When Clothes Encounter Technology

In many people's eyes, the clothing industry is a labor-intensive industry with low technology content, but in fact, it is not the case. The industry is closely related to the development of science and technology.

From the production of clothing fabrics to clothing design, production, logistics, terminal sales, every link is indispensable to the support of scientific and technological strength.

At present, China's garment industry has clearly defined the development goal of "clothing power", and "clothing power" should start from technology, brand and culture, pform industries and upgrade industries.

The specific implementation strategy is from the "contribution rate of science and technology" and "brand contribution rate".

Two links.

To raise the contribution rate of science and technology is to make the Chinese garment industry stand in the commanding heights of science and technology in the field of global clothing, create market opportunities with science and technology, and create super value and efficiency through technology.

Scientific and technological content of a piece of fabric

Fabric is the most basic element of making clothes.

Without fabric, everything else about clothing does not exist.

Conventional

At present, hi-tech functional fabrics have been widely used in all kinds of garments, especially sports.

Under the guidance of this trend, many domestic fabric enterprises, sports and leisure enterprises have taken action consciously to promote the development and use of high-tech functional fabrics.

Chen Xianming, general manager of three Jin Textile Co., Ltd. in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, introduced their outdoor leisure wear fabrics, which are waterproof, windproof and breathable. They pour a cup of water on a seemingly ordinary black fabric, and then reclaim the water in the cup. The fabric is not wet at all, and a lot of water drops.

In Anta's lab, people can see the latest elastic fabric developed by companies and Lycra.

This fabric can maintain good ventilation effect because of its special material, but it will not be permeated with water. For outdoor clothing, it will maintain good clothing effect.

At the Winter Olympic Games held in 2010, the name of the Winter Olympic Games award dress selected by Anta is the fish grid PU film breathable and breathable membrane. It adopts the international advanced DuPont Teflon fabric protection technology, and has the extremely strong waterproof, anti fouling and oil proof ability. The maximum water pressure can withstand 10000PPM, has the function of long-lasting water repellent, and can well protect ultraviolet from damaging the skin.

Not only that, all parts of the award dress have breathable holes, which are conducive to efficient sweating and make the wearing experience more comfortable.

Environmental protection and low carbon has become one of the most popular words in recent years. For environmental protection, it is not only a goal pursued by consumers, but also a goal pursued by manufacturing enterprises.

Nowadays, low carbon and environmental protection is also blowing into the fabric industry.

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In World Expo last year, You Xurong group launched the flycool cool fabric is the world's best choice products, the fabric can produce a cool feeling of 1~2 degrees below the temperature when exposed to skin. Long time sunlight can produce a cool temperature difference of 3~5 degrees, and has the effect of moisture absorption, sweat and ultraviolet.

The moisture regain and fiber thermal diffusivity of this cool fiber are better than those of ordinary fibers, and there are many kinds of composite natural minerals, jade and so on. It is a multifunctional environmental protection fabric.

When wearing this series of clothes, the air conditioner can be adjusted to 1 degrees centigrade. According to statistics, the electricity charge of 5~6% can be saved, and the amount of 0.62kg carbon emission can be reduced.

At this year's China International fabric exhibition, Huang Zhixiang, President and general manager of Zhi Zhi (China) Group Co., Ltd. introduced a high-tech fabric for journalists who came to visit China.

The fabric is made from corn fiber produced by Ingeinous company, without petroleum derivatives.

If 10000 polyester fiber jerseys were converted to the fabric, the savings of petrochemical energy equivalent to 2271 liters of gasoline would reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 23336 kilometers of exhaust emissions from an ordinary car.

Low carbon environmental protection is not only embodied in functional fabric products, but also in the production technology process of enterprises.

Gage formed a strategic partner with Taiwan Changsheng company and jointly established the cold pfer environmental printing experimental application center.

It is understood that the project has thoroughly solved the problems of energy consumption, water consumption, time consuming, high cost, and rough pattern in traditional printing process.

Compared with the traditional printing process, cold pfer environmental printing is a combination of environmental protection, energy saving and high efficiency.

The technology is also suitable for cellulose fiber fabrics such as cotton, model and Tencel. The advantage is that the material is less and the washing is easy. Compared with the traditional printing ratio, the technology can save 65% of the energy, and the water consumption of 2/3 also produces less waste water and lower harmful substances.

Similarly, there are many new fabrics for energy saving and low carbon:

"Coke bottle" fabric.

