain management and shortening delivery, they will be more competitive than traditional clothing production methods.