Guangdong is a major province in China's textile and garment industry. At present, under the wave of digitalization, Guangdong garment enterprises are speeding up the pace of transformation and upgrading, and Lingnan clothing is changing from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing.
In Foshan Zhangcha, a famous knitting town in China, a 5000-square-meter digital factory is operating in an orderly manner. The automatic cutting machine cuts the cloth into the shape set by the computer, and the intelligent hanging machine transfers the cut cloth to the worker's seat in each process in turn, and the "raw material" can be changed into "garment" in 7 minutes at the earliest ".
"Our digital factory started operation in November last year. The display screen in the workshop can display the production volume of workers in real time. Especially for scheduling, its advantages are very obvious. At present, our orders have been scheduled to July." Foshan Rui Anthracene Garment Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Rui Anthracene Garment") Chairman Feng Yongguo said.
Reanthrene Garment was established in 2009. Last year, it invested more than 1000 million yuan (RMB, the same below) to improve the production workshop in all aspects from equipment to management, realizing the whole production process of digital intelligent coverage of auxiliary material warehouse, cutting room, sewing workshop, etc. Feng Yongguo said that at present, Zhangcha's knitted clothing industry is booming and will continue to take root here in the future to realize the integrated development of the supply chain.
The textile and garment industry is one of the pillar industries in Gaoming District of Foshan City. In 1988, Guangdong Yida Textile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Guangdong Yida"), a large-scale export-oriented and high-tech textile enterprise, invested and built a factory in Gaoming District, with annual sales of about 4 billion yuan.
Yang Gang, deputy director in charge of the enterprise's digital and intelligent transformation, said that when there are more orders, types and styles from customers, traditional manual methods alone cannot complete production efficiently. The company began to build a full supply chain system from cotton spinning, fabrics to garments and even accessories in 1995, and later allowed machines to replace people for sewing through automation and intelligence.
"Our employees have changed from operators engaged in repetitive and tedious work to technicians who study and control machines and equipment. In the past, it usually took 2 to 3 months to complete a garment order, but now it can be completed in 2 to 3 weeks at the earliest." Yang Gang said.
Li Jing, chief financial officer of Guangdong Esquel, said that the company invests more than 0.2 billion yuan every year to carry out innovative research and development and automation transformation. Thanks to the transformation of digital intelligence, the company to achieve cost reduction and efficiency, the current domestic knitting orders have been "burst single".
At present, the textile and garment industry in Guangzhou has formed a complete and powerful supply chain ecosystem to meet the needs of the modern garment industry. With the help of Guangzhou's mature clothing industry chain, Kuaishang Fashion (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. ("UR") has gradually developed and grown, and overseas stores have expanded to Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and other places.
The relevant person in charge of UR said that through the self-developed commodity digital intelligent management platform and the self-developed supply chain collaboration platform, from raw material procurement to production process, to finished product storage and logistics, real-time monitoring and optimization of each link can be realized, and the collaboration efficiency of the supply chain can be greatly improved.
For the traditional textile and garment industry, with the rapid growth of flexible and customized production demand, the demand of enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency is increasingly urgent, and digital empowerment has become an effective starting point.
Peng Peng, executive chairman of the Guangdong Provincial System Reform Research Association, said in an interview with reporters that to build a new textile and apparel industry, it is necessary to promote digitalization and intelligence from all aspects of brand, technology, design, production process, warehousing and logistics, and sales terminals. The industry can promote the digital integration of the textile and apparel industry.
Since 2023, Guangdong Province has successively introduced relevant policies to promote the coordinated development of the industrial chain, supply chain, innovation chain, and service chain of the textile and apparel industry through the application of digital technology. According to the "Implementation Opinions on Further Promoting the High-quality Development of the Textile and Apparel Industry" issued by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, by the end of 2025, the textile and apparel industry revenue will reach 700 billion yuan and double by 2027.