Smart transition to new branches of Jiangsu textile industry

The “12th Five-Year Plan” and the “13th Five-Year Plan” are scheduled for the end of the year and the transformation of the manufacturing industry is of the highest priority. Targeting high-end and high-end development goals, as a traditional industry, textile and garments face both opportunities and shoulders. Integrating smart manufacturing and “Internet +” new genes will inspire new vitality.

From September 11 to 13, the 17th Jiangsu International Fashion Festival will be held at Nanjing International Expo Center. This year, a new textile and apparel fusion exhibition area has been established. A group of smart equipment and products will be unveiled. This is an important measure to implement the "Made in China 2025" strategy and promote smart manufacturing. It will also showcase the latest highlights of the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry in Jiangsu.

During the clothing festival, the “Runyuan” 2015 smart textile (clothing) high-level forum will be held to discuss the intelligent equipment manufacturing and manufacturing process and deepen the application of the Internet in the manufacturing industry. The Provincial Economy and Information Commission and the Provincial Textile Industry Association will release the “2014 Jiangsu Provincial Textile Industry Benchmarking Enterprise” to play a typical demonstration role and share the latest achievements in transformation and development.

Equipment upgrades, enterprise development has entered a new realm

The textile and apparel industry chain is long and there are many manufacturing processes. It is necessary to continuously increase production efficiency and promote low-carbon and green development. With the continuous increase in production costs, labor shortages and other issues highlighted, more and more companies accelerate the "machine substitution."

Suzhou Tianyuan Garment Co., Ltd. has an annual output of 10 million garments. In recent years, it has invested tens of millions of yuan to carry out technological transformation, independently researching and developing a series of intelligent equipment. For example, after the automatic cutting machine is put into use, the cutting efficiency and accuracy are greatly improved, and the seamless connection with CAD reduces the error rate of manual material discharge, improves the utilization rate of the fabric, and strengthens the fine management of the fabric cost.

With equipment upgrades, there are still a lot of talents harvested in Tianyuan, which has become the best example of wisdom transformation in the province's textile industry. Automatic thermal transfer mark machine automatically captures the transfer mark through the robot arm, and uses infrared rays to automatically position and press, ensuring high quality and high precision of the transfer effect. After the use of the automatic stencil sewing machine, the efficiency of the single-pass process is doubled and greatly enhanced. Reduce the dependence on traditional sewing skills; after the 18 suspended sewing production lines are put into operation, the product production process decomposes the input information system, and the components are transferred in an order that is automatically programmed, reducing the waste in the binding, checking, and stacking processes. Overall sewing efficiency increased by more than 20%.

The transformation of enterprise equipment has driven the development of the textile machinery industry. Jiangsu has a textile machinery industry group with a relatively complete range of categories. A group of enterprises ranks high in the domestic segmentation industry and occupies an important position in the world. At present, Jiangsu's warp knitting machines are of the world's leading type, first-class technology, high-end cotton yarn equipment, top-notch equipment and equipment, and dyeing and finishing equipment leading the new era of CNC. Runyuan Holdings is a high-tech enterprise specializing in R&D, production, sales and service of warp knitting machinery in China, breaking the long-term monopoly of developed countries in the field of high-end warp knitting machines. Its sales revenue has grown at an average annual rate of 34.4% in the last three years. Investment accounted for 8% of sales revenue. The company also introduced the ERP system and achieved effective convergence of marketing, R&D, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and customer service. The company's comprehensive operating efficiency increased by more than 25%, overall resource utilization increased by more than 15%, and inventory was compressed by more than 15%.

Textile machinery is the integration of various components, and key components are the core factors that determine the quality of textile machinery. In Changzhou, Tongji (Lola, cradle, compact spinning), Changzhou Spinning (spraying board), Changzhou Steel Roll, Hangyue (Iron), and Peixing (spindle, ring) were assembled. The batch of industry-leading specialist companies has attracted a number of global leading textile machinery companies, such as Oerlikon, KARL MAYER, and Rieter, the world's most famous textile machinery companies. Jinsheng Group, headquartered in Jintan, wholly-owned the company's natural fiber and specialist business, the world's largest textile machinery company, the Swiss Oerlikon Group.

Informatization leads, 100-year-old plant rejuvenated

The transition to smart manufacturing will not only promote the hardware upgrade of manufacturing equipment, but also enhance the software for smart management of enterprises, and apply new Internet technologies such as intelligent monitoring, remote diagnostic management, and production chain traceability, and will improve the business operation model to a new stage. After the country put forward the "Internet +" strategy, the textile industry has a clearer path to transformation.

