Intelligent Manufacturing and Traditional Textile Industry Transformation

China is vigorously advancing the "Made in China 2025" and accelerating the transition from a manufacturing giant to a manufacturing powerhouse. In the specific case of the textile industry, it is also facing a transition from "big" to "big and strong." China should speed up the integration of a new generation of information technology and the textile and apparel industry, and promote the development of the textile and apparel industry toward green, low-carbon, digital, intelligent, and flexible.

Intelligent Manufacturing is the Inevitable Way to Transform the Traditional Textile and Garment Industry

The machine can cut a pair of jeans in 18 seconds, and it can complete the washing effect in 3 minutes. Aishida Clothing Co., Ltd. has independently developed a smart laser engraving and cutting machine, which greatly improves the production efficiency and greatly reduces the cost.

“In the future, more companies need to use our smart tailoring technology.” According to Fan Youbin, founder of Astar, smart manufacturing is the inevitable path for the future transformation of the traditional clothing industry, otherwise it will be eliminated by the market. Tian Qiming, chairman of Aidengbao (China) Co., Ltd., believes that in today's labor shortage and high labor costs, the change in smart manufacturing is one of the effective ways for traditional manufacturing to get out of its current predicament and can help companies increase profitability. Increase core competitiveness.

"Made in China 2025" proposes to use three decades to realize the transformation of China from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power. Specific to the textile and garment industry, it is also facing a transition from "big" to "big and strong", but this is an opportunity as well as a challenge. China's textile and garment industry can only survive in the cracks by only having the courage to try and innovate and take the path of smart manufacturing.

Sun Ruizhe, vice president of the China Textile Industry Federation, believes that the textile and apparel industry has the foundation and advantages to advance into the camp of textile giants in the world. However, intelligent manufacturing is a necessary step for the transformation and upgrading of the traditional textile and garment industry and the march towards a strong textile country.

Judging from the existing path, the textile and apparel industry will promote smart manufacturing, and will inevitably push forward the construction of smart manufacturing units, smart production lines, smart workshops and smart factories in key industries from intelligent product design, intelligent key processes, and optimized supply chain management and control. . At the same time, we must actively foster new production methods, combine the characteristics of industries such as automobiles, machine tools, communications equipment, and textiles, promote smart manufacturing demonstration in key industries, and continue to explore new manufacturing models such as large-scale customization and cloud manufacturing.

Smart Manufacturing Leads Upgrading of Textile and Garment Industry

Yu Jianyong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, believes that the ultimate goal of smart manufacturing is to achieve smart manufacturing, not only based on individual needs of rapid response, personalized customization, quasi-international delivery system, but also based on Internet technology embedded system integration.

"To enhance the level of intelligent manufacturing, we must first start with the development of intelligent equipment, research and development of intelligent and digital high-end textile equipment design technology platform based on the information architecture, carry out human engineering industrial design of textile equipment, and realize the production equipment of various processes. Digital intelligent control.” Yu Jianyong stated that the digitalization of the automatic online detection and design of various textiles and equipment and the production and marketing management industry chain realized the digital intelligent management of the whole process, which in turn led to the realization of intelligent manufacturing in China’s textile industry.

"The C2M platform is actually a systematic thinking, including the front-end market expansion system, back-end protection system, and middle-large customer system. This is a complete value chain. After all, what we do is integrate resources and integrate the world. The research and development, supply chain, big-name designers and other resources.” Dr. Zhong Kang, a doctor of the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Chairman of Qingdao Hongling Group stated that in the past 10 years, Qingdao Hong Ling Group has accumulated more than 2 million customers customized. Version data, including type, style, craft, and design data. Relying on a huge data model, the red collar is now a "data factory." Smart manufacturing plants will become the mainstream channel for consumers' individual needs and direct supply of manufacturing companies.

Smart production is a major trend and leads the transformation and upgrading of the textile and apparel industry. Qingdao Red Collar Group is the best example. Through the introduction of an information management system, it captures personalized, small-batch, customized consumer trends, integrates personalized customization with large-scale industrial production, and is customer-oriented, using big data as a tool to implement the “c2m” model. , Selling products directly to consumers, relying on resource integration and information process reengineering to create a rapid supply system, turning each employee into an adaptable "robot", operating according to different standard directives, making the original manual production and moving The price of customized suits with a price of several million yuan has been reduced to a few thousand dollars.

Intelligent technology can ensure the optimal configuration of personnel and work stations in the production process, and make real-time adjustments according to the actual production conditions, so that the company's production efficiency is always maintained at a relatively high level and has achieved rapid development.

Man-machine effective cooperation to release the maximum efficiency of intelligent equipment

Smart production is the inevitable path for the transformation and upgrading of the traditional textile and clothing industry. However, with the continuous and intelligent upgrading of enterprise machinery and equipment, the quality requirements of operators on the operators are also increasing, that is, the demand for advanced technical personnel and equipment maintenance and maintenance personnel is increasing. Experts said that only the effective cooperation of human and machine can release the maximum efficiency of intelligent equipment.

According to Shi Xiaohui, deputy general manager of Longfeng Textile, the company's equipment has been upgraded, and front-line talents have to be upgraded. Only by realizing automation and effective cooperation between people's automation and machines, can we achieve maximum lean management, thereby reducing the company's production and operation costs. .

Li Hualu, director of the Harbin Institute of Technology's Jinjiang Industrial Technology Center, said that the quality requirements of automated machine operators must be higher than ordinary workers. Because automation machines generally have the intelligence to achieve semi-automatic or fully automatic control, and their digitization, networking, and modularity are high, the quality requirements for operators are relatively high. "If the artificial operation of the equipment is not professional, the smart equipment will not be able to perform its desired operation."

The era of Industry 4.0 has come. Information and physical systems will trigger a new round of industry. For the traditional clothing industry, companies need to have the determination and courage to innovate, and the cultivation of talents can not be ignored. Whether it is the operation of automated machinery or the development of a new intelligent technology path, it is inseparable from high-quality personnel.

With regard to the advantages of smart manufacturing, Xia Lingmin, vice president of the China Textile Industry Federation, summed up the following: First, personalized customization, which can effectively combine economies of scale and personalized products and services; second, it can improve the operation of the industry through system optimization. Efficiency, reduce operating costs; Third, promote the formation of new business models and new models, especially the trend of service manufacturing will become more obvious; Fourth, improve the efficiency of resource use. Then how can we make the advantages of intelligent manufacturing be released with maximum efficiency? Training high-quality talents and achieving effective human-computer cooperation are the top priorities.