The coke bottle fabric is made of waste coke bottles, which are washed, broken and fused to make recycled fibers.

Fashion people made this regenerated fiber into clothing and became a shining eye on the T model.

Because the content of cola bottle 90% is reclaimed recycled polyester fiber, the fibers and fabrics made of it also have polyester polyester characteristics, which do not affect the physical and chemical performance indexes in any way.

According to scientific proof, 1000 grams of "coke bottle" is equivalent to 700 grams of crude oil containing carbon, directly saving 80% of energy consumption than conventional polyester.

Coloring bottles and other fabrics have been widely used in various fields of life, such as bags, shopping bags, tents, women's clothing, home textiles, etc. after dyeing, finalizing, and so on. Their strength is slightly lower than that of conventional polyester, and their wearing indexes meet the standard requirements.

In order to harvest better wearability, many businesses have made improvements from finishing, such as waterproof, moisture permeability, antibacterial and UV resistance, making them more comfortable and durable.

Light and high density fabric.

In order to perfect the pursuit and to challenge the limit, Taihua special textile (Jiaxing) Co., Ltd. will strive to achieve the ultimate goal of environmental protection.

Starting from regular 20D nylon, Taihua further developed 15D soft silk series and 10D lightweight series.

Among them, 10D, that is, the weight of every 9000 meters long silk is 10 grams; 15D is 9000 grams of silk weight 15 grams each.

The 10D series is known as "cicada spinning", which suggests that it is as light as a feather and thin as a cicada.

Assuming that the width of the door is 150 centimeters, the weight of the fabric is only 20 grams. According to the 1 meter fabric cost of a coat, a lightweight windbreaker jacket weighs only 20 grams. The weight of the fabric is 1 centimeters.

Of course, lightweight fabrics should also be of first-rate quality.

How does the fabric of 10D meet the wearability? Thua Hua chooses advanced post finishing technology to enhance the tear strength of the finished products. At present, the tearing strength of "cicada spinning" can reach 1000 grams, which basically meets the wearability.

This fabric is soft, comfortable, windproof and breathable, and is usually used to make light casual clothes. The light texture can hardly feel its weight.

Simulation fabric.

This kind of "simulation fabric" is different from the "simulation" in biology. This kind of simulation fabric is to use more material saving method and produce better products in a more environmentally friendly way.

If artificial leather takes the place of natural cowhide, moisture absorption and quick drying replace the hygroscopic and quick drying fiber, the PU paper is replaced by the refined silk fabric, and the wisdom of Jin polyester crepe is a perfect interpretation of the new concept of "dyed weaving".

Of course, the use of microcapsules also brings us more choice.

The calendering effect of the offset paper itself, plus the "icing on the cake" of a PU coating, brightens the original beauty and blossoming brilliance.

Hi-tech fabrics can greatly enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.

An industry insider who has been engaged in knitting product research and development for many years said that all enterprises are facing uncertain factors such as labor cost, rising price of raw materials, and fluctuation of RMB exchange rate. Textile industry is under great pressure, but vitality is everywhere.

The same is knitted fabric, conventional products sold to dozens of yuan a kilogram, and the new fabric sells tens of yuan, one meter, and in short supply.

This is the gap. The gap is reflected in science and technology.

Scientific and technological factors in production

A garment, from fabric to production, to logistics and sales, has gone through several processes, and how many of these processes are directly reflected in the latest technology? These are all related to the development of clothing brand clothing, and it is also related to whether Chinese clothing can really integrate with the international market and become a member of the international brand clothing world.

When it comes to garment enterprises, people often see a group of women working on the sewing machine.

Once upon a time, the Chinese clothing industry always seemed to be closely related to such words as "OEM, processing base, manual workshop, labor intensive".

However, a few years ago, tiger clothing Limited presented a sewing machine with a value of 420 thousand yuan and more expensive than Audi. It made people have a new understanding of the technological progress of garment enterprises in the sewing process.

It is understood that in order to make profits in the production cost and efficiency, many garment enterprises pay more attention to the investment in updating equipment. Advanced equipment and application of science and technology have been listed as the key indicators of clothing brand enterprises.

"At present, domestic large-scale garment processing plants generally use automatic equipment such as automatic cutting machine, automatic bag opening machine, automatic copying machine and so on, and have realized semi automated production.

"YOUNGOR" is an example, as well as Beijing's "bronze cattle".

We can see that the YOUNGOR workshop has the most advanced clothing production technology and equipment and production line in the world today.

