On July 24, 2023 China Garment Science and Technology Conference opened in Hangzhou Linping Yishang Town. The theme of this conference is "Gather wisdom and create change, melt together and return to clothing", covering an opening conference, three theme forums, three round table dialogues, clothing science and technology exhibitions, smart manufacturing tours and other activities, inviting authoritative experts, enterprise leaders, innovation pioneers to make a comprehensive voice, and expanding the smart boundaries of clothing in multiple fields.
This session of China Garment Science and Technology Conference was hosted by China Garment Association and Hangzhou Linping District People's Government, hosted by Hangzhou Linping New Town Development and Construction Management Committee, China Garment Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance, China Garment Science and Technology Innovation Research Institute, Hangzhou Yishang Town Operation and Development Co., Ltd., supported by Jack Technology Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Garment Industry Association Linping District Fashion Industry Federation. The 2023 China Garment Science and Technology Conference will last for two days. On the opening day of the 24th alone, it attracted more than 310000 online visitors, and the highlight of this eye-catching industry event is far from over. On July 25, two parallel forums and round table dialogues were held with the theme of "intelligence changes without elements - big blockbusters and small delicacies from virtual to real" and "intelligence is always the core driving force of new products and new retail" to carry out the collision of intelligence to the end. The conference invited enterprise representatives who have made high-quality innovation initiatives in recent years from various segments of clothing to provide development reference and paradigm for peers.
Wisdom changes into nothing -- from virtual to real big hits and small delicacies At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation has developed in depth. New digital and intelligent technologies such as virtual reality, meta universe and artificial intelligence are deeply integrated with the clothing industry, promoting the improvement of quality and efficiency of the industrial supply chain, and bringing about the renewal of business types and value extension. The theme forum of "Smart change without elements - big hits and small delicacies from virtual to real" focuses on the application and transformation of 3D virtual technology, digital design research and development, and meta universe technology combined with the industry to help enterprises grasp the deep connotation of digital research and development and create unique core competitiveness. The theme forum was hosted by Liu Zheng, Dean of the School of International Fashion Technology and the School of International Education of Zhejiang University of Technology.
Liu Zheng, Dean of School of International Fashion Technology and School of International Education, Zhejiang University of Technology
Han Wei, general manager of CLO China, takes Jinny, a lightweight clothing modeling software recently launched by the company, as the entrance, and gradually goes deep into the building concept and application of CLO-SET platform. After detailed analysis by Han Wei, CLO customers mainly focus on brand retailers and manufacturing enterprises, and the platform plays different roles in improving the effectiveness of these two types of enterprises. "For manufacturing enterprises, CLO products build a digital ecosystem to provide seamless and smooth work processes for enterprises, such as greatly shortening the development cycle in the sample clothing process, and significantly improving communication efficiency." Han Wei gave an example. In addition, other CLO products, such as CLO Vise, connect with a large number of internationally renowned PLM systems to achieve barrier free connection and transmission of enterprise data. Since the advent of ChatGPT, AI generated content (AIGC) has also been on the hot search list in various industries. People are keen to discuss this new content creation method after professional production content (PGC) and user production content (UGC), and also expect it to bring new changes in the clothing field. Wang Fei, art director of Baoding Co., Ltd. and CEO of Hangzhou Deep Thinking Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., showed the company's unique "Sky Quest" multimodal big language model to the guests at the conference. One click design completely solved users' creative problems from scratch, and helped the fashion design industry upgrade through AIGC, so that you can really talk and design. "We are committed to creating an intelligent fashion world and making fashion a beautiful experience in life. We customize professional designer training courses for users, directional vertical training and AI multimodal model training, so that decision-makers can use AI to generate satisfactory original design results with one click," said Wang Fei.
Wang Fei, Art Director of Baoding Co., Ltd. and CEO of Hangzhou Deep Thinking Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd
PGM (Baiqimai) is an innovative technology enterprise that integrates 3D virtualization and graphic processing of various flexible materials and composite materials, and covers the R&D and design of intelligent cutting equipment. PGM is committed to combining 3D virtualization technology, CAD/CAM, smart Internet of Things and other intelligent applications in fashion, enabling the manufacturing industry. In recent years, PGM has created fashionable digital people covering people of all colors. Based on the character model, it simulates parameters based on physical fabric, supports multiple color alignment schemes of fabric, and supports the change of fabric, stitch, and accessories in design. Yuan Xiaoyan, general manager of PGM (Baiqimai), said that this technology can reduce the material consumption of the actual sample clothing by nearly 50%, reduce the time of dimensional inspection and modification by 75%, realize the real-time linkage between 3D and 2D, support the real-time calculation of surface and auxiliary material consumption, and provide more comprehensive layout data for enterprises.
