Leading Traditional Manufacturing Industry To Upgrade As A Whole

In the workshop of Zhejiang Wanzhou Holding Group Co., Ltd., workers use intelligent visual inspection equipment to inspect cloth efficiently.

　　 More than 97.1%

As one of the first batch of pilot enterprises, Zhejiang Xinlan Textile Co., Ltd. has comprehensively improved its production management and service since 2019. According to statistics, the loom comprehensive efficiency of the company increased by 5 percentage points over the same period of last year, reaching over 97.1%, the operating cost decreased by 10%, the comprehensive energy consumption decreased by 5%, the labor force decreased by 16.6%, and the order delivery time was shortened by more than 7 days.

Relying on Intelligent Visual cloth inspection equipment, with its functions of automatic statistics and classification of fabric defect information, etc., to avoid missing inspection due to visual fatigue... Not long ago, during a visit to Zhejiang Wanzhou Holding Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Wanzhou Holdings), the speed of cloth inspection in the workshop of the enterprise has increased from 25m / min two years ago to 60m / min, The cost of manual inspection per 10000 meters cloth is reduced by 100 yuan, and the labor cost is saved by more than 90%.

"In addition, there are AGV cars in the workshop to automatically drop cloth and improve the delivery efficiency of the cloth workshop. All process equipment has been connected to the network, and the data Kanban can be monitored in real time." According to the relevant person in charge of Wanzhou holding, the company's overall efficiency has increased by about 13% over the past two years, the error rate has dropped to 1%, and the consumption of water and electricity has also decreased significantly.

In 2019, Lanxi City of Jinhua decided to create a "textile industry intelligent manufacturing demonstration city" to explore the digital transformation experience of small and medium-sized enterprises. A total of 39 textile enterprises, including Wanzhou holdings, completed the digital pilot transformation.

On July 7, at the conference of Intelligent Manufacturing in Lanxi station and 2021 intelligent manufacturing of China's textile industry, Secretary of Lanxi municipal Party committee Chen Fengqi said that after more than two years of exploration and practice, the local government has formed a "4 + X" mode suitable for digital transformation of small and medium-sized textile enterprises. The benefits of the first batch of nine pilot enterprises have increased by 12.3%, and the promotion activities of 100 digital manufacturing enterprises have been fully launched.

　　 Digital transformation is imperative

Since the establishment of Lanxi cotton textile mill in the 1960s, Lanxi textile industry started and gradually became the local pillar industry. The output of white cloth and denim has leapt to the first place in China a few days ago. There are more than 500 local textile enterprises, including 147 Enterprises above the designated size, and 11 enterprises listed in the top 100 cotton textile industry in China.

"In the past few years, affected by multiple factors such as external market environment and rising factor costs, the profit margin of Lanxi textile industry once shrank and the extension of industrial chain was hindered. It is difficult to recruit, expensive to employ, large capacity and thin profit Lanxi City Economic and Information Bureau, the relevant person in charge told reporters that many enterprise managers lamented that "the era of relying on equipment, cost and price war is gone.".

In 2017, Lanxi textile industry was listed in the first batch of provincial pilot projects for upgrading traditional manufacturing industry in Zhejiang Province. It has become the consensus of more and more enterprises to change the extensive management mode and improve the technology and management. Lanxi municipal Party committee and government and enterprises began to seek the road of digital transformation.

"With a deep foundation in the textile industry, enterprises also have a strong demand for transformation. Some enterprises even take the initiative to test digital manufacturing. However, in order to explore an experience model that can be replicated and promoted, the practical and accurate strategic guidance of the expert team is very important." The person in charge said.

In 2018, Zhejiang intelligent manufacturing expert committee (hereinafter referred to as Zhejiang Intelligent Expert Committee) sent an expert group to Lanxi, which carried out a half year investigation on textile enterprises in the city, visited more than 100 enterprises, comprehensively found the difficulties, blocking points and pain points, and provided diagnostic reports and technical support for relevant enterprises.

Under the guidance of Zhejiang intellectual special committee, Lanxi City proposed the goal of creating "textile industry intelligent manufacturing demonstration city". The municipal government issued a "three-year implementation plan" to form a leading group with the mayor as the group leader and the vice mayor in charge as the Deputy group leader. The municipal leaders investigate the progress of pilot enterprises once a half month, and coordinate and solve the difficulties in time, To ensure the smooth progress of the pilot project.

"In the first batch of 9 pilot enterprises, the decision-making level has firm determination, has relatively clear statement and demand for the problems to be solved by intelligent manufacturing, and has a certain foundation for internal management." Xu Jiping, deputy director of Zhejiang intellectual special committee, said that Lanxi City has effectively introduced enterprises into the track of intelligent manufacturing by starting with the mode of light weight intelligent reform, low cost, easy implementation and solving many obvious problems.

　　 "4 + X" transformation advances against the trend under the epidemic situation

"For local enterprises, in the face of digital transformation, there are five major problems, such as the difficulty of raising costs, the interconnection of software systems, the maintenance of information systems, the collection of production equipment data, and the recruitment of information-based talents." Xu Jiping.

