Duan Xiaoping, vice chairman of China National Textile and Apparel Council and president of China Chemical Fiber Industry Association, spoke on many occasions about the importance of artificial intelligence. At the third graduation ceremony of the “National Advanced Training Program for Textile Complex Personnel Training Project” recently held, he once again emphasized the need to pay attention to artificial intelligence: “In the future development of the global large-scale textile market, technological innovation will play an important role. Artificial intelligence will be one of the key growth factors. "

    Internet technology to help improve the quality of the effect

    In fact, in the chemical fiber industry, artificial intelligence has brought "dividends" to many enterprises. At present, Shenghong, Hengli, Rongsheng, Hengyi and other chemical companies are leading the intelligent building have achieved some success. Most of these enterprises through technological innovation, the use of intelligent, automated equipment gradually solved the recruitment difficulties, expensive employment difficult problems, but also improve work efficiency and enhance product quality.

    In the spinning plant of Guoguan Hi-Tech, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shenghong Group, only two workers are "watching" the spinning equipment at work. Workshop, the spinning winder automatic operation, an ingot winding neatly placed in the winding machine on the rapid volume of silk, winding machine automatically send a signal after full volume, automatic doffer through the track to reach 5 minutes in advance winding Next to the machine to receive the silk ingot, and then loaded by smart transport in batches, sent to the robot arm, rocker robot and then remove the wire, placed in the empty wire car, into the next process, all operations are Methodical.

    This is Shenghong Group undertakes the development of the domestic chemical fiber industry's first (sets) domestic chemical fiber production of an intelligent logistics system. According to the chief engineer of the group, Mei Feng, the system through the production of Internet of things, all production instructions directly to the workshop in the total control room, intelligent production of the machine frame equipment immediately after receipt of instructions, production, greatly improving production efficiency.

    It is understood that, in addition to the spinning workshop, Guowei Tech's refueling packaging plant has also realized full automation, realizing the production and operation of the silk car, loading and unloading, wrapping, unpacking, packing, labeling, sealing, packing and stacking One-stop automatic packaging capabilities. Machine substitutions and IOT technology enable Shenghong to save an average annual cost of 15 million yuan. One production line can save 127 workers, reduce the labor rate by 34%, reduce the failure rate by 55.9%, increase the personnel yield by 29.8% and increase the production capacity by 33%.

    Intelligent and gradually "unmanned" change

    Creating an unmanned workshop and realizing production intelligence have become the highlight of the Rongsheng Group. In the eyes of Li Shurong, chairman of Rongsheng Group, Rongsheng's polyester and polyester can keep profits in a harsh market situation. In addition to improving the upstream and downstream industry chain as a guarantee, Rongsheng also pays attention to the upgrading of the existing chemical fiber industry Transformation is inseparable.

    In the spin-off of Sheng Yuan's Differentiated Chemical Fiber Project, a subsidiary of Rongsheng, the company invested 250 million yuan in a one-time investment to introduce 4 sets of high-end industrial automation equipment from Germany. This set of equipment has fully automated automatic winding function of winding, conveying, detecting, intermediate storage and packaging, etc. It has the most advanced level in the world and is the first set of intelligent application in the whole process of chemical fiber industry in China Automatic assembly line system.

    It is understood that Rongsheng started intelligent construction 5 years ago. Its "substitution machine" equipment from 2011 gradually put into installation, has been basically installed in place and put into operation. After all the equipment is put into operation, about 40% of the labor force can be reduced. The corresponding workshop can even achieve "unmanaged". According to the current salary level, the annual labor cost can be saved by about 20 million yuan. In addition, "machine replacement" to avoid the product in the manual handling, damage caused by the operation and other issues, a substantial increase in product quality.

    Deep integration of enterprise information system is the direction

    Hengli Group is also one of the earliest companies to explore the intelligent manufacturing. The group plans to gradually change the business model of the enterprise by means of "machine change labor", "automatic machine change", "complete change order" and "smart change number" Development model from the "demographic dividend" to "technological dividend" change, so as to ensure the sustainable development of enterprises.

    At present, the Group's Jiangsu Branch of New Materials Co., Ltd. filament filament production workshop artificial pile of cake work have been handed over to the robot. More than a dozen robots waving their arms 24 hours a row of "cake" neat and fast rotation. Employees only need to face the front of the machine's display, check each ingot cake information, status and final quality can be qualified.

    The relevant responsible person said that the group in recent years to introduce automatic packaging production line at least increased by 60% of the work efficiency. In addition, from 2013, Hengli Group began the transformation of smart factories. For the past four years, most of the robots in the workshop have undergone redevelopment. An intelligent automated packaging robot can top several workers.

    For Hengyi, the "substitution machine" in intelligent construction is not a simple replacement, but an organic combination with Hengyi's production process optimization, production process improvement and production efficiency improvement. Hengyi petrochemical industry big data service platform not only filled China in the chemical fiber manufacturing industry, smart manufacturing big data platform in the field of blank, but also with its own strong Heng Yi resources, to achieve the efficient integration of automation equipment and data.

    According to the introduction of Ni Denfeng, CEO of the Group, intelligent transformation and upgrading are one of the three major corporate development ideas of Hengyi Group. Hengyi constantly explores business model innovation in terms of "smart manufacturing + internet marketing".

    It is understood that starting from the improvement of automation equipment based on "machine substitution", Hengyi Group gradually implemented intelligent robots for clearing plates, fully automatic intelligent spinning and drop-off lines, fully automatic intelligent packaging lines, automatic intelligent loading robots, and manual-based robots. Intelligent product appearance inspection, intelligent three-dimensional library. The massive process data formed by these automated equipments has been effectively integrated to form a collaborative platform based on automated equipment and industrial internetworks, combined with fast-responsive customer stratification management, trade, finance, logistics, and information-information collaboration platforms. Data on the industry chain upstream and downstream links. Not only optimized product quality, but also achieved significant results in deepening the value of the industrial chain, reducing production costs, and improving service value, and as an opportunity to upgrade manufacturing and manufacturing management capabilities to the national and international advanced level, becoming the new intelligent manufacturing industry The benchmark for model use.

    At the same time, the use of automated equipment on the production of information technology companies put forward higher requirements. While further promoting the demonstration of smart workshop construction, how to better integrate the intelligent equipment with the information system of the whole enterprise becomes the exploration direction of many enterprises in the future. At this point, Hengyi has taken a solid step and made a demonstration sample for other enterprises.