Xu Lan, Germany's technical support for Shanghai representative office, believes that China's clothing design and production has entered the stage of digital competition.

There are three main categories of modern garment processing technology: cutting process, sewing process and ironing process.

The corresponding three major processing equipment: cutting and processing equipment, sewing processing equipment and ironing processing equipment are also the three links in the technological pformation of garment enterprises. The technological development of these equipment has improved the garment production technology and application technology.

Nowadays, China's clothing industry is no longer a traditional labor-intensive industry in the original sense, but an industry integrating high technology and information technology. Science and technology has been closely linked with the industrialization of clothing, and the labor productivity of the garment industry has been greatly improved.

For men's formal shirts, the average production level of a single production line in the whole country is 13~15 pieces. A better enterprise can reach 17~19 by hanging wires, while a domestic enterprise has achieved 23 pieces of fine management by using automatic equipment.

This shows that in the process of production, the role of mechanization and automation is increasing, and people become auxiliary factors.

Application of computer management system to improve labour productivity is the trend of garment production.

The automatic hanging pmission system is a combination of several garment production processes under the control of computers, which can reduce the auxiliary time beyond the operator's sewing. It can reduce the time of bundling and placing the cutting pieces. It also has the function of computer production and management. Before the system starts, the production management personnel will arrange the production management personnel to enter the production process and working conditions on the main control machine to operate. The computer control will send the clothes piece according to the input requirements in turn according to the working station. If the same process needs to be processed by several workstations, it can automatically adjust the delivery station according to the completion of multiple workstations, so as to ensure the balance of the process and the smooth flow of the pipeline.

When the system is working, there will be a lot of overstock in one station, and it will be automatically adjusted so that production managers can adjust the process and balance production.

In actual production, the production efficiency can be increased by more than 20%.

There are a lot of redundant processes in domestic garment manufacturers. For example, many garment production processes are preliminary cutting - sewing (bonding and ironing) - fine cutting process. As long as we use sawing scissors, hydraulic punching machines and automatic cutting machines (CAM) in cutting, we can completely turn the preliminary examination into fine cutting and save the tailoring process. In the sewing process, the use of automatic special equipment, such as the automatic bagging machine for shirts production equipment, makes the original two processes (bag folding, ironing - stickbag sewing) into a sack sewing system, and the output of one worker per day is equivalent to the output of 4 people in the original process.

"The development direction of domestic equipment in the future is mainly to realize the unmanned production of garment workshop and the mechatronics technology.

For example, the use of hanging system can improve the pportation and pportation modes of semi products in all processes, so that all the automatic lines of the workshop can be reasonably communicated and linked up, forming automatic control production, reducing production workers, and realizing "unmanned production".

Xu Lan said.

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Amazing RFID

The so-called RFID, its English full name is Radio Frequency Identification, plation is RFID, also known as the "electronic label".

Don't belittle this little label, it's the core technology in the era of Internet of things.

Once a garment is finished, it will put a RFID tag on it, so that it will no longer need to open the box or inspect it when it comes out.

According to the current technology, the use of RFID scanner, a box of 100 pieces of clothing in 50~100 cm reading rate is one hundred percent, so that the whole box of goods, how much each garment, different colors, different sizes of how to distribute it is clear.

A box of goods can be scanned at one time and passed through inspection quickly without having to go through the piece by piece in the barcode era, which can greatly enhance the efficiency of the storage and delivery of goods.

In the same way, the retail terminal can be more convenient.

In the receiving section, there is no need for many people to take part in the type and quantity of the goods received through the background.

When taking stock, put the goods on the special counter. The varieties, colors, sizes and numbers are clear at a glance.

If it is found that a commodity shelf can not be "homogeneous", the system will notify the clerk to make up the items.

At present, the application of RFID technology in the clothing industry has been attached more importance by enterprises, because the enterprise leaders gradually realized that RFID technology can improve the pparency and inventory turnover of supply chain management, and effectively reduce the shortage loss, and also enhance the consumption experience of the stores.

Some people have summed up the credit of RFID to garment enterprises in the following four points: fast logistics efficiency, quick delivery of goods, and efficient logistics operation; data: accurate data collection of garment circulation in every link of the supply chain; prevention: by embedding RFID chip into the interior of clothing, to achieve anti fleeing and anti-counterfeiting effect; enjoy: through RFID smart store, improve consumer experience, interact and display more products, respond quickly to consumer demand, so as to improve service level and store sales.

