WO2022193377A1

WO2022193377A1 - Remote production management system for fully fashioned flat knitting machine based on cloud platform

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Publication number: WO2022193377A1
Application number: PCT/CN2021/085348
Authority: WO
Inventors: 朱信忠; 孙平范; 李立军; 陈罡; 金贵阳; 徐慧英
Original assignee: 宁波慈星股份有限公司
Priority date: 2021-03-19
Filing date: 2021-04-02
Publication date: 2022-09-22
Also published as: CN113077207A

Abstract

A remote production management system for a fully fashioned flat knitting machine based on a cloud platform, comprising a cloud platform (1), a customer unit (2), a designer unit (3), sweater production enterprise units (4), and a flat knitting machine manufacturer unit (5). The cloud platform (1) is separately connected to the customer unit (2), the designer unit (3), the sweater production enterprise units (4), and the flat knitting machine manufacturer unit (5); the designer unit (3) is used for uploading, to the cloud platform (1), design works related to a sweater; the flat knitting machine manufacturer unit (5) is used for remotely managing flat knitting machine products sold or rented to the sweater production enterprise units (4); the customer unit (2) is used for generating a personalized order according to requirements of a customer and transmitting the generated personalized order to the cloud platform (1); the cloud platform (1) is used for receiving the personalized order transmitted by the customer unit (2) and allocating the received personalized order to a corresponding sweater production enterprise unit (4); and the sweater production enterprise unit (4) is used for receiving the personalized order allocated by the cloud platform (1) and feeding real-time production condition of the personalized order back to the cloud platform (1).

Description

A remote production management system for full-forming flat knitting machines based on cloud platform

technical field

The invention relates to the technical field of production management, in particular to a remote production management system for a full-forming flat knitting machine based on a cloud platform.

Background technique

Knitted garments are comfortable to wear and develop towards outerwear, fashion and personalization. With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, more and more people choose knitted products with multiple styles and colors, and even underwear has set off a "whole body seamless" underwear craze. Whether it is leisure, travel, home, work, or even in many public occasions, people wear all kinds of knitted sweaters, sportswear, and knitted sneakers. The popularity of knitted clothing has become a sign of the arrival of the knitting era. Therefore, the knitted garment industry must meet the more and more personalized needs of consumers.

The trend of personalized clothing, superimposed on the background of "Industry 4.0" and "Made in China 2025", the textile industry, local governments and large textile enterprises are rapidly promoting the automation, informatization and intelligent transformation of enterprises, and the country has also given a lot of policy support. However, many small and medium-sized textile enterprises cannot afford the high cost of transformation, nor do they have sufficient talent pools related to automation, information and intelligent manufacturing to assist them in their transformation to Textile 4.0.

The invention of the fully formed computerized flat knitting machine has brought great convenience to the remote management of sweater production. Fully formed computerized flat knitting knitting machine, similar to 3D printing, can be directly knitted into sweater garments, using fewer work steps and fewer manual processes to shorten the production cycle, reduce seams and reduce the cost of yarn and semi-finished product storage, It can also save cutting and processing procedures, reduce manpower, save costs and improve economic benefits.

The existing sweater production SMEs have the following problems:

First, the informatization level, management level, and financial status of small and medium-sized enterprises cannot meet the personalized clothing needs of consumers;

Second, the production capacity of small and medium-sized enterprises has not been well utilized. Due to differences in geographic location, personnel, and the unpredictability of market environment and fashion trends, some enterprises have placed too many orders and are too late for production, and some enterprises cannot receive orders. , unable to make good use of the production capacity of the entire industry;

Third, the automation, informatization and management level of small and medium-sized enterprises are not high, and there will be no obvious changes in the short term;

Fourth, the market competition is fierce, and small and medium-sized enterprises face huge risks.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a remote production management system for full-forming flat knitting machines based on a cloud platform, aiming at the defects of the prior art. Through the cloud platform, the relevant entities of the sweater industry are linked together to build an ecosystem, which integrates the existing production capacity resources of sweater production SMEs, solves the high cost problem of self-built production management systems for sweater industry SMEs Industry trend analysis provides the basis for big data.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention adopts the following technical solutions:

