Software design to plan production of shoes – The Economist

In order that the shoe industry take full advantage of the capacity of the machinery for the production of footwear and operators, researchers from the Center for Applied Innovation in Competitive Technologies developed a system for production planning.

In order León.- that the shoe industry take full advantage of the capacity of the machinery for the production of footwear and operators, researchers at the Center Applied Innovation in Competitive Technologies (Ciatec) developed a system for production planning.

Even that manufacturing can be monitored through a smart device from anywhere in the world, says Miguel Rangel Chowell leader area Ciatec applications and systems.

” The first benefit for the employer is to reduce footwear that breaks the hard settings you have. Quality and delivery time would they cover or if at some point it was presenting delays in the process, the system would reflect “.

In the research center located in Leon, identified that a high percentage of shoe factories, used only 40% of the potential of the installed machinery.

The system developed together with the company Scalini, specializing in the manufacture of machines for the shoe industry, helps the footwear production units to increase and decrease the time. Thus also the staff did this idle and part of the process where actually required.

So, even hiring more staff and / or acquisition of additional machinery avoided, Ruben Hernandez Delgado abounds Department of Technology and Business Intelligence.

For just over a year, experts Ciatec began with the development of software to optimize the production process mainly mounted on the side of the shoe.

The project is in the center of the mount, where you can have 20 to 30 different activities in the construction of a pair of shoes depending on style and pattern. This ranges from the preparation of preparation to cut the liner, place the items to remain in the same way as the last, sewing, gluing the sole to embellish it with ornaments.

The main objective Rangel Hernandez explains, is aimed at companies of all sizes achieve real-time to identify which reduces shoemaking and incuso quality, with information that is identified in the machinery and which takes the user through the software developed.

“The information will be used for adjustments in its production or historical way to assess the quality, which is coming your product and based on that they have some custom settings.”

With the developed software can determine the humidity, temperature and speed up throughout the day production, which can be considered adequate planning of shoe manufacturing, detailing Jesus Hernandez Delgado adviser CIATEC system.

Prior to the development of analysis software to explore how they plan in the shoe factories to increase production to obtain new customers, and identified are realized usually acquire more machinery and increase Staff, without it being absolutely necessary.

And is that according to which detected able to identify the machinery that counts for the manufacture of footwear is used only 40% to 50% of their potential, and this companies exploit system would achieve more than 90% the power of the team.

The development Scalini industries that particularly developed for the company, started with the prototype which included automating mounted ovens also to establish electronic communication between the software and computer cards. The information in real time to determine the quality with which the shoe is made, can be obtained through a mobile device via the Internet from anywhere in the world.