Recently, China Securities Journal reporters participated in the “into the listed company” investor reverse roadshow held by China Unicom, came to Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and walked into a number of 5G smart factories built by China Unicom for partners to conduct field research. The reporter saw that “5G+ industrial Internet” has been from the outside to the inside, and has penetrated into the core key links of workshop production and manufacturing, effectively helping enterprises to improve quality, reduce cost and increase efficiency; While exerting the effectiveness of digital transformation, it has also become a powerful starting point for operators to realize their own transformation and value reconstruction.

5G goes deep into the core of production

As a hundred billion textile shoes and clothing industry important town, Quanzhou Jinjiang world famous, the emergence of anta, special step, three six once, Peak and other leading enterprises.

The reporter came to the clothing workshop of Jinjiang Wuli clothing base at one time, through the air hanging system, one piece of clothing went through various processes methodically, and finally the clothing was sealed and sold all over the world. The workshop has been digitally produced, with 56 production lines, each with five data collection points. Through the 5G private network built by Fujian Unicom, the key data on these production lines will soon be transmitted back to the CNC large screen in the operation center.

The reporter saw on the CNC large screen that the production target of 36th degree in 2023 has long been completed. According to the staff, with the help of 5G and other technologies, workers have now entered the production cycle in the first quarter of 2024 ahead of schedule.

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“The production cycle this year is about two months faster than last year. We are now finishing up our orders for the first quarter of 2024 and we are about to start making summer wear.” The staff said.

In May 2022, Sanliu once signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Unicom in the field of “5G+ Industrial Internet”, and completed the first 5G smart factory project in Sanliu Once Jinjiang Wuli Clothing Base.

After more than a year of operation, “5G+ industrial Internet” has penetrated into the core links of factory production and manufacturing, bringing real benefits to the factory. Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the “2023 5G Factory List”, covering 300 selected 5G factories, covering 24 national economic categories, with a total construction investment of 9.73 billion yuan. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the current “5G+ industrial Internet” is booming, the number of national projects has exceeded 8,000, and 5G has been penetrated from the peripheral auxiliary links of production to the core control links.

Li Jie, vice president of China Unicom (Fujian) Industrial Internet Research Institute, told reporters that the clothing production line is inseparable from the hanging system, in the 36-year-old production workshop, the ETON clothing hanging system combined with CS development mode data extraction, and at the same time through the hanging bus, ECO, PC, to the gateway protocol conversion, and through the 5G private network and the enterprise Intranet. So that the production line production data real-time acquisition and presentation.

Li Jie introduced that after the 360-degree 5G smart factory project was put into operation, it helped enterprises to achieve a 17% increase in production synergy efficiency, a 5% decrease in product defect rate, a 5% increase in timely order delivery rate, and a 8% reduction in labor operating costs.

In the final analysis, the garment manufacturing industry is still a labor-intensive industry, which requires a lot of manual cooperation, and with the in-depth promotion of the construction of 5G smart factories, the ability of AI and other digital technologies is further enhanced, and the labor of workers can be more relaxed and comfortable.