What Are The Disruptive Effects Of AI On The Textile And Garment Industry?

This year's government work report put forward: "deepen the research and application of big data and artificial intelligence, cultivate new generation of industrial clusters such as new generation of information technology, high-end equipment, bio medicine, new energy vehicles, new materials, and expand the digital economy."

This is the first time in 2017 that AI was first reported in the government work report for three years.

This undoubtedly indicates that artificial intelligence will be further developed and applied in the future.

It is reported that China has already made plans for the development of AI.

Prior to the State Council issued the "new generation of artificial intelligence development plan" pointed out that by 2020, the overall technology and application of artificial intelligence synchronized with the world's advanced level, the core industry of artificial intelligence scale exceeded 100 million yuan, and the scale of related industries exceeded 1 trillion yuan; by 2030, China's artificial intelligence theory, technology and application reached the world's leading level in general, the scale of the core industry of artificial intelligence exceeded 1 trillion yuan, and the scale of related industries exceeded 10 trillion yuan.

Through the long technological development, algorithm training and improvement of computing power, the AI industry is ushering in a fast growth period of application.

Intelligent manufacturing, intelligent pportation, intelligent commerce, intelligent medicine, intelligent education......

AI can be seen almost everywhere in any industry that people can think of.

General secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed that artificial intelligence is an important driving force for the new round of technological revolution and industrial pformation. Accelerating the development of the new generation AI is a matter of strategic importance for China to seize the new round of technological revolution and industrial pformation opportunities.

With the growing application of intelligence in the textile industry, AI has gradually become an innovative tool for the development of the textile and garment industry.

AI will bring huge value-added space to fashion apparel industry.

01 China's first textile designed by artificial intelligence was collected by the China Silk Museum.

In the textile fashion industry, AI has also been widely applied in fashion trend research, textile detection, graphic design and intelligent manufacturing.

In February 23rd, the Silk Museum of China ushered in the first "Silk Road night" in 2019 - "AI Fashion Night".

The event was co sponsored by the China Silk Museum, the China Textile Information Center and the national textile product development center. It was supported by Microsoft (Asia) Internet Engineering Institute, Daly silk (Zhejiang) Co., Lufeng weaving and dyeing Co., Xiaofeng bookstore and so on.

During the September 2018 China international textile fabrics and Accessories Expo, the China Textile Information Center joined the Microsoft (Asia) Internet Engineering Institute. The 2019/20AW trend of China Textile Information Center was pformed into textile printing and jacquard pattern through the emotional computing framework of Microsoft Xiaobing, and commissioned the national textile product development base to produce some printing and jacquard products.

The AI fashion night shows the clothing and fabrics developed by AI.

In order to better demonstrate the application of AI in textile fashion, the product manager of Microsoft Xiaobing demonstrates the AI fashion design platform for the audience.

Li Xin, the product manager of China Textile Information Center, shared the possibility and imagination of AI.

Artificial intelligence can carry out thousands of designs on the same topic, which has also brought better application and development to textile product development, fashion and creative design and other fields.

Combined with the latest research results of textile and fashion trends of the national textile product development center, China Textile Information Center has made artificial intelligence design works able to meet the professionalism and popularity of the fashion industry chain generation and consumption.

China's first textile designed with artificial intelligence, and the shirts and ties made here, were also put into the National Silk Pavilion on that night.

Director Zhao Feng to the donor representative: Li Binhong, director of the national textile product development center, Li Binhong, general manager of artificial intelligence Creation Department of Microsoft (Asia) Internet Engineering Institute, Lin Ping, chairman of Daly silk (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd., Lu Feng Textile Dyeing Co., Ltd., product design section chief Ge Qinglong, and so on.

02 Wei Qiao textile has built the world's first "textile +AI" Workshop: everywhere, "unique skills".

With the help of AI technology, the original professional knowledge can be mastered by ordinary people.

In the workshop of the world's largest textile enterprise and the "world strong" Wei Qiao venture group, the ubiquitous AI technology is not aimed at playing the game, but aiming at the problem, which is closely related to the production process and continuously generates value.

Spinning cotton into yarn usually involves cleaning, carding, rolling, combing, drawing, spinning, packaging and other main processes.

