From Traditional Wearable To Intelligent Partners, Shandong Textile And Clothing Enterprises Have Seized The "New Blue Ocean"

"In the past, tooling was mainly to meet the needs of wearability, but now it is developing towards a more intelligent and professional direction, becoming a 'smart partner' to help the wearer better adapt to the work needs." At the establishment site of the Shandong Tooling Industry Development Alliance held in Weihai on April 18, Zhu Hongtao, General Manager of Dishang Group, presented a new product under research and development to reporters, In addition to the familiar reflective strip design at the joints, this municipal sanitation clothing also has the "invisible" intelligent sensing temperature control fiber technology to help adjust the wearing feeling in real time with the help of thermosensitive polymers and shape memory materials.

"The scale of domestic tooling is estimated to be 600 billion to 800 billion, and there will be at least three to five enterprises above 100 billion level in the future, while the largest one is only 23 billion at present." Zhu Hongtao introduced that Dishang started to enter the tooling market from the second half of 2019, through innovative application of AI With digital technologies such as building an intelligent design system and dynamic trial experience, we have achieved professional production and manufacturing in more than 10 subdivisions of the tooling industry. In the past two years, our annual sales have maintained a 20-30% growth.

　　 From January to February this year, Shandong's textile and clothing industry made a good start, and its main operating indicators were higher than the national average The operating revenue was 46.437 billion yuan, up 3.5% year on year, 2.6 percentage points higher than the national level; The profit was 1.102 billion yuan, up 39.7% year on year, 38.4 percentage points higher than that of the whole country Shandong is a major export province in the textile and clothing industry. Under the current situation, this achievement is hard to come by. "The digital transformation coverage of textile enterprises above the designated size in the province has exceeded 90%, and large-scale personalized customization and quick return of small orders have gradually become the norm of enterprise production; with the support of intelligent technology, enterprises have dug new growth points and made a breakthrough in the new track." Guan Xiaoyan, director of the Light Industry and Textile Industry Division of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, introduced.

Stacking, handling, sorting, welding... The mechanical arms on the factory assembly line are not new, but in the application scenario of clothing and fabric, most of the traditional mechanical arms are difficult to adapt to the flexible production requirements of high precision, small batch and multi category.

In Weiqiao textile green intelligent workshop, the national key research and development plan "textile industry robot" project successfully passed the mid-term acceptance last year, and the final acceptance will be completed in the second half of this year: the completed woven demonstration line, 14 types of robots drive 93.5% of production line automation The special end actuator can complete the complicated work of flexible objects of fabric, and the special robot can efficiently connect different processes and equipment in the fabric production line to ensure the intelligent control of long processes across processes.

"This year, we invested and built another 400000 spindle intelligent spinning technology transformation project, which is expected to be completed and put into production by the end of the year, and will further improve the company's intelligent manufacturing production system." Huang Pingyi, deputy general manager of Shandong Weiqiao Venture Group Co., Ltd., mentioned that another project, "micro nano inlay waterless dyeing", has also overcome key technologies of fiber dyeing, Compared with the traditional process, it can significantly reduce water consumption and the use of dyes and chemicals. At present, many well-known brands at home and abroad have thrown olive branches. In the first quarter of this year, Weiqiao textile exports grew 8.2% year on year.

In recent years, the output value rate of new products of Jifa Group has been maintained at more than 50%, and this year's new textile advanced technology concept verification center will further accelerate the scientific and technological achievements to market-oriented industrialization. Yu Shentian, Deputy General Manager of Jifa Group, said that on the one hand, the enterprise should strengthen the integrated research and application of new materials, new technologies and new processes, and cultivate core technologies and competitive products; On the other hand, the digital transformation not only takes place in the spinning workshop, but also draws the large-scale assembly line production mode led by the manufacturer to shift to full link collaboration from the industrial chain, supply chain to the end customer: At present, the self established "clothing chain cloud" purchase and trade platform has linked more than 200 upstream and downstream supporting enterprises and nearly 1000 suppliers, forming centralized procurement, collaborative manufacturing The new advantage of continuous optimization of trade operation has effectively promoted the supply and demand connection of the production and marketing chain.

"As an export-oriented enterprise, we have long recognized the importance of internal and external circulation and started to lay out another growth curve two years ago." Wang Xiaoying, chairman of Sanyang Garment Technology Group, revealed that in the past two years, the enterprise invested 600 million yuan to design and build the Digital Fashion Culture Creative Center. Integrating AI interaction, 3D design, intelligent production, personalized customization, brand exhibition, art and cultural creation, cultural experience, fashion activities and other business types, we can strengthen creative incubation and stimulate consumption by shaping new consumption scenarios. At present, the enterprise has two independent brands of high-end children's wear brand "Yingji" and women's sports wear brand "Youlu in the forest". In addition to the original dominant market, it has also expanded its production bases in Southeast Asia, Africa and other places, and has formed a new team to explore overseas markets in Europe, South America, Japan and other countries to achieve risk hedging and business growth.

"Manufacturing is an advantageous link in Shandong's textile and clothing industry chain, but its creative design and brand marketing capabilities are weak. In recent years, especially leading enterprises have focused on promoting the deep integration of intelligent technology with the whole chain, such as design and research, production and manufacturing, and supply chain management. The above shortcomings are being gradually supplemented, leading to the breeding of a number of well-known end consumer brands in the country." According to Guan Xiaoyan, Shandong will hold the first AI Lujin Design Competition, China's first cotton clothing AI Design Competition and other events this year to accelerate the guidance and promotion of the application of artificial intelligence technology in the textile and clothing industry, support enterprises to carry out the transformation of flexible production lines, explore new production and sales models and scenarios based on consumption data, and promote the transformation from "sales before production" to "sales before production". (Public journalist Fu Yuting)

(Source: Dazhong Daily)