The Chinese government has come up with a comprehensive plan to speed up digitization, networking, and intelligence in the textile industry.
It aims to make notable progress in this regard by 2024. The target is to lower the Internet connection rate of digital production equipment to 50 percent; the penetration rate of industrial cloud platforms to 55 percent; the penetration rate of ERP applications to 68 percent; that of MES applications to 28 percent. Enhance the collaboration between industrial clusters and SMEs based on the developed industrial Internet platform.
This will result in improving the integration of enterprise digital applications, to build digital and intelligent production lines and workshops. Vigorously promote the digital transformation of textile enterprises, to improve the digital level of production equipment and key processes and improve the interconnectivity of production factors.
Small and medium-sized enterprises would be encouraged to carry out total digitalization activities. The industrial Internet platform in the textile industry will be the focus. By selecting suitable application scenarios and solving practical problems in the industry, 5G-connected factories will be built and promoted.
Establishing a big data database for the textile industry, to promote the comprehensive aggregation of industry data. Digitization would be promoted in many sectors in the following subsectors as well:
Cotton textile industry: cultivating solutions such as online quality monitoring of spinning, intelligent cotton assorting, yarn quality prediction, intelligent transfer in the workshop, optimized production processes, automatic doffing, and intelligent detection of fabric defects.
Printing and dyeing industry: cultivating solutions such as intelligent production scheduling, automatic transfer and distribution of dyes and chemicals, automatic size mixing, centralized control of dyeing vessels, automatic cloth feeding and unloading, digital color management, intelligent cloth inspection, and digital wastewater treatment.
Knitting industry: cultivating solutions such as automatic yarn changing, automatic doffing, real-time online measurement and adjustment of yarn length and adaptive control system for constant tension, intelligent detection, and automatic classification system for knitted fabric defects, broken needle monitoring, virtual design, and process simulation.
Home textile industry: cultivating solutions such as digital production lines, intelligent production scheduling, supply chain management, intelligent warehousing, smart store operations, and precision marketing.
Technical textile industry: cultivating solutions such as digital simulation, production management, and quality management of production processes.
Apparel industry: cultivating solutions such as three-dimensional apparel design, intelligent cutting, flexible production, personalized customization, intelligent material transfer, supply chain management, store operation, platform-based design, and platform-based marketing.
