Why Is There Such A Change And Gap In The Textile Industry?

Innovation is both an old topic and a new problem. It's an old topic, because we don't know how many times we've heard it, how many years we've cried, how many times we've heard it. It is a new problem, because over the years, most enterprises have not achieved satisfactory innovation results for a long time, and lack of motivation and direction for innovation.

2015 seems to be a watershed. Since the beginning of this year, many Spin Enterprises began to feel the torment of life. As the downstream textile machinery industry began to feel the pressure of production and operation. However, reporters also found that in most Textile machinery In the case of insufficient enterprise orders, there are still some enterprises that need to work overtime to complete the order or to cancel some orders due to the order arrangement. The same economic environment and the same market opportunities.

Why is there such a change and a gap?

Through investigation, the reporters found that these enterprises have some common characteristics in the current situation, such as: they have always focused on product innovation, always focus on talent training, and focus on enterprises. product Quality and strive for better product requirements. The generalization of the popular words conforms to the direction of the supply side reform, meets the requirements of the strategic development of three products, and practices the spirit of craftsmen. And to really do this, it is inseparable from two words: innovation. Market demand has quietly changed.

Starting from last year, under the condition of insufficient market demand, textile machinery enterprises have stepped up the scope and pace of going out. In 2016, the pace of going out still did not stop. Chinese exhibitors were growing at an unprecedented speed, no matter Indonesia exhibition or Vietnam exhibition. It should be said that the layout of the world market by domestic spinning machine enterprises is not a bad thing. We can find gaps and deficiencies in the competition with the world bigwigs. Going out is indeed a way to expand market share. However, we also find that most of the exhibits exhibited by domestic enterprises in Southeast Asia are lagging behind the level of domestic technology development. Although these products are currently in need of customers in these areas, the problem is how long will this degree of adaptation continue? Are these equipment fully consistent with the local production environment, characteristics and habits?

In recent years, domestic consumer demand is changing quietly. Overseas shopping and the enthusiasm of the sea are getting higher and higher, and the types of shopping are beginning to change from luxury goods to high quality products to high quality daily consumption. Feng Fei, deputy director of the Ministry of industry and information technology, said, "seeing the nature through phenomena, these phenomena reflect that the structural adjustment of consumer goods in China has lagged behind the pace of consumption structure upgrading. We have the largest industrial scale in the world, but the supply of high-end products is insufficient. We have relatively advanced manufacturing processes, but lack of innovation and design capabilities. We have a large number of textile enterprises, but there is no established brand name."

At the end of last year's ITMA2015, a large number of European SMEs launched targeted personalized products. These products are not large in quantity, but they are essential in some production areas. This phenomenon deserves our reflection, and the way of mass production and low value-added production is time to consider changing. Then, how to upgrade the textile industry in the future? Where should we go to transformation? For the textile machinery industry, only the textile industry can upgrade itself to meet the needs of textile industry upgrading.

Why should we innovate?

Every progress is often achieved by constantly finding problems and solving problems. To solve the problem of how the textile machinery industry should be at the bottom, then find the answer and improve it.

Wang Shutian, President of the China Textile Machinery Association, said in the summary of the development of the industry in 12th Five-Year, there are some problems in the manufacturing industry, such as product innovation, product quality, cost, environmental protection, management level and personnel training. But relatively speaking, the basic research is relatively weak, product homogenization and other issues seem to be more important and urgent, these problems are becoming the main problem that restricts the development of the industry.

Textile machinery industry is an industry that has carried out market-oriented reforms earlier. However, there are still some problems such as low industrial concentration and serious homogenization of products. These problems are still the main problems that restrict the further development of the future industry. Due to the hot selling of products in the past few years, some enterprises do not attach enough importance to product technology research and development, but are keen to assemble products with low technology content and obtain market share through low price competition. This excessive low price competition has also led to the infringement of scientific research achievements of many spinning machinery enterprises, which seriously affected the enthusiasm of R & D personnel and led to some products becoming more and more saturated in the market. In stark contrast, there are still many blanks in the domestic high-end models, and we need to import a large number of high-end textile machinery products and key components every year.

At present, most textile machinery enterprises in China still lack the support of theoretical research, lack of emphasis on basic technology such as spinning mechanism, product development and application cycle. The domestic low and medium spinning equipment has lower productivity and more labor, and the service life of spinning accessories needs to be further improved. The production of specialized parts is still very dependent on human operation and management, and it can not fully meet the requirements of users' quality, efficiency and modern production management.

At the same time, high-tech fiber equipment and engineering research investment is small and scattered, most enterprises are single armed operations, lack of cooperation, so that the R & D force scattered, little effect, R & D progress is slow. Some special fibers, such as new polyester fiber, conductive fiber, nontoxic viscose fiber, special purpose fiber and so on, because of the lack of specialized industrial equipment and technology in China, they can not walk out of the laboratory, and can only rely on imports.

Generally speaking, at present, China's textile industry and even the entire Chinese industry have entered the upgrading stage of development and transformation. Facing the transformation, many enterprises suddenly become confused: our cost advantages, scale advantages and institutional advantages seem to be disappearing. What is the advantage of the textile and textile machinery industry in the future? And the most simple and effective way to deal with this rapid change and solve the outstanding development contradictions in the current industry is to develop or innovate continuously.

