China Chemical Fiber Industry Intelligent Manufacturing System Technology And Application Conference Held In Xiaoshan, Hangzhou

Automation, informatization, digitization, intelligence, industrial Internet, 5g These words are full of high frequency in the field of textile industry. With their empowerment and "blessing", the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry can form a new driving force.

What are their respective connotations, what are their relations and differences?

What is the connotation of the transition from intelligent to intelligent?

What links and data are connected to the industrial Internet? Are these data "live" or "dead"?

What is the role of automation and informatization in the industrial Internet?

What will 5g technology do in the industrial Internet?

What kind of potential will be stimulated when these technologies collide with the chemical fiber manufacturing industry

For these, many people in the chemical fiber industry may not understand very clearly.

On November 20, the "China chemical fiber industry intelligent manufacturing system technology and Application Conference (Hangzhou Youshi 2020)" with the theme of "innovation, integration, challenge and cooperation enabling intelligent manufacturing of chemical fiber industry" was held in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou.

The meeting was jointly sponsored by the science and Technology Department of China Chemical Fiber Industry Association and Hangzhou Youshi Software Co., Ltd. He Yanli and Chen Xinwei, vice presidents of China Chemical Fiber Industry Association, Wu Tong, director of textile department, Department of consumer goods industry, Ministry of industry and information technology, Zhao Qingzhang, researcher of China Textile Research Institute Co., Ltd., Qin ye, deputy director of Policy Research Department of China Academy of information and communications, Chen Feng, director of Xiaoshan District Economic and Information Bureau, and general manager of Hangzhou Youshi Software Co., Ltd Fang Jianbin, together with relevant representatives from Lenovo data intelligence business group, Alibaba cloud intelligent business group digital industry development department, China Mobile Jiaxing Branch, Tongkun group Hengyun Zhilian Co., Ltd. and other well-known domestic technology and Internet companies, intelligent manufacturing system providers and chemical fiber enterprises gathered together to discuss the above hot issues in depth.

Efficient software system application is the foundation of information technology

According to the generally accepted definition, informatization is a technology based on modern communication, network and database technology, which integrates various elements of the research object into the database, and combines with various behaviors of people such as work, study and decision-making. The use of information technology can greatly improve the efficiency of people's various behaviors.

Zhang Qiusheng, general manager of intelligent manufacturing business of Lenovo data intelligence business group (dibg), pointed out: "informatization is mainly to reduce or eliminate the uncertainty brought about by human behavior, and is one of the foundations for realizing digitalization and intellectualization."

The powerful and stable information software system based on Internet technology is the cornerstone to support manufacturing enterprises to achieve information management and upgrading. In the chemical fiber industry, an important means to realize informatization is the efficient application of information software system, covering the whole process of enterprise production and operation.

In 1991, Fang bin, who graduated from Zhejiang University as a typical computer software major, was engaged in computer software. Since then, he founded Yushi software to study the industrialization and reconfigurability of information software earlier in China.

Fang Jianbin introduced that over the years, the company has adhered to the industrial development route and provided targeted solutions for companies in different subdivided industries. Chemical fiber is one of the many industries the company serves. The company has developed a reconfigurable and fully integrated chemical fiber information management system. The middle layer adopts Apache Web server, which can realize the combination of hybrid architecture and micro application server, covering production line control, production execution system (MES) of the factory, management of property company of production, supply and marketing personnel. Moreover, the software system supports cross terminal and cross screen, which can help chemical fiber enterprises realize the flattening of office system.

As one of the leading enterprises in China's polyester industry, Tongkun group has earlier introduced information software system, especially in recent years, attaches great importance to the whole process of information management. Since 2003, the group started to cooperate with Unisys software, and has carried out several iterative upgrades of its information software system.

Xu Yanhui, general manager of Tongkun group Hengyun Zhilian Co., Ltd., introduced that at present, the information system of Youshi software covers Tongkun group's multi plate, multi company, multi location and multi format; In the chemical fiber sector, it covers procurement management, raw and auxiliary materials inventory management, contract management, sales management, finished product inventory, accounts receivable and bill management, accounts payable and bill management, foreign trade management, and personnel management.