Yuan Xiaoyan, General Manager of PGM
Similarly, Bulovei Technology is also an enterprise that integrates AI and 3D technology in the garment industry. Lin Yanli, co-founder of Buloway Technology and managing director of Greater China, shared the theme of "AI and 3D perfectly match to create products that follow the trend". She said: "The three AI fields of image generation processing, video generation processing and feature recognition processing have seen a big explosion in recent years. Under this influence, the end-to-end clothing workflow after the introduction of AI has conducted trend analysis, auxiliary design and sales through AI before development, eliminating the risk of digital transformation." Specifically, AI tools complete commodity planning through real-time data drive, Trend analysis uses crawler technology to discover, verify and predict trends. The creative link quickly gets inspiration from the reference map provided by the designer, and assists in style review. The sales end uses commercial materials generated by AI for sales.
Lin Yanli, co-founder of Buloway Technology and managing director of Greater China
"No science and innovation, no future!" Lin Liang, vice president of Nippon Broadcasting Group, said frankly that the Group began to explore flexible manufacturing in 2013, and built an omni channel retail project overseas in 2015, which has been transformed ever since. He broke down the front, middle and back office architecture of the daily broadcast in detail to show the omni channel operation management system of the daily broadcast around the user experience. "We found that to provide consumers with a better experience, the brand's data middle office logic is very important, but the data language of each channel and department is not unified, so we will cooperate with Ali to create a data middle office project in 2020 to sort out the entire data logic." Lin Liang said at the same time that through data collection service enterprise decision-making, daily broadcast can achieve business digitalization Digital business, which is the logic of doing a good job in digital middle station.
Lin Liang, Vice President of Nippon Group
"The importance of digitalization to the garment industry has become an industry consensus, so which link in the garment manufacturing value chain do you think digitalization technology is more effective?" At the round table dialogue session after the theme sharing, the host Liu Zhengzheng asked the guests.
Qu Jing, Vice President of Huimei Group, first expressed her opinion. Taking the offline stores of the brand Inman as an example, she had deep feelings about the sales of big data enabled terminal stores. Earlier, Inman distributed goods in stores according to administrative regions, and there were deviations in local temperature, consumer shopping behavior and preferences. Since the launch of digital consumer market analysis within three kilometers of stores, Inman has realized a thousand stores and a thousand faces, and its sales data has significantly improved. Dai Jianguo, Assistant Executive President of Bosiden Group and Director of Logistics Management Center, also thinks that the data model built for customer insight is very critical from the perspective of brand retail terminals. The understanding and way of digital transformation of enterprises directly determine the efficiency and success of intelligent manufacturing, Digital technology can support the retail end and logistics link will play a huge role in promoting enterprises. As a representative of manufacturing enterprises, Jiang Yongsheng, the general manager of Hangzhou Jinghong Digital Technology Co., Ltd., responded from his own perspective. "At present, digital technology is more involved between consumers and designers, but only with more precise market demand can there be good products on the right path." It still takes some time for an enterprise to understand the digital transformation. At present, his enterprise has greatly improved its work efficiency in the production process due to intelligent technology. Xue Hui, senior director of Alibaba Group and general manager of Orange Shield Content Technology Department, believes that digital technology is more widely used in C-end scenarios from the e-commerce industry. The closer to consumers, the faster digital technology develops, and the greater its role. He suggested that clothing brands invest more energy in marketing to improve sales.
Intelligence: the core driving force of new products and new retail Another parallel theme forum with the theme of "Intelligence without interruption - the core driving force of new products and new retail" is also in full swing. Shen Lei, professor of the School of Design of Jiangnan University and vice president of Jiangsu Garment Association, is the host. The forum guided the success of new clothing products in the direction of material innovation, product iteration, digital retail, enterprise middle ground, etc.
Shen Lei, Professor of Design School of Jiangnan University, Vice President of Jiangsu Garment Association
"In the past five years, the demand of the fashion industry for a circular economy has grown rapidly, and many well-known brands have committed to using only sustainable and recycled materials before 2030." Chen Xuecong, senior research manager of the Hong Kong Textile and Garment R&D Center, pays special attention to the positive role of technology in the recycling of clothing products. He said that PET (polyethylene terephthalate) recycled from textile waste can become rPET and be recycled into fabrics again. In the face of the two major difficulties in the recovery of blended fabrics and color blended fabrics, the Hong Kong Textile and Garment Research and Development Center has developed the hydrothermal separation and PET bleaching technology, successfully separating PET from polyester cotton blends and decolorizing them by more than 95%.
