Traditional Industry Moves Towards "Digital Intelligence" -- Experience Of Transformation And Upgrading Of Textile Industry In Gaoyang, Hebei

Output value data, finished product inventory, brand incubation... constantly changing figures are presented on the digital platform of Hebei Gaoyang textile industry in real time. On November 15, the reporter saw this so-called "central brain" in the textile industry chain on the second floor of Gaoyang County Industrial Education Center.

"This is a newly created digital service platform for industrial Internet this year." Hu Changlu, director of Gaoyang County Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, told the Science and Technology Daily that this platform gathered the production, sales, brand and other industrial chain elements of more than 4000 textile enterprises in the county. Through in-depth mining and scientific analysis of industrial data, new industrial growth poles will be cultivated.

Digital intelligence enabled enterprises "rebirth"

Entering the digital intelligent production workshop of Hebei Brilliant Home Textile Co., Ltd., full-automatic horizontal and vertical sewing machines are rapidly sewing towels. The standard and efficient sewing process has effectively improved the speed of towel sewing.

"We participated in the research and development of these horizontal and vertical sewing machines," said Liu Junshan, the chairman of the company, who realized automatic production in the processes of towel weaving and finishing.

Liu Junshan pointed to the big screen of digital intelligence and said to reporters: "Now it is time for data to be displayed on the screen. There are more intelligent machines and fewer workers. This is the effect of digital transformation."

The digital workshop transformation mentioned by Liu Junshan began in 2022. He said: "We used cloud collaboration system, new network technology, automated production line, artificial intelligence transportation robot and other advanced technologies and equipment, through data collection in the production process, and coordination of multiple ends and roles, to open up the information flow from marketing, design, process to production organization, manufacturing and quality inspection, and effectively improve production efficiency, product quality and asset operation Horizontal. "

Therefore, Liu Junshan's company has become a benchmark for the digital transformation of Gaoyang County's textile industry. "Up to now, we have created 4 benchmarks for digital transformation of enterprises and conducted in-depth digital transformation of 41 enterprises." Hu Changlu introduced that achieving industrial Internet connectivity is the ultimate goal of digital transformation.

Technology enabled products "vitality"

Stepping into the product exhibition hall of Hebei Yongliang Textile Co., Ltd., towels embroidered with Kunqu facial makeup patterns were neatly placed on the display shelf. "This is a cultural and creative towel that can sing songs." While talking, Tian Haitao, the general manager of the company, scanned the two-dimensional code on the towel with his mobile phone, and said, "With this coded towel, you can not only listen to music, but also follow the dance, and in the future you can listen to popular science stories."

E-commerce has added new channels for textile product sales.

After arriving at the e-commerce warehouse of Hebei Sanli Woolen Textile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Sanli Woolen Textile), dozens of goods pickers were walking through the shelves, automatic baling machines were rapidly packing packages, and packages of different sizes were queuing up from the conveyor belt to the automatic sorting line

"There are more than 10000 products in this 3000 square meter picking area. In order to enable the pickers to find products quickly, each product here has its corresponding warehouse location code, case code and product code." Niu Jinjun, the head of the company's planning center, introduced that the efficiency of picking, packaging and sorting has been improved digitally.

"This is just a microcosm of online sales of more than 3000 textile enterprises in the county." Dong Feng, director of Gaoyang County Bureau of Commerce, said that since June this year, the sales of textile product lines in the county last month reached more than 16 million pieces, and e-commerce has accelerated the development of the industry.

Innovation drives industry to become "green"

"This roll of towel adopts a new process of normal temperature dyeing, which will not produce chemical oxygen demand in the whole pretreatment." Liu Xuezhan, director of the R&D Department of Sanli Woolen Textile, introduced that this will overturn the traditional process of steam printing and dyeing towels.

When talking about the new process, Liu Xuezhan said happily, "This is due to the project of new ambient temperature active water continuous bleaching auxiliary developed by us in cooperation with Tianjin University of Technology."

"In order to improve the scientific and technological innovation capability of the county, we issued the Incentive Policy of Gaoyang County for Promoting Scientific and Technological Innovation Support in 2021." Qi Zhiguo, acting head of the People's Government of Gaoyang County, told reporters that at present, Gaoyang has built 6 provincial scientific and technological innovation platforms in textile industry.

In the dyeing and finishing workshop of Gaoyang Shengxiang Dyeing Factory, workers are manipulating the digital platform to lift a cage of dyed yarn out of the dye vat. "Our package dyeing equipment is equipped with an intelligent dyeing and cleaning system, which effectively reduces wastewater discharge." Feng Yuejing, the general manager of the factory, said that the wastewater after sand filtration, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis processes can be returned to the production workshop for reuse.

The circular industrial park has become the "underpinning" project for the development of Gaoyang textile industry. "Nine printing and dyeing enterprises have settled in the recycling park, and their wastewater has been treated and turned into renewable water that can be recycled. Textile solid waste has been collected and processed and turned into labor protection products and new fuels." Shi Yiheng, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Gaoyang Economic Development Zone, introduced that enterprises have moved from decentralization to agglomeration, which is digital management and industrial operation, and the waste water and waste residue are "dried".

Digital intelligence drives the future of the industry. "The traditional industry is a sunrise industry that will never lag behind, and its development should change with the times and the situation. The deep integration of the new generation of information technology and the textile industry will promote its high-end, intelligent and green orientation, and will also build up the momentum for our textile industry to enter a hundred billion level cluster." Jiang Dongfang, the secretary of Gaoyang County Party Committee, is full of confidence.