"Yuxin Footwear Ltd." is dedicated to the design, development and production processing of shoes and hats. In 2004, Since its establishment in 2014, the production scale has been gradually expanded and the production base was expanded in July 2022.

Because it sensed the attractions of GBOS intelligent manufacturing, it once again joined hands with GBOS in this development to create a customized intelligent manufacturing workshop belonging to Yuxin, thus breaking the existing production bottlenecks.

01 The production bottleneck and challenges faced by Yuxin Footwear Ltd. 

The main production of Yuxin Footwear is sports footwear, and orders are growing in small, diversified and complex models.

As the traditional machine cannot meet the demand of such growing trend, and the output and efficiency have reached the bottleneck, it is difficult to meet the demand of growing orders.

At the same time, with the rising prices of mould cost, labor cost and material cost, the profit space of the enterprise is narrowed and the production cost increases further.

After recognizing these production bottlenecks and challenges, enterprises through a variety of information research, found that in order to change this difficult situation, it is necessary to complete the "digital" change from above.

Only through digital solutions can we obtain data from production and other ports, so that we can make a strong support for the relevant strategies, and realize "Smart Manufacturing 4.0" gradually, leading the enterprise to go further.

02 Reasons for partnering with GBOS

When investigating the reasons for selection of GBOS, its director mentioned that "GBOS's solution is the best in terms of quality and efficiency".

Therefore, we adopt GBOS one-stop intelligent cutting + innovative process solution: Intelligent Nesting System ITS3-3012 + Intelligent Cutting Equipment for Regular Materials VC9-1670T/N + Intelligent Cutting Equipment for Irregular Materials KC1630TT-GAT+ Smart Line Making Machine with Ink Cartridge SP-GH1280-AT-SCCD, thus realizing efficiency improvement in production and shortening delivery cycle time, so as to attract more customers.

① Cost saving and efficiency improvement

Productivity benefit: 1 oscillating knife cutting machine ≈ 2-3 traditional punching press machines; labor cost saving of about 70% compared to the planar cutting machine and about 25% compared to that of swing arm cutting machine.

1) The capacity of one unit of oscillating knife about 780,000pcs/10h/26days/unit.
2) The capacity of auto line marking machine is about 234,000 pieces/10h/26 days/unit.
(Note: The data is for reference only, the specific data need to be cut piece size and product requirements)

② Optimization of material utilization
The leather nesting solution is to be ability to: complete a leather nesting in three minutes, nesting utilization rate up to 85% or more, and speed up cutting efficiency by about 20%. (Note: the data is for reference only, the specific data to cut the complexity of the piece)

③ Digital Management
OEE digital kanban helps enterprises to digitally manage and realize real-time view of production data, output and efficiency.

The digital production model has empowered Yuxin Footwear Ltd. to gain new production advantages, and hopefully, we will see more digital factories succeed in the future.