When The Traditional Shoe Industry Meets The Spark Of Artificial Intelligence, It Is Inevitable

When the world is focusing on "AlphaGo", Wenling's enterprises have already cooperated with AI.

According to the Implementation Opinions of Wenling City on Accelerating the Innovation of the "Machine Replacement" Mechanism in the Shoe Industry issued last year, the city is introducing a competitive subsidy mechanism to encourage and guide shoe manufacturers to implement the "machine replacement" project.

This document specifies footwear industry The subsidy standard and coverage of machine replacement include that Wenling City Finance will arrange funds in a ratio of 1:2 to reward enterprises to purchase industrial robots; Give key subsidies to those with total actual investment of more than 500000 yuan and identified as key projects of "machine replacement" in the city.

In the process of promotion, the city also identified 8 of the first batch of demonstration enterprises, such as Bike Sports, Boyang Shoes and Zhuoling Shoes, among 39 "machine replacement" pilot projects in the shoe industry, with a total investment of more than 50 million yuan.

In 2014, Wenling The city has implemented 100 key projects of "machine replacement". By 2015, this figure had doubled, and the amount of investment had increased from 1.631 billion yuan the previous year to 3.004 billion yuan.

Among them, traditional shoe industry and artificial intelligence The collision of is particularly striking.

Under the guidance of the enterprise, an unprecedented upsurge of "machine replacement" has been set off. In 2014, Taizhou Boyang Shoes Co., Ltd. invested more than 8 million yuan to purchase 100 automatic knitting machines, replacing the traditional shoe production method with "fly weaving" technology. It not only saved a lot of labor costs, but also doubled the production efficiency and increased the profit of the enterprise from 8% to 15%.

But this is only the first step. "We not only need to 'replace people with machines', but also build robots," Cai Jianhua, the head of the enterprise, told reporters. The automatic glue spraying line and automatic sole grinding machine jointly developed by Boyang Shoes and Ningbo Cixing Co., Ltd. have entered the stage of small batch trial production.