On November 4, the "Digital Transformation Breakthrough · Smart Weaving Textiles" Textile Industry Intelligent Transformation & Digital Upgrading Matching Conference and AI Empowerment Exchange Event was hosted in Shenyang Institute of Technology. The conference was organized by the Liaoning Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, and co-undertaken by Shenyang Institute of Technology and Midea Cloud Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. The event officially released the intelligent transformation and digital upgrading diagnosis results and industry implementation guidelines for 339 textile enterprises across Liaoning Province. The Liaoning Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Intelligent Transformation and Digital Upgrading Experience Center, jointly built by our university and Midea Cloud Intelligence, made its first full public appearance. Through policy briefings, benchmark case sharing, AI practical training and on-site immersive experiences, the conference opened up a multi-dimensional docking channel connecting policies, technologies, enterprises and talents, and provided practical solutions for the traditional Liaoning textile industry to break through the real difficulties of "unable to transform, afraid to transform, and failing to transform well" in digital upgrading. Wang Kai, Second-Level Inspector of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology; Li Kangju, President of Shenyang Institute of Technology; Xu Ying, Vice President and Dean of the Liaoning Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises New Industrialization Institute; and Xing Chengyu, Vice President of Midea Cloud Intelligence from Midea Group, attended the meeting.
In his address, Wang Kai pointed out that the textile and garment sector is an indispensable traditional advantageous track for Liaoning's revitalization. Standing at the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the country regards intelligent transformation and digital upgrading as a key starting point for transforming and upgrading traditional industries and developing new quality productive forces. In the early stage, the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, relying on professional institutions including Midea Cloud Intelligence and the Liaoning Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises New Industrialization Institute of Shenyang Institute of Technology, conducted in-depth diagnosis for enterprises above designated size across the province, and the diagnosis work has been basically completed. The purpose of holding this matching conference is to deepen the application of diagnosis results and help enterprises solve the problems of "unable to transform, afraid to transform, and failing to transform well". Liaoning has already launched real-money enterprise-supporting policies such as the "Quick Transformation Voucher" and Liaoning Industrial Loan, and benchmark enterprises will share practical experience at the event, hoping that all participants can bring back practical and feasible transformation solutions. He hoped that municipal industry and information technology departments should fulfill their territorial responsibilities, do a good job in policy publicity and implementation, fully understand the transformation demands of enterprises, build a bridge for supply-demand docking, and implement intelligent transformation and digital upgrading in industrial clusters and market entities. The vast number of textile enterprises should take the initiative to embrace digital reform, fully understand policy dividends, make good use of diagnosis services, find accurate transformation scenarios, and embark on a transformation path featuring technology, green development, branding and fashion. Service providers should adhere to a pragmatic orientation, abandon the tendency of overemphasizing concepts while ignoring actual effects, output lightweight and low-cost solutions suitable for textile enterprises, provide effective on-site guidance, and truly help enterprises improve quality, reduce costs and increase efficiency. He expressed the hope that this event can serve as a new starting point for multi-party cooperation, gather joint efforts from all parties, activate the endogenous impetus of traditional industries through digital technology, and inject solid strength into the transformation and upgrading of Liaoning's textile industry and the new breakthrough in Liaoning's comprehensive revitalization.
In his address, President Li Kangju stated that this conference is a grand event featuring in-depth docking of policies, technologies, scenarios and talents, and is of great significance for promoting Liaoning's textile industry to seize digital opportunities. Shenyang Institute of Technology has always taken serving Liaoning's intelligent transformation and digital upgrading as an important direction for talent cultivation, and has jointly built 30 modern industrial colleges with leading enterprises including Huawei, Midea, KUKA and Siemens, so as to set up majors right on the industrial chain. The university has focused on the following key work: First, it connects post demands through order-based classes and customized training, forming a complete closed loop covering talent customization, on-campus practice, enterprise internship and fixed-post employment. Second, it reshapes the teaching mode through enterprise tutor system and real industrial scenarios, allowing enterprise engineers to enter classrooms on a regular basis, integrating contents such as industrial Internet and artificial intelligence into the curriculum system, so that students can complete the whole process training from data collection to intelligent decision-making. Third, taking the Liaoning Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises New Industrialization Institute as the hub, the university, together with Midea Cloud Intelligence, won the bid for the provincial textile industry intelligent transformation and digital upgrading diagnosis project, providing free diagnosis for 339 enterprises, with 134 teachers and students joining the expert team and growing up on the front line of diagnosis. Our institute also cooperates with Midea Cloud Intelligence to carry out FDE talent training, introducing real enterprise projects, intelligent agent development and high-value scenarios into the cultivation process, so that more teachers and students can improve their abilities in real production lines. The intelligent transformation and digital upgrading of the textile industry relies on scenarios as the key, talents as the core, and actual effectiveness as the foothold. Shenyang Institute of Technology is willing to work together with the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, industry associations and the vast number of enterprises to transform the docking results into cooperation projects, convert enterprise pain points into research topics for teachers and students, and turn AI and digital technologies into real benefits for industrial upgrading.
