Editor's note: The new year starts a new game, and the event seeks victory. During the convening of the two sessions of the province, Xinhua ** launched the "New Year Grassroots" activity, and launched the "'new' torch to spring" topic at the intersection, closely following the word "new", focusing on new productivity, new industrialization, new consumption scenarios, new occupations, new progress in major projects, etc., showing the new kinetic energy of Jiangsu's high-quality development, and the good scenery of "strong, rich, beautiful and high".
China is the largest garment manufacturing country, with nearly 400,000 garment manufacturing enterprises. In the context of "intelligent transformation and digital transformation", how can the traditional garment industry achieve digital transformation? 1 month ago, the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology announced the list of winners of the Jiangsu Provincial Information Consumption Competition, Suzhou Feiliu Technology won the only first prize with the "needle smart" intelligent production collaborative solution, which is the real landing scene of AI artificial intelligence in the transformation and development of the garment industry, what kind of inspiration will it bring us? On January 30, Xinhua ** Junction reporter conducted a field visit.
In the garment production workshop, tablets give people work.
In the production workshop, a tablet is installed in front of each worker. On this screen, they can clearly see which process they want to do today, what the target output is, and they can also see in real time how much they have done today and how much money they have earned. Liu Ke, co-founder and CPO of Feiliu Technology, held a tablet computer in his hand and introduced the "Needle Smart" intelligent production collaboration system to reporters while demonstrating. It is this intelligent production collaboration system that installs the "digital brain" for garment manufacturing enterprises.
The production of a complex style of clothing is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and there may be hundreds of processes. In the past, team leaders used their own experience to allocate workers, machines and materials, and then make adjustments when problems were found during the operation, and it was difficult to ensure production efficiency. Nowadays, artificial intelligence technology has been applied to garment manufacturing, and all links such as cutting, sewing, quality inspection, and finishing have already been planned and completed in advance in the intelligent system, so as to realize the efficient collaboration of various departments and links in the factory.
In the production workshop of Jiangsu Jinchen Needle Textile, the intelligent production hanging transmission system grabs the cuffs, collars, plackets and other "parts" that make up the garment, and accurately delivers them to the workers in various positions. Lin Guoshi, head of the business department of Jiangsu Jinchen Needle Textile, told reporters: "It turns out that every time a new piece of clothing is put on, the production line needs to be constantly debugged and run-in, and the transfer time is usually about a week. In 2022, the company was successfully selected as the 2022 Suzhou Municipal Intelligent Manufacturing Demonstration Workshop.
At present, the "Needle Smart" intelligent production collaboration system has been widely used in the first-line foundries of internationally renowned brands such as Adidas, Nike, and Skechers, empowering the digital transformation of the traditional clothing industry.
New consumption scenarios have given birth to a flexible industrial chain for the whole industry.
Digital technology not only solves the problem of production workshop, but also establishes a complete flexible industrial chain for the entire garment industry.
The flexible industrial chain solves the impact of new consumption scenarios. Nowadays, e-commerce platforms and live streaming are growing exponentially, and in order to avoid overstocking, merchants are getting less and less in stock and more and more pre-sale styles. When a certain piece of clothing quickly explodes and sells tens of thousands of pieces, how can merchants deliver a large number of orders in a short period of time? In addition to helping factories improve production efficiency, this smart production system can also use AI big data to use data of similar styles in the past to ** whether this product is popular or not, so as to customize the pre-sale plan.
Young people's demand for diversity and personalization has surged, and in the face of a whim, clothing companies will suddenly receive a small number of urgent orders. How to create a flexible industrial chain for small and medium-sized enterprises to meet the demand for more orders? The smart production system can accurately calculate what a worker is doing and which workers are the best solution. In this way, it can not only be done without affecting the large order, but also the small order can also be inserted.
If you don't have a designer, you can also use AI to build your own brand.
From OEM processing to the creation of its own brand, it is an insurmountable gap for many garment companies to develop and grow. With the good use of artificial intelligence, it is possible for companies to build their own brands without designers.
On the "Yilan" software of Feiliu Technology, enter keywords such as brand positioning, style category, user portrait, style and color, and AI big data will intelligently generate a variety of and multi-color target style design drawings according to the current fashion trends, popular hot spots on the Internet, etc., combined with factory processing data. Significantly reduce the threshold for clothing design and creation, and improve the efficiency of style research and development.
What's more interesting is that on this platform, there is also a virtual mannequin function, which allows you to try on 3D clothes before the real clothes are made, and develop sales strategies based on the number of clicks.
The practice of Feiliu Technology is only a case of Jiangsu's promotion of "intelligent transformation and digital transformation to network connection", 97 of the first batch of 300 5G factories in the country, and the development level of the province's integration of industrialization and industrialization has ranked first in the country for 9 consecutive years. At the just-concluded provincial two sessions, the first work report clearly stated that 20 new national intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories, 112 new provincial intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories and 501 demonstration workshops were added. On the occasion of the arrival of the New Year of the Dragon, Jiangsu manufacturing is accelerating the realization of "digital intelligence butterfly change".
Xinhua ** Intersection reporter Lu Xin.