Innovation and expansion of market space

In fact, whether the basic research is weak or the phenomenon of product homogeneity still exists, it can be attributed to innovation in essence. Over the past few years, the domestic textile machinery enterprises have adopted new technologies such as numerical control and networking, which have greatly shortened our gap with the world's advanced level. In 2011~2015, a total of 16 technologies and equipment were awarded the first prize of "textile light" science and technology, and 43 technologies and equipment won two prize. For example, the "cheese automatic digital dyeing technology and equipment" won the first prize of the 2014 National Science and technology progress award. "High efficiency cotton spinning combing key technology and its industrialization application" project and the "key preparation technology and industrialization of new melt blown nonwoven materials" project were awarded the two prize of national science and Technology Progress Award in 2014; "carbon / carbon composite technology and equipment and application" and "high-capacity polyamide 6 polymerization and fine denier nylon 6 fiber production key technology and equipment" two project won the two prize of national science and Technology Progress Award in 2012.

Maybe for many years, we didn't worry about selling. For many enterprises, innovation has begun to become strange. At the same time, some enterprises have begun to lack the power and direction of innovation, while some enterprises have steadily occupied and even expanded the market space through continuous innovation.

For example, the double needle clothing developed by Jinlun card clothing (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. passed technical appraisal in May this year, which brought about 20% increase in the sales growth of the company. Combing products of Zhejiang Jinfeng company has been in short supply in the past few years. Even in the cold 2015, Jinfeng company is not short of orders. Dai Buzhong, chairman of the company, believes that this is mainly related to the high cost performance of the company's products. He told reporters: "our patented product has a nickname" three high "products inside the company. That is to say, high speed can reach 350 times or more. High quality, suitable for spinning more than 60 or 80 yarn, and high quantity is a single volume high, which lays a foundation for high yield.

Qingdao Hongda Company has strengthened product innovation from the mechanism and made great progress. Shao Mingdong, the head of the company, told reporters that the development of automatic winder to high speed and high quality must make breakthroughs in technological innovation, improve and upgrade. In order to encourage innovation, the company has directly linked technological R & D results and market sales. It turns out that as long as the equipment has been developed, no matter how the market is sold, the designers will be rewarded accordingly. Now it is no longer possible. Now the product is designed, and the more sales there are in three years, the more return the technicians will get.

Ningbo Cixing company develops an U preschool robot with the advantage of electronic control system research and development.

What are we lacking in innovation?

It can be seen that innovation has become an important force in the development of the industry in the future. Without excellent products, we can not quickly adapt to the small batch, multi variety and personalized production requirements of customers. The development of enterprises will be largely constrained. Under such circumstances, many enterprises are beginning to realize that it is time to calm down and make innovations.

Feng Fei, Vice Minister of industry and information technology, also expressed similar views when he talked about the future development of the industry. He said that at present, the shortage of skilled workers and the shortage of craftsmen have become the biggest shortcoming of China's manufacturing. This is also a major obstacle for us to move from a big manufacturing nation to a manufacturing power. Therefore, it is particularly important to foster and carry forward the craftsman spirit of excellence in promoting the three products strategy in the textile industry. It is a magic weapon for the textile industry to enhance the quality and create the brand in the new era.

But in the face of the old topic of innovation, we are somewhat helpless, because we not only have no accumulation of original details, nor do we have any innovative technological precipitation.

Innovation, especially the thorough development of original technology, is still lacking. On the one hand, internationally renowned textile machinery enterprises have increased their R & D efforts against the Chinese market. On the other hand, the development of China's textile machinery industry faces many challenges, such as talent, quality, intellectual property and cost. The textile machinery industry is facing the shortage of high-end research talents and the lack of skilled technicians. The textile machinery talents are older and outdated, and the talent structure and knowledge structure can not meet the needs of the development of the equipment manufacturing industry. The textile machinery specialty education in Colleges and universities is marginalized, specialized courses are less, teaching materials are updated slowly, and the curriculum is unreasonable.

At the same time, enterprises do not adapt to the requirements of the development of equipment manufacturing industry in terms of R & D investment, talent incentive mechanism, intellectual property protection, and industry university research cooperation mechanism. The research on basic technology is not paid enough attention to, and products lack theoretical research support. Product design concepts, methods and means are not yet able to keep pace with the progress of the times brought by information technology.

More importantly, we still lack the real innovative thinking. The current innovation is no longer the same as the original innovation, so long as the knowledge in some field is deep, we can achieve the design goal. Much of the current innovation is the product of cross disciplinary integration and collision.

With the gradual promotion of the application of industrial textiles, this trend has become more obvious. For example, the chitin fiber produced by Shandong Huaxing company has been applied in medical, aerospace and other fields. With the continuous development of intelligent and information technology, cross-border research and development will become more common. For example, Ningbo Cixing company specializing in the production of flat knitting machines has developed the U preschool robot by using the advantages of electronic control system development. At present, this kind of cross border research and development products have been recognized by the market and have achieved great success.

Innovation has only two simple words, but we need to explore and practice with our hearts, because we have not really owned it for a long time. Although some policies, systems and environment are not perfect enough, it can not really promote its effect in a short time. But we should at least pay enough attention to it. For now, it may be the most effective and feasible shortcut to transformation and upgrading.