Footwear Industry Market
According to the latest data from 2023, it is estimated that about 24 billion pairs of shoes were produced worldwide that year.
The global footwear industry has seen steady growth in recent years, driven by rising population, rising incomes, and changing fashion trends. Major shoe manufacturing hubs are located in countries such as China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and parts of Europe and North America.
While exact production figures can fluctuate year-over-year depending on economic conditions and consumer demand, overall global footwear production has been in the range of 20-25 billion pairs per year over the past decade. This makes the shoe industry one of the world’s largest manufacturing sectors.
Shoes Defect Detection Case:
Our footwear customers also have a huge need for pre-factory inspection of shoes, and we share and document our custom machine vision shoe defect detection equipment for one of them below.
In the actual production line, if shoes are produced and defects are detected manually, there will be a lot of false detection rates:
For example, small defects and holes in shoes, in the case of large background interference, naked eye detection will cause rapid fatigue:
Small defects such as these that are not carefully observed will lead to misjudgment if they are not carefully detected:
