Can the production of clothing be unmanned, intelligent and automated?

Although it is not unmanned at present, it is inevitable that machines will replace labor since the arrival of the first industrial revolution. Under the background of resource constraints and rising labor costs, the textile and garment industry, a traditional labor-intensive industry, began to seek technical dividends through machine substitution.

Since the late 1960s, robots have entered this industry. At present, 60% of the robots in the world are produced in Japan, especially high-end robots. In recent years, the application fields of industrial robots are extending to electronic information industry, construction, mining and other fields. The electric robot can independently inspect the equipment of the substation and attach it to the line for detection or deicing; Industrial robots can undertake the assembly of precision parts on the production line, can replace manual work to complete spraying, welding, assembly and other work in harsh working environment, and can also be combined with CNC ultra-precision milling machines and other working machinery to manufacture molds. ...

Experts predict that the average annual growth rate of industrial robots is expected to reach about 25% in the future, and the average annual growth rate of mobile robots used for logistics handling will not be less than 20%. According to experts' analysis, robots will become a hot new field in the future market, and all countries in the world are taking the lead. The Hannover Messe in Germany has become a "barometer of world industrial development". At present, Japan intends to gradually replace high-paying workers with robots in 2020 to occupy the price advantage.

The service and textile industries are labor-intensive industries. With the gradual disappearance of China's demographic dividend, transformation and upgrading are imminent. Mechanization, automation and intelligence have become effective ways to transform traditional industries, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, reduce staff and increase efficiency, and ease the difficulty of recruiting workers, which has also opened the curtain of "machine substitution" in China.

Zhejiang province is the first province to implement the "machine substitution" plan. At the beginning of 20 13, the Zhejiang provincial government launched the "four exchanges" project of "changing cages for birds, machines, space for land, and e-commerce for cities".

1, e.g. clothes suspension system

It is a production unit or system developed on the basis of CNC machinery, robots, automated warehouses, automated transportation and other automated equipment and computer technology projects. After a finished product is cut, it will go through about 17 processes here, and it will be completed once from beginning to end. The system can shorten the auxiliary processing time, improve the production efficiency, reduce the occupied area of semi-finished products and ensure the product quality. However, unlike mechanical processing, which can be fully automatic, the automation process of clothing is intermittent because each sewing machine is manually operated, so its assembly line system needs manual participation. This technology was introduced to the mainland in about 2008 and is widely used in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

2. For example, wire cutting machine is a machine that replaces manual operation. If it is a cowboy, the efficiency is 8 times that of manual work. This number is amazing.

Machine substitution has incomparable advantages in replacing labor to improve productivity, but there are still many difficulties for textile enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. High cost and difficult financing have become the biggest obstacles to machine substitution.