According to reports, Tongkun group has included 10 industry fields in the Youshi software information system, and about 100 accounting entities have been included in the system. Through the use of information system, the contract performance rate of the company has increased by about 5%, which provides a support foundation for the accuracy of production capacity and material planning; it has effectively linked the sales, spinning products and idle products, optimized the product structure, helped to adjust the marketing strategy, and effectively reduced the idle quantity and inventory days of products. Taking the delivery link as an example, Tongkun group has formed a "first in first out" delivery mode by using the barcode system developed and designed by Unisys software. In this way, it can effectively eliminate the error of manual delivery, reduce the proportion of enterprises' inventory, and ensure that the downstream weaving customers' quality of polyester filament is more stable than that of "first in, then out" mode.

"On the basis of the traditional business applications such as human resources, finance, supply chain, production and sales, we are striving to realize a new generation of information technology for collaborative innovation applications, covering mobile applications, sales forecasting, intelligent purchasing, machine vision, intelligent operation, etc., and will build a new generation of information infrastructure, with the goal of providing high availability, high availability and high efficiency for business Highly scalable agility. " Xu Yanhui said.

Referring to the achievements in informatization of chemical fiber industry in recent years, he Yanli pointed out: "during the 13th Five Year Plan period, China's chemical fiber enterprises actively explore the application of advanced technologies such as big data, ERP, MES, Internet +, cloud platform, Internet of things, industrial robot, etc. in the chemical fiber industry design, production, marketing, logistics and other links, and promote the flexible and intelligent production mode Fine transformation to promote the upgrading and transformation of traditional production and manufacturing. "

"Machine for man" accelerates automation

Statistics show that the market scale of industrial automation in 2019 is 115.2 billion yuan, while that in 2017 is 82.9 billion yuan, with a rapid growth.

Automation usually refers to the development of a system to replace or assist people, to complete specific tasks in people's production, life and management activities, reduce or reduce people's physical and mental work, and improve work efficiency, efficiency and effect.

The typical embodiment of promoting automation in China's chemical fiber industry is "machine replacement". He Yanli introduced that during the "13th five year plan" period, a number of advanced automation equipment, such as intelligent barrel dropping system, intelligent spade plate system, intelligent spinneret detection and assembly component system, online quality monitoring and management system, intelligent packaging system, intelligent automated warehouse and conveying system, have been widely used in China's leading polyester and nylon enterprises.

Among them, machine vision technology has been gradually applied in recent years. This technology uses computer to simulate the visual function of human eyes, and extracts information from images or image sequences to recognize the shape and motion of 3D scenes and objects.

This technology is used in intelligent appearance inspection equipment, which is also the specialty product of Hangzhou huizhilian Technology Co., Ltd. The intelligent appearance defect detection system developed and produced by the company integrates mechanical, electronic, optical, computer and software engineering. It uses mechanical vision equipment to complete detection, measurement and judgment instead of manual work. It has the advantages of non-contact, repeatability, reliability, high precision, continuity and high efficiency. It can be used to detect the diameter of chemical fiber cake or detect some defects of chemical fiber Sink.

Wang Zheng, manager of the company's business department, said: "a piece of equipment is about 3 meters long and 2 meters high, with multiple cameras installed on the machine. When the chemical filament cake passes through the middle, the equipment will take pictures of various defects of the silk cake from different angles, and pick out the defective products through the background calculation logic

According to different inspection standards, the quality of the equipment can be effectively improved due to different conditions.

"Our equipment can detect wool, wire trip, oil contaminated products, etc. the fastest speed of DTY is 2 seconds / spindle, and the approximate speed is between 2 seconds / spindle and 3 seconds / spindle. After using the equipment, the number of manual missed inspection can be greatly reduced. According to statistics, the number of manual missed inspection is about 5-10 times of that of machines. " Wang Zheng said.

The equipment can also detect the appearance defects of chemical fiber cakes, the appearance defects of old and new paper tubes, and the appearance defects of trays and foam boxes. Through the inspection, the statistical report of appearance defect data of chemical fiber cake is formed, including batch number, shift, time, defect quantity and defect type. According to the statistical report, the relevant staff can find the production process, packaging technology and other production process problems.

