Warming Up Cixi Star To Build An Intelligent Manufacturing Ecosystem To Promote The New Future Of The Industry

(Liu Jingmin, Aman Chang) in 2014, the country proposed to create "2025 made in China". During the 2018 to four years, cistar made constant efforts to realize the intelligent manufacturing in the knitting industry.

The twenty-second Ningbo international costumes Fair will be held from October 18th to 21. In the early stage of the exhibition, the reporter went into "Cixing" to explore the high-tech space of intelligent manufacturing machine.

Ningbo Cixing Limited by Share Ltd is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the production of intelligent knitting equipment. It has been rated as the 50 largest taxpayer in Ningbo for five consecutive years, and is a listed company.

In 2017, enterprises realized sales of 1 billion 404 million 375 thousand and 100 yuan and net profit of 234 million 567 thousand and 600 yuan.

Modern trends lead the way to personalization and mainstream.

Mass customization is the main theme of the development of cistar in 2014.

When the fashion trend of textile and garment industry is constantly changing, when more and more consumers pay more attention to the customization of clothing and individuality, Cixing enterprises have a long term insight into the tenses, and have established the development direction of customization in the early morning.

"In order to adapt to the development, Cixing started thinking about how to achieve highly automation in the production process through technological innovation in the production process of knitwear, reduce personnel input, and start from the user's personalized needs, so as to achieve the real-time production capacity of the factory."

Mr. Li Lijun, director and deputy general manager of Cixing company, said that this is also the initial idea of establishing C2M project (personalized customization), that is to realize large-scale and rapid customization of knitted products based on intelligent equipment.

Industrial production autonomy to create high quality China made

"Since the acquisition of Stanger in Switzerland in 2010, we began to realize that intelligent manufacturing would be the direction of the future textile and the guidance of the company's future manufacturing.

China has a large population, but the weaving industry is still facing the problem of high labor cost. China's industry is constantly shifting to Southeast Asia. This trend will lead to the possibility of hollowing out in China's clothing industry after a few years' trend. Mr. Li Lijun said that the Minister of the Ministry of industry and commerce, Li Yizhong, said to Cixing research that the problems of clothing, food and housing related to the national economy and people's livelihood cannot be relied on imports. Such a huge population like China will achieve independence.

The development trend of intelligent manufacturing, which can achieve low cost and large scale production, can greatly reduce manpower input.

From the earliest hand-held flat knitting machine to electric semi-automatic flat knitting machine, and then to the computerized flat knitting machine, the company has developed a new intelligent knitting equipment based on the industrial Internet, which can realize remote cloud control.

The company is constantly arming the knitting industry with the new technology in the direction of automation. The newly developed computerized flat knitting machine can realize 3D weaving and eliminate the complicated post process operations.

Through the development of intelligent hardware and software system, the process flow is reduced, manpower input is reduced, error is avoided, and product quality is improved.

New development of early mature localization in collaborative production

Mr. Li Lijun introduced the development of the fully formed flat knitting machine from the company in 2010, and released the prototype machine at the Milan exhibition in 2015. However, as part of the research and development of the core components was completed at the cistar Swiss R & D center, some parts of the early design required very high machining accuracy, and the domestic ready supply chain still had difficulty in achieving mass production with high yield. During the 2016 to 2018 years three years, the company made a lot of optimization for the design of the fully formed flat knitting machine, and optimized and improved the design of the mechanical structure of the core parts, the control system and the plate making software.

The newly developed C2M cloud platform management system enables all suppliers, raw materials suppliers, designers, customers, foundries and other industrial chain resources to work together to achieve a globally distributed collaborative production. As long as the production enterprises import fully formed computerized flat knitting machines, resource sharing can be achieved and localization of manufacturing products can be realized.

The last generation of computerized flat knitting machine, the computerized flat knitting machine based on the industrial Internet, won the two prize of national science and technology progress in 2016. The fully formed computerized flat knitting machine has made greater progress on this basis.

Extending the industry chain and looking ahead for innovation

Computer cross function can not be applied to other knitted products. Cixing is also thinking about this problem. In 2012, the company was not satisfied with the status quo, launched the "shoe machine" project, and tried to extend the function of the flat knitting machine to the production process of the shoe upper. After more than a year's research and development, the new shoe surface production equipment was pushed to the market. In the first two years, the response was not large, but since now, the productivity of the shoe machine has accounted for more than 30% of the total capacity of the computerized flat knitting machine.

With a forward-looking and unique market vision, Cixing has become the first enterprise in the country to provide high quality vamp knitting production equipment. Many famous footwear brands at home and abroad have become strategic partners of Cixing.

On the other hand, Cixing investment has established the earliest Research Institute of knitted upper in China, which mainly focuses on the development and design of knitted upper, providing value-added services for downstream customers, and realizing the service of manufacturing industry. It has become the driving force and goal of the company's sustainable development, and will provide more intelligent solutions for the footwear industry in the future.

Build an intelligent manufacturing ecosystem to promote a new future of the industry

Ningbo Cixing Limited by Share Ltd has gone through thirty years, but has never deviated from the general direction of textile automation and has been on the road of knitting intelligent production.

"Since 2014, Cixing has been developing by leaps and bounds. The C2M project was awarded the first batch of state-level" intelligent manufacturing pilot demonstration projects "by the Ministry of industry in 2016, which is the recognition of the government's efforts in the field of intelligent manufacturing.

Mr. Li Lijun spoke with pride.

Manufacturing is the main body of the national economy. It is the foundation for building a country, developing the country and strengthening the nation.

The government is constantly encouraging the pformation and upgrading of traditional enterprises. The upgrading that Cixing thinks is the application of new technologies in the fields of industrial Internet, robotics and artificial intelligence to the traditional manufacturing industry, so that the production cost is lower, labor efficiency is higher, labor input is less, and the quality of products is better.

In the exhibition hall, the neatly arranged equipment has the unique luster of the metal, and the new ecological circle of the knitting industry intelligent manufacturing is taking shape. The new future of the industry has also begun to show.

(video Cao Yang)

Extended reading:

Cixing shares is a A share listed company listed in Shenzhen Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 300307). It is the world's largest supplier of intelligent knitting equipment solutions. It is also the drafting unit of many national industry standards and national high-tech enterprises. Switzerland's Vionnaz and Italy Mirandola have world-class knitting machinery and Control Technology Research Center, with 109 invention patents, and 900 other kinds of patents.

Cixing shares extended the industrial chain to the industrial robot field in 2013, and jointly established a professional robot control system R & D enterprise with Wuhu, Shenzhen, a leading sports control company in China.

In March 2014, Cixing stock integrated resources to set up Cixing Robot Technology Co., Ltd., located in the "system integrator of core technology", relying on the frontiers of Robotics Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Kong University Science & Technology and Harbin Institute of Technology, and the strategic cooperation with robot manufacturers such as KUKA, Gao Tao Bill, and Fanuc, etc., providing a package of digital workshop and intelligent manufacturing for the labor intensive enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta region, which are seeking pformation and upgrading, especially in the field of intelligent manufacturing of textile shoes and clothing and 3C industry.

In order to improve the layout of the industry, the investment star of Cixing and its controlling shareholder has invested in a number of artificial intelligence and robotics enterprises in China. For example, Ningbo Zhongtian and Hangzhou red sky with machine vision as the core business, Dongguan Zhongtian, which is mainly engaged in 3C and lithium battery industry automation, as well as Beijing interactive interaction with human-machine interaction and virtual interactive technology, the effective integration of these resources has laid a solid foundation for Cixing to build an ecosystem with the integration of robotics, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence and Internet + technology.

(video Cao Yang)