In the past, these processes relied on "human sea tactics", and hundreds of spinning workers were surrounded by a bunch of machines.

But the high-tech intervention has changed the traditional mode - thanks to the intelligent production line of 125 thousand spindles, all the spinning processes here have been automated.

When entering the workshop, the orderly arrangement of all kinds of equipment is orderly, but few people walk around. Instead, they are everywhere "robots". They are becoming the protagonists in the workshop.

For example, the most intuitive packaging.

As one of the main links in the spinning industry, packaging was originally synonymous with "hard work and hard work".

But the workshop set up a track of 35 km long, and the roving was automatically stored from the first floor to the two floor.

03 enterprise deep tillage artificial intelligence Exhibition

L "magic mirror", drawing into the distance between consumers and fashion.

With the rapid development of the fashion industry, consumer preferences also show diversity.

According to the global textile network, in March 14th, A/W2019 fashion week opened in March 14th with a magic mirror. It is an intelligent product of the perfect combination of Internet of things and artificial intelligence and fashion. It is the "boundless" fashion new experience created by the creative cultural and creative workshop. It combines the works of four international design masters, including Korean designer Sungmin Shim, French designer Nathalie Chaize, Italy designer Andr Andr s Caballero, and new designer Zheng Tao (JTK).

When the audience approaches the smart mirror and starts clicking, the mirror will take a key photo to automatically identify faces and clothes, and create posters of individual sex and dressing style to match the most suitable wear combination.

AI technology gives brand-new shopping experience to fashion brands. It has to be said that artificial intelligence is effective in helping enterprises to develop more intelligently. At the same time, it also brings different experiences to the masses.

L AI+ big data, explore new path of cross-border electricity supplier

Recently, the annual Prosper Show, the largest electricity supplier in the US, was successfully concluded in Las Vegas.

As the largest electricity supplier industry exhibition in the United States, it has attracted global business giants including Amazon, eBay, Alibaba, Global Resource, and many e-commerce service providers.

In a two day exhibition, a Chinese company brought the high tech black technology - big data intelligent selection platform and AI intelligent operation assistant to the eye of the exhibition site, attracting a large number of on-site personnel to participate in the experience.

It is understood that the Chinese enterprise will apply artificial intelligence technology in the field of cross-border electricity supplier. Its participating product, the number magic cross-border big data intelligent selection platform, covers the 7 developed countries of the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and collects shopping data of over 900 million high-end consumer groups in real time. It can gather more than 500 million of the Amazon platform's sales data, and help enterprises quickly understand overseas market trends, accurately locate the characteristics of hot products, penetrate into consumer shopping habits, and accurately and efficiently select and design export products.

Another artificial intelligence business operation tool, number magic AI intelligent operation assistant, was developed by the number of magic big data and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for 4 years. It conquered many world-class AI algorithms difficulties, accumulated applications and obtained more than 6 international invention patents, and applied artificial intelligence in the field of cross-border e-commerce marketing. It could achieve full automatic intelligent promotion after the products were put on shelves, and achieve unmanned operation, greatly improving the operation performance of cross-border electric business enterprises, and greatly reducing the operation cost of enterprises.

For domestic manufacturing enterprises that do not understand overseas markets and do not know overseas marketing, the number AI intelligent operation assistant has undoubtedly set a pair of wings for them to get rid of the fetters of language and national boundaries and to fly in the vast market of global cross-border electricity suppliers.

The full black technology enables on-site participants to experience the tremendous changes brought by the AI technology to the entire electricity supplier industry.

04 China's AI technology challenges human fashion designers to fashion new favorites.

Recently, in the 2019 China international clothing design innovation competition, a "non human designer" won the runner up of the event, which attracted the attention of the industry.

This "artificial intelligence player" comes from the deep blue technology DeepVogue clothing accessory design system.

The technical team introduces that the system is based on the precise artificial intelligence deep learning technology algorithm, the use of GAN (generation of confrontation network), the VAE (variational self encoder) and the associated learning technology. The designer only imports the materials such as fashion show and product photos into the system, and through the deep learning of the system, he can set up the design themes or keywords that he or she wants, and generate thousands of unimportant design drawings in one second, which can effectively shorten the designer's design time, provide a unique AI computing power for brand training, and protect the unity of the dress brand's tonality.