Industrial robot technology has been widely used in chemical fiber industry in recent years. Hangzhou Junchen robot Co., Ltd. has seized this market opportunity. The company applies the core technology of machine vision, lidar technology and related algorithms in the field of industrial intelligent manufacturing equipment. It can also improve the efficiency of the "robot + fiber" inspection system, and improve the detection efficiency of the "robot + fiber" inspection system.

The company also developed a paper tube intelligent detection equipment. Shao Bilu, founder of Junchen robot company, said: "some large chemical fiber enterprises use about one million paper tubes every day. The paper tube intelligent detection equipment developed and produced by the company is efficient and stable, with multiple functions such as optional stacking and paper tube quality inspection, covering multiple sizes and specifications, and can continuously cooperate with the production line production for 24 hours. After the use of chemical fiber enterprises, it can save a large number of operators originally needed in this link, and effectively deal with the problems of difficult recruitment and expensive labor

"In essence, the main purpose of automation is to reduce or replace labor. Automation, like information technology, is the basis of digitalization and intellectualization of manufacturing industry. " Zhang Qiusheng stressed.

Grasp the wave of industrial Internet and move towards intellectualization

The essence of the fourth industrial revolution is digitization, networking and intellectualization. Zhu Jintong, director of digital industry business of the digital industry development department of Alibaba cloud intelligent business group, pointed out: "the technical path of industrial digital transformation and upgrading is information-based, data-based, intelligent and intelligent."

"The importance of digitalization to manufacturing has been recognized worldwide. What is the most important thing to do with intelligence? It is to reduce or replace mental work. I hope that technology can help people make decisions in the future. " Zhang Qiusheng said.

What does digitization, networking and intelligence cover? It will integrate the most popular and latest technologies such as big data analysis, cloud computing, industrial Internet, mobile Internet, 5g communication technology, industrial IOT (Internet of things) and artificial intelligence.

Among them, what is the relationship between industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing? Qin pointed out that at present, the innovation and development of the Internet and the "new industrial revolution" form a historic intersection, and the Internet extends rapidly from the consumption field to the production field, and from the virtual economy to the real economy, giving birth to the industrial Internet. As an important driving force of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the industrial Internet is the product of the deep integration of new generation information technology and manufacturing industry. Through the comprehensive interconnection of "human, machine and material", and the comprehensive connection of all factors, whole industry chain and full value chain, the industrial Internet promotes the formation of a new production manufacturing and service system.

According to relevant statistical data, from 2018 to 2019, the economic scale of China's industrial Internet industry (including digital equipment, network, security, software and the surrounding industries driven by it) will be 1.42 trillion yuan and 2.13 trillion yuan respectively, accounting for 1.5% and 2.2% of GDP respectively; it is expected that the scale of industrial Internet industry will increase to 3.1 trillion yuan this year, accounting for 2.9% of GDP.

"The construction of industrial Internet is one of the foundations of intelligent manufacturing, which will lead to three major changes in the manufacturing industry, including the creation of closed-loop data integration, innovation of business models, and the construction of new collaborative relationships and industrial organization forms based on platforms, which can accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and achieve quality improvement, cost reduction and efficiency improvement." Qin ye said.

Qin ye also stressed: "the industrial Internet is not a simple" network ", but an ecology, which will bring about comprehensive changes in the mode of production, lifestyle and management. Its significance lies in turning "dead" data into "living" data. In the past, it was very difficult to realize the situation of "eating all kinds of fresh food" in the field of industrial Internet, because the industrial Internet is personalized. The industrial Internet can realize the collaborative management of physical assets and digital assets, and realize the maintenance and appreciation of assets. It combines the ecology of the whole industry, so that manufacturing enterprises can concentrate on major events. It can not only empower single enterprises, but also the whole value chain, enabling and improving the whole industry. "

It is worth noting that when industrial enterprises use the industrial Internet, they should promote it in combination with the actual situation of the industry.

