Investigation: Bright Prospects And Hardships Of Information Technology

China's important position in the international textile industry, the urgent desire of textile enterprises to improve the core competitiveness after China's entry into the WTO, especially since the outbreak of the world financial crisis, has greatly reduced the demand of the international market, which has made the competition of textile trade more intense, which have stimulated the significant increase in the investment in the construction of information technology by domestic enterprises.

The scale, efficiency and quantity of China's textile industry determine that it is a big market for emerging information industries.

Some industries (such as clothing, home textiles), enterprises (such as private enterprises) and regions (such as the western region), which are relatively weak in information technology during the "fifteen" period, have also made information feasibility analysis, planning and application research.

Especially in the first two years of 11th Five-Year, the introduction of resource management system (ERP) into textile enterprises has become a fashion. There are factors that the government and industry organizations strongly push forward, but it is mainly the sober judgement of textile enterprises on the trend of increasingly severe international competition.

What does a sampling survey show?

In the middle of 11th Five-Year, a sample survey of some key enterprises by China Textile Industry Association showed that enterprises that planned to apply information management system in the near future accounted for about 40%.

Among them, enterprises that plan to invest less than 200 thousand yuan in information technology account for 50%, and enterprises that plan to invest 200 thousand to 500 thousand yuan account for 25%, and those who plan to invest 500 thousand to 1 million yuan make up 22%, and enterprises with plans to invest more than 1 million yuan account for 3%.

The survey shows that the application needs of enterprises are classified according to the technical field. The informationization of management system is second only to the equipment renewal, and the voice is the highest in the demand of technological upgrading of enterprises. E-commerce is increasing at a very fast rate and attracts many small and medium-sized enterprises.

All these indicate that textile industry attaches importance to the upgrading of industry informatization.

However, the survey also shows that in different industries, the distribution of information projects is very uneven.

From the perspective of professional distribution, cotton textile, chemical fiber and textile machinery are relatively concentrated, indicating that these enterprises choose the project objectives clear, taking into account their own needs and technological development.

From the perspective of regional distribution, the economically developed coastal areas such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang are more concentrated; the traditional textile areas such as Shandong, Henan, Hebei and Hubei have also developed better; Beijing, Shanghai and other large cities have few projects in recent years due to the adjustment of industrial structure and so on; the central and western regions are relatively backward, but the demand for areas such as Xinjiang has increased rapidly.

Experts believe that the effect of enterprises applying ERP system depends on their specialties. The industries with high technical level integration are superior to those with low integration level. The industries with relatively simple technological parameters are superior to those with complex process parameters, and the industries with less production lines or fewer machines are superior to those with multi machine dispersed production.

According to this rule, the printing and dyeing industry should belong to the most difficult industry to popularize ERP and process parameter on-line detection and automatic control system.

In fact, during the "11th Five-Year" period, it is the best and fastest development period for the 28 key technologies of the textile industry, "research and development of ERP system suitable for the textile industry" and "on-line detection and automatic control system of dyeing and finishing equipment parameters".

Market creates professional suppliers

Hangzhou open source computer technology Co., Ltd. and Changzhou Hongda Technology (Group) are outstanding leaders in the printing and dyeing industry's information technology solutions supplier. It is interesting that the two companies that focus on information technology were founded in the 90s of last century.

Hangzhou Kaiyuan is a hi-tech enterprise specializing in R & D, production and service of textile printing and dyeing CAD/CAM and ERP systems.

The automatic computerized pulp mixing system of its fist product was awarded the first prize of science and technology progress of China Textile Industry Association in 2004 and the two prize of national science and technology progress in 2005, respectively. The wax spray net system was awarded "the first prize of science and technology progress of China Textile Industry Association in 2004" and "the first prize of science and technology progress of Zhejiang Province in 2004".

Among the top ten printing and dyeing industries released by China Textile Industry Association, 9 companies use open source products, and the market share of their main products ranks first in China.

At present, the company's main products include automatic computerized pulp mixing system, dye / auxiliaries automatic distribution system, color change design software for chameleon, flat / round screen wax spraying machine, flat / rotary screen printer, laser imaging machine, digital inkjet printer, printing and dyeing ERP, printing and dyeing online collection system, etc.

Xu Guangming, chairman of Hangzhou open source, said that the open source printing and dyeing online collection system is not a separate product, but helps the printing and dyeing enterprises to change an idea and provide a tool to obtain the most reliable machine data.