Chen Xuecong (Chen Jiaqi), Senior Research Manager of Hong Kong Textile and Garment R&D Center
Sheng Yaqi, who focuses on the scientific research and development of outdoor high-performance fabrics, specially brought the latest achievements in the innovative application of functional materials in the three-layer clothing system to this forum. Jiang Lu, deputy general manager of Lianrunxiang Textile Technology and general manager of Shengyaqi Textile Technology, specially stated that the "three layers" here do not refer to three pieces of clothing, but instead use multiple pieces of clothing to build three layers of outer layer, middle layer and body layer, which provide reliable natural gas protection for the body through layering and overlapping of clothing, keep wearing comfortable and safe, and ensure that the wearer can move freely. "The outdoor clothing industry is going through a critical period of rapid functional iteration and lightweight product transformation. The functional indicators of clothing continue to upgrade, improving the environmental adaptability of the wearer, while the lightweight clothing improves comfort and flexibility." Jiang Lu stressed that Shengyaqi innovates functional technology based on the three-layer clothing system to improve the overall comfort of the personal clothing system.
Jiang Lu, Deputy General Manager of Lianrunxiang Textile Technology and General Manager of Sheng Yaqi Textile Technology
Baodian Trade is a world-famous label product manufacturer, whose innovative services and solutions cover all kinds of retail and clothing products. Zhang Yuejiao, the key account director of Baodian Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., focused on the successful establishment of the omni channel retail architecture based on RFID, including RFID product tracking, RFID smart interactive stores, RFID software applications, etc., highlighting the efficient application of RFID in clothing retail, Improve inventory turnover and customer experience.
Zhang Yuejiao, Key Account Director of Baodian Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Duan Yujing, chairman of Zhongke Haishi Technology and founder of Zhongke Shiyu Technology, redefined the concept of "winter clothing" through topological soft gel. At the forum site, she wore a windbreaker that was suitable for both summer and winter, which incorporated the company's newly developed topological soft gel. Topology soft gel is a composite of modifier and aerosol gel, which can maintain active two-way temperature regulation. The most important thing is that the brand can define the formula according to the process and mass production, and achieve flexibility and toughness while really realizing three seasons of wearing one garment.
Duan Yujing, Chairman of Zhongke Haishi Technology and Founder of Zhongke Shiyu Technology
In the face of many uncertain environmental impacts in the consumer market, many enterprises timely update their business philosophy and rely on core technology to achieve counter trend growth. In the sharing of "the underlying logic of counter trend growth" by Deng Zhi, CEO of Hangzhou Zhu Liyan Network Technology Center and CEO of Zihan Brand Center, the audience learned experience through successful examples to store energy for the next step of enterprise development. Zhu Liyan Network Technology is committed to creating a consumer oriented fashion industry ecological platform that integrates three core capabilities of commodity planning, supply chain and DT technology. It has two core resources, channel and brand, and empowers upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry with an open platform model. In the current stock market environment, the company's brand Zihan achieves high-quality development through business and organizational reform, optimizes the operation system and system framework of large commodity planning, and achieves cost reduction and efficiency increase through commodity operation and supply chain efficiency.
Zhu Liyan, CEO of Hangzhou Network Technology Center, Deng Zhi, CEO of Zihan Brand Center
Ordos Group is a leader in the sustainable and innovative development of the global cashmere industry, and also the only enterprise in the world with a full cashmere industry chain. Gao Lizhong, Director of the National Technology Center of Ordos Group and Deputy General Manager of the cashmere spinning business department, described in detail the technology and brand practice of the group around the sustainable development of cashmere. "The Group owns independent pastures, promotes the sustainable development of the cashmere industry from the source, respects the natural restoration of grassland ecology and the recycling of research and development, cares for the development and well-being of herdsmen, communities and employees, and always adheres to the concept of balancing ecological environment and social development." In 2018, Ordos Group adhered to the guidance of the United Nations "Sustainable Development Goals", Erdos Way is formulated to provide a wind vane for the sustainable development of the industry and promote positive changes in the industry. She said that the Group expected to realize the disclosure of 100% carbon footprint of ready to wear products by 2030.
