Vosges Group embarks on a path of high-quality development
“More than ten years ago, the Vosges Group had more than 22,000 employees at its peak, and now the total number of employees is 13,000people, but the output has increased by nearly 30%. What is behind this decrease and increase? This shows that the Vosges people are updating their equipment. We have indeed done a lot of exploration and practice in management innovation and technological innovation.”A few days ago, Xiao Maochang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Vosges Group, said in an interview.
In the past year 2021, Vosges Group, a famous Chinese manufacturing company well-known in Asia, Europe, the United States and Australia, achieved its first breakthrough in exports5 An eye-catching answer worth US$100 million. In the manufacturing industry, the substantial increase in per capita output is the result of the continuous improvement of an organization’s ability to create benefits. Over the years, the Vosges Group has improved the quality of its employees by accelerating automation, intelligent transformation and process technology innovation, and has embarked on a high-quality development path that does not increase personnel, does not reduce output, and greatly improves production efficiency.
To make iron, you need to be tough yourself. Vosges Group has built a complete industrial chain from national enterprise technology centers and national laboratories to national green factories covering spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, and assembly, to global trade and domestic and foreign brand marketing. . Vosges Group focuses on market changes, “forces“ internal reforms, strengthens the body and cultivates internal strength, and improves cost control, quality management and talent training. and other links“all-round“ are promoted in equipment maintenance, energy utilization, information transformation, process reengineering, etc. In terms of “Combined” efforts have been made, which has significantly improved various basic management and laid the foundation for the international market. Provide solid support to win global competition.
Equipment updates add kinetic energy: from two people watching one row to each person watching four rows
The Vosges Group continues to accelerate the conversion of old and new kinetic energy, and introduces internationally leading major technical equipment from Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Italy and other countries3000 multiple units (sets), and all weaving production is seamless shuttle. In recent years, the Vosges Group has made precise investments to strengthen and strengthen the chain, and batch technical transformation projects have been successfully implemented. Focusing on equipment automation, energy conservation and emission reduction, efficiency improvement, product structure adjustment, and safety and environmental protection upgrades, Vosges Group has successively completed automatic additive delivery, automatic sewing equipment, integrated hanging systems, steam temperature and pressure reduction, and high-temperature overflow machines. A number of technical transformation projects such as high-voltage transformation and energy monitoring have optimized the process flow and improved operating efficiency.
In the cotton spinning process, the number of workers per 10,000 spindles has dropped from the original 100people to less than 20 people. At the same time, , the rate of high-quality products increased by 10%, and energy consumption decreased by 5%. “In the past, two of us could look at one row of equipment, but now that the equipment is advanced, one person can look at three to four rows of equipment.” Sun Lianying, the on-duty lathe of the No. 2 Cotton Spinning Factory, said.
In the weaving process, it is equipped with first-class looms from Switzerland, Japan, and Germany, as well as advanced automated temperature and humidity control systems, and ERP information management systems, which greatly improves production efficiency. and product quality.
In the garment-making process, the use of hanging threads has significantly improved sewing efficiency. Combined with the promotion of “SOP” standard working methods, the average output of yukata per sewing worker has increased 50%.
In the printing and dyeing process, the automatic dye and auxiliary delivery system achieves accurate measurement and fast delivery. “The process is controllable, errors are reduced, and each person walks less 5 kilometers per class.“ Lu Jie, the dyeing team leader of the printing and dyeing workshop, said that the automatic system can set multiple materials at one time, reducing the time of picking materials, reducing human errors, and reducing dangerous operations.Workers can look at at least one more piece of equipment.
Management innovation brings benefits: every employee strives for excellence
In recent years, Vosges Group has established and improved a lean management system featuring full participation, division of labor, organic coordination, system specifications, and layer-by-layer supervision. 2021The newly revised “Vosges Group Production/Quality/Cost Management System Implementation Rules” has more than 90,000 words, and every line reflects the efforts of Vosges people to strive for excellence. According to the annual operating contracting responsibility system, the Vosges Group has done an in-depth management of the sub-contracting units, and refined the factory indicators to the workshops, the workshop indicators to the teams, and the team indicators to the individuals, and all employees worked hard to reduce costs. and efficiency improvement goals.
Being awarded the first prize for management innovation “A breakthrough in precise yarn scheduling in yarn-dyed products“, It subverts the previous calculation method and is highly innovative. It breaks the inertial thinking that has been calculated in meters for many years. Through accurate measurement and weighing, more accurate wool and warp yarn data can be obtained, reducing the remaining number of warp beams and the number of complements. , remaining colored yarn, overweight and light products, etc., reducing raw material costs.
The “Operation Instructions” of the printing continuous piece washing machine once roughly listed the three types of process parameters for dark, medium and light colors. In practice, the results are often far better than customer standards and result in quality“surplus“. Through the “Precision Craftsmanship” action, employees have taken steps to track, test, and adjust process parameters in a timely manner on a product-by-product basis. This approach has improved equipment speed and production efficiency by 15% while reducing water, electricity and steam consumption.
Technological innovation helps development: Breaking “Ten-year consistent system“
The Vosges Group attaches great importance to technological innovation, continues to invest, and has accumulated momentum to promote the overall innovation of the enterprise to achieve a qualitative leap. The Vosges Group has a national-level enterprise technology center that coordinates various production entities to jointly tackle production technology problems, strengthens research on external industry trends, the application of new materials and new technologies, and the promotion of its own internal innovations, and accelerates the formation of product innovation and key technologies. “Hardcore“ support.
Vosges Group strengthens green technology innovation, focuses on the trend of carbon reduction and zero-carbon, deepens the full life cycle management of products, and uses green technologies such as less water and energy saving, less chemical dyeing and finishing to promote the sustainable development of enterprises. In 2021 alone, Vosges people have developed and applied “printing measurement and color matching intelligent systems“” span>Research on precise calculation of weft yarn“”Development and application of low carbon tube yarn pretreatment process“ etc. Breakthroughs have been made in nearly 100 innovations and considerable current and long-term benefits have been achieved.
The “Printing Color Testing and Color Intelligent System” was developed under the leadership of Li Hongying, a model worker in the national textile industry. The entire process eliminates the need for manual labor. The low-end working methods of color search, manual weighing, manual stirring, and manual proofing realize the intelligent and automated working mode of the entire printing and color matching process of automatic color measurement, automatic dripping, automatic mixing, and automatic printing. “We just want to break the ‘ten-year system‘ , in the past, we could print 100 color samples per day, but now we can print 150 or more. span>”Li Hongying said that for difficult color numbers, it takes 5 to 6 manually times or more, the computer color matching only needs 1 to 2 times to call it up Correct process formula.
“In business, there is no best, only better.”Chairman Xiao Maochang said that in terms of quality control, process innovation, process optimization and cost Vosges people must continue to insist on control, saving potential, equipment maintenance, energy management and other key links without slacking off.
Chairman Xiao Maochang’s words conveyed confidence and strength——“We will focus on economic benefits and deepen reform as the driving force, focusing on market development and project construction. The two major battles focus on strengthening the two internal driving forces of internal management and technological innovation, and strive to accelerate the high-quality development of the Vosges Group.”
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Chairman Xiao Maochang’s words conveyed confidence and strength——“We will focus on economic benefits and deepen reform as the driving force, focusing on market development and project construction. The two major battles focus on strengthening the two internal driving forces of internal management and technological innovation, and strive to accelerate the high-quality development of the Vosges Group.”
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