Five Departments Jointly Promote Digital Speed Up Of Textile And Garment Industry

Recently, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of Commerce and other five departments jointly issued the "three products" action plan (2022-2025) of the digital power consumer goods industry (hereinafter referred to as the "plan") to cultivate 200 intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories in textile and clothing, household appliances, food and medicine, consumer electronics and other industries, and create 200 well-known brands with a scale of 10 billion.

Hanbo international group applied Hubble intelligent system to realize digital transformation.

In this regard, sun Ruizhe, President of China Textile Industry Federation, said that the introduction of the plan has brought new opportunities for the textile industry to better practice the new development concept, integrate into the new development pattern, and realize the high-quality development of science and technology, fashion and green in the new era.

   Digital direction is clear

   at present, digital economy has become the main economic form, which is promoting the renewal of factor resources, infrastructure replacement and market scenario extension at an unprecedented speed, scale and scope. Textile and clothing industry is no exception.

"This year, all the factories of Hanbo have used the Hubble intelligent system." Gao Min, vice chairman of China Garment Association and President of Hanbo International Group, told reporters that through the digital system, Hanbo can realize small batch flexible production, with more market demand, less inventory pressure and faster orders. At the same time, the number of factory labor decreased, production capacity increased, and the income of workers increased by about 10%.

According to Gao Min, Hanbo had nearly 10 brands and more than 300 retail stores across the country. In 2016, Hampel closed all retail Direct stores and devoted all its energy to building and constructing the supply chain platform. In recent years, with the help of digital empowerment, Hanbo's production capacity has been steadily increased by about 15%, and energy consumption has been effectively controlled.

The transformation of Han silk is representative in the traditional clothing industry. With the surging wave of digitization, the industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing are deeply integrated into various fields of the textile and garment industry, giving birth to new formats, new models and new scenes such as collaborative R & D design, automatic production, online monitoring, and shared manufacturing. These digital, intelligent, automation technology applications, so that the textile industry and the digital economy gradually asymptotic, accelerate the integration.

    digital application has brought broader development opportunities for garment enterprises which have deeply cultivated customized services. With the help of Internet technology, garment customization enterprises adopt o2o mode to provide services for consumers. After obtaining data, customized enterprises can produce through their own or third-party factories, and then send them to consumers, thus greatly reducing the production cycle and cost. According to the data of Tianyan survey, there are more than 5000 garment customization related enterprises in China, of which more than 620 are newly registered enterprises in 2021.

By virtue of "customized clothing system, the founder of the company can not only improve the efficiency of customized clothing, but also improve the efficiency of the traditional clothing supply chain by combining with the" customized "clothing system of the company.

   promoting digital transformation has become an important way to break through the production, distribution, circulation and consumption of textile and garment industry, improve the efficiency of resource allocation of different elements in the industry, and realize the value conversion. In the view of Chen Guoqiang, former vice president of China Garment Association, there are many pain points in the development of China's clothing industry, such as huge inventory, serious homogenization, redundancy of intermediate channels in the industrial chain, and lack of professional talents. The solutions to these problems ultimately point to one direction, namely digital transformation.

   The transformation will be carried out in batches

Although the direction is clear, it is not easy to promote digital transformation. The digital development of textile and clothing industry in the sales link has been relatively mature, but in the digital transformation of the production end, the transformation is still in the initial stage.

"Traditional foreign trade factories are large orders, so it is very difficult for workers to accept small orders." Moreover, flexible manufacturing also means adding more intelligent new technologies to traditional manufacturing, Gao Min said. On the one hand, it is difficult to find a suitable software company to do related technology development, on the other hand, the cost is high, and the production line shutdown loss is also large when upgrading. In the past six years, Hanbo has invested 50 million yuan and 60 million yuan in R & D and promotion of digital system. Through persisting in the reform, the workers gradually adapt to it, and flexible manufacturing has achieved a key breakthrough.

