It can be said without a doubt that digitization is now the key to success.Any industry that needs to stay ahead in the market needs to adapt to various digital means. The consumer world is rapidly upgrading itself, and the sellers need to keep up with that. The textile industry also comes under the same rule.
The textile industry has also been adopting digital means to get more creative and productive. Due to the increasing production cost, high maintenance customers, and the complicated chain of value, the textile industry has been facing a specific problem. Moreover, professionals from other sectors are reinventing those industries. Therefore, it calls for the reinvention of the textile industry as well.
Now, Industryb4.0 refers to a particular concept that has strongly appealed to various industrial tycoons belonging from different industries. Industry 4.0 or the 4th evolution of the industry refers to a trend that will take the help of higher levels of automatic processes and exchange of data by taking advantage of cloud computing and IoT. Such kind of technology will make the textile to the future where artificial intelligence will handle the complete manufacturing process as well as the post-production marketing strategies.
Hanover Messe introduced the concept of industry 4.0 in the year 2011, and the road map of this goes back to 2013. Industry 4.0 refers to a lot of factors, including,
horizontal integration of the networks, vertical integration along with networked production systems and digitization of the complete chain of value.
Industry 4.0 will help in making the production and manufacturing process virtual and modular with the help of CPS along with other kinds of software like ERP, PLM, MES and SCM. It can be implemented in the textile industry as well and will bring about a lot of positive results.
Another thing that can be put to use is a rea-time conversation between machines or between machines and humans. CPS can help to implement it, and IoT can also help. The entire network that is associated with the complete process would get to know the shared information by the discussions.
The digital services will take control of the textile industry from raw materials to the selling of the products, There will be tracking devices that would be connected to interrupt data and analyse them, forecast errors, and self configures as well.
Industry 4.0 in the textile Industry:
Industry 4.0 in the field of textile manufacture or textile 4.0 is vital digitization precess of the existing ways of textile manufacturing. The critical technological changes include automatic weaving, spinning, and automation of different other tasks associated with the process of creating a textile product.
Implementation of Textile 4.0 would help to create a completely independent chain of manufacturing and post-production of products. Warp Beam, bobbin, and fabric can be used as the career of information as they contain textile materials. Information like the status of the production process and the maintenance of the manufactured products can be collected and stored via sensors and RFID (radio frequency identification technology).
The digitized manufacturing plants will self configure themselves and will also update on their own from time to time. Such efficiency would ensure timely completion of orders as well as the production of high-quality products that would meet customers demands. These plants are also flexible and will provide lot of opportunities to customized a particular product. While the entire process goes on, all the collected and essential information will be fed to the ERP and MES to ensure that they can be used in the future for quality management decisions.
Advantages and disadvantages:
Industry 4.0 comes as the next stage in the field of textile. It would bring era that would witness the integration of smart technology with traditional means of production. It is crucial to spread awareness about the different kinds of techniques that would be used in the field as well as train the required people.
Without a bunch of skilled professionals, automated machines will be difficult to set up.Moreover, the industry needs people who will understand what is wrong when a particular machine malfunctions. An excellent way to start the implementation of industry 4.0 is by introducing a pilot plant and then spreading the required information. Medium and small-scale business can use HCA or homogenization complete alliance.
However,it will not be very wise to be wise to blindly go after Industry 4.0 as it is stills in its developing phase.It is essential to understand the pros and cons of the technology thoroughly digitization would lead to several people losing their jobs.
Summary:
The trend of re-industrialization will undoubtedly revitalize the textile industry as it would make the process of manufacturing very intense and more competitive. The traditional model has several flaws and digitizing the industry would certainly help to resolve them. When the entire production process would be machine based, it would naturally be more efficient as well as fast-paced.
The production rate would increase as the machinery would work tirelessly with out pausing and with the right maintenance, the chances of machine malfunctioning are less. However, to implement the required technologies, it is necessary to train the professionals first so that they can handle the tools well. The textile industry should take things slowly and give its time to get upgraded to Textile 4.0.
Republished from Magazine ITAMMA VOICE December - 2018, Permission granted by Director General (Technical), ITAMMA - Mumbai - 1.
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