As a pillar industry of China’s national economy and an important livelihood industry, the textile industry has its obvious global competitive advantage and is undergoing transformation from “large industry” to “large and powerful industry” and strives to make breakthroughs of some areas to take a lead in the world. “Internet-based textile” development mode has three effects on China’s textile industry.
An insider expressed that, “To accelerate the transformation from a large manufacturing nation to a manufacturing power, China has greatly promoted the Internet-based program. Such Internet-based program aims to achieve strong integration and extensibility by taking Internet as the source of innovation.”
As introduced, the first effect of “Internet-based textile” development mode on China’s textile industry is the new industrial forms and the acceleration of textile industry transformation. In terms of industrial forms, the integration of Internet and textile industry are accelerated, Internet technology are further applied in every process of textile and clothing industry chain and intelligent manufacturing is developed at a fast speed. In terms of innovation mode, innovative carriers change from single enterprise to cross-domain and multiple-subject innovative network. In terms of organizational form, textile and garment enterprises, such as knitting machine and cotton knitting fabric manufacturers, are gradually characterized by miniaturized, intelligent and specialized production.
Furthermore, “Internet-based textile” development mode brings new opportunities and speeds up the transformation of textile enterprises. The development mode mainly involves five parts, including networking of research and development design, automation and intelligence of production process, digitization of management process, electronization of marketing process and modernization of logistics. Through the development mode, Internet technology is deeply applied in every process of production and operations of textile and garment enterprises so as to enhance their market competitiveness. In the future, China’s textile and garment enterprises will are no longer large manufacturers with bulk production, but will become new manufacturing units with customer-needs-oriented production.
At last, “Internet-based textile” development mode inspires new thinking and helps enterprises greatly improve innovation capability and the abilities of dealing with challenges, expanding markets and meeting customers’ needs.
Another insider emphasized that, “Currently, intelligent manufacturing has become the development trend for global manufacturing industry and also the China’s main goal to integrate Internet and textile industry for a long period. China’s textiles industry should seize such new opportunity of industrial development, speed up the integration of textile industry and mobile internet, cloud computing, Internet of Things and the like, boost healthy development of electronic commerce, and guide textile industry to use Internet to expand domestic and overseas markets.”
