Zhao Yiyi inspected all production links of Huansha Textile Company and found that everything was carried out according to the plan he had given. Now it is only in the initial stage of production. The specific expansion of production capacity later depends on Hualong Clothing Company and domestic The specific needs of other clothing companies are up.
To be more precise, it still needs to be seen whether Shangtong Trading Company can sell clothing products all over the world. If the demand for foreign trade increases significantly, then all subsequent production links will expand their production scale.
After inspecting Huansha Textile Company, he made a phone call to Hualong Garment Company and told them that he would go there for inspection tomorrow, and then went back to the hotel to rest.
Early the next morning, the same driver from yesterday came to pick him up at the hotel. Zhao got in the car and found a morning tea shop. After breakfast, he went to the clothing company.
When Zhao Yi arrived at the clothing company, Zi Yanran was already waiting at the door, and then took Zhao Yi to inspect various departments of the clothing company.
The first thing to observe is the design department, which currently has more than 1,000 people. The intelligent clothing design software designed by Zhao Yi and developed by the software company has been delivered to the clothing company. Now these designers are designing and sorting out global clothing design elements, making them into materials, and then inputting them into the intelligent design software system.
This intelligent design software system can intelligently automatically generate a series of clothing designs that meet the requirements based on the material library and the designer's parameter requirements, and then the designer can select his favorite designs from them, and then directly enter the production process.
This not only greatly reduces the workload of clothing designers, but also allows clothing companies to quickly produce new products. The clothing design styles generated by intelligent design software are diverse and much richer than the styles designed by designers racking their brains. With this software, clothing companies are more than one level higher than other companies in terms of the diversity of clothing styles and the speed of updates and iterations, which is conducive to seizing global market share.
Zhao Yi followed Zi Yanran and watched these designers carefully design and organize the clothing design elements one by one, and then automatically poured them into the material library. Zhao Yi's confidence in the future of the clothing company increased a bit.
The competitive pressure in the apparel industry is much greater than that in the textile industry.
The customers faced by the textile industry are generally enterprises, and the textile industry does not have as many subjective factors as the clothing industry. As long as the quality is excellent and the price is relatively advantageous, there is no fear of not being able to sell, and corporate customers are relatively more rational than individual customers.
The clothing industry is a highly subjective industry. Sometimes designers are not able to grasp what consumers like, so they need to respond quickly and respond to market demand to quickly provide good products that fully meet consumer needs. is the most important.
Another point is that the threshold for the apparel industry is very low. If you don’t count brand awareness, in fact, all companies are almost at the same level. No matter whether you enter this industry early or late, you have no first-mover advantage. Especially the garment processing industry is even more cruel.
The above factors have contributed to Longhua Clothing Company's need for such an intelligent clothing design software, and the designs produced by this design software can quickly enter the production process, which involves an intelligent clothing manufacturing system.
The smart clothing manufacturing system consists of two parts: software and hardware. The software part is still developed by a software company, while the hardware part is developed by a precision instrument company.
When the design software comes out with a design, you can click directly to enter the production process, and then the specific parameters of the design drawings will enter the smart clothing manufacturing system.
The system will scan the design drawings and design parameters, and then enter the intelligent material selection and intelligent cutting process, and then enter the cut out parts into the sewing process through the transmission device.
In this link, the status of each garment component on the smart workbench is fed back to the system in real time through the intelligent scanning system. The system makes real-time adjustments to the garment components on the workbench according to the situation, so that the quality of the sewn clothes remains consistent.
Later, we enter the quality inspection process. Obvious quality problems are first discovered through the high-resolution scanning system, and then we enter the manual inspection process to screen out unqualified products. Qualified products then enter the packaging process. This link is also mainly composed of The machine is completed with the assistance of a small number of workers.
After the unqualified products are selected, first check whether there is a sewing problem. If it is a sewing problem, it can be reworked. If it is other irreversible quality problems, it will be scrapped.
The same production volume requires only 10% of the original number of workers. In fact, when he first took up this project, Zhao Yi was very conflicted.
First, this smart production line is not cheap. The initial investment cost is huge, so it is not as cost-effective as using manual labor. After all, domestic labor is too cheap now, with wages of dozens of yuan a month.
Second, if this kind of production line is adopted on a large scale, the scale of use of workers will be reduced, and more domestic people will not be able to benefit from this industrial chain.
The above two points are contradictory to each other. If this kind of production line is expanded, in the long run, the price of a single product can be reduced, and the number of workers will be reduced significantly. If you want to increase the number of workers, then this kind of production line is destined to not be able to expand on a large scale, and the cost will remain high.
Zhao Yi is not one of those ordinary businessmen who only pursues his own interests. When it comes to Zhao Yi, money is just a means to achieve some of his own goals, not his ultimate goal.
This is why Zhao Yi is confused.
Mechanization and intelligence are definitely the trends in the future, so this aspect cannot be given up. What is urgently needed in the country now is to provide more job opportunities. Therefore, Zhao Yi internally used this smart production line as a research and development pilot, and the subsequent production will mainly be carried out manually.
Smart production line Zhao Yi will also ask his company to arrange some people to continue research and development, but to establish a few production lines on an experimental basis. He will not use it on a large scale, nor will he sell it to outsiders. He does not even want the outside world to know about it.
It can come in handy in the future when labor costs are high and there is a lack of international competitiveness, or when the number of people willing to work in this industry is getting smaller and smaller.
However, this intelligent design software is currently an artifact and will definitely help apparel companies expand their territory. There are too many categories in the clothing industry. According to gender, there are men's clothing and women's clothing, with completely different styles. According to age, there are children's clothing, youth clothing, middle-aged clothing, and elderly clothing. According to style, there are elegant style, classic style, neutral style, casual style, and light style. style, sports style, ethnic style, avant-garde style, etc.
Hualong Clothing Company not only makes clothing, but also hats, shoes, belts and other products, each of which has many categories.
In order to make product positioning clearer, apparel companies basically create a brand for each category, or operate several brands.
Without this smart design software, it would be an almost impossible task.
After inspecting the design department and the only intelligent production line, Zhao Yi went to inspect the manual production line. Currently, more than 20,000 workers in various positions have been recruited. These are just the initial number of employees. The number of employees will be increased in the future based on the order volume of the trading company.
According to a survey by a trading company, it is estimated that by 2083, several million workers will be needed to basically meet the demand for trade orders. This is the trading company's own confidence. The department store clothing retail supermarket channels all over the world give them the confidence to Apparel companies' clothing is rapidly capturing the global market.
Apparel companies also have this survey and statistical analysis report, so apparel companies have begun to prepare for the upcoming expansion. Relevant factories are already being constructed and related machine orders have been sent out.
Everything depends on the performance of the trading company. (End of chapter)