PRADA has installed RFID tags on clothing since November 2001.

The electronic label is printed on the electronic substrate material and embedded in the plastic or paper label.

The labels used by PRADA on the Epicenter flagship store in New York are related to the style, size, color and other details and price information.

When customers wear PRADA clothes to pass through their stores, the RFID system will control the display models in the store and display models on the T stage in Milan.

The use of this technology will undoubtedly increase the sense of accomplishment of consumers after purchasing PRADA products.

In the face of the successful attempts of many internationally renowned enterprises on RFID, some excellent Chinese local enterprises have gradually entered the RFID queue.

In 2006, China Men's clothing brand strong power master, in its warehouse and store in 2006 in the implementation of the RFID management solution, the logistics warehouse and finished warehouse implementation of wireless management, through the identification system of electronic barcode in the store and store real-time data collection, with the headquarters to realize timely information sharing and communication, to solve many problems in the warehouse management and supply chain management.

But to say that the RFID technology is currently in full swing of the enterprise, that is not a beautiful state.

Nowadays, in some ME&CITY flagship stores, you can't see the direct shopping guide, and there will be no various recommendation and introduction about the product, because the heavy task of marketing to the customers has been handed over to all kinds of liquid crystal devices in the store. These high-precision electronic devices are using the RFID chip with clothing information attached to the clothing to give customers 360 degrees of virtual clothing and a variety of combination effects.

Not only that, RFID chips are also used on the VIP user card of Smith Barton, but VIP customers will be recognized by the system as soon as they enter the shop and enjoy special services. As long as the VIP cards are placed on the interactive touchscreen of the store, they can query the history of consumption, and can also get convenient clothing information services such as promotional discounts and recommended collocations.

"Of course, the more important application of the RFID chip based IOT system is to enhance the efficiency of the supply chain."

Min Jie, vice president of B2C Business Department of Metersbonwe apparel Limited by Share Ltd, Shanghai, said.

Over the past two years, the scale of the expansion of the United States has accelerated, the annual clothing production exceeds 100 million, the store has expanded to 3000, and the storage capacity has increased to 300 thousand square meters.

The burden of such a high strength supply chain is also alleviated and dredged with the help of a small RFID tag. The whole box scanning, inspection and quick passing can effectively reduce the cost of manpower and time, and break through the bottleneck of the inefficient supply chain.

Extended reading

Foreign high-tech aspects of clothing

Have you ever heard of clothes that "breathe", "clothes that are not afraid of dirty", and "clothes that are not afraid of heat"? These sounding some amazing costumes are no longer Arabian Nights, and they are becoming reality in some foreign countries.

Italy GeoxSpa and professional colleges and universities jointly study "breathing" clothes.

This kind of clothing is suitable for people who are active in sports activities.

According to the heat generated by human movement, condensation can occur and sweat evaporates. GeoxSpa develops the new product by using the convection principle of physics. The spacer device is installed under the stuffing of the garment and equipped with a "breathing" guiding belt. Because the tape has breathable and waterproof film under the surface, the sweat can evaporate when the hot gas is discharged smoothly, and the water will not stay in it. It keeps the clothes dry and reduces the uncomfortableness of clothes.

South Korea's KOLONINET company has developed a kind of clothes that are not afraid of dirt, which can prevent oil and stain.

The material used is a kind of fiber with antifouling function developed by Clariant, a multinational chemical enterprise.

This principle is not afraid of dirty. Its principle is somewhat similar to the surface of some plants and some insect wings of Yu Yang cabbage, and it has self-cleaning function even though sticking to foreign bodies.

And, more importantly, it is pollution-free and has no adverse effects on the human body.

This kind of clothing is not only suitable for outdoor sports and sports, but also for daily activities.

The company is also on the market to have a clothing that has the function of blocking ultraviolet rays.

The fabric is specially processed to reduce the heat absorption rate, which can effectively reduce the inhalation of ultraviolet light.

The processed fabrics can change the reflectivity of the infrared spectrum, and the heat absorbing black can reflect the sunlight with low endothermic level.

According to the experiment, the clothing used in this technology is less than 10 degrees of heat compared with the clothes made of the same color and the same structure.

This is a good choice for people with frequent outdoor activities and for golf enthusiasts.

With the advent of green low-carbon era, degradable clothing also came into being.

