The Nineteenth International Footwear Technology Conference Was Successfully Held In Chennai, India.

From February 3 to 5, 2016, the nineteenth International

The technical conference was successfully held in Chennai, India.

The theme of this conference is "the shoe factory in the future". There are 30 oral speeches and 35 posters. A total of 596 participants from nearly 30 countries, 174 of them from countries and regions outside India.

Li Yuzhong, executive vice president and Secretary General of the China Leather Association, Lu Hua, Xu Chen of the Ministry of industry and more than ten delegates from the Guangdong Footwear Manufacturers Association and Quzhou Tai Wei Precision Machinery Co., Ltd., attended by Li Shu from Shaanxi University of Science and Technology as the only oral speaker in Mainland China.

UITIC chairman MORIN pointed out in his speech that the development potential of the global footwear industry is still in existence. In 2014, the global footwear output increased by 8%, reaching 24 billion pairs.

Under this growth trend, it is logical to discuss the theme of the shoe factory in the future.

In recent years, innovation, technology, automation equipment, as well as CAD, CNC cutting, automatic glue coating and other technologies have made great progress. At the same time, new information technology, social responsibility and online sales have put forward higher requirements for the development of the industry.

The oral presentation of the conference is divided into 4 introductory speeches, namely, production methods based on consumer demand, intelligent factories and agile supply chains, sustainable development and technical regulations, and new management methods to make footwear factories more attractive.

From the new millennium fashion consumers to the new millennium shoe factory

In the opening speech, Jayne from Janye Fashion Agency of the United Kingdom and Sergio Dulio from Italy ATOMlab jointly delivered a speech on "from the new millennium fashion consumers to the new millennium shoe factory".

In terms of consumption trends, Janye points out that to understand consumers in the new millennium, they are the youngest group of adults, also known as the Y generation and the Internet generation.

Consumption reached US $2 trillion and 450 billion, and their consumption demand continued to rise. They loved mobile terminals and enjoyed multi-channel consumption. They were brand controlled, socially aware, and thrifty at the same time. Their ecological awareness was constantly being awakened. Social responsibility, ethics and sustainable development were no longer just a concept for them, but they were integrated into life; their emotions and experiences were the core of their value system; they were the first generation of digital Aborigines; they were extremely digital controls, like all kinds of digital products, especially smart phones and all kinds of APP. They were highly connected with social platforms and share their preferences at any time.

There are more and more elements in the streets and lanes. Fashion consumers have new consumption habits. They hope that online and offline will get a unique seamless experience, and the requirement of offline experience is higher than that of online. They hope to show their individuality, be understood, be carefully taken care of, receive professional dress advice, and pform channels from multiple channels to cross channels to all channels.

To this end, retail needs to enhance pre-sale, sale, after-sales experience, provide customized services, rich brand story, and human nature as the core of the enterprise.

In the future development of shoe factories, Sergio points out that consumers are more and more demanding for production, such as ecological sustainability. More consumption will be based on experience, and experience will extend to production. Consumers will see more and more pparency in the process of shopping, and factories will be more pparent. Repeated labor will be replaced by robots. Intelligent factories will become more attractive to workers with their health, environmental protection and highly automation. New technologies will continue to be introduced, such as digital fingerprints based on FRID technology in products, and consumers' understanding of product information; mixed materials and 3D printing will promote consumers to become producers, consumers and even producers.

The future direction of shoe factories will include people-centered automation, multi-function production equipment, robot services, flexibility as rigid demand, distributed intelligent control, FRID tag and tracking technology, emerging trend technology integration, new CAD tools suitable for new product demand, and circular economy technology.

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Production mode based on consumer demand

In view of the rapidly changing consumer demand, Claude Paquin, from FFC, France, believes that strong brands, clear market positioning, domestic market support, the ability to respond to changes in demand, and supply chain management are all very important. We should actively adopt new information technology (online sales, product customization, improve production processes), introduce new materials (ecology, environmental protection, sustainability), establish recycling recycling procedures, and develop functional health beneficial products.

At the same time, improve the response speed of the supply, and reduce it from 4-6 months to 2 months.

Mexico CIATEC designer Elisa Alaniz believes that innovation is the process of integration of market demand and production. Design and research and development should be able to capture fashion trends and customer and environmental needs. It is necessary to accurately pfer the original intention of design and development to production, and get continuous feedback from the production department to the design department. CAD, 3D design and 3D printing have greatly improved the design level and the level of shoe making. New materials and new technologies have brought new products, and have brought greater freedom to the design.