Pei Fei, Deputy Director of the Informatization and Industrialization Integration Division of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology; Li Jiaxu, official from the Investment and Planning Division; and Liu Jiani, special commissioner of the Operation Division work team, respectively conducted policy briefings. They focused on interpreting three enterprise-supporting policies, including the "Quick Transformation Voucher" project subsidy, low-cost working capital of "Liaoning Industrial Loan", and interest discount and guarantee subsidy for manufacturing fixed asset loans, ensuring that lightweight transformation can get subsidies, working capital turnover can get low-interest loans, and technical renovation can get interest subsidies. Small and medium-sized enterprises can start digital transformation step by step according to their own pace, which effectively solves the problem of "afraid to transform" in digital upgrading.
At the conference, the Implementation Guidelines for Intelligent Transformation and Digital Upgrading of Liaoning High-End Textile and Fashion Brand Industry was officially released. Jointly launched by the Liaoning Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Liaoning Textile and Garment Association, Liaoning Textile and Garment New Industrialization Institute, Midea Cloud Intelligence and Jack Technology, the guidelines summarize and refine 339 diagnosis conclusions by industry, and have undergone three layers of quality control including supervision review, expert group acceptance and random sampling inspection. The government-supported single-point diagnosis has been transformed into public industry achievements, providing an industry-level reference for textile enterprises to clarify "where to transform and how to transform" for the first time.
Song Xing, General Manager of North China Region of Midea Cloud Intelligence, shared Midea's digital and AI textile industry cases, deeply dissecting Midea Group's AI application experience and textile customer transformation cases. Li Xianzhong, Chairman of Liaoning Feitian Knitting Co., Ltd., and his team shared the enterprise practice of diagnosis transformation, introducing the starting method of intelligent transformation and digital upgrading for a 43-person order-oriented small factory. Liang Wei, General Manager of Dandong Haigu Valley Industrial Co., Ltd., shared the digital practice of provincial benchmark enterprises, presenting the construction of smart factories and the effectiveness of digital transformation. Gao Yu, General Manager of the Solution Department of Jack Technology, shared Jack's complete intelligent equipment solution, bringing the upgrading path from single-machine intelligence to whole-factory intelligent interconnection.
On the same day, participating enterprise representatives visited the Intelligent Transformation and Digital Upgrading Empowerment Experience Center of the Liaoning Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises New Industrialization Institute on site, intuitively experiencing three core service capabilities including enterprise diagnosis, industrial tool trial and transformation benchmark reference. Afterwards, they entered the Shenyang Institute of Technology - Midea Digital Lighthouse Academy MFDE Training Base to carry out practical training. Experts demonstrated lightweight digital intelligent tools on site, and enterprises excavated AI application scenarios based on their own business pain points and generated intelligent agent prototypes on site.
This activity has built a multi-party collaborative industrial service platform, promoted the implementation and transformation of diagnosis results, helped Liaoning's textile industry achieve quality improvement and upgrading with the power of digital technology, and accumulated industrial momentum for Liaoning's new breakthrough in comprehensive revitalization.
Ji Ting, Director of the Textile Division of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology; Zhou Tianbo, Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory; Wang Chong, President of Liaoning Textile and Garment Association; Sun Yanyan, Administrative Vice President of Jack Technology Group; Gao Xin, General Manager of North China Theater of Jack Technology; and Tao Lin, Director of the Science and Technology Division of our university and Vice Dean of the Liaoning Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises New Industrialization Institute, participated in the event.
Translated by Basic Courses Department
