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The clothing industry is a sustainable sunrise industry, and everyone needs to consume clothing products. With the gradual transformation of the clothing industry to the creative industry, in the clothing industry supply chain, it is often the brand owners with strong brands that make high profits. For clothing factories, they still rely on earning meagre processing profits to survive. However, as the operating costs of factories continue to rise, the majority of garment factories that have grown to a certain scale and are experiencing sluggish growth have begun to look forward to introducing new changes and leading enterprises on the journey of new growth. Fortunately, the booming enterprise information market is ushering in the golden age of the full application of RFID technology.
Apparel companies are experiencing weak growth
As we all know, with the rise of emerging industrial countries in Asia, the international clothing market is undergoing tremendous changes. China’s adjustment of clothing export tax rebates, as well as the continuous rise of domestic labor costs and prices, will face domestic production-oriented textile and clothing companies. A more severe test.
Not long ago, we visited a garment manufacturing company with more than 3,000 workers in Kunshan, Jiangsu. The vice president of production, Mr. Sun, introduced to us: “Our company’s profits are getting thinner and there is a serious shortage of workers. It is difficult to understand the production of orders in real time. Progress often results in some new orders not being accepted. We tried to introduce a production management system based on bar code technology to improve production data collection, but in fact it did not help to improve the efficiency of the factory.”
In fact, this is a common problem faced by many garment manufacturers. Costs continue to increase, profits continue to decrease, but shipments do not increase significantly, and companies will inevitably experience weak growth.
RFID technology becomes the new favorite
The application of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) in the field of clothing production provides a solution of considerable reference value for solving these problems. Basically, RFID production management solutions include RFID software systems, RFID cards, card readers and servers.
First, associate the data of each package with the number card (RFID card) and tie it to the package of cuts, and then pass the package of cuts to each station in the production workshop, and then the workers in the workshop will record the information of the employees. The employee card and number card are inserted into the card reader on the workstation; the on-site information of each process (including employee work efficiency, process completion status, etc.) is automatically and quickly reflected to the back-end system, and the manager can inquire at any time. In addition, some systems also support the conversion of package counting from the sewing line to a single-piece flow in the subsequent process, so as to realize the tracking of the whole process on the production line.
Immediately and accurately reflect the working status of workers and the production status of the production line to the computer system, which is convenient for managers to grasp the production progress in time. Accurate calculation of production capacity and production cycle through data information, timely detection of production bottlenecks, and help managers optimize production management processes and improve production capacity.
Yum and Zymmetry join hands to revolutionize garment factory management
On April 18, 2008, Yum Software Co., Ltd. and Hong Kong Zymmetry (Qiyu) Group held a “RF125 Garment Factory Management Solutions Exhibition” in Changshu City, Jiangsu Province, a famous clothing town. At this event, The two parties jointly exhibited a world-leading RFID technology-based clothing factory management solution-RF125, which was warmly welcomed by customers.
The RF125 garment factory management solution uses radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to obtain real-time production information and worker efficiency through the production process, providing a complete solution for the factory, helping managers to obtain data from the system platform, at any time Learn about the purchase of raw materials, employee performance, production progress, and the number of products in progress anywhere, so as to balance each production line in real time and monitor it in real time. At the same time, it also provides a series of report tools to help managers make decisive decisions from different perspectives.
At the event, Mr. He Meng, the general manager of Changshu Tongda Knitting & Textile Co., Ltd., specially came to talk with more than a hundred local entrepreneurs who came to the conference and shared his own factory management experience. Tongda is the first company in Changshu to introduce RF125 solutions. It has not been three months since the application of RF125 solutions. However, Mr. He is deeply touched by the tremendous changes brought about by the RF125 system: “The implementation of the RF125 system has changed the middle level. The ideology of cadres has changed from focusing on one point to one aspect. Secondly, it greatly improves the work efficiency of workers and achieves a win-win situation for both the company and the workers.”
In order to illustrate the effectiveness of the actual application of RF125, Mr. He gave an example: “In our production process, there is a process for nailing tags. The normal daily output was 600 pieces/person. Now the standard working hours are calculated, with the cooperation of the RF125 system. , The current daily output can reach 1,200 pieces/person.”
The increase in production efficiency has brought about a significant increase in production capacity. Mr. He finally introduced: “Our factory orders have been scheduled until the end of the year. Some foreign customers came to the factory and saw that we applied RF125 technology management solutions, and they were full of confidence in our factory management, because we can be accurate at any time. The data on the production line, how many finished products are completed, how many semi-finished products are left on the production line, which process affects the production schedule, and other issues can be obtained in real time.”
There was also a small episode at the event. A sewing equipment sales representative told a short story to everyone, “Tongda Company is our old customer and has always used the sewing equipment we provide. Recently, the sewing equipment encountered broken needles and jumped The production manager of Tongda Company rushed to find us and asked us to solve the problem within one hour. I asked the factory manager why it was so urgent. The factory manager said that our workers are working after using the RF125 system. The efficiency is very high, and the income is more than 30% higher than before, so they are not willing to waste a minute now. Invisibly, the application of RF125 has also improved workers’ motivation.” The sales representative also said frankly, “We are next It is also necessary to strengthen the after-sales service and service team building, so as to ensure immediate service to our customers and meet the emergency troubleshooting needs after the application of the RF125 system.”
RFID technology, leading enterprises into the journey of new growth
Mr. Tong Cheng, CEO of Zymmetry Group in Hong Kong, pointed out that with the continuous reduction of the application cost of RFID technology, in the next few years, RFID technology will be widely used in the apparel industry. The industry often feels that RFID technology is out of reach and the cost is too high. In fact, this is a one-sided concept. From the analysis within 3 years, the total cost of ownership of RFID is even lower than that of solutions using traditional barcode technology.
The RFID tag used by Prada High-end Garment Group on the products of the Epicenter flagship store in New York. When customers wear Prada clothes passing by their store, the RFID system will control the display in the store to show the model showing the same clothes on the T-shaped stage in Milan. . For most of the clothing companies in Europe and the United States with a certain scale have begun to actively expand the application fields of RFID technology, and even thinking about how to enhance the customer’s consumption experience, domestic clothing manufacturers may start to act.
In 2008, RFID technology is leading the garment factory into a new growth journey at an unprecedented speed. However, the key point is that you have to be able to catch it!
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