2017 Review

In the past 2017, China's textile industry actively promoted the transformation and upgrading, and strived to respond to the complex and severe external situation. The overall economic performance showed a steady trend, and the growth rate of most of the operating indicators had increased compared with the same period of last year. The growth rate of production has slowed down, but sales in both domestic and international markets have picked up. Textiles and apparel exports have shown signs of stabilization and recovery. The domestic demand market has continued to maintain steady growth. The improvement in quality and profitability has been particularly noticeable. "Medium is good and efficiency is leading." At present, China's economy has shifted from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage. The textile industry is in a critical period of changing the development mode, optimizing the economic structure, and transforming the growth momentum. It is advancing the integration of the two technologies, enhancing the ability of scientific and technological innovation, and promoting new generation information. The application of technology in various fields is an inevitable requirement for the promotion of high-quality development of the industry and the realization of the goal of building a strong textile nation.

National policy level to enhance support

In the report of the party’s Nineteenth Congress, we emphasized the need to promote the simultaneous development of new-type industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization, pointing out that we must speed up the building of manufacturing power, accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing, and promote the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and entities. The deep integration of the economy clearly clarified the direction of accelerating the construction of a manufacturing powerhouse and a network powerhouse. Immediately afterwards, when General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted the Politburo collective study in December 2017, he emphasized that the construction of a modern economic system is inseparable from the development and application of big data. It is necessary to continue to do a good job in the integration of informatization and industrialization and promote the manufacturing industry. Accelerate the development of digitization, networking and intelligence, and upgrade the application of big data to a new height.

In order to implement the strategic deployment of the central government, government departments successively issued a series of policy documents in the past year. For example, the State Council issued the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" in July and issued the "Development of the Internet + Advanced Manufacturing Industry" in November. Internet Guidelines, etc. Supporting the development of the industrial Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence at the national policy level is a far-reaching measure, indicating that the development of a new generation of information technology has become a major strategic opportunity for China's future, and it also indicates the direction of development for the development of textile informationization.

Smart manufacturing focuses

After the release of “Made in China 2025”, smart manufacturing has become a breakthrough point and key area for the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industries. Governments at all levels have also taken this as the starting point for stronger manufacturing, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has set up a special comprehensive standardization and new model application for smart manufacturing each year. Selected smart manufacturing pilot demonstration enterprises. Following the companies such as Shandong Kangpingna Company and Ningbo Cixing Company, in 2017, the textile industry included nine projects including Qingdao Cooltech and Hangzhou Open Source. Six companies including Jiangsu Dasheng Group and Anhui Huamao Group were selected.

Intelligent production line is the main content of textile intelligent manufacturing. Jingwei Weaving Machinery Co., Ltd. has integrated various resources and introduced a full-process intelligent spinning production line, which has been applied to 22,000 spindles in Wuxi Jingwei and 50,000 spindles in Jiangsu Dasheng, and has achieved a good demonstration effect. The system includes a coarse link system, an AGV barrel transport system, an automatic palletizing system and an intelligent e system, which realizes the automatic navigation and transport of the barrels, the full-barrel rovings are sent to the spinning frame through the track, and the entire length of the tube yarn is automatically fed to the spinning frame. A series of new technologies such as automatic cylinder stacking, automatic yarn yarding, and remote monitoring of the equipment have been used. Millions of workers have been reduced from 45 to 20 in general workshops.

The 2018 outlook

2018 is an extraordinary year for the textile industry. It is the first year to implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It is the first year for implementing the “13th Five-Year Plan” of the textile industry and is a key year for sprinting the goal of building a strong textile nation. The 19th CPC National Congress proposed that “to implement new development concepts and build a modern economic system”, the textile industry must further strengthen its confidence and determination in transformation, upgrading, optimization of structure, kinetic energy conversion, and continuous innovation in the new journey of seeking high-quality development. Further accelerate the advancement of information construction, in which the promotion of a new generation of information technology and textile industry in-depth integration, pay attention to the application of industrial Internet, big data, artificial intelligence in the textile industry, is an important task in the next stage.