A remote production management system for fully formed flat knitting machines based on a cloud platform, comprising a cloud platform, a consumer unit, a designer unit, a sweater production enterprise unit, and a flat knitting knitting manufacturer unit; the cloud platform is respectively connected with the consumer unit, the designer unit The unit, the sweater production enterprise unit, and the flat knitting machine manufacturer unit are connected; the flat knitting machine manufacturer unit is connected with the sweater production enterprise unit;

The designer unit is used to upload sweater-related design works to the cloud platform;

Flat knitting knitting manufacturer unit, used to remotely manage flat knitting products sold or leased to sweater production enterprise units;

The consumer unit is used to generate personalized orders according to its own needs, and transmit the generated personalized orders to the cloud platform;

The cloud platform is used to receive personalized orders transmitted by consumer units, and distribute the received personalized orders to the corresponding sweater production enterprise units;

The sweater production enterprise unit is used to receive personalized orders allocated by the cloud platform, and feed back the real-time production status of the personalized orders to the cloud platform for consumers to view the real-time status information of the orders.

Further, the cloud platform includes a personalized customization module, an order management module, an intelligent process module, an advanced scheduling module, and a manufacturing execution module;

The personalized customization module is used to provide personalized customization for consumers and generate personalized orders;

The order management module is used to provide consumers with order management and tracking information;

The intelligent process module is used to calculate the bill of materials of the ordered product, and create the design file of the sweater according to the bill of materials;

The advanced scheduling module is used to perform intelligent scheduling according to the order information, and assign the order to the most corresponding flat knitting knitting manufacturer unit;

The manufacturing execution module is used for receiving the execution situation of weaving according to the order requirements.

Further, the sweater production enterprise node includes a fully formed computerized flat knitting machine and an edge gateway connected to the fully formed computerized flat knitting machine.

Further, generating a personalized order in the consumer unit according to its own needs includes: customization based on designer finished models, and personalized customization based on basic models.

Further, the personalized customization module includes human body data collection, template data management, design material management, online virtual fitting, and personalized visual customization.

Further, the order management module includes online payment, commodity management, marketing activity management, logistics management, e-commerce platform docking, customer order management, order status tracking, return and exchange.

Further, the intelligent process module includes an intelligent counting module and a knitting plate-making module;

The intelligent counting module is used to formulate the operation counting according to the requirements of the personalized order, and obtain the gross amount, gross material cost and production process requirements;

Knitting pattern module, used to create pattern files for sweaters.

Further, the advanced scheduling module performs intelligent scheduling according to the order information, and assigns the order to the most corresponding flat knitting knitting manufacturer unit specifically: according to the priority of the order, the equipment capacity of each sweater production enterprise unit, The order is intelligently scheduled according to the machine load status, the complete set of materials, and the equipment sweater style adaptation list constraints, and the order is allocated to the full-form computerized flat knitting machine of the corresponding sweater production enterprise unit.

Further, the sweater production enterprise unit receives the personalized orders distributed by the cloud platform, and feeds back the real-time production status of the personalized orders to the cloud platform. After arriving at the corresponding full-forming flat knitting machine position, download the pattern file corresponding to the order to the corresponding full-forming flat knitting machine, knitting according to the order requirements, and transmit the order processing status to the cloud platform.

Further, the consumer unit includes a personalized customization system, a sales store, a sweater brand, and a sweater seller.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the present invention are:

1. The present invention has a subversive industrial production mode, and the established platform for rapid customization of knitted sweaters completely changes the operation rules of the entire sweater industry chain, and establishes a brand-new, personalized customization ecosystem for the sweater market.

2. Realize the production method of personalized customization, especially suitable for customer groups with large differences in body shape, to meet their personalized and fashionable needs.

