Hugo Boss: Deploying smart factory solution in Izmir

Hugo Boss is a high-end German fashion brand, specializing in supplying exported garments to many countries around the world. The company’s headquarters are located in Izmir, Turkey and is also the first unit of Hugo Boss to apply smart factory solution.

 “Digitization” plays a decisive role for enterprises’ competitiveness in the period of Industry 4.0. Manufacturers will get many benefits when applying advanced technologies in their production lines such as process management, improving labor safety, speeding up production or minimizing errors, handicap and restrict manual operations. Hugo Boss – founder of high-end fashion brand of the same name in Germany, believes that smart sewing factory will aim for automation and optimization of smart and more advanced processes.

The more “smart” the factory is, the greater the advantage in the business. The costs incurred will be gradually eliminated while product quality and prestige will increase inversely inversely. The manufacturing processes also become more flexible, easier to adjust, in line with the rapid changes of the market.

Hugo Boss smart factory is built on three pillars: digital transformation, automation robot applications and artificial intelligence.

– Digital transformation helps developers create digital maps, copies of the factory and track production data in different areas and locations.

– The application of semi-automatic and fully automatic robots assists employees in optimizing production processes; enhance accuracy and minimize manual operations.

– And the application of artificial intelligence will help people easily realize the potential and potential risks. This allows machines, equipment and processes to be managed on a predictive basis.

In addition to integrating intelligent systems into production, Hugo Boss also focuses on training and developing human resources. Smart plants will not be able to successfully convert without operators. Therefore, the staff will be the control and proficient use of these tools.

It can be said that the Hugo Boss smart sewing factory not only demonstrates the success in the development of fashion industry, but it is also the oil achievement in the application of advanced technology in production lines. Hugo Boss promises to improve the whole business, the smart factory in Izmir is only the beginning of the whole process.

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