European Tour Of European Fashion And Wisdom Building Learning Group: Sweden Station

In from May 24 to 31, 2018, sponsored by China Fashion Association, China Fashion intelligent manufacturing technology innovation strategy alliance and Shanghai products Mdt InfoTech Ltd hosted the "European fashion and intelligent manufacturing benchmarking learning group" and went to France and Sweden related enterprises for fashion and intelligent manufacturing thematic benchmarking learning activities.

This study group is composed of 35 members, including YOUNGOR, Jiangsu red bean, Shandong Renault, Jin Ba men's wear, Jiangsu tiger leopard, Alibaba, Hangzhou Yifeng song dress (Yi Fuli), Su Mei Da textile, Shanghai Shanghai long, Wuxi Heng Tian, hang Si fashion, Dalian Tim and so on 21 units.

In May 29th, the reunion ended the trip to France and went to the second leg of the European tour, Sweden, to exchange learning activities.

H&M visit

Figure: H&M headquarters exchange learning

H&M is the abbreviation of Hennes&MauritzAB. It was founded in Sweden in 1947 by Erling Persson. It mainly sells clothing and cosmetics, and is one of the three fastest fashion brands in the world.

H&M has more than 4700 stores in 69 countries and employs more than 160 thousand people.

What is unusual is that H&M does not have a factory of its own. It maintains cooperation with more than 800 independent suppliers in Asia and Europe.

The secret of H&M's success lies in its advanced marketing strategy and accurate market positioning.

Let everyone afford the master design of the original price, especially for young people.

H&M review

On the afternoon of May 29th, the delegation visited H&M Sweden headquarters.

Speaker: peera and Unac

H&M Sweden headquarters has more than 6000 people, scattered in different offices in Sweden, 76% female employees, management women accounted for 72%.

Core competitiveness: leading the trend of change, a powerful global collaborative supply chain platform and logistics system, to ensure that fashion, high quality and competitive prices of goods.

Supplier: more than 800 suppliers worldwide, connecting 1668 factories.

The production system based on China and established in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.

Purpose: fashion, quality and price.

Strike a balance between fashion and quality and price.

Vision: to be a leader in fashion industry and establish a sustainable development system.

China and H&M: the rise of labor costs in China has led many factories to move away from China. But China's stable quality and mature technology make China the biggest processing country of H&M.

Three strategies: 100% leading the trend, 100% recycling and renewable, and 100% equitable and equal in the supply chain.

1, 100% lead.

The supply chain is pparent, enterprise driven, and all suppliers' information is managed on the digital platform.

2, materials are 100% recycled and renewable.

The goal of turning waste into treasure is to adopt recyclable or sustainable materials in 2030.

After recycling, they are sold to professional processing institutions for sorting, dismantling and reweaving.

We will gradually train suppliers to meet the requirements.

At present, the most carbon emission in the clothing industry is still in production.

3, 100% equitable and equal.

Wage equality, no self built factory, and suppliers to ensure that suppliers and employees get a reasonable wage.

There are 223 foundries in China, employing consultants to help workers and employers communicate.

Objective: by the end of 2018, there should be elected workers representing factories to pay wages.

Robot Valley visited Sweden

Picture: exchanging gifts between the two sides

Figure: introduction of robot Valley situation

The Swedish innovation Bureau (Vinnova) under the Swedish government began to subsidize the construction of robot Valley Robotdalen project in 2003.

Robot Valley is located in the eastern Mara lake of Stockholm. Each project can receive 10 million Swiss long ($1 million 200 thousand) per year in ten years.

Robot Valley has been a center of business innovation since the beginning.

Robot Valley has many components of a successful regional innovation system, which is why it was chosen by the Swedish government.

Robot Valley's main business is made up of four ABB, Volvo, Atlas Copco and Issa, which are active in the field of robotics. At the same time, robot valley also has many small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, many of which are sub contractors of industrial robot production.

Two universities in the region provide internationally competitive research and courses in engineering.

At the same time, "robot Valley" also actively mobilize various local intermediaries to provide support for knowledge pfer between business and academic circles.

These intermediaries provide services and facilities ranging from financing, guidance, research to laboratories, exhibitions and conference venues.