Gao Lizhong, Director of National Technology Center of Ordos Group and Deputy General Manager of Wool Textile Business Department
In the round table dialogue, Shen Lei, the host, discussed with the guests the business breakthroughs they had achieved around the theme of "new product development insight and circle breaking". Xiao Rihui, chairman of Zaiyiuku Clothing Co., Ltd., introduced that the company has three business segments: foreign trade export, ODM/OEM, and the whole industrial chain of private brands. Under the challenge of external environment, the enterprise has transitioned from the production of original customer emissions to actively seeking cooperation overseas. In addition, the clothing warehouse has increased supply chain management, expanded manufacturing categories, and increased investment on the basis of intelligent equipment and template. Wang Haigang, general manager of Shanghai Jiale Co., Ltd., introduced that the company will expand from the luggage industry to the clothing industry in 2020. He deeply felt that China's clothing industry is a global leader in the manufacturing field. He believed that as a "recruit" of clothing, Jiale should first "arm" the industry chain with technology to fill its own shortcomings. "We focus on the recycling of textiles. At present, the industry is booming in the global market," said Lu Xiaofan, general manager of Dingyuan Textile Technology. In terms of technical innovation, Dingyuan and Ningbo Materials Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly developed recycled acrylic fiber, which has the functions of heat preservation, fire prevention and flame retardancy. On the way of specialization, Dingyuan is marching side by side with professional enterprises and gradually expanding to other brands. In the face of uneven social resources, Xu Bingshun, General Manager of the R&D Center of China Garment Science and Technology Innovation Research Institute, introduced that China Garment Science and Technology Innovation Research Institute focuses on three things: first, consulting planning and implementation of digital transformation, second, talent training, and third, supply chain coordination. These three practical and practical measures really help enterprises in urgent need of digital transformation and technical support. He felt that in the dimension of digital transformation and innovation, leading enterprises spontaneously innovate from the inside out to explore the services brought by digitalization to enterprises; Manufacturing enterprises are guided by brands to move closer to digitalization, and make a set of standards to provide demonstration for other supply chain enterprises. At the same time, he hopes to benefit small and medium-sized garment enterprises after the technology is mature.
The intelligent manufacturing study tour, which focuses on visiting intelligent manufacturing model factories and learning digital transformation achievements and experience, was expected by the participants. The 2023 China Garment Science and Technology Conference invited all the guests to visit Hangzhou Jinghong Digital Technology Co., Ltd., the boss of the electric appliance black light factory and Yishang Town, to conduct field research on domestic advanced intelligent manufacturing enterprises, and feel the leap of development brought by science and technology to the industry.
Hangzhou Jinghong Digital Technology Co., Ltd. is an intelligent manufacturing enterprise integrating garment design, research and development, production, processing and sales. The company focuses on digital production and integrated development, constantly explores new models of digital rapid reaction, insists on selecting advanced production processes and intelligent equipment, and through digital and intelligent management, Drive the overall upgrading of intelligent equipment and products in the industrial chain. The company is a cooperative factory of rhinoceros intelligent manufacturing, striving to build an international leading digital production enterprise, and has established long-term partnership with Bosiden, adidas, Govan, Evley, tea and many other well-known brands.
As the first smart unmanned factory in China's kitchen electric industry, the Boss Electric Black Light Factory has fully informationized control, basically realized the fully automated operation mode and unmanned form, and successfully realized the full value chain management of intelligent driving business with data as the core, integrating industrial Internet, 5GSA private network, AI and other cutting-edge technologies. The "Black Light Factory" equipment operates on its own based on data and algorithms, and its production efficiency is increased by 45%, production cost is reduced by 21%, and the yield rate is increased from 98% to 99%, providing more Chinese manufacturing enterprises on the path of digital transformation with a "refresh" idea.
Yishang Town is the "13th Five Year Innovation Demonstration Base of China's Clothing Industry" and the national textile and clothing creative design pilot park jointly built by the People's Government of Linping District, the China Garment Association and the China Garment Designer Association. The town focuses on the development of digital fashion industry, strengthens the "four empowerment" of innovation, science and technology, culture and finance, and has gathered more than 2000 garment enterprises and regional enterprise headquarters, such as Evley, INXX, Anshi Group, Demas, and Dishang Group.
The 2023 China Garment Science and Technology Conference once again ignites the high-quality development engine for the upgrading of the garment industry, and once again sets off the tide of fashion technology. In the future, the China Garment Science and Technology Conference will continue to promote the industrial application of scientific and technological progress and innovative achievements in the garment industry, and point out the direction for the development of scientific and technological innovation in the industry under the new pattern through the open exchange and cooperation of top scientific and technological think tanks.
