Digitalisation Helps Garment Makers Reduce Time To Market
Recently, Changshu and China based Jiangsu Golden Morning Co. received an order to produce 60,000 pieces of garments in only 10 days, which the company managed to deliver within a week.
What enabled the company to finish the huge workload in such a short period of time was a digital technology named SewSmart which controls a hanging transmission system.
The transmission system delivers cuffs, collars, front plackets and other parts of clothes via an overhead conveyor to corresponding workstations, and records the operation of workers in real-time with tablets.
“Changshu, in east China’s Jiangsu province is home to over 4,000 garment manufacturers and 35 wholesale clothing markets, making it a major textile and garment hub,” People’s Daily reported.
Facing the impacts of fast fashion and flexible production, traditional textile manufacturers in Changshu have upgraded themselves via intelligent transition and digitalisation, to maintain an advantage.
“The intelligent collaboration system gives the workshop a rapid response capability, while application of AI technologies in all processes of garment manufacturing makes collaboration among different departments of the factory more effective,” said Liu Ke, one of the developers of SewSmart.
Suzhou Rabboni Garment another garment manufacturer in Changshu, produces millions of garments and designs more than 3,000 styles annually.
According to Chen Kai’en, chairman of the company, the traditional designing of a garment includes multiple operations such as drafting, sample production and revision, which calls for collaboration of over a dozen departments and takes 15 days.
A digital technology named Style3D has made garment designing easy at Suzhou Rabboni Garment. All an operator needs to do is to select parts of garments from a database in the system, match them together and make some adjustments and takes just 30 minutes to create a 3D sample of a garment.
