JaNets

newly
Emerged technology
To improve sewing floor productivity
Definition and features
• JaNets is a shop floor control system like no other.
• It allows for data collection on all aspects of your sewing
floor to a level not possible with other systems currently
available on the market.
• Sewing machines in a line or shop floor can be interlinked
to provide data on all aspects of the production.
• With this data a factory can see where its production is
being held up,
• highlight operators
• underperforming,
• target machines with reoccurring issues - with the goal of
improving the overall effectiveness.
Cont.…
More Data More Power
JaNets is constantly collecting and compiling the data from
a sewing line. This data comes in many different forms:
from simple information on when a machine has been
turned on to more detailed statistics on machine
operations. We can split the data collected into three
distinct groups based on the level of detail contained within
it.
Cont.
• At the most basic level is information collected from RFID tags used
to register and track bundles.
• Operators scan these tags when they begin and end a sewing
bundle.
• When scanned JaNets can register the time the bundle has started
and which operator is sewing it.
• As well as this data collection, the RFID tags can be used with
JaNets to pass pre-loaded information to the operator such as the
number of units in the bundle or target time to finish sewing.
• The next level of data collection come from the sewing machines
themselves.
• JaNets is connected directly to nearly all variety of modern motors
and can collect data on the machine itself.
• This group of data collection can give you details on: exact sewing
time, when sewing stops, number of stitches and number of trims.
• As well as this data collection, the use of Juki’s digital sewing systems with JaNets
allows for two way communication, meaning data can be uploaded as well as
downloaded.
• As Juki’s new machine line up has been fully digitalized, sewing parameters can be
digitally communicated. Similarly to the function mentioned in the first basic level of
the data collection process, pre-defined parameters can be uploaded when an
operator scans the RFID tag at the beginning of a bundle.
• This function means a machine is calibrated for a specific operation without any
physical input on the machine itself.
• The operator simply scans the RFID tag and JaNets can pull and download the correct
sewing parameters for the specific bundle in a matter of seconds.
• These parameters can be set in prototyping rooms and uploaded to a server ensuring
that every machine is set up exactly as intended while also saving time and money on
manual machine calibrations.
• The ease of use means that a single operator can quickly switch over between
materials and products with no physical machine adjustments.
• If you read our previous deep dive, you will know that JaNets can suggest these
changeovers as a means of improving overall efficiency.
• Juki's JaNeT software control system for greater workflow
efficiency

While Japanese sewing machinery manufacturer Juki will exhibit a

raft of its high-speed garment assembly technologies at next year’s
highly-anticipated ITMA event, it is the company’s new sophisticated
JaNeT software control system that has the most potential to
transcend manufacturing limitations.
• The new JaNeT system from Juki is, in essence, an artificial
intelligence operative. The computational software has been
developed to interlink Juki’s digital technologies – each of which are
currently confined to an individual production process. The thinking
behind this is that, instead of employing 20+ machines to produce a
garment in its entirety, the company can now condense this workflow
into fewer (around 7 to 10) highly connected and more versatile
machines that complete production both more efficiently and cost
effectively.
• “This system will be one of the main products that we’ll be
exhibiting at ITMA,” Juki’s marketing manager Eoghan
Murray tells us. “It is a system that shows you what
production looks like for the day, it can tell you when
something looks problematic and from this, it offers a
solution. For example, it will tell you that if you move an
operator you will meet your demands faster, or if that
operator isn’t performing effectively enough, you should
move them.”
• Workflow control systems are proving popular within the
textile supply chain. Inspectorio, a start-up quality control
and supplier compliance platform, announced only this
month that it has raised US$10 million through a Series A
funding round that will allow the company to push on and
implement its garment tracking technology.
• Scouted and selected for the Target + Techstars Retail
Accelerator – a mentoring scheme designed to fast-track
innovation – the company will soon introduce its technology
within US retailer Target’s supplier facilities in a bid to
increase efficiency.
• Scalable solution
• Automated technologies continue to push the textile industry’s limits to
no end. According to Dave Gardner, managing director of SPESA, an
industry association for the apparel and sewn goods sectors, US workers
alone are now: “three times more productive than they were in 1980, and
twice as productive as they were in the year 2000 because of automation.
• “Domestic apparel shipments are up by 6.7 per cent this year, and fashion
industry sales are projected to grow by 3.5 to 4 per cent,” he added.
• Murray reaffirms this view. “The big plus for automatic machines is that it
takes less people to operate them, they work much faster and they
actually yield a better result. Of course you can have someone that does
it very well, but a machine made specifically for just this function is going
to do it better than it can be manually; 100 times better. The process is
faster, more effective and cheaper,” he noted.
• Automation is also much more beneficial when you consider the implications of
higher wages and fewer workers across industry. Murray says: “the company’s
control system could find its most effective use in countries such as the UK,
Germany and Sweden, rather than more densely populated regions, including
Bangladesh, China and India.
• “The more we look into the data, the more we see that this system could be
used across any leading factory even where wages are high. In these places,
operators are harder to find and more expensive to hire, so to get the most out
of these systems you could maximise everyone’s time and ensure that
production is as efficient as possible,” he said.
• “Digital sewing machines are the next big market,” Murray predicts. “It is
expanding and half of our machines are going into software to be able to
provide a full solution for any factory. These won’t be traditional sewing
machines that we started off with, but a one-stop-shop for any manufacturer.”
• Juki will exhibit an array of its industry leading garment assembly technologies
along with the brand new JaNeT system at ITMA 2019. It will be joined by
many exhibitors offering a gamut of innovative garment
• “Digital sewing machines are the next big market,” Murray
predicts. “It is expanding and half of our machines are going
into software to be able to provide a full solution for any
factory. These won’t be traditional sewing machines that
we started off with, but a one-stop-shop for any
manufacturer.”
• Juki will exhibit an array of its industry leading garment
assembly technologies along with the brand new JaNeT
system at ITMA 2019. It will be joined by many exhibitors
offering a gamut of innovative garment
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measures:

Stop Watch Distance

Scale Temperature

Thermometer Elapsed Time

Speedometer Weight

Odometer Rate of Travel