Omar Saeed, a SERVIS company in Pakistan, said that through the efforts of brand management, product positioning and consumer demand perception, customer centered, continuously improving the frequency of ordering, shortening the delivery cycle and sharing the same level with Bata in Pakistan market.

Vera Pinto of Portuguese CTCP introduced thermoelectric conductive carbon nanoparticles into shoemaking, improving the hygienic properties of shoes, reducing the accumulation of static electricity, improving the overheating in shoes, and improving the comfort of shoes.

At present, the project (Nanofoot) is being tested in 5 enterprises in 3 European countries, covering leather finishing agents, leather and microfiber, and EVA. After the environmental impact assessment is completed, the product will be available.

The Victorien Picolet of CTC, France, studied the elderly shoes from a biomechanical perspective. The project is called ADOCS. Through the analysis of the feet of 700 elderly people, dynamic and static tests were carried out on the sample shoes made of different heel and inner sole shoes. The parameters such as posture stability and ankle stiffness were considered. The height of heel below 3 cm and the insole with a distributed protrusion can effectively reduce the risk of falls for the elderly.

Brudo Marelli from India OOM export company introduced the M2M (Made to measure) method to mass customization.

They mainly measure the foot length and foot girth, get the available shoe last by adjusting the middle part of the shoe last, the inner bottom and the outsole are cut through the CAD system, or on the basis of not changing the sole mold, the soles are disassembled and assembled after molding respectively, so as to adapt them to the adjusted shoe last.

Miguel Sanchez of INESCOPE, Spain, introduced the process of shoe customization, including shoe last scan and modification, material scanning, styling design, pattern combination program, foot scan, matching foot and last, selecting the side style, outsole, and shoe preview.

Smart factory and agile supply chain

Cesar Orgiles of INESCOPE, Spain, introduces some of the technology in shoe production, including digital design, foot scan, environmental protection and biodegradable materials, data processing, virtual try on, and many other aspects.

The Michele Cantella of ATOMlab in Italy looks forward to the future shoe factory from the perspective of human-machine interaction. In the future, it may realize the intelligent workshop controlled by tablet computers or mobile terminals, and make progress in touch screen devices and wearable devices (smart glasses, smart helmets). It can achieve production touch-screen control, gesture or body posture control, and production will enter the era of augmented reality (AR).

Aton is developing automatic cutting equipment based on mobile phone and smart glasses.

Gautham Gopalakrishna from India CSIR-CLRI introduced the tailoring control system developed by them to control the waste of leather fabric.

The Maria Ferreira of Portuguese CTCP introduces a quick response factory case. Through internal intelligent logistics system control, cutting, sewing, assembling and finishing can be effectively integrated. In the future factory, integration of horizontal and vertical systems, Internet of things, cloud computing, big data, intelligent equipment and remote mobile control will be applied.

Prerak Mittal of FDDI, India, introduced the footwear industry service. There is a big gap between demand and high quality supply. Enterprises can occupy niche market by providing services. Services can include cleaning, polishing, maintenance, re setting, and various levels of customization for special groups and fashion groups.

Klaus Freese of Germany DESMA introduces the advantages of PU and TPU direct injection molding technology, and realizes the highly automated production of all kinds of moulding agents such as fuzzing, spraying and releasing agents, laser laser and so on. With RFID and HMI, it realizes highly informative management of the whole life cycle of products. On this basis, intelligent factories and intelligent products will be realized in the future.

Li Shu of Shaanxi University of science and technology in China used CT to scan the foot images and reconstruct the foot model on the basis of bone imaging, thus improving the accuracy of foot data.

Samy Valkundamani from India NIKE said that the complexity of future production becomes more complex, and data flow is very important. ERP plays a more important role in factory pformation.

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Sustainable development and trend of technical regulations

Sergio Alonso of CIATEC in Mexico uses wet leather shavings as fillers, together with plastic raw materials, through extrusion, injection, molding and other processes to make new composite materials, which can be used as heels and other uses.

Jean-laude Cannot of French CTC studied the problem of six valent chromium in leather. Temperature, light, humidity and unsaturated fatliquor are all factors contributing to the formation of six valent chromium.

Although the EU regulations are strict in the content of six valent chromium, it does not mean that the shoe industry no longer uses chrome tanned leather, but it is entirely feasible to avoid the production of six valent chromium by various measures.