3. Realize fast fashion within seven days and ensure to keep up with fashion trends;

4. Adopt crowdsourcing mode, fully integrate industrial resources, especially excellent designer resources around the world, lead the sustainable development of the knitted garment industry, and benefit the entire industry chain.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a kind of cloud platform-based remote production management system structure diagram of full-forming flat knitting machine provided by Embodiment 1;

Fig. 2 is the flow chart of consumer personalized customization provided by the second embodiment;

Fig. 3 is the personalized order production flow chart provided by the second embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of the collaborative design of the design provided by the third embodiment.

Detailed ways

The embodiments of the present invention are described below through specific specific examples, and those skilled in the art can easily understand other advantages and effects of the present invention from the contents disclosed in this specification. The present invention can also be implemented or applied through other different specific embodiments, and various details in this specification can also be modified or changed based on different viewpoints and applications without departing from the spirit of the present invention. It should be noted that the following embodiments and features in the embodiments may be combined with each other under the condition of no conflict.

Aiming at the existing defects, the present invention provides a remote production management system for a full-forming flat knitting machine based on a cloud platform.

Example 1

This embodiment provides a cloud platform-based remote production management system for fully formed flat knitting machines, as shown in FIG. 1 , including a cloud platform 1, a consumer unit 2, a designer unit 3, a sweater production enterprise unit 4, and a flat knitting machine. The manufacturer unit 5; the cloud platform 1 is respectively connected with the consumer unit 2, the designer unit 3, the sweater manufacturer unit 4, and the flat knitting machine manufacturer unit 5; the flat knitting machine manufacturer unit 5 is connected with the sweater manufacturer unit 4.

This embodiment provides a cloud production management platform for small and medium sweater manufacturers, and establishes an ecosystem that includes consumers, designers, manufacturers, platform operators, logistics and distribution, payment and other parties. The ecosystem emphasizes the stickiness of personalized customization to end users. By opening up consumer personalized design and the addition of free professional designers, it enriches the sweater pattern and layout design library, realizes a product marketing model with common characteristics, and integrates small and medium sweaters. The existing production capacity resources of production enterprises realize the division and cooperation of the whole industry chain.

In this embodiment, the cloud platform 1 includes a personalized customization module, an order management module, an intelligent process module, an advanced scheduling module, and a manufacturing execution module.

Personalized customization module realizes consumer information database, personalized customization database, size collection database, template design database, pattern material database, etc.; personalized customization module consists of human body data collection, template data management, pattern material management, online virtual test It is composed of functions such as clothing, personalized visual customization, etc., to realize the personalized customization of consumers, and finally generate personalized orders;

The order management module is composed of functions such as online payment, commodity management, marketing activity management, logistics management, e-commerce platform docking, customer order management, order status tracking, return and exchange, etc., to realize the management and tracking of consumer orders;

The intelligent process module is composed of an intelligent counting module and a knitting plate-making module. The intelligent counting module calculates the bill of materials (BOM) of the ordered product according to the requirements of the product style, size, feel and finished product weight required by the personalized order. The amount of wool used, the cost of wool materials and the production process requirements are obtained; the knitting pattern making module is used to create the pattern file of the sweater, and establish a complete product database, including the gram weight of a single piece of raw materials, accessories, working hours, size standards, process descriptions, etc., Provide data support for rapid generation arrangements and cost budgets for subsequent single-piece orders.

The advanced scheduling module intelligently schedules orders according to the constraints of order priority (delivery time, customer), equipment capacity of each production enterprise, machine load status, material completeness status, equipment sweater style adaptation list, etc. Orders are allocated to the most suitable full-form computerized flat knitting machine of the manufacturer;

Manufacturing execution module to receive the execution of weaving according to the order requirements.

Designer unit 3 is used to upload sweater-related design works to the cloud platform.

The designer uses the intelligent process module provided by the cloud platform to design the sweater online, upload the design work to the pattern library of the fully formed computerized flat knitting machine, and publish it to the e-commerce platform for customers to choose and customize after being reviewed by the factory designer.

Flat knitting machine manufacturer unit 5 is used to remotely manage flat knitting products sold or leased to sweater production enterprise units.

