ICOL touts faster way to Industry 4.0 for shoemakers
19/02/2020
The Spanish company claims the platform offers a solution for cutting, roughing, priming, gluing and drying the parts, and can reduce the time it takes to make a leather shoe by a factor of five.
Dimitry Gontsov, ICOL’s CEO, said: “Shoe production all over the world, as a rule, is semi-automated. Certainly, most operations have long been performed by machines, but that still happens with active, sometimes crucial involvement of the operator.
“ICOL Group offers an integrated solution for unique, fully robotised production line for cutting natural leather, where artificial intelligence and robots simultaneously perform many different operations, from defect identification and digital mark-up on leathers to stage by stage detail cutting and other necessary manipulations and preparations.
“For each new production cycle, the equipment is reloaded using digital twins and virtual cutting simulation. According to preliminary estimates, our robotised production lines are 3-5 times more effective than the tradition solutions present in the market.”
The Industry 4.0 solution has been tested in what it calls a “next generation digital factory” at the Belwest footwear factory in Belarus.
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