Patricia Orellano of FICE, Spain, introduced a tool for calculating carbon footprint of shoes. The average carbon emissions were 36 kg for each pair of shoes tested in 4 European countries and 36 shoes.

In the speech, John Hubbard of SATRA said that by adopting the advanced management system, it can bring substantial returns to sustainable development. For example, the company's cutting system software can reduce the area of leather used by 8%, the sewing management system can increase the production capacity by 30%, and the production line rebalancing can increase the production capacity by 18%.

The Pasca Matteo of ARS, Italy, introduced the "sustainable development" training project. Through training the needs of 82 Enterprises, the training of experts for sustainable development of footwear industry was carried out, and a training system for designing and developing materials and social responsibility was designed to introduce online learning, pay attention to skills and spread the concept of sustainable development.

Wang Wei, from Hongkong cordis footwear industry, looks forward to the future green factory from the perspective of production process, products, personnel and supply chain.

New management makes shoe factories more attractive.

Ferenc Schmel, a UNIDO expert, stressed the role of human quality in future factories. Although the footwear industry developed from manual to mechanized to automation, the development of footwear industry will rely more on talents who are capable of managing talents in the fashion, market and technology fields, which requires continuous training.

If we only pay attention to the price of products, we will have a lower price in the future. We should do well in product innovation and service.

Ivan KRAL, who is also from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, said that continuous knowledge and skills learning is very important. At present, many organizations can provide various kinds of training, while robot assisted training, online learning, remote assistance, etc., can provide various cost-effective training, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization has similar online learning projects.

The Raja Chidambaram of URS Productively of India introduced the application of benchmarking in shoe industry, and effective benchmarking can be carried out through online tools Beam.

The Syed Manzur of APEX, Bangladesh, shows the appearance of Apex happy factory in video form. Besides, they are also very concerned about social responsibility, employee welfare and technical regulations.

The Aura MIHAI of GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI of Romania introduces the development of the training project CAD INGA 3D project, which introduces the technology of CAD into the traditional footwear education and training, providing an online learning platform to meet the needs of the new generation of learners.

Among them, Icad 3D software is the foundation of the project.

Elisabeth Rouiller of ISC, Germany, stressed the importance of training and continuing education, enabling employees to acquire various skills and enhance their working ability, which is very important for the future of enterprises.

ISC is currently carrying out dual system vocational training projects, as well as professional training programs for sustainable (production) development posts.

The Sadiq Md SADIQ of CSIR-CLRI India focuses on the role of color trends in fashion design and design research and development.

At present, the leather industry in India is developing fashion prediction, one of which is color prediction, which will enhance the design level and product quality of India leather products.

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UITIC member meeting held in the same period

At the end of the speech session in February 5th, the UITIC member conference was held.

This meeting adopted the summary of the eighteenth session of the general assembly, passed the 2013-2016 year UITIC financial report, informed the members of the Executive Committee and the resignations and additions of the UITIC management personnel. Wang Wei, an executive member of the new Hongkong, China, introduced the composition of the technical committee, and was ready to set up a new Exchange Committee. He passed the decision to award the special award of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization expert Ferenc Schmel and the Andreas Tepest of the German Dechimann company, and decided to continue to develop new members for Ethiopia and other countries.

According to the vote of the members, the twentieth UITIC conference will be held in Oporto, Portugal in the spring of 2018, by the Portuguese Association (APICCAPS) and the Portuguese footwear technology center (CTCP).

Factory visits helped delegates to understand the footwear industry in India.

Factory visits are part of the agenda of this conference.

According to the arrangement, the delegates visited the Farida group Kennore Footwear Company and the RAM group BBK leather shoes company, all of which started from leather making, then extended to the footwear industry, and the shoe manufacturing industry has a high level of production technology, and the two products are mainly used for export.

Farida group has a history of 58 years, with an annual turnover of US $250 million. It has 15 million pairs of shoes, 1 million 500 thousand pairs of vamp, and 18 million square feet of finished leather. It has 20000 employees, and its customers are Bally, Grenson and so on. It ranks first among leather and leather products exports in India.

High quality Goodyear shoes are one of the key products of the company.

Ram group started in 1994, the company has 15 thousand people, 9000 of whom are women. Its footwear company BBK has 8600 pairs of shoes per day, 10 thousand pairs of shoe production capacity, and three DESMA disc injection molding machines. Its cooperative brands include ECCO and other international famous brands.