Qu Jing, vice president of Huimei fashion group, revealed that promoting digitalization is the enterprise's self revolution, and the transformation is very difficult. Huimei took the lead from its own initiative and gradually adapted itself to the enterprises in the supply chain to complete the upstream and downstream collaboration. After the digital transformation of the industrial chain, the efficiency is higher, and the company's decision-making has a more scientific basis.

   however, although many leading textile and garment enterprises actively explore digital transformation, and some enterprises have achieved obvious results, most of the small and medium-sized enterprises are still in a wait-and-see state. In Dongguan, Guangdong, many small and medium-sized textile and garment enterprises are still in the initial stage of digital transformation at the production end. The phenomenon of "do not want to turn, dare not to turn, will not turn" is still common.

   high purchase cost of digital equipment, long return period of capital investment, immature existing technology, insufficient technical strength and high operation and maintenance cost after completion are the most worrying problems for most small and medium-sized textile and garment enterprises. In order to promote the digital transformation of the industry, the China Textile Industry Federation recently issued the three-year action plan for digital transformation of the textile industry (2022-2024) to create a new digital industrial system, and released the key promotion directory of digital transformation solutions for the textile and garment industry to play an exemplary and leading role in promoting the digital transformation of the whole industry.

Sun Ruizhe said that in recent years, the textile industry has actively carried out the pilot demonstration of intelligent manufacturing enterprises and the selection of excellent integrators of system solutions, effectively guiding the upgrading practice of Intelligent Manufacturing in the whole industry. During the 14th Five Year Plan period, the textile industry will strengthen the public service platform, accelerate the popularization and application of mature and applicable intelligent manufacturing technology, equipment and software in the whole industry, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises, so as to continuously enhance the development toughness and vitality of enterprises.

   Building digital ecology

With the development of digital technology. From the primary stage of generating various digital forms and reports to the organic combination of business data, process data and equipment data, the digital ecology of textile and garment industry is gradually built.

Chen Guoqiang told reporters that the garment industry, as a labor-intensive industry, needs to improve the production efficiency of the whole industrial chain with the help of new technologies, new applications and intelligent equipment to transform to digital and ecological industries. At the same time, he said frankly, in order to establish a digital ecology, there is still a lack of comprehensive development of digital service providers covering the whole country.

Fortunately, the problem of digital service providers is being gradually solved by enterprises inside and outside the industry. In the industry, Harper smart cloud, the first industrial Internet platform of fashion industry launched by Hanbo, takes intelligent manufacturing as the core engine, and builds the clothing industry cloud and intelligent manufacturing cloud based on the concept of "all elements, whole industry chain, and whole life cycle", so as to help small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of clothing transform and upgrade.

According to Gao Min, Hubble smart cloud can provide standardized access ports for supply chain partners, automatically send platform orders to downstream factories, and realize information matching between supply chain and factory; It can help traditional factories to carry out information transformation, collect, process, transmit, analyze and feed back the capacity side data through low-cost batch replicable intelligent production scheme, so as to match the industry cloud order data and supply chain data.

  professional technology companies have also begun to delve into the digitalization of textile and clothing. Liu Ke, co-founder and chief product officer of Feilu technology, said that Feilu technology is committed to the application of artificial intelligence technology in the field of clothing supply chain, providing tens of millions of garment factories, designers and brand customers at home and abroad with intelligent production collaborative system products and a new mode of sourcing and marketing platform and supply chain service platform.

                    Sun Ruizhe said that speeding up the digital transformation is a strategic choice to grasp the new opportunities of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the only way to realize the goal of manufacturing a powerful country, and also meet the realistic requirements of people's yearning for a better life. The textile industry will actively promote the implementation of the plan, take digital as the new fulcrum, leverage the high-quality development of the industry, and achieve new results in the implementation of the "three products" strategy. (by reporter Liu Jin, photo by Shen Jian)

   (source: Economic Daily)