With this tool, decision makers of printing and dyeing enterprises can make decisions more objectively. Production managers can more effectively grasp the production situation, achieve accurate control of the production process, and effectively reduce quality problems and reduce energy waste.

Changzhou Hongda is a research company specializing in research and manufacture of printing and dyeing automation control technology products. The printing and dyeing digitization system developed by the company has won the "major technological progress award to promote China's textile industry upgrading" in the past thirty years of reform and opening up. The online detection of alkali concentration and automatic alkali adding system, on-line detection of pH value and on-line detection and control system of moisture content are included in the "two awards of energy saving and emission reduction recommended products and energy saving and emission reduction excellent technological innovation results".

Changzhou Hongda serves the top 100 enterprises and nearly 800 other enterprises, and has a very high reputation in the industry. For many years, it has been committed to promoting the intelligent and information-based progress of the printing and dyeing industry.

At present, the main products of the company are MAX-300 alkali concentration on-line detection and control system, MSC-U fabric moisture content on-line detection and control system, atmosphere humidity on-line detection and control system, pH-500 type pH value on-line detection and control system, HD door width on-line detection and control system, MES production process execution system, printing and dyeing process equipment on-line detection system and printing and dyeing expert management system, etc. the main product market share ranks first in China.

Gu Ren, chairman of Changzhou Hongda, is currently Deputy head of the electromechanics group of dyeing and finishing Specialized Committee of China Textile Engineering Society, deputy head of automatic chemical group of China Textile machinery and equipment industry association, technical committee of standardization group of China industrial machinery electrical system, and vice chairman of Technical Committee of textile machinery electrical part.

He said that in view of the current situation of China's printing and dyeing industry, the company strives to achieve breakthroughs in the following three aspects.

The key process parameters of the process are on-line inspection and automatic control, which are mainly to realize automatic control of a single key point or several key process parameters of a certain processing technology. Secondly, realize automatic control and digital management of single machine, quantify the control parameters of the single station, overcome the errors caused by human factors, and achieve reproducibility through memory and storage process menu, greatly improve the success rate. Thirdly, realize intelligent online inspection and production process intelligent information control. The MES production process execution system is mainly the continuous detection and control of various processes in the printing and dyeing process and the network digital management, and effectively manage the water, electricity, gas energy consumption, output and yield of the production process, and realize the numerical control of printing and dyeing. First, the existing production.

The above three levels of implementation will strongly support the upgrading of the industry and achieve energy conservation and emission reduction from the source.

Focus on small and medium enterprises

During the "11th Five-Year" period, the application of information technology has greatly improved the market resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises.

The speed of product development is accelerated, the development cycle is shortened, and new products can be continuously introduced to deal with the rapidly changing market demand and achieve rapid response to the market.

The application of information technology has a profound impact on the marketing operation of enterprises.

After the application of information management in many small and medium-sized enterprises, especially the application of ERP system and on-line inspection system for printing and dyeing process equipment, the management level in the production process has been greatly improved.

Enterprises can arrange production plans more reasonably, production scheduling is more flexible, production schedule can be timely tracked and controlled; timely marketing plan can be formulated, and production guidance should be arranged to shorten the delivery cycle.

The application of information technology has also accelerated the speed of enterprise decision making.

For example, by quickly forecasting the order cost, speeding up the speed of information processing, and providing comprehensive analysis for decision making, the leaders' decisions can be made more timely and scientific, and they can respond promptly and correctly to the rapidly changing market.

China Textile Industry Association has a survey of more than 70 small and medium-sized enterprises in the textile and garment industry cluster. More and more small and medium-sized enterprises pay attention to using information technology to improve management level, and use information network to obtain market information, technical information, talent information and popular information of textile and clothing.

In some of the industrial clusters in the coastal areas, more than 50% of enterprises use information and network technology to obtain information, standardize and upgrade management level, and some enterprises communicate with customers through the network platform, display products, and finally achieve online pactions.

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During the "11th Five-Year" period, more and more textile enterprises in China applied information technology systems such as resource management system (ERP), supply chain management system (SCM), customer relationship management system (CRM), and auxiliary design and manufacturing system (DAD/CAM) according to their respective characteristics and actual situations.

These information systems have played a great role in enterprise production process management, marketing, technology development, production process control and so on. The information level and management level of enterprises have been improved, and the comprehensive competitiveness of enterprises has been enhanced.