Wuxi First Cotton is the vanguard of the national cotton textile industry. As a hundred-year-old factory, Wuxi No. 1 Cotton can maintain its strong development vitality. It is inseparable from the “Intelligent Control-Intelligent Manufacturing Process” system transformation carried out by Wuxi. This has attracted the attention of experts and scholars.

At present, Wuxi No.1 Cotton Plant adopts information technology to control production and assist management, and has created a leading integrated management system for the two industries in the textile industry. Millions of workers are employed within 20 people, and the ergonomics have reached world-class standards. It is the first to adopt the most advanced compact spinning technology in China, becoming the world's largest high-precision compact spinning production base and the first-class enterprise capable of mass-producing 300 cotton yarns. What is even more prideful is that Wuxi First Cotton Co., Ltd. has fully applied the Internet of Things and Internet technologies, and adopts automatic control, sensing technology, and network information technology to automatically and centrally monitor production and manufacturing. Energy consumption and material consumption have been greatly reduced, and high-quality, high-quality production lines have been created this year. It was rated as a provincial model intelligent workshop and was hailed as one of the world's best factories by European customers.

Wuxi is a miniature of the cotton industry. There are many enterprises in Jiangsu that apply information technology to enhance the level of smart manufacturing. Sunshine Group successfully applied the intelligent production management system, realized the whole process monitoring, reversed the guidance of production management with data analysis, improved the production efficiency and refined management level, and provided a successful sample for China's textile industry to implement closed-loop big data management.

Informatization leads not only to one company, but also extends to a region, constructs a good industrial ecosystem, and promotes the rapid transformation of large and medium-sized SMEs. In southern Jiangsu, many regions have established a modern business platform integrating brand direct sales, e-commerce, logistics, and apparel design. Buyers can select multiple suppliers on one platform. Order information is fed back to the production line through the Internet. Through the logistics system to reach all customers, the entire platform system brings together various elements, and the efficiency of collaboration is greatly enhanced.

Service Transformation, Mastering the High-End Link of the Value Chain

From the basic layout, the textile and clothing industry is very mature, but how can we better adapt to changes in market demand and grasp the high-end links of the industrial chain? This will be the focus of the 2015 Smart Textile (Clothing) high-level forum. Experts and scholars believe that it is necessary to accelerate the development of service-oriented manufacturing and production. Service-oriented manufacturing is to guide garment enterprises to extend to R&D and sales at both ends, from the main provision of product manufacturing to the provision of products and services. Manufacturing companies should increase investment in service links, innovate business collaboration processes and value creation models, and promote business model innovation and business innovation.

The development mode of Haicang House has attracted the attention of the industry. Without a set of clothing equipment and a garment worker, Hailan Home has rapidly grown to become a leader in the Chinese menswear industry. Throughout the entire production and sales process, Haicang House has mastered upstream product development and brand management, and downstream “supply chain management and marketing network management”. The middle “clothing production and transportation and distribution” has been outsourced.

In Haicang House Logistics Park, sorting centers, storage warehouses, delivery halls and other places are laid out in an orderly manner. The storage volume of three-dimensional warehouses is seven times that of the same flat area library. It is the largest and smartest in the domestic apparel industry. The highest degree. A logistics park leads Hailan Home to explore a new transformation road for “brand + platform”. “Production-centered” is transformed into “service-centered”, focusing on the core competitiveness of brands and supply chains. "One production person does two productions and earns three productions".

The transition from manufacturing to service has driven the rapid development of the production industry. In Samsung Town, Haimen City, 16 public service platforms including quality inspection, index publishing, e-commerce, modern logistics, copyright protection, R&D and design, professional design, popular trend research, and brand fostering have been established to provide enterprises with a wide range of services. "Provide support for the "specialized and refined" transformation.

In some regions, merchants have opened online stores on e-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Jingdong. However, the actual amount of online transactions is limited. The core reason is the lack of a network platform that serves the entire region. In Wujiang, Changshu and other places, government departments took the lead in setting up a regional online mall, which was equivalent to having a corporate business card in the region, helping a group of pure manufacturing companies to take the road of integration of production and sales, and increase industrial added value.

On the occasion of the 17th Jiangsu International Fashion Festival, Suning Yunshang and the Provincial Textile Industry Association will hold a textile and garment industry chain matchmaking meeting, and will use Suning's Yishang apparel channel to expand traditional offline sales and offline docking to online sales. Online docking, using the Internet to break time and geographical restrictions, improve marketing methods, and enhance market competitiveness.

Strong industry is economically strong. The "Made in China 2025" strategy describes the "timetable" and "road map" of the manufacturing transformation, and the prospect of Jiangsu's textile industry, with its "wisdom" of wings, is promising and has unlimited potential.