To this end, Lanxi City through the "government + experts + enterprises" overall linkage, the introduction of bidding mechanism, selection and development of cotton industry internet platform, invited expert team to provide technical consultation for enterprises, digital manufacturing scheme review more than 100 times, refined the "4 + X" mode suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises digital transformation.

"The Lanxi municipal government calls" 4 "and" X "compulsory and optional actions, and adjusts the direction of policy subsidies." Xu Jiping explained that "4" includes the basic data to get through the production equipment; The application data of the whole process of production and operation can realize the interconnection and interoperability between production equipment and software, ERP and MES; Real time, visualization, paperless and post operation data are presented; As well as the basic knowledge of intelligent manufacturing and should know and know training for all employees of the enterprise“ "X" is an optional content of personalized intelligent change according to the development needs and capital strength of each enterprise, such as intelligent logistics warehouse, AGV car system, CNC update of equipment, intelligent cloth inspection, etc.

As one of the first batch of pilot enterprises, Zhejiang Xinlan Textile Co., Ltd. has comprehensively improved its production management and service since 2019. According to statistics, the loom comprehensive efficiency of the company increased by 5 percentage points over the same period of last year, reaching over 97.1%, the operating cost decreased by 10%, the comprehensive energy consumption decreased by 5%, the labor force decreased by 16.6%, and the order delivery time was shortened by more than 7 days.

It is worth mentioning that the original step-by-step pilot program has not been stagnated due to the outbreak of new crown pneumonia. Instead, the local government uses the epidemic situation to push forward intelligent transformation against the trend.

"During the outbreak of the epidemic last year, some enterprises in the second batch of pilot projects developed the idea of" overcoming difficulties first and then carrying out intellectual reform. " Xu Jiping introduced that the expert group suggested that enterprises should take advantage of the opportunity of insufficient customer orders and idle production lines to implement intelligent manufacturing training for employees in the post epidemic period, so as to urge enterprises to grasp the time to improve their internal skills and win the initiative.

"In the early stage of the smart reform, influenced by the concept of" high input threshold for intelligent manufacturing, only suitable for large enterprises ", most textile enterprises in Lanxi held a wait-and-see attitude towards intelligent reform. The success of the first batch of pilot enterprises dispelled their concerns. " Xu Jiping said that at the same time, as a large number of orders from the epidemic turned to China, Lanxi benefited from the early intelligent reform, enhanced its ability to absorb orders, and greatly improved the enterprise's awareness of intellectual reform.

　　 Leading the overall upgrading of traditional manufacturing industry

In June this year, the list of the first batch of industrial brain construction pilot projects in Zhejiang Province was announced, and Lanxi weaving (cotton textile) industry brain list was listed.

"We will take the" 4 + X "mode of digital transformation built by pilot enterprises as four beams and eight pillars, steadily promote" 100 enterprises promotion ", and take" based on Lanxi, covering the whole province, serving the whole industry "as the goal, and spare no effort to create the industrial brain of weaving (cotton textile) industry and lead the digital reform of Lanxi." Lanxi City Economic and information bureau relevant responsible person said.

At the same time, Lanxi City proposed to use intelligent manufacturing to lead the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industry, promote the intelligent manufacturing mode of textile industry, and combine the application of "5g + industrial Internet" to leverage the digital transformation of traditional industries such as cement, battery, metallurgy, and create several industry samples.

Among them, the key traditional industry of Lanxi cement industry has been actively building the industrial brain.

Xu Jiping believes that it is often difficult for small and medium-sized enterprises to carry out digital transformation. There is no money to invest, no one to do, no ready-made experience to learn and so on, which will persuade quite a number of business owners to quit“ Lanxi City chooses the pillar industry cotton textile industry as the first pilot, classifies the common and individual problems of enterprise digital transformation, and then summarizes and refines the sample mode, so as to alleviate the concerns of other industries. "

In addition, Lanxi City actively explores the support mode of digital manufacturing financing, providing financing services for enterprises undergoing digital transformation, and arouses the enthusiasm of enterprises.

"The online loan products of small and micro textile enterprises developed by local financial institutions are connected with the data related to big data administration bureau, industry and commerce, and taxation. Enterprises can apply for loans online according to the capital needs of digital transformation and operation, and loan as you borrow." The person in charge said that this has also accumulated experience for promoting the digital transformation of other traditional industries.

"Lanxi is an old industrial base worthy of the name. It was once brilliant in the era of planned economy. It transformed from an important business town to an industrial one. It concentrated 70% of Jinhua's industry and contributed more than 50% of its fiscal revenue. It became the first batch of counties with a financial revenue of 100 million yuan in Zhejiang Province." Chen Fengqi said that today, the manufacturing industry is still the most solid foundation of Lanxi. Lanxi will take the "No.1 Project" of digital economy in Zhejiang Province and digital reform as the guide, deeply promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, cultivate new driving forces, and accelerate the high-quality economic development.

(source: Science and technology daily)

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