The challenge of sewing machinery in China

Facing the current situation in which investment in the industry is difficult to drive and the market is significantly weakening, the China Sewing Machinery Association pointed out at the forum on “Seeking new momentum for the development of the industry” recently that innovation is the domestic sewing industry to meet challenges. Power, and this innovation must come from within, that is, transformation and upgrading. Without transformation, it is difficult for enterprises to survive; without upgrading, the industry cannot develop.

Thanks to the rapid development of industries such as textiles and garments, in the past 30 years, China's sewing machinery industry has also achieved rapid development. In addition to satisfying domestic demand, the products have also been exported, and a number of well-known enterprises have emerged, such as Zhejiang Gems Electromechanical. Co., Ltd., Jack Holdings Group Co., Ltd., Chairman of Shanggong Shenbei (Group) Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Fangzheng Motor Co., Ltd., Xi'an Standard Industry Co., Ltd., Feiyue Group Co., Ltd., Zhongjie Holding Group Co., Ltd., Ningbo Shuanghai Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Dongguan Xiangxing Needle Car Co., Ltd.

According to relevant information provided by the China Sewing Machinery Association, in the past few years, in order to cope with market changes and improve competitiveness, China's sewing machinery industry has achieved three innovative developments. The first time began in the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, the whole industry realized the transition from home machine to industrial machine, the industrial scale and the number of companies were blowout; the second time began in the mid-1990s to the present At the beginning of the 21st century, the whole industry realized product upgrades from medium speed machines to high-speed machines, and high-speed machines became mainstream products in the market. The third time began in the middle of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” to the last two years, and the whole industry realized from mechanization to electric control. The leap has made major breakthroughs in the application models and application levels.

According to the analysis of the person in charge of the China Sewing Machinery Association, the driving forces of the first three developments of the sewing machinery industry mainly come from the outside, that is, through the investment drive and the market pulling the two engines. This development model also brings with it industry development drawbacks, including extensive inefficiencies and excess production capacity. They still seriously affect and plague the healthy development of the industry and require no change and breakthroughs.

However, how to regard endogenous power as a new engine for future development requires the entire industry to work hard. In this regard, industry experts predict that in terms of product innovation, the positioning of the next round of development of the sewing machine industry is based on the intelligent construction of the sewing unit, which has reached a consensus in the industry.

At the forum, the participants believed that the innovation of the sewing industry that originated from endogenous power should be achieved through three links.

The first is to follow the market principle of survival of the fittest, integrate industry resources, optimize the combination of factors, and gradually introduce a competitive mechanism in which certain workers in the industry are relatively rational and professional cooperation is relatively perfect, so as to avoid the occurrence of mixed development and blind development. On this basis, a group of advantageous enterprises with distinctive and qualified products will be formed, and this will lead the industry to have a healthy and effective development.

The second is to emphasize the construction of the entire industry chain and comprehensively enhance the core competitiveness. Sewing machine intelligence is a cross-industry, interdisciplinary project, and is a comprehensive application of various technologies such as mechanical, electrical, acoustic, optical, and magnetic. The depth and breadth of its industrial chain cannot be covered by the traditional manufacturing industry. It requires the entire industry to coordinate various social resources. In particular, it must attach great importance to supporting construction and ensure the synchronized and coordinated development of all links.

The third is to strengthen basic research and original innovation. Because there is a big gap between the advanced level in the world and the product innovations in the aforementioned three stages of the sewing machinery industry in China, all have imitation characteristics and the space for self-improvement is relatively large. At present, despite the gap between the technological level of our country's sewing machinery and the world's advanced level, there is no increase in the number of objects that can be used for reference, and the space for this increase has been limited. Under this circumstance, attaching importance to and earnestly strengthening the basic research and original innovation of industry-related technologies in order to obtain a steady stream of development momentum is the foundation for ensuring the lasting vitality of the industry.