Textile Industry Accelerates From Volume To Quality And Efficiency

The textile industry is China's traditional competitive industry. In recent years, digital transformation, quality improvement and upgrading of the textile industry and other related policies have been introduced. More and more enterprises use digital intelligence technology to promote management upgrading, process re-engineering, and scene innovation, so that new quality productivity can add momentum to the textile industry.

One click creation of fashion design, virtual model display of fabric, digital management of output and inventory... Today's textile industry is full of science and technology.

In the past, problems such as high energy consumption, high cost and low added value once restricted the development of the textile industry. In recent years, more and more enterprises have seized the opportunity to explore and apply digital intelligence technology to promote management upgrading, process reengineering, and scene innovation, so as to demand vitality and momentum from new quality productivity and promote the innovative development of the textile industry.

　　 Cost savings from management upgrades

As a traditional labor-intensive industry, the lively scene of "thousand people yarn, ten thousand people cloth" was once a true portrayal of the textile industry.

Recently, the reporter walked into Anhui Xinhong Textile Co., Ltd. located in Sixian County, Anhui Province, and saw only rows of automated equipment running at high speed. There were only a few workers in the nearly 10000 square meter workshop. In the office, the staff are checking the running status of each production link in real time through the digital management system.

"In the past, production relied on labor, management relied on experience, and the efficiency was low and the cost was high. It was difficult for enterprises to win the initiative in the fierce market competition." You Jianghui, general manager of Xinhong Textile, said that since 2014, the company has invested tens of millions of yuan in digital and intelligent transformation of the factory. Now, orders, production, equipment, etc. have all been digitized, Production management and operation efficiency have been effectively improved, realizing cost reduction and efficiency increase.

"It's no longer just a few people around a machine. Now, one person can control many machines." Zhu Youxiang, the company's production director, said that in recent years, the production capacity has doubled on the basis of saving labor.

Order production is Zhu Youxiang's daily focus. After the company installed the digital management system, when he clicked his mobile phone, the production situation and machine status of the production line in the workshop would be clear at a glance.

"Not only that, the digital management system can also automatically and accurately produce multi-dimensional reports such as order progress, inventory status, quality analysis, wages, and quantify production activities and output." Zhu Youxiang said that the items that used to take a lot of manpower and time to complete now can be completed more accurately in just a few minutes.

The combination of traditional manufacturing with cloud computing, big data, Internet and other technologies has reshaped the production and management scene of the factory, making traditional textile enterprises take on a new look.

In recent years, Anhui has strengthened the empowerment of digital intelligence, actively promoted the textile enterprises to improve their quality and expand their coverage by "transforming intelligence into digital connectivity", and encouraged enterprises to carry out digital transformation and upgrading. By the end of 2024, 23400 enterprises above designated size in Anhui had started digital transformation, accounting for 97.27%; Among them, 16700 enterprises above designated size achieved digital transformation, accounting for 69.47%.

　　 Green and efficient process reengineering

150 manufacturing processes, 10000 times of pull slip test and 15000 to 20000 times of friction test are the processes that a feather, a piece of cloth and a down jacket go through.

In the Bosideng intelligent manufacturing production base in Changshu, Jiangsu, thanks to the "intelligent transformation to digital networking", the traditional production process has been rebuilt, and the automation degree of key production links has reached more than 90%.

In the automatic cutting workshop, dozens of layers of cloth are laid on the automatic cutting machine. According to the designed style, the cutting machine automatically cuts out cloth pieces of different shapes, which improves the production efficiency and cloth utilization.

How to ensure the down jacket does not drill down? It is necessary to adopt the anti drill down sewing technology with finer pinholes in the quilting process, with up to 13 stitches per 3cm. Previously, this process required skilled workers to complete. Now, intelligent template machines are used on a large scale. After the program is set, a short-term trained worker can operate two machines at the same time to make stable stitches.

In the automatic filling workshop, workers wrap the quilted garment piece opening around the lint outlet, press the switch, and the down is blown into the garment piece evenly along the pipeline. When filling, the machine grabs the filling data uploaded in advance from the cloud, which can be accurate to 0.01g. The filled garment pieces are sealed on the ultrasonic equipment, which reduces the "fly down" phenomenon from the source. Different from the previous "people looking for cloth pieces", in the garment sewing process, the hanging transmission system can accurately grab the cuffs, collars, front, etc. and send them to workers at all posts.