Flat knitting manufacturers have management centers, which can sell or lease their own flat knitting products through the cloud platform, as well as remotely manage flat knitting products sold or leased to manufacturers. Flat knitting manufacturers can also hire excellent designers to design trendy sweater styles for their own flat knitting products and increase the added value of the products; flat knitting manufacturers can also remotely monitor flat knitting machines through the production status monitoring function provided by the cloud platform. Maintenance to ensure the reliability of the equipment.

Fully formed computerized flat knitting machine, and a networked production network composed of many fully formed computerized flat knitting machines. The main board of the computer flat knitting machine is equipped with RJ45 network port, plug in the network cable, and use the network function of the flat knitting system to connect the machine to the network, with the remote transmission capability of pattern files, upgrade files and parameter files; in addition, It can also record the status of the flat knitting machine in the whole process (including alarm status, running status, shutdown status, etc.), to provide index basis for analysis and troubleshooting of faulty equipment, quantitative staff assessment and other production management; in addition, the operating parameters of the flat knitting machine can be set remotely, which is convenient for engineers. Provide remote technical support; in addition, if each flat knitting machine is connected to the cloud platform separately, it will greatly increase the connection burden of the cloud platform. For this reason, each production enterprise is equipped with an edge gateway, so that all computer flat knitting machines pass through this edge gateway. Connect to the cloud platform.

The consumer unit 2 is used to generate personalized orders according to its own needs, and transmit the generated personalized orders to the cloud platform.

The consumer unit includes personalized customization systems, sales stores, sweater brands, and sweater sellers.

The system has developed personal APP and web client for consumer nodes. Consumers can produce personalized orders through simple selection and input on the mobile APP or web client. In addition, it has developed personalized orders for stores and experience stores. The system, including tools such as three-dimensional measurement of human body, can obtain more accurate anthropometric data.

The platform can also provide consumers with better customized clothing:

a. Based on the customization of the designer's finished product, this category has provided templates for consumers on basic parameters such as style and collar shape, and users only need to customize according to their personal body size;

b. Personalized customization based on basic models. In addition to the size customization of the previous model, this type of customization also provides users with personalized customization services such as text LOGO, pictures, etc. within a certain area.

The cloud platform 1 is used to receive personalized orders transmitted by consumer units, and distribute the received personalized orders to corresponding sweater production enterprise units.

The cloud platform has the function of customization. According to the suitable objects, it can be divided into three categories: men's clothing, women's clothing, and children's clothing for customization; in terms of style, it can be divided into pullovers, cardigans, skirts, pants and other categories for customization; In terms of shape, it can be divided into low round neck, semi-high round neck, two-turn round neck, V-neck, cap collar, one-word neck, etc. for customization; from the sleeves, it can be divided into long-sleeved, medium-long Sleeves, sleeveless, lantern sleeves, etc. can be customized; from the pattern, it can be divided into structural patterns (unilateral, secondary color, pit strip, pearl, wicker, tuck, three flat, four flat, twisted flower, Alan flower, pick hole, etc.), jacquard, intarsia (also known as hanging wool); from the raw material (yarn), it can be divided into cashmere, pure wool, cotton, cotton wool blend, cotton and linen blend, etc. for customization; In addition, on the yarn color, we will provide several colors for customization according to the designer's recommendation.

The above customized parameters can be freely combined according to customer preferences, providing tens of thousands of options for personalized customization.

When the cloud platform receives the personalized order transmitted by the consumer unit, it processes the received personalized order through the order management module, intelligent process module, advanced scheduling module, etc., and assigns the received personalized order to the corresponding sweater production enterprise unit.

The sweater production enterprise unit 4 is used to receive the design works uploaded by the designer unit, evaluate the received design works, and store the approved works in the database for consumers to choose; And feedback the real-time production status of personalized orders to the cloud platform for consumers to view the real-time status information of orders.

It should be noted that there are N sweater production enterprise units 4 connected to the cloud platform.