Organizers of the competition said that the trend of fashion in the future is bound to be driven by technological innovation and cultural creativity. Therefore, this year's competition specially invited the leading enterprises of China's AI industry to participate.

I hope this will try to re deconstruct technology and fashion.

Through the large number of user purchase behavior data and social network to wear picture data, the artificial intelligence algorithm can adjust the market and sales strategy for the apparel industry, increase sales and reduce inventory. On the other hand, it also wants to let consumers who passively accept fashion messages, reshape their own fashion, and make artificial intelligence create their own fashion trend for everyone.

On the spot, the public review also said that AI is not a substitute for fashion designers, but the results of this contest show that AI has pformed the big data into fashion design scientifically and systematically, which is quite amazing. The clothing style is also in line with the public aesthetic, reflecting the high standard of integration of technology and fashion.

In the future, management of textile and garment enterprises will be changed by AI.

Amazon used AI to decide whether to recruit people or not, and finally abolished it because of opposition.

OK, now Amazon has changed a way to use AI to decide whether or not to dismiss an employee.

The first thing to do is to pick up the workers in the Amazon warehouse and pay attention to the packers in the garment factory.

Amazon uses digital tracker to monitor the speed of picking and packaging items from shelves, and strictly stipulates time and goals.

Initially, Amazon asked employees to pack 80 items per hour, and this requirement was raised to 120 pieces per hour.

Some employees said it was almost impossible to complete, and 4000 employees had petitioned jointly, hoping Amazon could reduce its target by 15%.

The strength of the workers is already enough.

What is even more shocking is that Amazon's system also manages and limits the time for employees to leave their jobs.

It's too dared to think about it in the clothing industry.

Under the dual pressure of unable to complete KPI and system monitoring, many employees dare not drink water or dare to go to the toilet.

Because the toilet is too far, it may take 10 minutes to go back and forth, and some people choose to use plastic bottles in the aisle.

This is too sad.

According to a survey, employees of Amazon 3/4 are afraid to waste time by going to the toilet.

Not only warehouse workers, but also distribution workers are running at high speed.

In order to complete the distribution index, their excretion problem is also solved on the vehicle.

What is the supervisor system that is regarded as tiger by Amazon employees?

According to the relevant documents, the system tracked the productivity of each employee, and automatically generated work efficiency reports without human supervisor's opinion, and further issued a warning or decided to terminate the labor agreement.

In other words, Amazon's employees are going to stay, entirely controlled by an emotionally passive, cold automation robot. It says you can't stay if you leave.

What's more, this system can not only score employees' work efficiency, but also monitor and calculate the "fish fishing time" of employees accurately.

If the employee has not scanned the package for a long time, the "fish prosecutor" will automatically send a warning. If someone is persistent in his work, he will be fired directly.

It is such an automated system that makes Amazon employees miserable.

Just imagine that such a system that resolutely and resolutely works in the clothing industry is really not a slightest opportunity to muddled.

It is no doubt that automatic regulation is the main trend in the future.

Now, it's really not just Amazon one to monitor employees with automated systems.

According to the survey, 22% of the organizations in all walks of life are recording the activity data of the employees, 17% monitoring the usage data of the employees' work computers, and 16% using the staff mail or schedule data.

WAL-MART has developed a monitoring system for the cashier to predict whether the cashier is working efficiently according to the sound of the bag and the speed of scanning the bar code.

The Foxconn factory in China works with security companies such as Hai Kang and Peng Si, using video cameras to judge whether the production line workers are working seriously or are lazy.

In fact, any possible item / device coupled with a small chip will make sure that all your information is exposed.

To the maximum degree of "crush" employees, Amazon has done it.

In the future, will the garment intelligent factory be able to use Al to supervise the work far away?

Summary

Artificial intelligence has swept across various industries and has become the focus of new economic growth and international competitiveness. Its rapid development has had a profound impact on our work and lifestyle. This technology boom will also have a disruptive impact on the development of the textile and garment industry.