In Textile Industry, Machine Replacement Has Become A Major Trend.

As domestic labor costs continue to rise,

The development of traditional industries, such as industries which are relatively labor-intensive, are facing challenges. It is urgent to find a road that can continue to develop.

The application of industrial robots undoubtedly provides a new possibility for the textile industry to reduce production costs, improve production efficiency and quality, and from traditional mass production to small batch production and production according to single requirements which can better meet individual needs of customers.

Changing machines into a big trend

The industrial robot industry has been popular rapidly, mainly due to the fact that the labor intensity of the traditional manufacturing industry is large, and it is difficult to recruit workers and labor costs.

Traditional manufacturing and emerging industries have produced huge market demand for industrial robots. The use of industrial robots instead of manual labor will be a major trend in the development of China's manufacturing industry.

At the same time, a group of information technology enterprises represented by Google, Intel, Microsoft and so on are aiming at the market opportunity, quietly laying out the research and application field of robots, integrating the robotics industry with many advanced technologies such as big data, Internet of things, AI and so on, and have become part of some intelligent service platforms.

Industrial robot is an important intelligent equipment that integrates advanced technology such as machinery, electronics, control, computer, sensor, artificial intelligence and so on.

Luo Baihui, vice president of the Robotics Industry Association of Dongguan and vice president of the robotics Association of the city of China, said that the large-scale application of robots instead of artificial fields can be divided into three parts: first, the industries with higher precision requirements, using robots can greatly improve production efficiency and reduce defective products rate; two, the work environment is harmful to workers' health and the working environment is poor, and the labor intensity is relatively large. Robots can replace artificial labor to do harm to people's health, duplication and intensity. Three, the labor cost is higher, and the use of robots can reduce manual labor.

The practice of industrial robots in many production areas has proved that it plays an irreplaceable role in improving production automation level, improving labor productivity, improving product quality and economic benefits, and improving workers' working conditions.

Over the past 5 years, domestic robot sales growth rate reached 28%.

The rapid improvement of domestic robot application also shows that our manufacturing system is undergoing pformation and upgrading process, and the development of rigid automation for single batch and mass production to the flexible automation, multi variety and batch automation of multi variety and small batch production.

Textile industry has the basis of robot application.

Despite the rapid growth, the application level of industrial robots in China is still low.

The application of industrial robots in China, the automobile industry is the first to try and popularize.

The standard industrial assembly line is stable, and is very suitable for robot automatic operation.

With the development of technology, the learning ability of industrial robots is also increasing. It is also very fast for the new production mode. To a certain extent, it can also save the cost of staff training.

At present, the application of industrial robots in textile production already has a certain foundation.

The cotton textile production has the characteristics of multi process and continuity, and the specialization and professional cooperation are high.

Over the years, the cotton textile industry has increased automation and intelligence level in various processes to achieve continuous and automated production between different processes.

Among them, the automatic winding system is

The most widely used and most effective technology in industry is the successful application of the production assembly system of human robot coordination unit.

At the same time, cotton spinning industry applies automatic and intelligent technology in various processes such as automatically changing the volume, changing the barrel, doffing, cleaning, self leveling, information monitoring, automatic packing of waste cotton processing, automatic control of air conditioning, and so on.

For example, the intelligent doffer and doffing robot developed by Tongling song Bao Machinery Co., Ltd. in recent years can completely replace the traditional manual pulling and inserting bobbins, realizing the automation of the whole doffing process, greatly reducing the labor intensity of workers, improving the work efficiency and reducing the production cost.

On the basis of digitalization and automation, the automatic connection of production processes and the integration with intelligent logistics system are promoting intelligent production of chemical fiber production.

Sheng Hong Polytron Technologies Inc and Beijing Machinery Industry Automation Research Institute have built and implemented the intelligent logistics system of chemical fiber production.

The system is mainly composed of robot, chain conveyor, turntable, lifting platform and other equipment. In addition to realizing full automation of dropping, conveying, storing, testing classification, packing and stacking, it can also make intelligent identification of products. The pmission of every silk coil in inspection and packaging process is all carried out by identifying three-dimensional code, which is accurate and efficient.

In the field of knitting, Cixing stock company launched the world's first Citi automatic eye stitching machine.

The product not only greatly reduces the problem of high strength and high labor cost of traditional sweater sewing, but also improves the stitching efficiency, and solves the problem of sewing after sewing for many years.

