Suntech Smart Fabric Inspection Machine Helps Improve Textile Quality Textile Industry Background

China is a well-deserved textile power, and the textile industry is recognized as one of the main pillars of the traditional national economy. According to statistics from China Textile Network, the scale of textile business reached 5.37 trillion in 2018, and the scale of textile business in 2019 was 4.94 trillion, showing a downward trend. The reason is mainly due to the external market environment and the increase in labor costs in my country.

In the past 20 years, my country’s textile industry has maintained a substantial growth momentum, mainly due to our traditional textile technology and low labor costs, among which labor costs play a key role. This is why our textile market is large and the market share of high-end brands is low. s reason.

In recent years, my country's economic level has improved, labor income has increased significantly, and the textile market has clearly shifted to low-income countries in Southeast Asia. This has forced my country's textile industry to adopt intelligent upgrades to reduce costs and stabilize advantages.

With the gradual maturity of technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and computers, the Industry 4.0 era has arrived. However, the textile industry, which uses traditional technologies, has not made great progress in replacing artificial intelligence. This mainly takes into account the issue of low-end labor employment. The entire textile market has solved the problem of feeding hundreds of millions of laborers. However, the current internal and external market environment and the rapid advancement of science and technology cannot tolerate the textile market to linger, otherwise this traditionally dominant market share will be eroded and occupied by the rising countries.

China's textile industry planning report shows that the replacement of traditional industries with artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, industrial Internet, and big data is imminent. At present, the textile industry is transforming towards mechanization, automation, and intelligence, and will focus on promoting the green development of the industry. Internet + and smart production will be the top priorities. This is the future trend of the textile industry.（try suntech fabric inspection machine）

What is the key to textile quality?

There is a popular saying in the clothing design industry: "80% of good clothing depends on the quality of fabrics", which shows how important the quality of fabrics is even in the downstream of the textile and apparel industry chain.

China is the world's largest textile and garment production and processing base. The quality of textile and apparel fabrics is closely related to people's lives, affects the development of the industry, and is vital to the lives of enterprises. With the improvement of people's living standards, people have higher and higher requirements for the quality of textile fabrics. Therefore, the inspection process has become the key to improving the quality of textiles. If you can realize fast and accurate fabric inspection and discover cloth problems in time, you can improve the quality and pass rate of the cloth, thereby enhancing the corporate brand image.

However, at present, most textile and garment manufacturers mainly use professional fabric inspection QC to find defects on the surface of the cloth through the naked eye and mark or record the defects in front of the fabric inspection equipment. However, manual fabric inspection has three major pain points-low detection rate, slow speed, difficult recruitment and high personnel cost.

On average, a fabric inspector can find up to 200 defects in one hour, and the defect detection rate is about 70%. However, the concentration of personnel can be maintained at most for 20-30 minutes, and the fabric inspection speed is generally limited to 20-30cm/s. If this time and speed are exceeded, the fabric inspection union will become fatigued.

The textile industry has entered a period of rapid growth, the demographic dividend has gradually declined, labor costs have gradually increased, and the textile industry’s "Made in China" cost advantage is not there. In addition, with the rise of the middle class and the advent of "consumption upgrades", fast fashion appears in the downstream apparel retail market. Phenomenon such as "light luxury" and "strict selection" put forward higher and higher requirements for apparel quality and textile production efficiency.

At present, almost all global textile and garment manufacturers use manual methods to conduct fabric quality inspection, and manufacturers rarely apply intelligent fabric inspection technology in the textile field. Due to the variety of fabrics and the diversity of defects, the traditional manual inspection of fabrics is difficult to solve the automatic detection of fabrics, which is not only inefficient, but also has a high error rate. With the development and application of artificial intelligence technology, automated visual inspection of fabrics becomes possible.

Suntech has developed an intelligent fabric inspection system and an intelligent fabric inspection machine based on deep learning and machine vision technology, which will bring good news to textile and apparel companies. From top to bottom, the industrial chain of the textile industry can be divided into 4 main links-textile raw material suppliers, grey cloth weaving mills, finished fabric manufacturers, and the most downstream distributors at all levels, foreign merchants, terminal brand merchants, etc.

For the weaving link from textile raw materials to grey cloth, Suntech integrates an intelligent detection system for textile machinery equipment to achieve automatic detection results. In addition, in the process of distributing finished fabrics to downstream distributors and brand owners, due to the lack of trust in the quality of upstream products, downstream fabric appliers are also customers of Suntech smart fabric inspection machines.

The inspection volume of Suntech intelligent fabric inspection machine is significantly higher than that of manual inspection, or even several times higher. The intelligent inspection speed can reach 120m/min or more, up to 300m/min, which is 3-5 times that of manual inspection, real-time The response time of detection can be achieved within 100ms, the correct rate of fabric defect detection is more than 95%, the rate of missed detection and misjudgment is less than 5%, and the various indicators are significantly higher than manual inspection. You can adjust it according to your needs and actually inspect it. Speed is related to machine width and defects. All test data are recorded in a computer database in real time for future reference, supporting 24-hour uninterrupted work. From the perspective of cost comparison, one set can replace 2-5 traditional inspectors, saving the enterprise millions of expenses every year.

The current high-end fabric inspection machine on the market is priced at 600,000, and the general fabric inspection machine is priced at 400,000, with an average of 450,000. According to statistics, in 2019, the number of medium and large-scale textile and garment enterprises in China exceeded 30,000, and the main business income was nearly 7 trillion yuan. The corresponding potential scale of China's smart fabric inspection market could reach hundreds of billions.

Judging from the quotations on the market, the price of the intelligent fabric inspection machine is not cheap, mainly because the intelligent fabric inspection machine involves a high technical content, and the efficiency and quality are high. Judging from the currently issued technology patents, a complete intelligent fabric inspection machine uses computer vision technology + high-end precision optical components + big data + software system, which belongs to the standard high-end intelligent manufacturing industry. Of course, the value brought by the intelligent fabric inspection machine is very considerable.

Suntech, as an old-brand fabric inspection machine manufacturer, has 50 years of technical precipitation and equipment manufacturing experience.
With more than 4,500 customers and 10,000 machine installation cases around the world, we specialize in the production of fabric inspection machines and fabric inspection packaging lines (including fabric inspection machines and packaging machines). Manual, semi-automatic, and automatic fabric inspection machines can be customized according to user needs. A 13-month warranty and free random accessories such as optoelectronics, digital length meter, etc., are very competitive in the industry. Welcome to inquire.

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