The majority of small and medium-sized sweater production enterprises undertake personalized orders from the cloud platform according to the constraints such as bidding ranking, equipment capacity, machine load status, material completeness, and equipment sweater style adaptation list, and real-time production of orders. The status is fed back to the cloud platform for consumers to view the real-time status information of the order.

Small and medium-sized sweater production enterprises include one or more fully-formed computerized flat knitting machines and some auxiliary production equipment, as well as an edge gateway connected to each computerized flat knitting machine. The computerized flat knitting machine and the edge gateway are connected by Ethernet. All the data of the flat knitting machine interacts with the cloud platform through the edge gateway.

When the cloud platform assigns the order to the sweater production enterprise unit, the raw material yarns of different task orders are accurately sent to the corresponding full-forming flat knitting machine position through the sweater ingredient management using the intelligent hanging system, and the corresponding task The single design file is downloaded to the corresponding flat knitting machine to correctly knit according to the order requirements, and the status of the order processing process is sent back to the cloud platform, and customers can query the order execution status in real time through the cloud platform.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of this embodiment are:

1. This embodiment has a subversive industrial production mode. The established platform for rapid customization of knitted sweaters completely changes the operation rules of the entire sweater industry chain, and establishes a brand-new, personalized customization ecosystem for the sweater market.

Embodiment 2

The difference between a cloud platform-based remote production management system for a fully formed flat knitting machine provided by this embodiment and the first embodiment is:

This embodiment provides a custom process for a consumer's personalized order, as shown in Figures 2 and 3 .

Consumers generate their own size data through the intelligent body size collection device of the cloud platform or the consumers fill in their own size;

When the size data is generated, consumers can choose the designer's finished style and choose the color they like. Then consumers can preview the renderings and confirm the order when they are satisfied. If they are not satisfied, repeat the previous process; or consume Users can choose personalized customization, by entering text or uploading pictures, selecting the position of the text or pictures, and finally selecting the color they like, and previewing the customized effect. If you are satisfied, confirm the order, and if you are not satisfied, repeat the previous process;

After the user successfully places an order, the order information is first processed by the intelligent process module to the customer's customized requirements, and the relevant process files, production day plan, and bill of materials are generated; specifically: obtain the boring demand according to the bill of materials, and further confirm whether it is necessary to purchase Materials, if so, sign a purchase contract and purchase; if not, take out the corresponding materials from the inventory and distribute them to the computer workshop and other workshops. Determine the processing requirements according to the process file, and transmit the processing requirements to the computer workshop and other workshops. Transfer the production day plan to the computer workshop and other workshops.

When the workshop is completed, the quality of the processed products is inspected, and after the inspection is passed, the ready-made garments are packaged and delivered to consumers.

Embodiment 3

The difference between a cloud platform-based full-forming flat knitting machine remote production management system provided by the present embodiment and the first embodiment is:

This embodiment provides a design flow of a design work, as shown in FIG. 4 .

Using the individual needs of consumers gathered by the Internet and mobile Internet and the professional design of global professional designers, the ability to integrate global design resources, especially professional freelance designers, use their keen sense of fashion trends and regional culture to provide them with A value platform for artistic design and presentation. At the same time, it also provides high-quality design resources and massive consumer demand for manufacturing units (smart factories).

The craftsmen of the factory use the intelligent process system provided by the cloud customization platform to evaluate the design works submitted by the designers, mainly focusing on the feasibility of the intelligent production process of the works, the availability of fabric colors and yarn materials, and the merging of the design styles of the works. Carry out evaluation, and the design works optimized by evaluation can be selected as the standard pattern library template of the platform.

