Voltas Textile Machinery Division in partnership with Shima Seiki, a leading Japanese textile machines manufacturer with global presence & global leader in Flat Knitting Technology is aggressively adding value to the flat knitting technology in India. After the successful launch of Experience Centres in Ludhiana and Tirupur, the Division opened up the Experience Centre at Faridabad on 24th June 2022.
This Experience Centre have the latest Flat Knitting Machines, Apex Design System and wide variety of Samples and it shall be one of the modern & first class facilities for Training & Development of Human intellectuals dedicated to the Indian textile industry, particularly to the Knitwear industry.
Ueno, GM Shima Seiki, Tagami, Area Sales Manager Shima Seiki, Dr Bipin Kumar, Professor Textile Dept. IIT Delhi, Kuldeep Saxena, Pradip Roy, K M Nizar Ali, Voltas TMD team and Shima Seiki customers were present during the inauguration.
SHIMA SEIKI’s manufacturing concept realizes digitalization, mass customization and sustainability. With the SDS-ONE APEX series design system and software at its core, the TOTAL FASHION SYSTEM realizes effective communication between the planning, production and sales stages through smooth workflow and feedback of key information. Smart, speedy and sustainable manufacturing realizes an industrial reformation that helps lead customers to success.
Gathering Resources
SHIMA Datamall is an online service that allows users to search, browse and purchase a variety of useful digital data for planning, production and sales of fashion items.
Design It
Design is then performed on our SDS-ONE APEX series design system and software. For example, colour variations can be evaluated in an instant to save time.
Digitizing Yarns
Meanwhile, yarn is selected. Spinning companies digitize their yarn for each season. Designers therefore have access to accurate yarn data without having to perform their own scanning. Using digital versions of actual yarns is what makes SHIMA SEIKI’s knit simulations so realistic. This facility can be avail from Shima Seiki Yarnbank / Digital Yarn sourcing website.
Virtual Sampling
With APEX series, knit design is based on patterns. Those patterns are combined, just as in real life, to produce a 3D simulation of a model wearing the garment, called a “3D virtual sample.”
Advantages of virtual samples
• Reduction of materials required for sample making
• Time-savings
• Improvement of presentation quality
• Powerful sales promotion tool
• Utilization for demand forecasting and reservation sale
Controlling Production
The results of demand forecasting using virtual samples can be used for production planning. Production is managed with Shima KnitPLM, the most comprehensive PLM system available for knitting.
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Knit It
With the SHIMA SEIKI flat knitting machine, everything from traditional sweaters to even the delicate couture products can be freely and efficiently produced.
Knitting Machine
Choosing WHOLEGARMENT
Production on WHOLEGARMENT knitting machines yields benefits not possible with conventional knitting methods. WHOLEGARMENT is also capable of on-demand knitting, for supporting mass customization.
Cut It
We have a line up of various cutting methods, cutting areas, and cutting thicknesses according to the production of a wide variety of items.
CAD/CAM Systems
Enabling Presale
Virtual samples can be especially useful for gauging consumer response to items before they hit the stores.
Consumer preference can be fed back to the design stage, while pre-order data can be used to determine demand.
Just in Time
Eliminating Bargain Sales
Products are shipped to the retail store in smaller quantities based on demand forecast adjusted to suit current market conditions.
When depleted, stock can be replenished with on-demand WHOLEGARMENT knitting. This prevents lost sales opportunity due to insufficient inventory.
By repeating this process throughout the season, optimized inventory levels can be maintained through Just-in-Time inventory.
By the end of the season, the entire inventory can be sold at retail prices, maximizing profit with nothing left unsold
As a result, the Total Fashion System realizes production with no inventory loss, no leftover stock, no lost sales opportunity, and especially no waste to burn or bury, resulting in Smart, Speedy and Sustainable production. A completely new fashion distribution revolution that reverses the concept of conventional knit production.
This is the Total Fashion System only available from SHIMA SEIKI.
This experience centre welcomes students, academics, industrial professionals, designers, retailers, and R&D Professionals for exploration and utilization of the facility.
