The term Industry 4.0 has been heard recently, and many of its peers are listening to it. The production process of shoes is from simple handicraft workshops to mass production in later factories. The process is nothing more than buying materials, processing, molding, and shipping. What is the so-called production upgrade? Let’s take a closer look. .

In general, Industry 4.0 is a slogan proposed by Germany to improve the intelligence level of manufacturing, to build smart factories with adaptability, resource efficiency and human factors engineering, to integrate customers in business processes and value processes. business partner. The technical basis is the network entity system and the Internet of Things. The operation is to use the IOT information system to digitize and intelligentize the supply, manufacturing and sales information in production, and finally achieve fast, effective and personalized product supply.

The "Industry 4.0" project in the footwear industry is divided into three main themes:

The first is the "smart factory", which focuses on the research of intelligent production systems and processes, as well as the realization of networked distributed production facilities; the rational allocation of various departments to improve efficiency. To put it simply, it is a reasonable planning and layout of production processes and personnel positions to reduce repeated operations and improve utilization.

The second is "intelligent production", which mainly involves the production logistics management of the entire enterprise, human-computer interaction and the application of 3D technology in industrial production processes. The program seeks to make SMEs a user and beneficiary of a new generation of intelligent production technology, and also a creator and supplier of advanced industrial production technology; the purchase of smart devices can promote the intelligentization of manufacturing processes and promote the construction of smart factories. The simulation optimization of the manufacturing process, digital control, real-time monitoring of state information and adaptive control, in order to achieve intelligent control of the entire process.

In terms of footwear manufacturing, personalized customization, direct midsole, direct molds, and smart insoles make the application of this industry more and more radiating. 3D printing system + EMP cloud platform system provides all the data information of production printing in the form of two-way interaction for the large-scale production of shoe mold industry, so that multiple devices can be monitored, managed, recorded and stored in real time, and the orders are batched and intelligently scheduled. Real-time monitoring of production processes, monitoring of material consumption, reducing time wastage, cost savings, efficiency, and big data analysis. Planning, printing, and data work closely together to ensure that operator managers can grasp changes in the production site in the shortest possible time, make accurate judgments, and develop quick response measures.

The mechanization of shoe production is to change the labor intensity and continuous manual process to mechanization. For example, CNC machine arm, high efficiency climbing, back machine, gluing machine and other manual labor effectively improve efficiency by more than 20 times.

The third is "smart logistics", which mainly integrates logistics resources through the Internet, Internet of Things, and logistics network, and gives full play to the efficiency of existing logistics resource suppliers. On the demand side, it can quickly obtain service matching and obtain logistics support.

Specifically, it is to use data technology to help merchants do store delivery, and to achieve online orders, offline delivery. The order is placed in the customer system, and the order is synchronously pushed into the factory system. The factory system automatically schedules the time and informs the departments. Each department operates the feedback display process until the final product is delivered to the customer's designated position, and the whole process can be traced back.

In addition, through the combination of artificial intelligence technology and robot technology, a "system similar to no one" is created. The entire process of automated logistics, packaging links to achieve automation, improve the operational efficiency of warehousing, from product offline to loading and shipping, without manual intervention.

Logistics robots will appear in large numbers. Whether it is Ali, Jingdong, or SF Express, all major express companies are investing in hardware development and application of intelligent logistics. As labor costs continue to increase, robot costs and labor costs will get closer. It is only a matter of time before simple repetitive labor is replaced by robots.

From the industrial age of the first steam engine, human beings constantly explored innovations. Energy-saving emission reduction, efficiency improvement, big data drive the entire supply chain recombination, whether it is upstream raw materials, manufacturing end, or downstream distribution end, will be recombined, from linear, tree-like supply chain to mesh supply chain .