Zhang Qiusheng stressed: "how can automation and informatization transition to intelligence? In fact, for enterprises, it is more difficult to mine data assets. At present, many enterprises have been able to collect and store more and more data, but they often do not know how to use the data and what value the data can play. Quantitative data will not only increase the value of all the data. What enterprises need to do next is to collect valuable data, excavate the value of data through the core platform, and help enterprises make decisions. "

Zhu Jintang pointed out: "industrial Internet is technology, which has become a new core driving force for enterprise resource allocation and optimization; industrial Internet is business, which is a new driving force for enterprises to extend from core advantageous business to industrial chain and innovate and develop. However, we should not confuse technology with business. We should think about how to apply technology to industrial transformation. "

How to understand it? "If an enterprise wants to digitize all kinds of rules, it is like building an" industrial brain ". For example, whether the data recorded by the platform has become the core asset of the enterprise, can it help the enterprise to make decisions? How to interpret the massive data, turn the data into the modeling language, and finally turn the data into the enterprise assets? Traditional factories generally can't do this. Intellectualization should focus on how to combine the experience accumulated by enterprises in factory management, turn the existing experience into knowledge, and integrate it with massive data, so that the "industrial brain" can really help enterprises make decisions. " Zhu said.

Digital intelligence drives a new round of industrial upgrading

The wave of digitalization and intellectualization is obviously surging. As a capital intensive and manufacturing industry with dual attributes, grasping the opportunities of digital and intelligent development has become the "key play" to drive a new round of upgrading and high-quality development of chemical fiber industry.

Polyester industry is the leader in this "science and technology upgrading war". At present, the integration of polyester production capacity has become a typical mode of continuous development of leading enterprises in the market. At the same time, the industry as a whole is facing the pressure of labor shortage, high labor cost and high energy cost. In this context, the relatively extensive business model in the past is difficult to sustain. Industries and enterprises, especially leading enterprises, are more and more aware that it is necessary to accelerate the digital transformation in order to better cope with the "upgraded version" competition.

Tongkun group has grasped the opportunity in this respect. In its new strategic development goals, "digital capability" is endowed with important value. In 2019, the group launched a new round of digital transformation; in November this year, the group, together with Lenovo, formally established Zhejiang Hengyun Zhilian Digital Technology Co., Ltd., committed to building an industry benchmark in the field of Industrial Science and technology services.

"From industry 3.0 to industry 4.0, digital transformation is an inevitable trend of industrial development and the only way for enterprises to comply with the digital era. At present, our company has achieved a certain degree of informatization, automation and gradually intelligent. However, with the rapid expansion of the enterprise scale and the continuous increase of business segments, the existing things are faced with some but not strong problems. The management and control is becoming more and more difficult, and there are many pain points, difficulties and blind spots in the process of control, and the utilization of external information is not enough. At the same time, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other new technologies are also developing rapidly. In this context, Tongkun group takes data intelligence as the starting point of transformation, deeply promotes the integration of intelligence and informatization, and strives to realize the intelligent transformation from traditional manufacturing industry to modern high-end emerging industry. " Xu Yanhui said.

Xu Tonghui group's digital, digital and automation framework, including the introduction of Xutong group. Among them, intelligence includes perceptual intelligence and cognitive intelligence; digitization includes data presentation, data assets, core platforms and data resources, corresponding to industrial Internet, new infrastructure and intelligent manufacturing. This includes the ability of data collection, data processing and data processing.

What is perceptual intelligence? It refers to obtaining more data value through voice, image, video, touch point, etc., covering machine vision, industrial Internet of things, AR / VR, intelligent recognition and intelligent detection. What is cognitive intelligence? It includes intelligent decision-making, precision marketing, intelligent supply chain, advanced scheduling, etc., which involves analysis, thinking, understanding and judgment. To move forward from perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence, it is necessary to realize data value delivery through computational intelligence.

"In our digital transformation, informatization and automation are the foundation, digitization is the necessary means, and intellectualization is the ultimate goal Nal technology, supported by industrial Internet and infrastructure, is indispensable for business, technology and organizational transformation. We should not only build the "brain" of the decision-making center, but also have the "hands and feet" such as the information system to perceive and control, so as to achieve overall planning, step-by-step implementation and pilot application. " Xu Yanhui explained.