In the field of printing and dyeing,

The digital automatic dyeing technology and equipment of the yarn package developed by Kangping Nash group realized the pformation from manual mechanization to single automation to automation system, and realized the innovation of the three systems, which played an obvious role in reducing labor consumption, improving product quality, saving energy and reducing emissions.

A printing and dyeing robot developed by Rui Qun Textile Machinery Technology Co., Ltd. in Shaoxing, is able to "take care of" the entire production line, not only to complete the work of more than 10 workers, but also to ensure the quality of the work.

Traditional printing and dyeing enterprises mostly rely on experience in production, and how much raw material each process depends on is "feeling". Therefore, the quality of products is difficult to get a stable guarantee.

The printing and dyeing robot can accurately control the feeding quantity, not only improves the accuracy, but also avoids the waste of printing and dyeing materials caused by too much feed, thus reducing pollutant emissions at the source.

For the future application of industrial robots in the textile industry, Luo Baihui believes that industrial robots will develop in a more compact, cheaper and easier operation direction, which will also be more conducive to their application in the textile industry.

A wide range of applications must be crossed several sills.

The application prospect of industrial robots in China has attracted much attention in recent two years.

Data show that at present, there are about 30 robots per 10 thousand workers in China, while 437 in Korea, 152 in the US and 62 in the world.

According to the plan, this figure is expected to increase to 100 by 2020.

The application of industrial robots is rapidly extending from the automotive industry to other industrial fields.

The more professional industrial robots are more clear because of their clear practicality and demand.

At present, although the government and enterprises believe that machine replacement is a trend in the future, the high cost is still a key factor hindering the application of industrial robots.

According to Luo Baihui, from the robot cost analysis, the mechanical structure of the body accounts for about 30%, and more than 50% comes from the key components such as servo system and reducer. They decide the performance, quality and price of the product, which is the core link of the robot industry chain.

But at present, the import proportion of the three key components is relatively high, which has affected the price competitiveness of our robots.

At present, the world's robot industry, 75% of the precision reducer is monopolized by Japanese enterprises, AC servo motors and controllers are basically monopolized by Japanese, German and American enterprises.

Therefore, the cost of domestic manufacturing robots is higher.

The "12th Five-Year special plan" for the development of intelligent manufacturing technology pointed out that we should overcome the industrial robot body and the core components of the motor controller so as to realize the industrialization of industrial robots and their core components.

With the support of national policies, the manufacturing capacity of core components of industrial robots in China is expected to gradually improve.

Goldman Sachs said that at the present stage, China's industrial robots can only take 1.3 years to recover their investment, and in 2008, it will take 11.8 years to recover their investment.

Industrial robots will also be more widely used in textile production.

On the basis of digitalization and automation of textile machinery, automatic integration of production processes and integration with intelligent logistics system and information system are promoting further intelligent textile production.

Taking spinning technology as an example, the connection of equipment can be continued to reduce human intervention in the future.

At present, a small number of spinning enterprises have realized blowing carding, coarse and fine connection, and fine connection, greatly reducing labor through technological connection. If we can further develop intellectualized technology, we will be able to build a few or even no cotton spinning factory or workshop in the future.

Industry experts said that intelligent measurement and control technology and devices involved in intelligent logistics system, such as robots, automatic cars, stereoscopic warehouses, PLC systems, workshop management system MES, and large-scale production logistics system integration, all have certain technical foundation, equipment preparation and engineering experience, but the reliability is relatively weak.

In addition, some domestic packaging machines have gaps with foreign products and need to be imported.

It is believed that through the combination of production, teaching, research and utilization, the upstream and downstream enterprises can tackle key problems together, and the domestic enterprises will be able to develop engineering practical sets of equipment and systems, and reach the international advanced level.

Under the situation of digitalization, networking and intellectualization, textile production can also be achieved from the large-scale production mode to the large-scale production mode, but it can produce small batch customization products.

Cixing company chief told reporters that at present, Cixing company is using the "Internet +" means to build "knitted sweater quick customization platform" project.

The platform can really achieve the desired setting, that is, ordinary people only need to pick up the phone to start the shooting function, and send their photos to the factory far away from the other side of the Internet. In a few days, a sweater will be received.

With the development of automation and Intellectualization Technology of Chinese textile equipment to a higher level, more and more industrial robots will enter the textile production workshop, effectively replacing the more and more intense labor, and fundamentally solve the increasingly scarce labor shortage of business operators.