With a history of over 900 years, China textile industry is a traditional industry and a pillar industry that concerns the country's livelihood. In the past half century, the textile industry digitization and intelligentization received more and more attention from enterprises. Some domestic textile machinery enterprises currently obtained lots of achievements in the automation of their factories such as the applications of motorized beam trolley and AI fabric inspection system, which greatly reduced labor and human resources costs and improved product profits.
It is expected to build a unmanned cotton spinning factory or workshop in China in the future if we continues to develop in this direction and adopts more intelligent technologies.
Automation
Automation can be referred to the predecessor of intelligentization with its requirement is derived from intelligentization. It is one of the most important elements of intelligentization. The shortage of labor in textile enterprises made a significant increase in their labor costs, coupled with the high labor intensity of manual yarn dropping and roving transport processes, have given the opportunity of the innovation of fully automatic roving machines and roving transport systems that meet different requirements. The long-term flourishing of the automatic doffing car and the automatic winding machine in the market indicates that the automation will be the main trend in the future and also will continuously improve textiles productivity and will upgrade into a more advanced technology field.
Intelligentization
The word “intelligent”is undoubtedly one of the most clicked keywords in textile industry in the past two years. Whether it is to improve production efficiency, or to save save energy and to protect environment, transformation and to upgrade, almost all areas contain the demand of intelligent revolution. Intelligentization represents the arrival of a new industrial revolution and the demand from all parts of the industry chain is a direct reference to the overall intelligentization of textile machinery. The first step of improve the intelligent level is to develop intelligent/automatic equipment and to devote into the research of intelligent and digital textile technology platform that be based on the information technology structure, then to carry out human factors engineering industrial design of textile equipment, achieving digital intelligent control of the production equipment of each process. The era of intelligentization in textile machinery is no longer the future, but now.
For textile machinery enterprises, the ultimate goal of intelligent manufacturing is to achieve the AI manufacturing that not only based on rapid response to individual needs, personalized customization, the quasi-quick delivery system, also based on the system industry-inserted internet technology. The extension of informatization is very broad, which includes the new enterprise management concepts such as the IOT, the ERP management system. The only way for textile machinery enterprises to transform is to output informatization products during the process of building informatization enterprises.
To make a success of the intelligentization in textile machinery field, it requires to combine the big data from internet and IOT with cloud computing, mobile interconnection and security information, applying to the lifespan cycle of the product design, production, management and service, for realizing continuous innovation of CNC technology and intelligent technology. Many products that require the technologies with the internet, IOT, and automatic software as the core in China’s textile industry now have been developed vigorously.
SUNTECH
As a textile machinery manufacturer with over 50 years experience of innovation and production, SUNTECH develops high quality fabric make-up machines and material handling equipment such as motorized beam trolley based on digitization, automation and Intelligence. In 2000, SUNTECH developed its first automatic fabric roll packing machine, then after deep cultivation in the intelligent field for over 20 years, SUNTECH launched the AI automatic fabric inspection and packing line in 2021. In the research of intelligence and automation, SUNTECH now owns STair and STelego 2 product lines to offer customers the best automatic solutions with intelligence. Intelligentization is the core word in the development history of SUNTECH and it will always be.