According to reports, the digital transformation of Tongkun group will be implemented in several stages. Xu Yanhui said: "we will first build a digital intelligence operation center as Tongkun's" brain ". In the first stage, we will realize global visibility, gradually realize intelligent analysis, and finally realize intelligent operation. Finally, we should achieve the goal of controlling the overall situation, fine management, business and financial integration, coordinated development of upstream and downstream industrial chain and intelligent decision-making. In short, through digital transformation, we need to improve the overall control ability and scientific decision-making level of Tongkun group. "

Another polyester leading enterprise xinfengming also began to explore. 2019 is called "5g first year". China Mobile Jiaxing Branch Co., Ltd. has established a fast, good and safe private network by using 5g communication technology to cooperate with xinfengming.

According to sun Yuhao, 5g industry director of China Mobile Jiaxing Branch, China Mobile has built a "private enterprise network" with 5g SA networking and MEC, realizing four application scenarios of 5g + in xinfengming. One is to replace the traditional network of the enterprise, solve the problem of unstable communication of IGV robot, realize 5g signal covering the whole workshop, expand the walking range of IGV robot, and realize flexible scheduling. At the same time, through 8K HD monitoring, the monitoring range is expanded and the workshop management is better realized. The second is to put forward the solution of floating silk and floating impurity based on 5g + inspection robot, combining 8K visual inspection, 5g returned video and AI system recognition to realize "machine replacement" and improve product quality rate. Third, through ar remote maintenance, reduce travel, maintain "one to many" and reduce costs. Fourth, the use of single point information access technology to achieve digital, grid, intelligent data acquisition, get rid of wired deployment.

According to reports, the 5g quality inspection robot currently used in xinfengming workshop can identify problems such as floating silk and floating impurities in 0.2 seconds through the 8K high-definition camera overhead. Through the robot on duty 24 hours a year, xinfengming can directly reduce the loss of about 10 million yuan.

It is worth noting that in the chemical fiber industry, the industry attribute, enterprise development level and business scale of different sub industries such as polyester and nylon are not the same. In this case, the pace of digital and intelligent upgrading of different sub industries and enterprises should also be different.

Yin Runmin, President of Nanjing nangote Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., said: "intelligent manufacturing is based on the traditional manufacturing industry first, and then it is a new production pattern with the support of the Internet of things and artificial intelligence. It should also be noted that intelligent manufacturing can indeed empower enterprises, but different types of enterprises need to consider phased implementation according to the actual situation, otherwise enterprises will easily fall into a "pilot dilemma" in the process of upgrading. For example, do some small and medium-sized enterprises need a lot of robots? Not necessarily. The intelligent upgrading of chemical fiber enterprises can start from the equipment update to solve some bottlenecks in the production process; then upgrade the intelligent production line; then cultivate the data-oriented collaborative ability, and complete the information bus upgrade with the help of mature digital platform and tools. However, how to cut and distinguish each stage requires managers to make good decisions. "

There is no doubt that digitalization and intellectualization will become the "sharp sword" for China's chemical fiber industry to win the future. So what will be the focus of the chemical fiber industry in the field of Intelligent Manufacturing in the coming "14th five year plan" period?

He Yanli introduced: first, according to the overall deployment of national intelligent manufacturing, we should clarify the focus and direction of the next step of Intelligent Manufacturing in the chemical fiber industry, and actively strive for the support of relevant national policies; Second, continue to promote the development of intelligent manufacturing standards, complete the preparation of intelligent workshop / factory standards for nylon and other products, and start the project of "research and test verification of interconnection and interoperability standards between chemical fiber equipment" jointly participated by chemical fiber manufacturers, equipment manufacturing enterprises and software system enterprises; third, promote the construction of chemical fiber intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory; The fourth is to evaluate the effect of intelligent manufacturing construction; the fifth is to promote the achievements of intelligent manufacturing.

"We hope that chemical fiber enterprises, equipment manufacturing enterprises, system providers and associations can work closely together to form a joint force and jointly promote the intelligent manufacturing of chemical fiber industry to a new height." He Yanli said.