Note that the above are only preferred embodiments of the present invention and applied technical principles. Those skilled in the art will understand that the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described herein, and various obvious changes, readjustments and substitutions can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, although the present invention has been described in detail through the above embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and can also include more other equivalent embodiments without departing from the concept of the present invention. The scope is determined by the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

A remote production management system for fully-formed flat knitting machines based on a cloud platform, characterized in that it includes a cloud platform, a consumer unit, a designer unit, a sweater production enterprise unit, and a flat knitting knitting manufacturer unit; The unit, the designer unit, the sweater production enterprise unit, and the flat knitting machine manufacturer unit are connected; the flat knitting machine manufacturer unit is connected with the sweater production enterprise unit;

The designer unit is used to upload sweater-related design works to the cloud platform;

Flat knitting knitting manufacturer unit, used to remotely manage flat knitting products sold or leased to sweater production enterprise units;

The consumer unit is used to generate personalized orders according to its own needs, and transmit the generated personalized orders to the cloud platform;

The cloud platform is used to receive personalized orders transmitted by consumer units, and distribute the received personalized orders to the corresponding sweater production enterprise units;

The sweater production enterprise unit is used to receive personalized orders allocated by the cloud platform, and feed back the real-time production status of the personalized orders to the cloud platform for consumers to view the real-time status information of the orders.
The cloud platform-based remote production management system for fully forming flat knitting machines according to claim 1, wherein the cloud platform comprises a personalized customization module, an order management module, an intelligent process module, an advanced scheduling module, a manufacturing execution module;

The personalized customization module is used to provide personalized customization for consumers and generate personalized orders;

The order management module is used to provide consumers with order management and tracking information;

The intelligent process module is used to calculate the bill of materials of the ordered product, and create the design file of the sweater according to the bill of materials;

The advanced scheduling module is used to perform intelligent scheduling according to the order information, and assign the order to the most corresponding flat knitting knitting manufacturer unit;

The manufacturing execution module is used for receiving the execution situation of weaving according to the order requirements.
The cloud platform-based remote production management system for fully formed flat knitting machines according to claim 2, wherein the sweater production enterprise node comprises a fully formed computerized flat knitting machine and an edge gateway connected to the fully formed computerized flat knitting machine .
The cloud platform-based remote production management system for full-forming flat knitting machines according to claim 1, wherein generating a personalized order in the consumer unit according to its own needs includes: Basic customization.
A cloud platform-based remote production management system for fully formed flat knitting machines according to claim 2, wherein the personalized customization module includes human body data collection, template data management, design material management, online virtual fitting , Personalized visual customization.
A cloud platform-based remote production management system for fully formed flat knitting machines according to claim 2, wherein the order management module includes online payment, commodity management, marketing activity management, logistics management, e-commerce platform docking, Customer order management, order status tracking, returns and exchanges.
The cloud-based platform-based remote production management system for full-forming flat knitting machines according to claim 2, wherein the intelligent process module comprises an intelligent counting module and a knitting plate-making module;

The intelligent counting module is used to formulate the operation counting according to the requirements of the personalized order, and obtain the gross amount, gross material cost and production process requirements;

Knitting pattern module, used to create pattern files for sweaters.
The remote production management system for full-forming flat knitting machines based on a cloud platform according to claim 3, wherein the advanced scheduling module performs intelligent scheduling according to order information, and allocates orders to the most corresponding The unit of the flat knitting machine manufacturer is as follows: intelligently schedule the order according to the priority of the order, the equipment capacity of each sweater production enterprise unit, the machine load status, the condition of the complete set of materials, and the constraints of the equipment sweater style adaptation list, and the The order is allocated to the fully formed computerized flat knitting machine of the corresponding sweater production enterprise unit.
The cloud platform-based remote production management system for full-forming flat knitting machines according to claim 3, wherein the sweater production enterprise unit receives personalized orders distributed by the cloud platform, and real-time The production status feedback to the cloud platform is as follows: through the intelligent hanging system, the raw yarns of different orders are accurately sent to the corresponding full-forming flat knitting machine station, and at the same time, the pattern file of the corresponding order is downloaded to the corresponding full-forming flat knitting machine. , weaving according to the order requirements, and transmitting the status of the order processing process to the cloud platform.
The cloud platform-based remote production management system for fully formed flat knitting machines according to claim 1, wherein the consumer unit includes a personalized customization system, a sales store, a sweater brand, and a sweater seller.