Intelligent Manufacturing And Enabling Gaoyang Textile Upgrading

In 2024, the total output value of textile (towel) industry in Gaoyang County, Baoding City will reach 74 billion yuan, up 25% year on year. Gaoyang County was successfully selected as one of the top 100 counties and cities with national investment potential in 2024.

After long-term development, Baoding Gaoyang Textile (Towel) Industrial Cluster has gone all the way to become a modern textile industrial cluster integrating the whole industrial chain of spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, clothing, etc.

There are more than 4200 enterprises in Gaoyang Textile (Towel) Industrial Cluster, 116 enterprises above designated size, 1 national green factory, 1 national maker space, 1 provincial science and technology enterprise incubator, and 51 high-tech enterprises and 16 specialized, new and medium-sized enterprises have been cultivated. The output value of the cluster accounts for more than 60% of the total industrial output value of the county, which is the "pillar" of the economy of Gaoyang County. Its products are exported to more than 100 countries and regions, and the towel, blanket and other products occupy up to one-third of the national market.

Times are changing and demands are changing. With the increasingly fierce market competition and many other factors, the digital transformation of Gaoyang's traditional textile industry is imminent. Gaoyang textile (towel) industry cluster has encountered many challenges, such as enterprises' insufficient understanding of digital transformation, shortage of capital and technical talents, and insufficient industrial coordination.

Gaoyang County quickly implemented a set of diversified innovation strategies to lead the textile (towel) industry cluster to a higher quality and more sustainable development direction.

Pay attention to policy guidance and make scientific plans. Gaoyang County issued the "Digital Gaoyang" Construction Plan and other policy documents to clarify the objectives and tasks, increase investment support, and help enterprises to achieve digital transformation. Give full play to the leading and exemplary role of leading enterprises such as Sanli Group, and drive the in-depth coordinated development of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain through resource sharing, technical cooperation, information exchange and other ways, so as to improve the overall resilience of the cluster industrial chain. Scientifically plan the layout, create a "dual engine" for cluster digital and brand development, actively introduce cutting-edge digital technology, and promote production and manufacturing to become intelligent, management and operation to become digital, and marketing to achieve precision. Vigorously cultivate and enhance brand influence, and promote the industry towards high-end and green.

Set up R&D fund and focus on talent training. Gaoyang County actively explored the enterprise scientific research innovation mechanism and carried out various modes of government enterprise cooperation. 17 enterprises represented by Jizhong Pharmaceutical and Hongrun Company set up a fund pool of 164 million yuan, successfully implemented 28 scientific and technological achievements transformation projects, and used a total of 113 million yuan of special funds to guide enterprises to increase scientific and technological investment. In terms of talent cultivation, on the one hand, we took the initiative to "go global", organized enterprise delegations to participate in various international and domestic science and technology exhibitions, academic seminars and other activities, led 25 enterprises to participate in Shanghai Home Textile Exhibition, and initially reached a cooperation intention with Donghua University to jointly carry out key technology research. On the other hand, actively "introduce", invite expert teams from Donghua University and Tianjin University of Technology to go deep into local enterprises for technical guidance, accurately "prescribe" technical problems such as printing and dyeing process optimization of textile enterprises, help enterprises to improve production efficiency and product quality, and promote scientific and technological achievements to take root.

Promote digital transformation and build a shared factory. Cultivate and build four provincial digital workshops, namely Yongliang, Tuqiang, Sanli and Hongrun, introduce business information systems, break through information barriers among equipment, systems and personnel, and promote the transformation of production and operation mode from traditional "human management" to digital "intelligent management". Vigorously promote the smooth implementation of the latest V3.0 "zero emission" process of printing and dyeing, and promote the development of the industry towards greening, agglomeration, high-end and digital intelligence. Build and operate Gaoyang Yishang towel digital service platform, create textile (towel) "industrial brain", and form a "virtual group" combining online and offline. Deeply implement the deployment requirements of "Sharing Intelligent Manufacturing" Action Plan for Characteristic Industrial Clusters in Hebei Province, focus on the common manufacturing needs of textile (towel) industrial clusters, and introduce Suzhou TPET It is planned to invest more than 30 million yuan to build a shared whole factory that gathers common manufacturing needs, and develop a manufacturing capacity sharing model such as rent and sale, on-demand use, etc. It is expected to serve more than 500 textile enterprises, handle about 90 million towels annually, and have a turnover of about 200 million yuan.

The digital transformation practice of Gaoyang textile (towel) industrial cluster not only injects new impetus into the local economic development, but also provides beneficial enlightenment for the digital transformation of traditional industries in other regions.

Intelligent manufacturing enables the double leap of production efficiency and product quality. Digital transformation has promoted the industrial upgrading of Gaoyang Textile, which has made remarkable progress in production efficiency and product quality. Through the upgrading and transformation of intelligent production equipment, Ericsson has achieved 3-5 times improvement in production efficiency, and reduced labor costs by 60% - 80%. The intelligent factory management system introduced by Tuqiang Company realizes the whole process visual management of orders, improves the production efficiency by 20%, reduces the operating cost by 15%, and shortens the product upgrade cycle by 12%.

Brand driven, the rise of regional brands and market expansion go hand in hand. Gaoyang actively organized enterprises to "go global", participated in famous exhibitions at home and abroad, such as Shanghai Home Textile Exhibition, Frankfurt International Home Textile Exhibition, etc., to show the unique charm of Gaoyang textile products, enhance the popularity of products in the market, and expand the market share at home and abroad. At the same time, we will make every effort to build a regional brand of "Gaoyang Premium", develop a strict standard system of premium products that is higher than the national and industrial standards, and promote the brand value.

Green innovation, printing and dyeing process innovation and sustainable development are win-win. Gaoyang introduced an intelligent and automatic pretreatment production line for printing and dyeing, which improved the processing efficiency by about 30% and reduced the labor cost by about 20%. Introduce scientific research institutions and universities such as Shanghai Jintang Science and Technology and Hebei University of Science and Technology, guide enterprises to promote the latest V3.0 "zero emission" printing and dyeing process to Gaoyang, encourage enterprises to demonstrate first, release the world's first regional towel standard carbon standard, establish the image of Gaoyang Textile taking social responsibility, and rapidly improve the brand value and popularity of Gaoyang towel, Attract international well-known brand purchasers to settle in Gaoyang and successfully expand overseas markets such as Europe.

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