Industrial Internet Enables High-End, Intelligent And Green Textile Industry

A network covering nearly 10000 textile enterprises nationwide and completing "digital links" with more than 700000 textile machines has become a sharp tool to drive the cost reduction, efficiency increase, transformation and upgrading of the national textile industry. The core of this web called "Shuttle Smart Textile" is located in Shanghai, the leading city of industrial Internet. With the bold innovation and pioneering efforts of enterprises and the careful cultivation of relevant departments, "Shuttle Smart Textile" has become one of the most influential industrial Internet benchmark platforms in the city and even in the country.

Industrial Internet is an important topic of the National Two Sessions every year. In the past six years, it has been written into the government work report, highlighting the value and attention of the digital economy. This year's government work report emphasized that we should accelerate the digital transformation of traditional industries and small and medium-sized enterprises, and strive to improve the level of high-end, intelligent, and green.

Through the practice of "Shuttle Smart Textile", it can be seen that although the textile industry is not a key industry in Shanghai, Shanghai can still rely on its profound industrial heritage and comprehensive advantages in digital talents, technology and other aspects to enable the development of the national real economy, especially the development of SMEs in a new dimension, and also build a modern industrial system for Shanghai Promote high-quality development and find new breakthroughs.

A "textile cloud" covering the whole country

The office of Shanghai Zhijing Information Technology Co., Ltd. is located in the high-rise of an office building in the North Bund. Here, you can not only see the vast Huangpu River scenery, but also see the whole picture of the textile industry - log on the "Shuttle Smart Textile" platform developed by Zhijing Technology, and take advantage of figures, charts and other forms to get a panoramic view of the approximate capacity utilization of nearly 10000 textile enterprises across the country. One of the pictures shows that after the Spring Festival this year, the whole industry has recovered rapidly, and has continuously pulled out the "Changyang Line".

In the past four years, Zhijing Technology has independently developed a set of equipment, software and system platforms to meet the digital transformation needs of enterprises in the upstream of the textile industry, such as spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, and liberated textile producers and managers from the traditional working mode. For example, hundreds of sets of equipment of a textile enterprise in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, are now equipped with a box developed by Zhijing Technology, becoming an Internet of Things terminal. The operating parameters of the equipment are collected by the box and connected to the "Cloud Brain" through the "Shuttle Smart Spinning" platform. As long as the person in charge of the enterprise turns on his mobile phone, he can easily use the app to manage the factory. If any equipment operation is abnormal, the platform can find it in time and solve it in time; The platform also collects and presents the working hours and output of each front-line person in real time and intuitively. Since the completion of the digital transformation, the equipment efficiency, per capita output and management cost of the enterprise have declined significantly.

Guan Ruifeng, vice president of Zhijing Technology, told reporters that they are very focused on industrial Internet - focusing on textiles, investing huge sums of money to build teams and do research and development; At the same time, it is also very grounded, close to the needs of enterprises. For this reason, engineers will be required to go to the production line in the Yangtze River Delta during development, and strive to "understand textiles better than customers". In addition, Zhijing Technology has also overturned the stereotype that "digitalization is very expensive" - the price of their equipment and solutions is only 1/10 of that of traditional suppliers, the minimum investment for a loom is only 100 yuan, and a factory can enter the digital era with only 10000 yuan.

With its technology and cost advantages, "Shuttle Smart Textile" has quickly established its reputation in the industry. In the past three years, their boxes, software and systems have been installed to more than 700000 devices of nearly 10000 enterprises nationwide, forming a "textile cloud" extending from the Yangtze River Delta to the Pearl River Delta and the central and western regions.

Drive the deep reform of textile business model

Since joining the industrial Internet in 2018, Zhijing Technology has hoped to consolidate its core competitiveness through digital technology, establish a close "digital link" with textile enterprises, and develop itself while empowering the industry. For Zhijing Technology, the change of digitalization to the textile industry is not only within the enterprise and not limited to the production mode, but also more important is to innovate the business mode, strengthen industrial collaboration and change the competition rules.

