The textile industry continues to drive digital transformation

In the past 2022, various risks and challenges at home and abroad have far exceeded expectations. The textile industry is facing various pressures, overcoming difficulties, maintaining the overall stability of the development of the industry, and playing an irreplaceable role in stabilizing economic development, balancing the balance of payments, creating employment space, and promoting the improvement of people's livelihood, among which the continuous digital transformation is an important driving force.

Digital transformation is not only the continuation of a series of achievements in the informatization construction of the textile industry over the years, but also a new concept and new development in the new era. Under the new situation, the textile industry will take digital transformation as an important means to transform and enhance traditional kinetic energy, cultivate and develop new kinetic energy, and make new progress in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, industrial Internet innovation and application, and the promotion of a new generation of information technology.

Wu Di, former deputy director of Industry Department of China Textile Industry Federation

2022 review

The Party Central Committee and The State Council will strengthen policy and strategic guidance

In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Party, in the level of accelerating the construction of a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development, strategic deployment was made in the construction of a modern industrial system, promoting the high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing, and promoting the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy.

In January 2022, The State Council issued the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Digital Economy, which defines the guiding ideology, basic principles, development goals, key tasks and safeguard measures for promoting the healthy development of the digital economy during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, and provides action guidelines for all regions and industries to promote the development of the digital economy.

Relevant government departments will accelerate the implementation of digital transformation policy support and demonstration leadership. In December 2022, the National Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the 2022 annual intelligent manufacturing pilot demonstration list, establishing a number of industries and fields of the vanguard. Textile industry demonstration factories have Fujian Jinjiang Huayu, Xinjiang Changji Yida, etc.; Excellent scenes include Huahao non-woven fabrics, Fujian polyfiber, Changyuan Textile, Honggang Textile, Fengzhu Textile, Yu Dahua Textile, etc., involving intelligent online monitoring, man-machine collaborative manufacturing, lean production management, process dynamic optimization and other scenes.

Industry organizations to carry out comprehensive guidance and services

In June 2022, the China Textile Federation issued the "Textile Industry Digital Transformation Three-year Action Plan (2022-2024)", to deepen the integration of the new generation of information technology and the textile industry as the main line, to intelligent manufacturing as the main direction, to industrial Internet innovation application as the focus, to accelerate the digital transformation of the textile industry.

In July 2022, the "Industrial Foundation Innovation and Development Catalog" led by the Chinese Academy of Engineering was released, and the content of industrial basic software was added for the first time. The industrial software of the textile industry includes industrial MES, ERP, APS, industrial Internet platform, textile workshop simulation software, clothing 3D virtual design and other content, providing a reference for government organizations to solve key problems. Provide guidance for social capital to choose investment base areas.

China Textile Machinery Association, together with other institutions, build a public service platform for intelligent manufacturing standards testing and verification around the textile industry, including textile equipment interconnection and operation and maintenance, textile smart factory construction, textile maturity evaluation and supply chain, logistics, visual inspection and other standards, to provide strong support for the textile industry to carry out intelligent manufacturing.

Intelligent manufacturing extends to the terminal industry

Intelligent manufacturing is the main direction of the digital transformation of the textile industry, intelligent production line has been the core area of concern, the previous stage to chemical fiber, spinning and other upstream industries, in recent years, gradually to clothing, home textiles and other downstream terminal industry extension, and fully consider the characteristics of terminal consumer products, made a series of progress.

Weiqiao Jiajia Home Textile has cooperated with Donghua University and other units to build an efficient short process demonstration factory for bedding products, including intelligent production lines such as cutting, sewing and packaging. Among them, it has developed intelligent online detection technology of fabric defects, intelligent hanging technology of automatic rail diversion and multi-track parallel of product vehicles, intelligent technology of automatic packing and warehousing integration, data-driven intelligent control technology of multi-factor production of bed products, etc., which has significantly improved production efficiency.

Weiqiao Jiajia automatic rail diversion and multi-rail parallel intelligent hanging production line

Dayang Group has built a number of large-scale flexible customized production lines composed of intelligent production equipment. With the help of the Internet and big data system, Dayang Group has developed volume standards and volume data systems, tens of millions of version databases, and dictionary coding unified material management systems, which not only meet the production process requirements of single-adjudication business, but also meet the requirements of single-adjudication business. Moreover, it realizes the flexible organization of mass production and single-quantity single-order production, and meets the needs of large-scale customized production of enterprises.

In addition, in terms of intelligent equipment, Jack company has developed intelligent cutting equipment for intelligent clothing production, intelligent hanging cooperation, Internet of Things template machine and automatic sewing unit and other supporting equipment; Qingdao Double Qing has launched a fully intelligent yarn conveying and packaging system using innovative technology.

Industrial Internet innovation applications focus on integrated services

The integrated application of the industrial Internet in 2022 has achieved a series of results driven by some leading enterprises in the industry, reflecting the effect of the digital transformation focus.

The industrial Internet platform of the chemical fiber industry put into use by Tongkun Group covers the industrial Internet platform of five formats and 28 factories, and has established a digital management system of "five horizontal and four vertical". Through the comprehensive application of big data, artificial intelligence, 5G and other technologies, it integrates research and development, procurement and supply, production and manufacturing, operation and management, warehousing and logistics and other fields, and realizes the integrated development of the whole chain, cross-field and cross-region.

Hongdou Group has built an Internet platform for textile and garment industry, which integrates an integrated platform of digital production, operation and management based on the standards of product personalization, design coordination, supply agility, manufacturing flexibility and intelligent decision-making, and drives hundreds of upstream and downstream textile and garment supply chain enterprises to enter the platform, access a variety of equipment and textile and garment industry apps. Promote the textile enterprises to "change the number of wisdom".

