The Looms Here Can "Dialogue" With Lanxi Textile Industry To Improve Quality And Efficiency

Lanxi has a number of international advanced looms, which used to be "dumb" working alone. In order to enable them to "talk to each other", Lanxi began to carry out intelligent transformation of the textile industry last year, with more than 10000 textile machines sharing data. Affected by the improvement of loom efficiency and the decrease of power consumption, the average profit of 30 local pilot textile enterprises increased by 12.3% from January to September this year.

Recently, the reporter saw in the data center of Zhejiang Xinhai Textile Co., Ltd. that a large screen occupied the whole wall, with the running situation of machines and equipment in each workshop flashing on it. "You see, there are still 87.5 meters left on the warp beam of loom 1002, and it will be finished in 3.65 hours. The axle should be changed in time. This data warning will tell the reeding workshop to deliver the warp yarn to the loom before changing its axis, so as not to let the loom wait. " The efficiency of kingsong loom was increased by 10% to nearly 10%.

Textile industry is the leading industry in Lanxi. The total output value of Enterprises above Designated Size accounts for one third of the city, and the export volume accounts for one half of the city. Lanxi has advanced textile equipment, more than 25000 international advanced looms, 80% of all cotton leisure elastic fabrics are produced, and one seventh of denim fabrics are exported. However, these "machine models" can't communicate with each other because of the "single machine" protocol. The main person in charge of Lanxi municipal Party committee said that it has become an inevitable requirement for industrial development to carry out intelligent transformation and open up the data bridge between production and sales links.

Last year, Lanxi took the lead in proposing the establishment of an intelligent manufacturing demonstration city in the textile industry, guiding textile enterprises to shift from equipment assembly to system integration and data utilization. It also specially invited the expert group of the provincial intelligent manufacturing expert committee to settle in and investigate and formulate a detailed implementation plan. At the same time, through the policy guarantee to solve the worries of enterprises, enterprises listed in the pilot project will be given 50% of the total investment in software, hardware and cloud, up to 5 million yuan; local policy guarantee companies can also give each pilot enterprise a special guarantee loan of 5 million yuan.

Xinhai textile is the first textile enterprise in Lanxi to carry out pilot projects, and also the first to enjoy the benefits of "dialogue" with machines. Jin Jiansong told reporters that loom operation needs air compressor air supply, air compressor is a factory "big user of electricity". In the past, there was no "dialogue" between machines. How much air was needed in real time for the working looms. The air compressor did not know how much gas was supplied by the same force all day long, causing great waste. Nowadays, the air compressor can supply as much air as the loom needs. It can adjust automatically in real time and save 10% of electricity cost every month. "This alone will save nearly 5 million yuan a year." Jin Jiansong said.

The interconnection between automatic cloth inspection equipment and looms has also significantly improved the qualified rate of products. The automatic cloth inspection machine equipped with high-speed camera is 3 times longer than manual inspection per minute. Once fabric defects are found, data will be uploaded to the cloud server for comparison to remind staff to check and repair the corresponding loom. In addition, with the sharing of machine data, enterprises can effectively purchase raw materials and order production after accurately mastering the "family background", which greatly saves the cost.