Picture: AI robot with facial expression

Figure: robot Valley exchange learning

Robot Valley review

On the morning of May 30th, the delegation visited robot Valley Robotdalen, known as the Swedish robot innovation center.

Robot Valley general manager Eriklundqvist introduces robot Valley's goal is to develop a new industry robot application solution, and is responsible for manufacturing by ABB.

At present, R & D is applied to health robot, auxiliary bathing robot (Poseidon), auxiliary feeding robot (over 1 million sold worldwide), dual arm spray painting robot and so on.

Board members come from different fields, including congressmen, University chairmen, foundation leaders and business leaders, to ensure the creativity, openness and compatibility of robot valley.

Core team: around 20 people, after the project started, the industry alliance reached 200 people.

There are more than 40 projects.

Vision: contributing to regional economic growth.

Let the robot commercialize in the new field and solve the problem of aging.

The money comes from the government and gives back to the Swedish government. China is the largest market. Currently, there are robot research and development bases in Shenyang and Beijing, in the robot Valley Project of Suzhou.

Picture: the person in charge of the specific project

ABB introduction

Picture: exchanging gifts between the two sides

ABB group is ranked the 500 largest in the world and its headquarter is located in Zurich, Switzerland.

In 1988, two international companies, ASEA and BBC Brown Boveri, merged in 1988.

ABB is a global leader in power and automation technology. It is committed to providing solutions to customers in the industry and power industry to help customers improve productivity and reduce adverse impact on the environment.

ABB Group operates in more than 100 countries and has about 124000 employees.

ABB invented and manufactured many products and technologies, including the world's first three phase pmission system, the first electric industrial robot, and took the lead in putting them into commercial applications.

ABB has a wide range of product lines, including a full range of power pformers and distribution pformers, AC and DC pmission and distribution systems, robot hardware and software, and simulation systems.

These products have been widely used in industry, commerce, electricity and public utilities.

ABB review

Photo: ABB exchange meeting

On the afternoon of May 30th, I visited ABB Westrm J factory.

The plant was established in 1974, has 2 factories, employs 1300 employees, covers an area of 25000 square meters, and produces 19 kinds of robots.

There are 3 production bases in the world, the United States of America, Westrm J, Shanghai, China.

ABB is committed to improving quality control capabilities, shortening production time, improving work efficiency, standardized workflow and improving working environment.

The goal is to achieve synergy between man and machine and improve efficiency.

The delegation visited the assembly line, the whole machine test shop and the power assembly workshop of ABB factory.

1, ABB is the world leader in industrial 4. By Digitalized virtual factory established by digital Twin, the entity factory is controlled, and the execution process and status of order execution can be monitored in real time in MES (Digital Production Execution System), and the data is updated every 30 seconds.

2, the production mode is based on orders on demand production, no inventory.

3, the production process is highly mechanized automation: AGV forklift automatic routing, robot production robot.

4, test: the performance of the machine can be tested for up to 12 hours, and the testing process is highly automated.

5, pay attention to staff work hours and work and rest, 2 shifts, 8 hours of work, afternoon coffee break time.

6, each station of the assembly line is directed to the workers' production through the MES display screen.

On "strategic alliance of Chinese clothing intelligent manufacturing technology innovation"

"China garment intelligent manufacturing technology innovation strategic alliance" was founded in 2016. It is the innovation organization of China Garment Association, which is supported by the Department of consumer goods industry of the Ministry of industry and information technology, and is the main body to promote the intelligent manufacturing of Chinese clothing.

Through the collection, pmission and service of information resources, the alliance optimizes the allocation of resources in the field of clothing intelligent manufacturing, and builds information resources platform. Through the thematic exchanges and seminars, project declarations, and technology product development, it promotes the collaborative innovation in the field of garment intelligent manufacturing, and establishes research and development platform. It promotes the industrialization application of the innovative achievements in the field of garment intelligent manufacturing, and forms a platform for the promotion of achievements through the promotion of science and technology, management innovation, new model and new business status, standard setting and evaluation demonstration.

The Union has 35 members, including 4 associations, 5 research institutes, 15 garment enterprises and 11 equipment / software suppliers.