Distributed Manufacturing in Knitting Industry

Abstract

Knitwear is the second largest product category in the traditional clothing industry. The traditional clothing product supply chain is difficult to meet consumer's demand of fast fashion. AI and industrial Internet technology, together with intelligent knitting equipments make C2M flexible supply chain possible through digitization. Distributed cloud factory is built as regional node of production supported by digital twin and parallel intelligence. Personalized needs of end consumers can be quickly responded, and the cost is close to traditional large-scale assembly line. Parallel manufacturing applies industrial robots, Internet of things, cloud computing, AR and AI technologies comprehensively to build virtual factory in Cloud that carries out decision-making and management simultaneously, with highly automated production equipments in workshop. Meanwhile, it combines with smart knitting factories to build a global distributed collaborative production management platform based on parallel manufacturing architecture system through virtual reality interaction, distributed manufacturing, managed and controlled through Cloud. Intelligent upgrading of traditional knitting industry can effectively improve labor productivity, reduce production cost and number of employees.