During the period of World Expo, Shanghai, the white T-shirt worn by German staff is not different from the usual cotton clothing, but the difference is that it can be degraded quickly after being discarded because of the corresponding chemical treatment.

Once the T-shirt is exposed to the corresponding bacterial environment, it will be completely decomposed, and even clothing dyes and buttons will not cause environmental problems in the process of degradation.

The British Department of fashion design of Haarlem university has developed a biodegradable wedding dress which can be dissolved in water.

The secret of this soluble wedding dress is the choice of making materials: some of the main parts of the wedding dress are made of fabrics containing polyvinyl alcohol.

Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is a polymer commonly used in detergents, which can be dissolved in water and does not cause environmental pollution.

Although the materials used for making the rest of the wedding dress are not soluble, they are biodegradable, such as organic cotton and one hundred percent green accessories.

Therefore, after the wedding ceremony, the bride can dip some part of the wedding dress, such as sleeves in the water, and so on, and this part will disappear and get another dress of different styles.

Clothing technology is also reflected in the processing technology.

The sunstar group has fully automated the embroidery machine and sewing machine.

The representative product is HeadTurningMachine. The principle is that the sewing head can be automatically rotated under the control of electronic devices.

It can be stitched in the same direction under the effect of non human labor, and the whole process can be automatically completed without human involvement.

In particular, the "needle perception system" and "selection control system" were adopted, which greatly reduced misoperation and minor errors.

Now this new product has been concerned by GUCCI, PRADA and other famous international enterprises.

In the sales link of clothing, the shadow of high technology is everywhere.

In some foreign clothing stores and department stores, smart fitting rooms are not the latest thing.

The PRADA store in the US is a case in point.

The interactive fitting room of this store is a small room of about 0.75 square meters, which is made of Privalite high-tech glass.

The advantage of this kind of glass is that it can control the pparency of glass pparently by using switch, and it can ensure lighting and privacy without curtain.

The fitting room is also equipped with a small wardrobe with RFID automatic identification technology. As long as the clothes are hung in this wardrobe, the system will scan the relevant information of the clothes through RF, and display it on a touchable screen, including the color, size and price of the clothes, so that people who try the clothes can be selected again.

Not only that, there is also a video magic mirror in the fitting room. When people stand in front of the magic mirror, the mirror will slowly play the multi angle and omnidirectional moving images of the fitting person.

The IP phone and LCD screen have been installed in each fitting room of the San Yue Department Store in Japan.

When the tester finds himself wearing jeans in the fitting room is not suitable for himself, he can immediately query the other styles, sizes and stocks of the jeans in the shop through the screen display.

In addition, the fitting person can also communicate with the outside clerk through IP phone, and does not need to run between the fitting room and the clothes hanger.

The famous American department store Bloomingdales store in New York is one of the first shops to try "smart fitting". The fitting people do not need to enter the fitting room. There is a smart mirror outside the fitting room. The clothes that the customers value can be displayed in the mirror. As long as you can go to the front of the mirror, you can see the image after putting on the new clothes.

Next, they send their images in front of the mirror to a website through the touch screen on the wall. Their family members and friends can see it on the other side and make an evaluation soon.

voice

There must be a specific target in science and technology to create a powerful country in clothing science and technology.

The competition of an enterprise or an industry is not the three forms of competition, such as past cost, differentiated products, and target clustering.

Because of the development of information technology and network technology in twenty-first Century, information superiority and knowledge superiority have become the main contents of competitiveness. Therefore, as a powerful country in clothing, knowledge competitiveness must be among the best.

Wen Lisheng, deputy director of science and Technology Committee of China clothing association

A few years ago, a layman like me was just a labor-intensive industry with no technical content.

But after years of understanding and learning, I think the accumulation of knowledge and technology in this industry is not what we can imagine.

- founder and CEO of VCG

I never agree with the saying that "clothing is not high-tech."

In the ten thousand step, even if clothing is not high-tech, there is also high technology. Garment manufacturing technology is a kind of advanced technology which is almost close to art level.

Yang Wensun, chairman of the {page_break} group

At present, the fashion trend of fashion design is to pay attention to the lifestyle of the masses, to seek a balance between the design of individual performance and to meet the needs of the consumer. Two is to pay attention to hot topics, keep pace with social development and technological progress; three, design innovation is consistent with the trend of aesthetic trend of consumers and the trend of popularity; four, design innovation is synchronized with technological innovation.

Hu Lei, deputy director of fashion design department, School of fashion, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University.