In addition to enabling production, Bosiden also enables integrated commodity management, warehousing and logistics and intelligent distribution with digital intelligence to achieve efficient coordination of commodity operations and promote low-carbon emission reduction. Through the integration of online and offline, proprietary and distribution full link data, the availability of best seller replenishment is as high as 99%, ensuring that best sellers are not out of stock and unsalable ones are not produced. Intelligent scheduling and management of transportation routes and resource allocation, so as to accurately control production and inventory backlog, effectively reducing logistics costs and carbon emissions.

"We have independently developed an intelligent garment manufacturing platform to achieve flexible production of mass customization. Energy consumption per unit product has decreased by 45.92%, and energy consumption per unit output value has decreased by 42.11%." Wang Chenhua, vice president of Bosiden Co., Ltd., introduced that as a national green factory and an enterprise certified by the "double green" manufacturing system of green supply chain, The company has achieved 100% coverage of online energy consumption monitoring system.

Since 2021, Jiangsu has taken the promotion of "intelligent transformation into digital networking" as a key measure for high-quality development of the manufacturing industry. By constantly improving the policy mechanism and building a coordinated promotion system, it has helped enterprises clarify the path of transformation practice. By the end of 2024, the penetration rate of digital R&D and design tools across the province has reached 91.2%, the numerical control rate of key processes of enterprises has reached 70.1%, and the digital penetration rate of business management has reached 89.1%.

　　 Scene innovation helps R&D

With the mouse click, the fabric, style and process can be selected at will, and the exclusive clothing can be generated with one click; Rotating virtual characters, the drape and crease effect of clothing in dynamic state is clearly visible... In Lingdi Digital Technology Co., Ltd. in Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the innovative and efficient clothing R&D model is dazzling.

Upload the digital clothing to the platform, which can be directly connected to the factory production, and truly realize the digitalization of the whole process from creativity to production. "From creativity to product innovation, it only takes one day. In the traditional mode, this process takes at least one week." Liu Chen, founder of Lingdi Technology, said.

With the help of high technology, digital forms replace physical objects, realizing cost reduction and efficiency increase in garment production process, and creating a green and environmentally friendly research and development model. Liu Chen introduced that with the self-developed flexible simulation engine as the core, Lingdi Technology has developed 3D clothing design software and related tools, providing a full link digital clothing solution from AI creativity, 3D design, push and review, rapid revision, direct production to digital marketing.

As a center of fashion industry, Hangzhou has many textile and clothing enterprises. With the technical support of Lingdi Technology, the delivery time of sample clothes of Hangzhou Jinhui Trade Co., Ltd. was shortened from 30 days to 3 days, the adoption rate was also increased from 30% to 50%, and the cost of sample clothes materials was reduced by 60%.

In recent years, Shangcheng District of Hangzhou has actively built a fashion industry system, created Hangzhou Fashion Center, Shangchengli Digital Fashion Industrial Park and other fashion industry parks, and gathered a large number of clothing supply chain enterprises. Zhang Jun, director of the Industrial Digitization Promotion Department of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, said that Zhejiang would build an industrial exchange and cooperation platform, give full play to the role of provincial digital service providers, promote the full link digital transformation of the clothing industry, and promote high-quality development of the textile service industry enabled by digital technology.

"From volume and scale to quality and efficiency, from scenario application to model innovation, the intelligent development of the textile industry is at the forefront of the industrial field." Yan Yan, Vice President of the China Textile Industry Federation and Secretary of the Party Committee of the China Textile Information Center, said that at present, the localization rate of China's textile machinery is more than 75%, and the localization rate of key basic parts of high-end equipment is more than 50%, The networking rate of digital equipment in the textile industry is about 50%. The application of new generation information technology, such as artificial intelligence and digital twins, promotes the textile industry to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of digitalization and intelligence. (Reporter: Li Junjie, Yin Xiaoyu, Liu Junguo)

(Source: People's Daily)