Industrial Internet Builds Foundation Support

The industrial Internet embodies the full-scale integration of a new generation of information technology and industrial systems such as the Internet, and is a key information infrastructure for the development of industrial intelligence. Last year, the State Council issued guidelines for the development of industrial Internet, which shows that the country’s determination to strengthen the construction of industrial Internet infrastructure is a major opportunity for the development of textile information.

The textile industry has accumulated a large amount of Internet technology applications. Through the construction of industrial Internet, it first constructs interoperable network infrastructure, interconnects decentralized physical production units, breaks down islands of information, and promotes various levels within the production system, production systems, and business. Integrated integration of the system; secondly, on the basis of information sharing, using technologies such as big data, in-depth analysis of production and operation status, business status, industry chain coordination, and market demand information to form intelligent decision-making; Third, to provide more Good security guarantees the safe and reliable operation of industries and enterprise systems by constructing a safety protection system that covers the entire industrial system.

The popularization of the industrial Internet in the future will provide strong technical support for the next phase of informationization in the textile industry. It is necessary to create an integrated industrial Internet solution that closely integrates with the characteristics of the industry in key areas. Such as speeding up the application of industrial Internet in textile enterprises, realizing the end-to-end integration of data resources at all levels of the enterprise; relying on industrial Internet platforms to carry out data integration applications, implementing intelligent decision-making and in-depth optimization of production and operation management; encouraging enterprises to pass industrial Internet platforms Integrate resources to build a collaborative manufacturing system with effective organization of design, production, and supply chain resources.

Big data plays a role of basic resources

The textile industry has gradually implemented the application of big data technology in recent years, and has achieved certain results in the field of network marketing. The industry-level big data information service platform is also under preparation. It should be noted that the textile and apparel industry has a wide-ranging basis and urgent needs for the application of big data, and is organically integrated with the Internet of Things and cloud computing, and will effectively promote the integration of resources in product design, manufacturing, management, logistics, distribution, and marketing. . To realize the value of big data and give play to the advantages of “big”, we must use the word “use” first, making the combination of new technologies and practical applications of the industry, suitable for the characteristics of the industry, and meeting the needs of enterprises.

In the next few years, it is necessary to make full use of big data technology to mine user's fragmented and personalized demand data, gradually improve the company's personalized product database and knowledge base, and get closer to the new needs of customers, providing strong support for large-scale personalized customization. To promote the level of intelligent textile manufacturing. Further, it is necessary to speed up the construction of industry big data service platforms, systematically promote the construction of industrial Internet infrastructure and data resource management systems, give full play to the role of basic data resources and the role of innovation engines, and accelerate the formation of a new industrialization form led and supported mainly by innovation.

Artificial intelligence enhances the level of intelligence

Artificial intelligence technology has caused great concern in many fields in recent years, mainly due to the greatly enhanced computer capabilities, the Internet has generated a large amount of data as a support, and the core algorithm has made important breakthroughs. The “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan” issued by the State Council indicates that the development of artificial intelligence in China has entered a new phase, reflecting the country’s attention and support for this new technology, indicating the direction for the application of artificial intelligence technology in the textile industry.

At present, artificial intelligence, including machine perception, machine learning, machine thinking, and intelligent behavior, has made initial progress in the fields of smart manufacturing, textile design and analysis, fashion trends, and expert systems in the textile industry, forming a certain foundation. Among them, artificial intelligence is the core technology of textile intelligent manufacturing, which involves aspects of production process feature extraction, production process optimization, production planning and scheduling, equipment scheduling algorithms, quality inspection and management, equipment fault location and diagnosis. In the current field of intelligent textile manufacturing projects, intelligent functions such as knowledge acquisition, knowledge base construction, deep learning, and optimization decision making are still lacking. It needs to be improved in the next stage, and it should be improved on the basis of automation, digitization, and networking. The level of intelligence makes intelligent manufacturing truly worthy. Therefore, in the coming years, artificial intelligence will accelerate its development and become a strategic technology that will lead the future. Its far-reaching significance must not be underestimated.