As the retail sector grows from a small quantity, low quality conscious industry to a more organized and structured setup with customers fast getting educated on quality, the working styles of even the smallest of manufacturers and job workers has changed. These small ‘factories’ are now investing in technology and even looking for in-house value adding machines to ensure quality for better price and bigger share in the growing retail business which is largely dependent on outsourcing. Capitalising on the growth potential of this previously non-existent market, technology providers are making machines to suit the need and pocket of manufacturers handling small quantities in multiple styles with faster ROIs.
Taking the same opportunity at hand, Peayush Machineries with a strong-hold in the region has collaborated with Japanese sewing solution provider Brother for marketing and sales of its single head embroidery machines. For educating the job workers, fabricators, apparel manufacturers and boutique-type manufacturers from the Gandhi Nagar region in Delhi, Peayush Machineries organized a seminar showcasing single head and other compact embroidery machines from Brother. “The market has grown several folds in the recent years and has a lot of potential for automation in manufacturing… An opportunity in disguise for us,” averred Prateek Chaudhary, Managing Director, Peayush Machineries.
With the focus on embroidery machines, the highlight of occasion was the single head multipurpose PR-1000 Embroidery machine – it is not a sample embroidery machine and neither can be used as one, due to the sole reason that its output would be at least 10 times better than of a multi-head embroidery machine and the quality of production output will never match the same of sampling output, resulting in rejection. Making the PR-1000 not suitable for mass production rather for doing styles in smaller quantities with complex designs. “Since the audience hails from the Gandhi Nagar and Tank Road, Delhi regions known for mass production, the machines at first would not make sense to them as they have been working on multi-head machines for long. But with the increasing focus on quality, local manufacturers are becoming quality-conscious day by day as many big brands are being manufactured in the region who insist on quality, due to which they would have to go for these kinds of automated machines,” shared Nagesh Sharma, Product Manager – Home Sewing Machines (North & East), Brother International India.
The PR-1000 Embroidery machine offers the highest levels of ‘ease of use’ as a single operator can manage four embroidery machines at a time. Moreover when thread breakage occurs in any of the needles of a multi-head machine the complete machine stops, while the same happens in the machine also but the needle is threaded automatically and with the help of an in-built camera, one can position the needle at the point of break and start the embroidery seamlessly, without affecting the design embroidered. The camera can also be used to precisely position any embroidery design on a product’s surface. “Due to the reduced downtime of the machine, its production is just 12% to 15% less than any Chinese embroidery machine, used majorly by the manufacturers of this region,” added Shailendra Shrivastava, Product Head – Home Sewing Machine & Computerized Embroidery Machines, Brother International India.
Another highlight of the machine is its ability to manage and edit embroidery designs on its large LCD touch panel, which can be fed by a USB pen drive. The machine can operate at the lows of 400 stitches per minute (SPM) and go up to 1000 SPM, similar to that of a multi-head embroidery machine. The company claims that any person who can understand basic English like left, right, forward and backward, can learn to operate the machine in only half a day and the company itself provides on-site training for the same. Talking about the ROI of the embroidery machine, Shailendra says, “A profitable ROI can only come in 6 months if the manufacturer has maintained consistency in terms of the work being given to the machine.” Further boasting of the success of the machine, garment exporters are not only sewing the machine for sampling purposes, but the company claims that a few of its clients in Tirupur have installed 25 such machines in a line just like a multi-head embroidery machine.