New generation of information technology into new areas

In the process of digital transformation, the new generation of information technology continues to promote and apply in new fields, optimize resource allocation, realize resource sharing, and improve the level of intelligence.

China Textile Information Center uses cloud computing and artificial intelligence and other technologies to build textile color intelligent cloud system, through color analysis and planning, to achieve the automation and digitalization of product design, applied to textile and clothing enterprises and related educational institutions, design studios, effectively reducing the cost of enterprise color research and development.

Textile Color Intelligent cloud system (coloroin) interface

Huizhou University cooperated with Sunrise Trading Company, applied cloud computing, big data and other technologies to carry out technical research on the adaptation of brand clothing production chain to the new marketing model, developed a clothing production and manufacturing cloud platform suitable for the new retail model, established an interface with major domestic e-commerce platforms, and opened up the upstream and downstream of the clothing industry and cooperative enterprises of all parties.

Outlook for 2023

Looking forward to 2023, the overall development situation facing the textile industry is more complex and severe, and there are many uncertain factors in the international environment and the domestic market.

It is worth noting that China has made important adjustments to the epidemic prevention and control measures, which is conducive to smooth the circulation of the national economy and stimulate the vitality of consumption, and the textile industry will take more positive actions to meet market opportunities and risks. Continue to promote digital transformation, strengthen the advantages of the main direction of intelligent manufacturing, increase the focus of the industrial Internet, give play to the innovative leading role of a new generation of information technology, and cultivate the application of new formats and new models, which will accelerate the construction of a new development pattern for the textile industry and strive to promote high-quality development.

We will further promote industry planning for digital transformation

2023 is a key year for the implementation of the Three-year Action Plan for the Digital Transformation of the Textile Industry (2022-2024), and industry organizations will increase efforts to cultivate advanced and promote demonstrations. The promotion measures include promoting the innovation and development of intelligent manufacturing, intelligent design, and intelligent marketing, organizing and selecting industry digital transformation solutions, releasing the key promotion list of relevant solutions, promoting the construction of industrial Internet platforms, demonstration bases and key laboratories in the industry, promoting the construction of China's textile and garment big data centers, and deepening the integration and application of a new generation of information technology in the industry.

Fostering and promoting digital transformation solutions

In view of the common needs of the textile industry and the characteristics of major sub-sectors, focusing on the key links of research and development, production planning and scheduling, quality control, warehousing and distribution, green environmental protection, marketing, mode innovation, and focusing on the integrated application of digital workshops and smart factories, cultivate and form a number of digital transformation solutions that meet the needs of the industry and have significant application effects for promotion and application. And included in the key promotion directory, pilot demonstration, while supporting the industry's internal and external solution providers to continuously improve the supply capacity and service level.

Vigorously research and develop common key technologies, for the development and application of key technical equipment, digital workshops, intelligent factories, and intelligent services in the production and manufacturing process, to form major scientific and technological achievements and improve the level of independent innovation in the digital transformation of China's textile.

Strive to improve the industrialization level of intelligent manufacturing for various subsectors, promote the collaborative innovation of enterprises in different fields such as equipment, automation, software, and information technology, and promote the division of labor and cooperation of enterprises in all links of the textile industry chain for common development. Gradually form a development ecology in which leading enterprises in various fields of textile are promoted first and a large number of "specialized and special new" enterprises are deeply involved in the subdivision field.

Comprehensively promote the construction of industrial Internet platforms

For the integration of internal and external control of leading enterprises, specialized services in subdivided fields, optimization of industrial chain supply chain resources and other aspects to further enhance the platform service capabilities, powerful radiation industry upstream and downstream, industrial clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises, to create through the textile industry industrial Internet platform system. Implement the Industrial Internet innovation and development project, promote the construction of industrial Internet demonstration bases and key laboratories, and accelerate the innovative development of key technologies and applications of industrial Internet in the textile industry.

Encourage enterprises to integrate resources through the industrial Internet platform, and gradually build a collaborative manufacturing system for the effective organization of design, production and supply chain resources; Internally, we rely on the industrial Internet platform to carry out in-depth data integration applications to achieve intelligent decision-making and deep optimization of enterprise production and operation management. At the same time, in the industry to promote and popularize the intelligent production based on the industrial Internet, digital management, personalized customization, network collaboration, service extension and other new models and new formats.

Deepen the integration of the new generation of information technology and the textile industry

The integration and development of the new generation of information technology and the textile industry, as the main line of digital transformation, runs through various subsectors and technology fields. The Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, as well as blockchain, digital twins and other technologies are changing with each passing day, and the application of achievements in various fields of the national economy is remarkable. In order to achieve integrated development of the textile industry, it is crucial to grasp the characteristics of the textile industry and meet the needs of enterprises.

First, we will enhance our capacity for innovation. We will give full play to the role of industry planning and guidance, adhere to the combination of industry, university and research, intensify research on basic and core technologies for industry, and strengthen the training of professional and technical personnel and the building of innovative teams.

Second, actively promote and deepen the application of technology. Organize application pilot demonstrations to highlight the leading role of the new generation of information technology in digital transformation solutions.

Third, we will foster an industrial ecology. Establish relevant industrial technology alliances, gather superior resources, accelerate the cultivation of competitive industrial products and backbone enterprises, and develop services such as technology development, technical training, testing and certification, investment and financing of a new generation of information technology.