In The Age Of Science And Technology, Intelligence Drives The Cost Of Footwear Industry In Taiwan To Drop By 3 To Double Capacity?

The traditional footwear industry, regarded as "sunset industry", has been able to keep up with a small number of high quality international products in recent years with the help of research institutions.

The production capacity will be increased by 1.5 times, and the cost of shoe material will be reduced by nearly 30%. The next step will be to promote the industrial alliance to help the whole process of the shoe industry in Taiwan to be fully automated.

There are about more than 500 Taiwan shoe making plants and about 15 thousand employees.

The traditional shoe making design and production rely on the experience of the old master. According to the steps of the last, the big bottom, the middle sole and the shoe upper, the production of a pair of leather shoes requires hundreds of processes and costs a lot of working hours.

But now

The demand is changing, moving towards short delivery time, small quantity, high quality and complex process.

This leads to the high cost of domestic and low price shoes, which is difficult to compete with those in Southeast Asia and Mainland China. The domestic shoe industry is faced with the problem of shortage of manpower and quantity of orders, so it is difficult to raise profits.

To ease the industrial dilemma, the Ministry of economic affairs of Taiwan has set up the "footwear rapid design proofing center" and "semi automated production demonstration base".

The footwear rapid design proofing center provides one-stop services such as product planning, design and development, proofing and trial production of high value products.

Up to now, the center has cooperated with more than 40 manufacturers such as Dong Sheng and dat Fu, and imported functional materials, human foot shoe last technology and brand marketing plan, etc., to develop more than 200 new products, and through the 3D shoe sample real software of the proofing center, it can save the process of shoe comparison and revision, plus the application of public model design and technology and mechanical equipment can quickly produce shoes, which can shorten the shoemaking process and reduce the cost of proofing by more than 30%.

Last year, the "semi automated production demonstration base" was set up to invite a number of well-known shoe companies to participate in the experience of observing and operating the machine, and coaching some manufacturers to import professional partition process design and semi-automatic assembly process to help operators pform from hand to hand to semi-automatic assembly, shorten the running in period of pformation, have reached 1.5 times the capacity to increase production, and reduced the cost of shoe upper material 15~20%.

This year, the demonstration base also helped Biao Hu.

We need to use digital color printing special shoe processing equipment, and strengthen post processing technology to speed up the introduction of mass production process.

Looking forward to the future, we will build up a database of shoe last and shoes, a shoe production resume system, a mechanical arm identification and automatic control system. With the development of high-tech or environmental protection shoe materials, we will move towards the direction of differentiation and specialization.

On the other hand, we should further integrate heterogeneous industries such as shoes, shoes and shoes to promote industrial alliances, promote automation processes and equipment, and create more efficient and international competitiveness.