Rows of machines are running at high speed, and occasionally a few workers patrol the shuttle; the automatic logistics packaging system transports the packaged yarn just off the production line to the packaging workshop, stacking, handling, packaging, warehousing and other links "in one go"... In recent years Come, the new generation of information technology such as the Industrial Internet is helping the textile industry to transform and upgrade to digital and intelligent.

Data creates value

"How much yarn is left on the loom and when to switch fabrics is now clear at a glance." Standing in front of the company's big data screen, watching the operation of each loom flashing on it, Qiu Haibin, chairman of Zhejiang Xinhai Textile Co., Ltd. Emotion. "Two or three years ago, in order to understand these data, we specially assigned six meter readers. There are often clerical errors and the efficiency is very low. Generally, it takes 24 hours to know the operation of the machine."

As Qiu Haibin said, in traditional textile workshops, the production status often relies on manual meter reading to record, the data recording is incomplete and inaccurate, and it is even more difficult to achieve real-time synchronization. The leading industry in Lanxi City, Zhejiang Province, where Xinhai Textile is located, is the textile industry. There are more than 20,000 international advanced looms here, and the production of cotton casual elastic fabrics accounts for 80% of the country, and the export of denim fabrics accounts for one-seventh of the country. However, because these machines and devices come from different countries, different models, and different communication protocols, the machines cannot "talk".

After the digital transformation, the equipment of the whole process and each process is all connected to the Internet, and enterprise managers and workers can monitor the production status in real time, and push and receive production tasks through equipment such as workshop kanban, mobile phones and wristbands. In this way, production status can be managed in real time, data can be automatically recorded, reports can be automatically organized, the workload of statisticians is reduced by 60%, and the efficiency of production planning is also improved by 30%.

The help of the Industrial Internet is far more than that. The emergence of new technologies such as intelligent cloth inspection, intelligent logistics warehouses, automatic guided transport vehicles, and equipment numerical control update have enabled Lanxi's textile enterprises to embark on the road of intelligent manufacturing, intelligent production lines, intelligent workshops, intelligent Factories abound. Many enterprises also use ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Management System) and MES (Manufacturing Enterprise Production Information Management System) to realize digital management. "In the future, the most important thing is to use data to make data more valuable." Qiu Haibin said.

Solve industry pain points

In recent years, the textile industry has encountered difficulties in recruiting, expensive labor, large production capacity and thin profits. 5G, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet and other new generation information technologies have brought significant improvements in the efficiency of production, research and development, supply chain management, channel operations and other links for the textile industry, effectively solving industry pain points.

In the list of national-level industrial Internet pilot demonstration projects in 2021 released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 3 textile projects were selected for the "Industrial Internet Platform + Supply Chain Collaboration" solution pilot demonstration.

For example, Weihai Textile Group Import and Export Co., Ltd. has built a digital platform for the clothing industry chain. With the help of Internet of Things, big data and other technical means, it adopts a variety of industrial software to gather upstream and downstream procurement data, production data and sales data to realize the garment industry. The resource integration of the chain improves the synergistic competitiveness of each link.

"The Industrial Internet connects the entire production chain of factory order receipt, material scheduling, production equipment, energy consumption management, emission monitoring, inventory management, etc., helping to improve enterprise management efficiency; it can also assist managers in decision-making, through intelligent production scheduling, intelligent Color matching and other functions, realize intelligent production, and solve the contradiction between mass production and personalized customization." Professor Song Huasheng, deputy dean of the Beijing Research Institute of Zhejiang University, said in an interview with this reporter that the empowerment of the industrial Internet to the textile industry is also It is reflected in that it can effectively connect the enterprise with upstream suppliers and downstream customers, so that the enterprise can more sensitively adjust the product layout according to the downstream demand, select suppliers more reasonably, and deal with the risk of supply and chain interruption more effectively.

Application continues to deepen

According to statistics, in the first quarter of this year, the scale of China's industrial Internet industry exceeded the trillion yuan mark, and it has been widely used in R&D, design, manufacturing, and operation management. In the textile industry, the industrial application of the Industrial Internet is also deepening, accelerating the digital transformation and development process of enterprises in the industry.

In Zhejiang, the "industrial brain" of sewing equipment is launched in Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City. After the relevant enterprises join, as long as the upstream and downstream needs are input, the system can accurately push the information, provide industrial value, upstream and downstream analysis, and a professional team of experts to help solve the problem of digitalization Operation problems, saving more than 60% of the comprehensive cost of digital transformation of enterprises.

The "Shandong Modern Light Industry Textile Industry 2022 Action Plan" proposes to support the creation of typical application scenarios in the industry, increase the cultivation and promotion of industrial Internet platforms, guide more enterprises to use the platform and use the platform, and promote the docking and reconstruction of the industrial chain.

Guangdong Province will cultivate industrial Internet platforms for industries with low concentration of traditional characteristic industrial clusters such as light industry and textiles, and promote the digital transformation of the upstream and downstream enterprises of the cluster to implement unified standards.

Song Huasheng said that in the future, the government can increase investment in the construction of digital infrastructure, issue regulations on the development and utilization of industrial big data and security management in a timely manner, assist in the development and construction of knowledge maps and common platforms of the industrial chain, etc., to resolve the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises. The dilemma of not being able to transfer, not being able to transfer, and not daring to transfer” has promoted the continuous deepening of industrial Internet applications.