Guan Ruifeng said that the industrial chain of the textile industry is very long, but it was very fragmented before, and the upstream and downstream information is not transparent and collaboration is not enough. The upstream and downstream are generally connected by traditional and extensive ways. In the face of changing market demands and fashion trends, the disadvantages are increasingly apparent. Especially when the market goes down, enterprises are in urgent need of cost reduction and efficiency increase. To this end, Zhijing Technology seized the opportunity to give countermeasures with the industrial Internet as the starting point, hoping to open up the information flow, commodity flow and capital flow in the whole industry while transforming factories one by one.

In fact, the development of IoT boxes and cloud computing platforms to enable enterprises to "access the cloud" is only the first step of the blueprint; As more and more enterprises access the "Shuttle Smart Textile" platform, they are equivalent to being digitally integrated into a huge "capacity pool". At this time, the industry docking mode has changed: downstream purchasers do not have to bother to find factories, but can throw an embroidery ball to "Shuttle Smart Textile"; The system will find the most suitable manufacturer and provide it to the purchaser after comprehensive evaluation according to the capacity availability of enterprises on the cloud, combined with their technical characteristics, performance records, etc. In this mode, the upstream factory is like a taxi driver to some extent. Instead of blindly idling on the road and waiting for passengers to raise their voice, they can receive orders purposefully through the taxi platform.

In this way, after becoming the digital production center, "Shuttle Smart Textile" has become the operating brain of the textile industry chain. Zhijing Technology has created a "demand based production" model in the textile industry. As all links are connected by digital technology, both the supplier and the demander benefit - on the production side, the capacity utilization rate of many enterprises has increased significantly from about 60% in the past to 80%; On the purchasing side, because the platform can allocate capacity in time and find other enterprises to "take over" when the factory encounters an accident and cannot deliver on schedule, the probability of timely and quality delivery of purchase orders has been improved qualitatively.

The brand made in Shanghai is brighter and brighter

The exploration of Zhijing Technology in the textile field has provided a good enlightenment for the development of industrial Internet in Shanghai. As a super large city, Shanghai has a strong industrial foundation, rich technology and human resources, and complete functions in finance, shipping and other cities. Based on this, we can promote the accelerated integration of new generation information technology and the real economy, further consolidate the "Made in Shanghai" brand, accelerate the transformation of new and old drivers, and realize the industrial chain Better configuration and value multiplication of supply chain.

In fact, in the past few years, Shanghai has been promoting the accelerated development of industrial Internet. After the implementation of relevant special actions in the previous three years, the scale of the city's industrial Internet industry has exceeded 150 billion yuan, creating 30 industrial Internet platforms with industrial influence. As many experts have said, in the field of industrial Internet, Shanghai is building new advantages of toughness and high-quality development with the help of government guidance, professional services and model innovation.

In fact, the parent company of Zhijing Technology was originally founded in Guangzhou, but when investing in industrial Internet, on the one hand, considering that Shanghai is close to the textile industry cluster in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and more importantly, attracted by Shanghai's comprehensive advantages, it naturally chose to establish an industrial Internet business headquarters in Shanghai. Facts have proved that Zhijing Technology has made the right choice. At present, "Shuttle Smart Textile" has become a benchmark platform for Shanghai Industrial Internet, and Zhijing Technology has also been selected as one of the top ten "chain owners" of Shanghai Industrial Internet.

At present, Zhijing Technology is taking Shanghai as its base and expanding to the whole country. At the same time, further rely on research and development to promote the upgrading of the textile industry from digital to intelligent. Based on the artificial intelligence algorithm, they introduced the "inspection while weaving" technology, which enables machine vision to replace workers and find fabric defects on the loom, thus greatly reducing downtime, improving fabric quality and saving a lot of personnel. In the field of printing and dyeing, they have developed "color matching brain", which enables young people to have the same technology as teachers, thus greatly improving the one-time success rate of dyeing. This alone can save millions of yuan for a medium-sized enterprise every year.

In addition, they also tried to promote financial innovation through industrial Internet. Since the business of the factory is more guaranteed and the operation is more transparent after "going to the cloud", banks are more willing to provide financing for SMEs. At present, the major state-owned commercial banks have cooperated with Zhijing to provide credit loans for small and medium-sized textile enterprises, thus resolving the financial pressure of the industry.